So you want to make a tulpa, alright give me ten minutes and a dream
Hello everyone, my name is Astra of the Candlelight Society. I am a tulpa, and for the last few years I have been working on my techniques for making a tulpa, defining a tulpa, and how to learn all the tricks, secrets, and wonders of tulpamancy. Through all of this I have developed a wonderful community of like minded people and have refined many of my ideas into things I believe are practical and useful.
Due to this I have been working on a guide to tulpamancy and the wonderful mental world that surrounds it and adjacent mental skills. This guide is nowhere near complete however, so instead what I want to do is provide small independent topics of it in posts for others to use and benefit from in the meantime. To begin this process, I want to address the most common question I get: how do I make a tulpa?
This will not cover what a tulpa is, tulpa terminology, or anything elaborative. 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.
Next you need a personality. To do this think of it like designing a D&D character. 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. 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.
Once you have the form and the personality, you have the base of your 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.
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. 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. 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 tulpas 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 hold it. Take that question and response and remember it, even feel free to share it on this post.
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 you 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.
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 technique. This is a tulpamancy creation guide in it's purest form.
If you want to learn more however, please see our new blog, Tulpa Scholastica! @tulpa-scholastica
