Free1
27-07-2016, 09:13 PM
It may be hard to follow everything if you do not know the tulpa dialect, but I have tried to make it clear. And... this reflects my path, and is not universal view.
In the usual way, I am unable to conform to the given perspectives, and instead develop my own, and so it is with "tulpa" too :p
I found something special to me. Then I found the concept "tulpa" to describe it well. Now I have moved past that concept.
A tulpa is like a being you create within your mind, that you can interact with. They develop a mind and will of their own, and are often seen as sentient beings. Writers experience this phenomenon, but I want to take it as far as I can (whereas they deal with it primarily in their story-writing).
Some maybe call this angels, spirit guides etc, but I feel it is different somehow.
I will not call it a tulpa anymore. What term should I use? It helped me with a new term: "Dearly Loved Special One" - DLSO! :)
Surfing tulpa-stuff, I recognized several assumptions conflicting with my experiences. I do not know if all of them represent the whole movement, but many are repeated everywhere. I will contrast them against my experience of what I instead call DLSO (so I use "DLSO" instead of "tulpa"):
1) I, the human (the "host") is the supreme creator of the DLSO that I experience.
No: you allow space (attention and allowance) for an DLSO to manifest.
2) The DLSO has no soul or is no being with such a quality
It has a soul and choses you dependent on your qualities and needs, and its own qualities and needs.
3) You create a wonderland for the DLSO to live in.
The DLSO already lives in its own realm, and can display it to you, and invite you through your mental faculties (imagination etc). It does not depend on you for its own wonderland. You can create a new land for both of you, but it has the ability to do so aswell. (I believe the tulpa-people aknowledge this to some degree.)
4) The DLSO has no effect on reality outside the mind.
It does, because it has connections to subtle dimensions we are not aware off, and these dimensions are interconnected with our own reality. They affect us through the subtle dimensions. Technically your mind is deeper and more interconnected with the universe then you know, and is therefore a good instrument for the DLSO to express itself through in equally subtle ways. Because the DLSO itself is coming from another more subtle dimension, has the skill to use the deep mind. The result is that it may express itself and communicate with you by causing you to experience synchronicities for example, and they happen "outside you" (but really, everything is "inside" and no real outside/inside boundaries exist, I believe).
5) DLSOs can be/should be destroyed.
Destroyed is the wrong word, and signifies someone with power who destroys (people in the tulpa community have reacted against it the same way, to be fair). The host has no such power, but only the power to ignore the DLSO (closing the space it manifest through).
6) The DLSO is created and starts to exist only when you consciously create it.
"Invite", not "create", the rest is half-true: The process of inviting the DLSO must start with you having an interrest in interracting with your visualizations. The DLSO may start to manifest, and it will feel as a real being, without you having anticipated it becoming real. Then the DLSO will suggest things, and it may scare you.
7) The DLSO is synonymous with whatever form it takes.
No. Just as you are not synonymous with your body and mind, the DLSO is not so with its display-form.
8) You shape it the way you want it, and it becomes like that.
No. Both of you chose each other because you are equally attracted to each others qualities. A DLSO reflecting the qualities of your deepest desires and needs will find you. You may both further develop the qualities you already have and love, but you did not create this being out of thin air and fill it with qualities. It is a being in its own right, and you are not God over it.
9) It is only imagination, all within your head.
No. There is no "within your head" because the mind has no such boundaries. Imaginations is one of many dimensions of reality.
I, and the DLSO share the same body and mind. It is not "my mind", it is a mind-stream that I live in, and it is possible to share the same stream with another.
Humor is a big part of the communication, and it is always based on equality, solidarity and freedom. Do not believe you own this being and that you have more rights or more power just because the being comes to you through your mind and not through the physical. Friendliness and honesty is always the undercurrent, and there are no "games" of dominance, trickery, fear, etc. There may be jokes and play, but never raw dominance, trickery and fear as in war or cruelty for example.
The DLSO is a being, and if your state of spirituality is high, you will abandon every idea and intention of ownership and dominance, and you will respect the being as one with its own will and right. From a stance of equality, it is in opposition to put the DLSO in any subordinate role, where you for example believe yourself to decide its very existence.
In the usual way, I am unable to conform to the given perspectives, and instead develop my own, and so it is with "tulpa" too :p
I found something special to me. Then I found the concept "tulpa" to describe it well. Now I have moved past that concept.
A tulpa is like a being you create within your mind, that you can interact with. They develop a mind and will of their own, and are often seen as sentient beings. Writers experience this phenomenon, but I want to take it as far as I can (whereas they deal with it primarily in their story-writing).
Some maybe call this angels, spirit guides etc, but I feel it is different somehow.
I will not call it a tulpa anymore. What term should I use? It helped me with a new term: "Dearly Loved Special One" - DLSO! :)
Surfing tulpa-stuff, I recognized several assumptions conflicting with my experiences. I do not know if all of them represent the whole movement, but many are repeated everywhere. I will contrast them against my experience of what I instead call DLSO (so I use "DLSO" instead of "tulpa"):
1) I, the human (the "host") is the supreme creator of the DLSO that I experience.
No: you allow space (attention and allowance) for an DLSO to manifest.
2) The DLSO has no soul or is no being with such a quality
It has a soul and choses you dependent on your qualities and needs, and its own qualities and needs.
3) You create a wonderland for the DLSO to live in.
The DLSO already lives in its own realm, and can display it to you, and invite you through your mental faculties (imagination etc). It does not depend on you for its own wonderland. You can create a new land for both of you, but it has the ability to do so aswell. (I believe the tulpa-people aknowledge this to some degree.)
4) The DLSO has no effect on reality outside the mind.
It does, because it has connections to subtle dimensions we are not aware off, and these dimensions are interconnected with our own reality. They affect us through the subtle dimensions. Technically your mind is deeper and more interconnected with the universe then you know, and is therefore a good instrument for the DLSO to express itself through in equally subtle ways. Because the DLSO itself is coming from another more subtle dimension, has the skill to use the deep mind. The result is that it may express itself and communicate with you by causing you to experience synchronicities for example, and they happen "outside you" (but really, everything is "inside" and no real outside/inside boundaries exist, I believe).
5) DLSOs can be/should be destroyed.
Destroyed is the wrong word, and signifies someone with power who destroys (people in the tulpa community have reacted against it the same way, to be fair). The host has no such power, but only the power to ignore the DLSO (closing the space it manifest through).
6) The DLSO is created and starts to exist only when you consciously create it.
"Invite", not "create", the rest is half-true: The process of inviting the DLSO must start with you having an interrest in interracting with your visualizations. The DLSO may start to manifest, and it will feel as a real being, without you having anticipated it becoming real. Then the DLSO will suggest things, and it may scare you.
7) The DLSO is synonymous with whatever form it takes.
No. Just as you are not synonymous with your body and mind, the DLSO is not so with its display-form.
8) You shape it the way you want it, and it becomes like that.
No. Both of you chose each other because you are equally attracted to each others qualities. A DLSO reflecting the qualities of your deepest desires and needs will find you. You may both further develop the qualities you already have and love, but you did not create this being out of thin air and fill it with qualities. It is a being in its own right, and you are not God over it.
9) It is only imagination, all within your head.
No. There is no "within your head" because the mind has no such boundaries. Imaginations is one of many dimensions of reality.
I, and the DLSO share the same body and mind. It is not "my mind", it is a mind-stream that I live in, and it is possible to share the same stream with another.
Humor is a big part of the communication, and it is always based on equality, solidarity and freedom. Do not believe you own this being and that you have more rights or more power just because the being comes to you through your mind and not through the physical. Friendliness and honesty is always the undercurrent, and there are no "games" of dominance, trickery, fear, etc. There may be jokes and play, but never raw dominance, trickery and fear as in war or cruelty for example.
The DLSO is a being, and if your state of spirituality is high, you will abandon every idea and intention of ownership and dominance, and you will respect the being as one with its own will and right. From a stance of equality, it is in opposition to put the DLSO in any subordinate role, where you for example believe yourself to decide its very existence.