tulpa
Sign in to saveIn traditions of mysticism and the paranormal inspired by Tibetan Buddhism, a tulpa is a materialized being or thought-form, typically in human shape, that is created through spiritual practice and intense concentration. The term is borrowed from the Tibetan language. Modern practitioners, who call themselves "tulpamancers", use the term to refer to a type of willed imaginary friend whom practitioners consider sentient and relatively independent. Modern practitioners predominantly consider tulpas a psychological rather than a paranormal phenomenon. The idea became an important belief in theoso
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- Origins
- Theosophy and thought-forms
- Alexandra David-Néel
- Tulpamancers
- See also
- References
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In traditions of mysticism and the paranormal inspired by Tibetan Buddhism, a tulpa is a materialized being or thought-form, typically in human shape, that is created through spiritual practice and intense concentration. The term is borrowed from the Tibetan language. Modern practitioners, who call themselves "tulpamancers", use the term to refer to a type of willed imaginary friend whom practitioners consider sentient and relatively independent. Modern practitioners predominantly consider tulpas a psychological rather than a paranormal phenomenon. The idea became an important belief in theosophy.
==Origins== The word tulpa (sprul pa, སྤྲུལ་པ་) originates from Tibetan, where it may mean "phantom" along with other associated meanings. The western understanding of tulpas was developed by European mystical explorers, who interpreted and developed the idea independently of its uses in old Tibet. Hale claimed in a research paper that tulpamancy can be connected to religious prayer because of similar techniques used. Hale also pointed out that replacing "God" with "Tulpa" in the book "When God Talks Back" would be 80% applicable to tulpamancy.