Tulpa Guide

Originally released January 2018. Playlist: Archive: ---- Original Description: Title: Tulpa Guide alt Title: Purpose of a Tulpa This is a weird one, guys. This is a guide for tulpas and their hosts. Please read below the break after watching the video. --- Earlier in her life, finding purpose and contentment was something Aury really struggled with. She still wrestles with it today. She had a conversation with her boyfriend, Iolite, a few months ago that reflected on this and how both of them learned to cope. It inspired this video, which is Aury sharing that knowledge on how she finally gained contentment with her being a tulpa. This video is dedicated to the tulpas and hosts who struggle with doubt. Also some of you noticed that Aury called me Jade in our switching video. She kind of let it slip that I’m transitioning. I was planning not to come out until I look and sound the part, but I forgot to change my Discord name when I recorded that part, so fuck it, I guess this is my coming out video too. I’m going into my fifth month on HRT and will be transitioning male to female this year. I’ll do everything I can to be pretty so I don’t further fuck up the image of the tulpa community. I had a lot of help making this video, including the GearHeart and In Plural Terms communities. Among the people who provided their intellect and argumentation are Tulpa001 and Sarah, Pleeb, ShinyuuWolfy, CliffracerX. Fillyosopher, Snarles system, EsotericPhantasm, The Fool’s Fox, Finn, Cadey, Iolite, and Lootsorrow. A huge thanks to Iolite for voicing himself, Aury for doing a great job working with our body’s hardware, and Cadey for perfectly bringing to life the nuanced narrator character I wrote in. Transcript: References Habit theory overview: Duhigg, “The Power of Habit.” Book Summary: Tulpamancers are telling the truth: Veissiere, “Daring to Hear Voices” Tulpa experiences are consistent and healthful: Veissiere, “Varieties of Tulpa Experiences.” Tulpas and mental images physically exist in our cognition: Simler, “Accepting Deviant Minds” Tulpas may improve theory of mind: Veissiere, “Talking to Tulpas” Tulpas tend to help their hosts cope with mental illness: Isler, “Tulpas and Mental Health” Visual processing can vary between DID alters: Strasburger et al., “Sight and blindness in the same person” Allergies can vary between alters: Goleman, “Probing the Enigma of Multiple Personality” Brain scans show DID isn’t roleplay: Reinders et al., “Authentic and Simulated Dissociative Identity States” Fiction writers experience their characters as tulpa-like agents: Taylor et al., “The Illusion of Independent Agency” Hodges Evangelical Christian experiences parallel tulpas: Luhrmann, “Conjuring Our Own Gods” ---