Tulpas and Shadow Self

[sushi]

If you don't give a reliable source on this, I'll suggest for this post to go to the Meta board.

 

You don't seem to know Carl Jung.

 

You should.

 

Jung changed psychology from "everyone wants to have sex with their mothers" into something legitimate. He came up with the idea of the complex, of archetypes, and his writing was the foundation for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

 

More importantly to the tulpa community, Jung pretty much went crazy. When he was 38, he started having disturbing visions and hearing voices. Where most people would struggle to hold onto sanity, Jung deliberately induced hallucinations, investigating them, trying to learn what they meant. This went on for six years.

 

Jung chronicled the experience in his Liber Novus or Red Book. After a century locked away, the last quarter of that in a vault in Switzerland, this book has finally been made accessible to the public -- I have a copy, bound in red leather like the original, with all my tulpa-related books.

 

But you want reliable sources? Pick any book you like on analytical psychology. Or google it.

[Guest amber5885]

Has anyone ever told you that you're like a walking Wikapedia?

[DKfury]

^agreed. In the best sense possible.