Truth With Light

𝖤𝗇𝗍𝗋𝗒 #𝟣𝟤: 𝖳𝗎𝗅𝗉𝖺

{ definition. }

Tulpa: "a thoughtform or being created from the collective thoughts of separate individuals."

"an entity created in the mind, acting independently of, and parallel to your own consciousness. They are able to think, and have their own free will, emotions, and memories."

| origin |

• Tibetan Buddhism ; means "to construct" or "to build or create"

| historical uses |

The most well-known usage of a tulpa was in (approx.) the year 1924, when a French-Belgian explorer by the name of Alexandra David-Neel traveled through Tibet.

Alexandra was intrigued by mystical arts and not only studied, but performed, many. She'd cultivated an interest in tulpamancy during her travels and learned to practice the art.

She conceptualized a small, plump monk—initially as a subjective, fleeting thought. With further practice, she envisioned the monk accompanying her among the physical plane. As time progressed, the image of the monk grew further in clarity and physical substance until it became indistinguishable from reality.

The monk would appear on a more frequent basis without the requirement of Alexandra willing it into existence. The figure she'd first envisioned as a friendly companion had fully manifested into a sentient being.

{ other information }

• A tulpa's purpose is to guide its creator through complicated decisions.

• Tulpas may be created intentionally or unintentionally.

• Those who dedicate themselves to studying tulpamancy often state they aren't typically tangible beings, only vivid figments of the imagination which appear to be sentient.

• A tulpa may be willed away by the act of forgetting or ignoring it.

{ fact or fiction? }

It's subjective to each person when determining whether tulpas and the tulpa effect are real.

A tulpa in its most general term may be defined as real when considering they can be interacted with and seen by the human eye when thoroughly manifested.

Conversely, a tulpa is limited to only be effectively seen by its creator. In this sense, it may be considered a form of self-induced hallucination. To the creator, their tulpa exists. To others, the tulpa is inaccessible and irrelevant to them, so it does not exist from their perspective.

The "tulpa effect," on the other hand, follows the belief that a group of people as a collective can inadvertently create a tulpa.

Considering tulpamancy and its core purpose and individual value, I find the "tulpa effect" to be less plausible. Tulpas are crafted to assist a person with their problems specifically. Not everyone shares identical issues, so to create a tulpa through a group is illogical under most conditions—unless the collective consists of individuals associated with one another through a common goal and/or conflict they need to face as a whole, such as compromising or reconciling in the face of a disagreement.

{ correlation. }

My take on this theory follows the traditional roots of tulpamancy in which one person can see their tulpa while others cannot. I feel this is the most sensible and less complicated form of the theory.

Within your friend group, if you ask each person what their vision of Slender Man is, they may all give you the same physical description—long limbs, pale skin, an absence of a face, and a dark suit and tie. Odds are though, if each person was asked to provide their views on his behavioral aspects, the responses would begin to contrast against each other.

Some may state he is a sophisticated, well-adjusted person when taking into account his suit and tie. Others may perceive him as a ravenous being despite the elegance of his suit and tie. Some may suggest if he were to speak, he'd have a crisp voice with a soft lilt of a British accent lacing his tone. Perhaps he could be depicted as having a coarse, baritone voice. Maybe he'd speak telepathically, and his voice would only reverberate in a person's mind as a faint whisper.

The images of Creepypasta characters tend to become warped in a kaleidoscope view of varying perceptions, hence why conflicting head-canons exist among the fandom. Due to this, multiple tulpas of Slender Man and the other Creepypasta characters may exist. Because of their differences among each other though, not a single person's tulpa would correspond precisely with another's. Certain tulpas may be taller or shorter. Some may be more charming, or more horrifying.

Most Creepypasta experiencers originate as active members of the fandom before they even witness the start of their experiences. They all initially have spent a significant amount of their time listening to readings or perusing the materials as a hobby. In this process, they've received mental images in regards to physical aspects of the characters. The deeper they fixated themselves to the fandom, they began to consider how these characters would perform within our reality.

After some time, they may have become paranoid and associated everyday objects with characters or items related to their appropriate stories. Depending on how frequent these instances would occur and how persistent the experiencers would be in convincing themselves the situations had major significance, they could've manifested their own personal tulpas into the real world.

In terms of this theory, none of the Creepypasta entities technically exist. Instead, they're self-induced hallucinations produced from obsession and fear. Because they're tulpas, it would also explain if they'd ever spoken out and given feedback to their creators. However, because the tulpa would have an association with a horror character, they could easily give negative suggestions in terms of problem solving.

For example, if you'd gotten into an argument with a parent and couldn't decide what to do, a Slender Man tulpa may suggest you kill them. That technically is a solution to the problem, but it's a solution with a negative impact should you follow through with it. Surely your intuition would tell you it's a bad idea, so you wouldn't continue with it as the next course of action. The tulpa would have then played an instrumental part in solving the issue at hand, and fulfilled their tulpa duty.