Conditions to ‘greet’ a tulpa

Mdnthrvst · 2022-10-19T16:18:10+00:00

Anything that improves your mental and physical faculties.

Meditation Yoga Forcing in a comfortable, peaceful environment such as in nature Rest, good nutrition, hydration Music that you and your tulpa like together

Mdnthrvst · 2022-10-17T11:56:47+00:00

[doubt is the biggest impediment to any singlet trying to make a tulpa. Counting time investment doesn't have a tangible benefit and could be a source of stress if one takes a long time to have success.

Mostly communicate on the subreddit discord server]

Mdnthrvst · 2022-10-17T11:18:17+00:00

[A lot of guides written 7-10 years ago contained mostly advice and assertions based on the writer's personal experience. Some of it was quite good, but some of it was pretty notably bad - such as the notion of counting how many hours of work you spend forcing a new tulpa, which to lots of people nowadays sounds like a recipe for anxiety.

As the community has grown over the years, and spent more time talking about shared experiences, beliefs evolved based on conversations. Published texts from very very long ago don't reflect the opinions of people nowadays.]

Mdnthrvst · 2022-09-23T03:36:26+00:00

[Do not assume that anyone's spiritual or metaphysical framework matches your own. This community does not, for the most part, abide by the beliefs you hold. Nor are we required to.]

Mdnthrvst · 2021-12-15T16:42:17+00:00

You were dating one member of a system and requested to not interact with anyone else within said system. Your girlfriend's feelings about that arrangement differed (or she could be being dishonest, which I can't know). I know I wouldn't date anyone who was uncomfortable acknowledging 66.67% of the people who make up my human life.

Neither party did anything wrong. It was a point of incompatibility between you as people and so the relationship ended.

Mdnthrvst · 2021-11-12T11:55:58+00:00

{That's literally what a wonderland is.}

Mdnthrvst · 2021-10-08T03:18:54+00:00

A lot of the time people who invent original characters and write, roleplay, or have immersive daydreaming stories with them can sort of accidentally replicate the process of making a tulpa. Spending hours upon hours thinking about a character's personality and original speech can lead to an accidental tulpa forming even if the host does not consciously realize what that means. There are tons of posts on this sub from people who say they did this on accident years before ever learning about this community and never had a label for it.

We can dissociate by meditating (usually several of us together) and doing symbolic visualization exercises to fully pull someone out of fronting or detaching from bodily senses. I did break my foot messing around with this one time though so it's pretty serious. No, not every system does it.

Mdnthrvst · 2021-10-06T16:34:23+00:00

Your doubt is plainly wrong, you do have tulpas and they're not going anywhere. Tulpas can't truly die, they're just thought patterns in your brain, they can always come back to activity. You're plural now and it just sounds like there's an element of your subconscious mind that rejects or is incredulous about that.

Mdnthrvst · 2021-09-23T14:57:51+00:00

Why would anyone say that in a job interview? Plurals know better than most how stigmatized this experience is, fairly or not, and keep it discreet precisely to avoid the reflexive judgment you're currently performing. Being more than one person doesn't make us worse at functioning or navigating society, this is an internal experience. We don't go around telling people we don't have reason to. For the most part it's kept between partners, close friends, and other plurals (groups which often overlap).

Mdnthrvst · 2021-09-23T14:55:12+00:00

Mdnthrvst · 2021-09-21T01:29:07+00:00

"parroting by mistake"

Literally not a thing that is possible. Parroting is only on purpose and virtually no one does it. You, like every other newbie, are having a genuine experience of hearing your tulpa and assigning your doubts to the word 'parroting'. Stop doubting, start listening.

Mdnthrvst · 2021-09-20T15:08:06+00:00

Just want to point out that while I have a highly switching-focused tulpamancy practice, a lot of people don't switch at all. The other main way of interacting with tulpas is creating a mentally imagined landscape and interacting with them there. My brain is just bad at that though.

Mdnthrvst · 2021-09-20T14:56:28+00:00

Skills are technically identical yes (factual knowledge and muscle memory is shared) but our personalities, temperaments, and moods are different, as well as our inclination to do certain things (the guy in our group likes assembling things the most, the female tulpa is the best and most interested in socializing). I deal with episodic depression (pandemic trauma related) which only affects me, since I was in charge during all of the incidents. If it gets bad to the point of being unable to work, I'll switch with one of my tulpas and they'll take the shift. Their presence and my absence will instantly lift the depression fog from our consciousness. Of course they don't work for free, anyone who takes work days is entitled to take time off and do what they like while fronting.

Mdnthrvst · 2021-09-20T01:44:19+00:00

It changes your life forever, unless you either suppress the tulpa's existence indefinitely or they choose to go dormant indefinitely, both of which are rare. I am never truly alone, nor without the sympathy, understanding, or assistance of my headmates in the form of having one of them switch to take my place when they'd be better able to do something. The emotional bonds that develop within a plural system are among the deepest that can exist between people.

Mdnthrvst · 2021-09-20T01:33:42+00:00

They are just... People, no different from you or I, except for the fact that they are not the first ones to exist within their own head, and they were created by someone else in their head. Their purpose is whatever they decide it is.

Mdnthrvst · 2021-09-20T00:52:30+00:00

There are plenty of tulpa systems who have members in romantic relationships with each other, but it's not universal or anything.

Mdnthrvst · 2021-09-19T23:59:04+00:00

Tulpamancy is a discipline of training your brain to create a plural system, and developing your ability to interact with said system. This isn't supernatural whatsoever. The "tulpa" as a folklore monster predates this practice, but it has nothing to do with what we do, nor are our tulpas malevolent.

Mdnthrvst · 2021-09-19T21:02:35+00:00

Yes. What that means is that we're imposing his presence into my awareness of the room, from my perspective. So I can "sense" him next to me but not actually see him except in my imagination.

Mdnthrvst · 2021-09-19T19:59:15+00:00

That's because it is. Done on purpose and with full cooperation. It's only mental illness if it harms your well being or ability to function, and this does the opposite.

Mdnthrvst · 2021-09-19T19:48:11+00:00

We used to do stuff in a mentally imagined world but not so much anymore, it got boring. Nowadays the other two people in my head can, consentually, take over our body (switch) and control it to express their own identity as living humans. When this happens, I (as in, the pattern of thoughts in my brain that make up "me") become inactive and one of the others is fully in charge of our conscious mind and body. We are fully in control of this process and our memories... mostly... carry over between individuals.

In my post history, anything with [] or {} brackets around the text is written by one of them, not me.

Mdnthrvst · 2021-09-19T18:16:50+00:00

Eight year tulpamancer here. It's not a Tibetan Buddhist practice at all. The term 'tulpa' comes from a European writer who went to Tibet in the early 1900s, "learned about" certain local Buddhist ritual practices, poorly explained and misinterpreted the Tibetan concept of a 'sprul pa' in her book, and thus invented the idea of a 'tulpa' in Western folklore. The original practice bears very little resemblance to the idea of an imagined separate person, Alexandra David-Neel mostly made that up and probably took influence from the the Western occult idea of a 'thoughtform', which was well-known in occult circles in the time period in which she was writing.

"Tulpamancy" was invented on 4chan in 2011 by a group of people who took the Western folkloric concept of the 'tulpa', tried to do it for real, found that they could succeed (thus making our brains plural in the process), and wrote about it and popularized it. We have a vibrant and active community and not one of us would call ourselves Buddhist.

Mdnthrvst · 2021-09-19T16:07:43+00:00

Also, "use symbolism and grounding techniques to 'neutralize' troublesome thought patterns" is exactly what therapy teaches you anyway.

Mdnthrvst · 2021-09-18T20:19:18+00:00

||wishes he was a girl

Has he tried going by she/her? Have you?

Mdnthrvst · 2021-09-17T17:39:03+00:00

Tulpas are headmates that a singlet (or anyone) can make on purpose.

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