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Tulpa's, their births, deaths and inbetween

Our Lady of The Two Towers

14:08 / 16.02.02

Ok, apols if this is the sort of thing that gets discussed a lot here, I don't come in much.

Anyhow, I'm currently trying to plot a storyline that involves tulpa's or tulpa-like entities and I'm quite keen to have some magical veracity to some of the elements (as long as it does not interfere with the story). However, searching on ver net gets me nothing useful except roleplaying sheets and Buddhist texts which only mention tulpas in passing.

Now, I know that to a certain extent ceremonies can be what you want them to be, involve what you want and last until you get bored so my current queries are;

1) How would you make a tulpa?
2) How would you trap a tulpa (and what could be done by an outsider or the tulpa to free it)?
3) How would you destroy a tulpa (and agaiun, what could be done to try and prevent this)?

If anyone knows good websites for this stuff please let me know. Cheers.

15:48 / 16.02.02

There's a really good article on chaosmatrix about creating a shoggoth I have not had the chance to perform it, but it looks solid.

17:31 / 16.02.02

1) in general terms by visualizing and/or obsessing or treating the tulpa as if it already existed.

2) the same way you would trap any spirit. by luring it into a circle or singing to it or into a drawn maze or a charm or a toy which represents it or anything.

3) tough one! in a literary context I guess ridiculing the tulpa or disbelieving them or saying I don't need you to do x any more, thanks, 'bye, or you represent outgrown emotions(anyone seen Drop Dead Fred[grin]) or using a powerful exorcism.

23:09 / 16.02.02

there is a great, weird little book called An Unlikey Prophet: Revelations on the Path Without Form written by Alvin Schwartz who wrote superman newspaper strips in the 40s. Written as a nonfiction, it tells of how he is contacted by a tibetan monk who turns out to be a tulpa and then himself generates a tulpoid version of superman, all the while struggling to understand what these events mean for our perception of reality. Whatever else you decide about it, it's as riveting a tulpa story as you're going to find.

16:15 / 18.02.02

Lucius Shepherd's The Jaguar Hunters has a great short story about a house tulpa - that is, a tulpa trapped as a kind of guardian within a particular house. Actually, it may have been a special item like a trunk. I can't remember.