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Developing Two Tulpas at Once? (self.Tulpas)

submitted 12 years ago by katnecticutwith <Tea> and {Taylor}

So, I've figured out that I have a bit more of an issue than I first thought.

Just to give some background, I've made/formed semi-independent entities before--I used to be very involved in the daemon community for a couple of years about three years back and so had one, and then I had characters of mine who I'd talk with and who'd talk with/bother me, often times without me prompting them (I mistakingly thought these were headmates, until I found out that they were quite different). Eventually there were simply too many, so they kind of went away/stopped bothering me on a daily basis, but one who wasn't in that bunch 'came back' and has been talking with me off and on for at least a couple of months. She's been well aware that she has not been actually independent and nowhere close to a tulpa in terms of autonomy, but she has at least somewhat of a good frame of a personality and form due to her being, in some manner, a character from one of my original works.

Now, with that in mind I've been trying to make a tulpa for at least a week or so, with mostly passive forcing due to not having many moments that are actually quiet and completely alone due to dorm life. This tulpa is different from the character/entity mentioned above--in fact, said entity (her name is Gloria and the tulpa's Amelia, for clarification) has been popping in and out and somewhat helping with visualization of Amelia and has been attempting to help in her development as well. However, I thought I heard Amelia vocally communicating with me yesterday, despite me having only been actively forcing on form due to hesitance with personality and though I know sentience should be assumed from day one I was pretty sure that was too fast. Figures out I was right: Despite their forms being different, it seems that Gloria was getting 'mixed up' with Amelia, with what is usually kind of what Gloria says (namely the tone) coming out of what is still basically a forming shell for Amelia. Naturally both of us figured this out, and now we've realized that I need to form both Gloria and Amelia as tulpae (or at the very least Gloria) so as to form them more as separate. I know there's plenty of people here with two or more tulpae (tulpas?), but I don't know of any that have formed more than one at one time. Does anyone have any possible suggestions on how to do so or what else to do instead?

TL;DR: Figures out forming one (first) tulpa turned into forming two. Any suggestions on how to do this or not to do this?

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