I pretty much just acted in a way I enjoyed, and as time passed that formed into a full personality, which life experiences and stuff eventually influenced/changed, as they do for everyone, but my core personality's pretty much stayed the same
@Smeer Honestly, I've been on the fence about whether or not I even want a tulpa community for the last year now.
No, despite what I said about the image, having it go mainstream would be absolutely awful. The potential for misuse is far, far too high. In the same way that there are many bad parents, there would be even more bad tulpamancers. We would need a way to restrict information on the practice to make sure we could control how people were doing it, which is not attainable currently.
The main reason I care is that it makes me ashamed to be a part of the tulpa community with it in the state that it is. If I ever want to tell somebody what I am, it's difficult because of the poor image the community has.
So ideally, I would like our image to be less shit but for us to remain non-mainstream.
I doubt that we will go to mainstream anyway even if we were less crappy. OBE seems to be good explained from scientific point of view, still it's quite exotic interest of a few people. (and still there are people who believe in astral explanation)
7:50 AM
I don't believe tulpas will interest everyone. Also, I don't see a reason why we should try to either interest everyone or hide it from people.
7:51 AM
Same reason for hiding it as having people have to do courses before getting pregnant
7:51 AM
To prevent poor parenting, or in our case, poor hosting
7:55 AM
Well, for me it's quite complicated.
7:56 AM
I feel everyone deserves to have an imaginary companion. But to develop it into an alternate identity... It is the part that people should consider harder. And currently, we are flattening these two things
8:03 AM
You know, even little children have imaginary friends who talk to them. And most of them dissipate. You can't ban these bad hosts :p
Otherwise I would certainly agree. Safety first, which is why good information should be available, along with full disclosure of possible benefits, downsides, and other considerations to make.
Not necessarily, Alexis. Good information would also include points about positive treatment of tulpas. There is a fairly direct benefit for the host as well, hence they should have reason to follow it.
