Daemon is the Latin word for the Ancient Greek daimon (δαίμων: "god", "godlike", "power", "fate"), which originally referred to a lesser deity or guiding spirit; the daemons of ancient Greek religion and mythology and of later Hellenistic religion and philosophy.
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5:48 AM
It's a bit occult, but it's similar to what a tulpa is.
A dæmon /ˈdiːmən/ is the physical manifestation of a human soul in Lyra's world. Humans in other worlds have dæmons; however they are invisible to those who have not learned the technique to see...
Possession is about controlling our body. Puppeting is about controlling mental image of a tulpa. Imo it's indistinguishable from fantasizing about tulpa.
Parroting/puppeting is just fantasizing about your tulpa. If a tulpa is indistinguishable from their mental image and it feels like parroting is controlling her mind... Well, I think tulpa in this stage of development is indistinguishable from an imaginary friend.
I guess. It was a silly question anyway. I was thinking about how new hosts parrot mindvoices and wondering whether a tulpa could ever do the same for their hosts. Or maybe think something themselves and become convinced it was the host.
I don't know but I I think details about a wonderland (which is fictional, imaginary world or set of worlds in your head, nothing more, nothing less) are not at all connected to tulpa's development.
From what I've gathered, the only way to make a tulpa grow is to spend time with it (and a wonderland can help with that), and the only way to consistently stay focused on that goal is mindfulness.
Unless you want your tulpa to pretend having delusional life in the wonderland. Which in my humble opinion sucks and makes a tulpa nothing more than an imaginary friend.
If you want your tulpa to show independent agency, you should spend time with her. Fantasizing in a wonderland is an ok form of doing that, of course but wonderland won't give you a tulpa.
Meditation, mindfulness training, or at the very least, some device or method of reminding yourself is going to be way more helpful than detailing your wonderland if you goal is to spend more time with the tulpa and therefore grow it.
What I do is wear a rubber band wherever I go, and whenever I notice it, it's supposed to remind me that my tulpa is there and I should be interacting with her. Works really well, actually.
One of the main principles of mindfulness, though, is that action usually comes from intention. If you wholeheartedly want to remember your tulpa and want to remember to interact with it, you are probably more likely to "randomly" remember it.(edited)
I remember him randomly but its not often. I have a bad memory. Like. Last night I was frustratingly bothered at work cause I kept forgetting to do one thing every 5 minutes.
An important thing to remember is not to beat yourself up. Every time you do remember him, that's a success! Take a minute to tell him something relevant, express your struggles with memory, etc.
5:02 PM
Revel in your small successes, and you train your brain to remember those things again.
I've thought about going shopping for a proper bracelet once communication is easy. Of course, by that point, I won't necessarily need the reminder, but I think it'll be a nice symbolic something.
5:11 PM
Us deciding on one together, I mean. Rubber band for now though.
Counselors must obey confidentiality unless you threaten to harm others or yourself.
5:37 PM
You can tell them literally anything except for those 2 things, and they aren't allowed to tell anybody, and that includes a mental hospital or your parents.
5:38 PM
That being said, I would wait until I was extremely close to a counselor to tell them I was interested in tulpas or anything like tulpas.
5:38 PM
As of right now, I don't plan on telling a single person outside of this server, ever.
If they are a genuinely kind person, they will likely obey confidentiality. If they are open minded, they will attempt to understand tulpas if it appears they are important and relevant to you.
5:39 PM
So you be the judge; it's up to you if it's safe or even necessary to tell them.
It doesn't necessarily have to be a secret. If you feel an urge to tell someone, it's obviously weighing on you, and it will be worthwhile to consider if your counselor is trustworthy.
