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The unimagine may be more dangerous than you think. Sure, opening your mind could be the equivalent of opening Pandora’s box, but if you consider that consciousness is frequently opening that box called mind, we may need to just open it wide and dive right in.
A View to a Tulpa
In essence, a Tulpa is essentially a thought form that has been given sufficient attention over time that it becomes autonomous in it’s actions and can be experienced by the conscious mind as if experienced through normal senses. A lazy way to say this is that a tulpa is a self-induced hallucination. It is more than this, per me and many others who have engaged in tulpamancy, the art of making tulpas. Hearing that may drive many away from reading further, but this practice was developed by Tibetan Monks maybe a thousand years ago. There are modern day analogs.
I suspect that ‘Think and Grow Rich’ author, Napoleon Hill, rediscovered or a created a version of tulpamancy in his ‘Invisible Counselor’ technique. I refer you to his afore mentioned book, and a simple google search to explore that concept further.
I suspect that ‘active imagination,’ as defined by Carl Jung, probably one of the most recognized psychiatrist in history, is a gateway to experiencing tulpas. Jung’s book, ‘The Red Book,’ introduces Philemon, who I submit to you is a tulpa. Jung…
