Extensive Research

[Bluesleeve]

It's impossible to create universal reference material for tulpas because virtually no universally reliable and accepted information exists right now. Something like what you're proposing wouldn't be valuable until we've had years more to study tulpas.

 

Yes, but I assume that what we call a "Tulpa" is nothing different but an imaginary companion. In that case, there is existing research.

 

Also Fede it's my understanding that in modern psychology "subconscious" is wrapped up into the idea of the unconscious mind.

 

The term "subconscious" is a misleading term, and isn't used in modern psychology. It gained currency because laymen use it so often.

[Splooshie123]

There is plenty of published material on thoughtforms. My plan is not to pull from this site and the experiences alone.

 

Such as? Cite your source.

[Cable]

Thoughtforms by Annie Besant, Aspects of Evocation and General Essays by Phil Hine, The Paradigmal Pirate by Joshua Wetzel. These are just the four that I picked at random from my library that don't look at the subject in a delusional sense.

[TulpaCouple]

I actually wish we could get some physical proof of the mental effects of a tulpa. Testing brain activity and bodily reactions(pupils dilating, etc.) with people who both claim to have tulpae and those who don't. Having the person talk to another being, talk to a photo or drawing of someone, talk to nothing, talk to their tulpa(or in the case of the person with no tulpa, talk to an imagined person) and see how the mind reacts and responds. How does the mind process the thoughts of the tulpa, is the activity different during sleep when tulpae claim to be awake? Does the mind respond different to having no external stimuli.

 

Heck, bring in a person with legit schizo or whatever and measure the activity of them too.

 

It could be very interesting.

[Guest]

I think such researchs have been done, but they aren't very public.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110121144007.htm

If this article is correct, we will find something interesting on tulpaforcer's brain MRI. Thats just an example of research we don't know about, but which is related to tulpas.