"When God Talks Back" is the most important tulpa-related thing I've ever read.

[Thewy]

Isn't it rather ignorant to look at something from the outside, as an atheist or someone with conflicting views, and minimal information, and start throwing wild theories around at how it must work or happen, without care for people who hold those views and the impact it might have on those people?

 

I personally think that the idea of religion just being a bunch of people with tulpas is downright ridiculous. Never minding how it's impossible for us to make the same exact tulpa and copy them, as tulpa's are living things. But the isea that millions and millions of Christians somehow made the exact tulpa for years and years is ludicrous and absurd.

 

Besides. General consensus among the Christian community as a whole, bar a few churches or denominations, is that people who "Hear" God are either a deluding themselves a bit, off their rocker, or being "Led astray by the devil".

 

That's not to say that MAYBE some Christians may fool themselves into a tulpa, such as OP's quotes from the book, but to say all of Christianity and religion is due to tulpas is downright ignorant and crazy.

 

And this is one book, people. About a single church. One church doesn't represent the entirety of a religion

[TDOB]

I personally think that the idea of religion just being a bunch of people with tulpas is downright ridiculous. Never minding how it's impossible for us to make the same exact tulpa and copy them, as tulpa's are living things. But the isea that millions and millions of Christians somehow made the exact tulpa for years and years is ludicrous and absurd.

Not "millions and millions" per say, but at least the people mentioned in this book and perhaps other prophets could have actually developed tulpae. They are to an extent, as you say, considered to be "off their rockers" by the general public until they're analyzed further, like we're doing. As for recreating the same tulpa multiple times, just look at all the Rainbow Dash tulpae out there who are very similar. A figure as praised and vague as God would be easy to create as a tulpa and have it seem authentic.

[yenu]

I'd like to point out that not all tulpas have to be vocal. Christian praying may very well be quite similar to some forms of tulpa forcing, narrating techniques.

So even though they would not necessarily hear voices, they might make some experiences that convinces them they are actually talking to their god.

 

Today most people know about schizophrenia - back in the first century, people might have thought differently about that.

 

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This topic is the main reason why I'm uncomfortable to speak about tulpas outside of the internet - I don't want to argue about this with religious people; it would probably hurt their feelings as well as mine.