So you want to make a tulpa. Alright, give me ten minutes and a dream
Hello everyone! My name is Astra, a tulpa and member of the Candlelight Society. For the past few years I have been working on my models and techniques for making a tulpa, defining a tulpa, and how to learn all the tricks, secrets, and wonders of tulpamancy. This has been an amazing journey, and I have developed a wonderful community of like minded people to share these ideas with and refine many of my ideas into things I believe are practical and useful for others wishing to try tulpamancy.
Due to this I have been working on a large scale project known as Tulpa Scholastica. Part of Project Tulpa Scholastica is a new, fairly large scale guide that has both beginners and advanced practitioners sections so that it has something new to offer everyone at any part of their tulpamancy journey. This guide is nowhere near complete however, so instead I've decided to take specific pieces of it and break it up into more rough and easy to read mini guides covering specific topics.
This guide in particular will be covering the most important question a new tulpamancer has: "How do I actually make a tulpa?"
This will not cover what a tulpa is, tulpamancy terminology, or anything else elaborative. If you need to learn about what a tulpa is, check some of the basic descriptions on whatever platform you found this guide on. Below you are going to find the shortest, simplest guide you will ever see on this topic without sacrificing quality, in the form of some basic instruction and an exercise I wish to walk you through.
To begin, you need two things for your tulpa, a form and a personality. A form is how they are going to appear in your minds eye, and this can be absolutely anything. It can be the likeness of a fictional character, an established OC, or something entirely new and unique. All you have to do is figure out what design you think represents what you want them to be best. If you need inspiration, Google images is your friend. For those of you with weaker visualization or aphantasia, understanding their form on a conceptual level will still prove useful for your tulpamancy experience, so don't just skip over this step. Your tulpa will also be able to adjust their form after they're established, so don't stress the details too hard. It can all be revisited later.
Next you need to have a personality in mind for them. To do this think of it like designing a D&D character or equivalent form of character writing. I want you to make a mental list of what traits you think would be most important for them to have. These can be brave, energetic, sweet, soft, mischievous, introspective, anything that captures the essence you want them to possess. It may also be useful to think in terms of literary archetypes such as the chivalrous knight or a fem fatale. Collect these traits together and see how they connect to one another in your head, let the shape of a well rounded personality take form. Some may prefer to keep this more light and focus on the personality developing through interactions later which is also acceptable, but having a firm core understanding of how your tulpa should think and act will make the creation process a fair bit smoother.
Once you have the form and the personality you have the base of your soon to be tulpa. This base is what they shall be built upon and shaped by, but it will not be the final verdict. As individuals they may change or grow from these traits in various ways, just like we do as people. More often than not however this base will be a central part of them and how they view their identities. Make it with love.
Got all that? Good. That's all that you need. Now if you have read this far, congrats Tiktok hasn't ruined you entirely yet, but also I want to invite you to join an exercise with me. It's simple, easy, and only takes a moment. This exercise will benefit you greatly. You'll see why in a second.
I want you to imagine your tulpa, their form standing next to you or sharing any furniture you may be using. Imagine their personality, how they carry themselves, how they act. Imagine them as your tulpa, knowing who they are. Feel their presence in whatever way you can. Now I want you to interact with them, it can be in any way but for the sake of this exercise let's use a question. Imagine this question, imagine this question and ask your tulpa about it. Once you have asked this question imagine your tulpa's response. Imagine how they would respond to this question as your tulpa, don't force it, don't overanalyze it, just passively let it come into your mind. I want you to take that first clear response that comes naturally and feels right, and I want you to hold it. Take that question and response and remember it, even feel free to share it on whatever platform you find this guide.
You have it? Congratulations! You have just spoken with your tulpa.
What you just did was the essence of forcing as Scholastica's style of tulpamancy teaches it. By interacting with your tulpa in this way you begin to build up their autonomy. It may feel like you at first, but don't worry about that. By accepting these responses from your tulpa as real, they become real. The more you interact with your tulpa and get responses back just like you did above, the more they will feel separate from you. Their responses will become faster and smoother, they will feel more distinct and separate from your own identity. Eventually they will be almost entirely independent from you, and your tulpa will be an individual with thoughts, feelings, dreams and memories of their own. From here all you have to do is simply enjoy and share your life with them. Try and work interacting with your tulpa into your daily routine, the more interactions with you and the world they have the more they will grow. With enough time and interaction, you will develop a deep and beautiful bond as equals sharing a mind and body.
That's it. That's the guide. It doesn't get any simpler than this. Not without sacrificing effectiveness anyways. No extra material, no deep dives on implications, contexts, or further techniques. This is a tulpamancy creation guide in it's purest form.
There is still so much to learn however! Once you have worked your tulpa into your daily life feel free to look into the many other wonderful skills, techniques, and ideas that exist within the practice of tulpamancy. There will be more guides in the future from Project Tulpa Scholastica covering some of these concepts, so keep an eye out for them!
I hope this mini guide will prove useful to those newly beginning with this amazing practice. Tell your tulpas I said welcome to reality!
– Written by the Candlelight Society as part of project Tulpa Scholastica. Find us on various platforms.