What are pop culture spirits? It sounds like something I've encountered but I can't tell. My dragon guides called them thought forms.
Warning: The following is personal definitions based on my practice. Your mileage may (and will probably) vary.
I have a tendency to define spirits based on origin (nature spirit, card spirit, servitor, thoughtform, etc) and then get more specific from there (deck spirit, nymph, elf, etc) rather than by role (tutelary spirit, familiar, spirit guide, etc).
Thus, pop culture spirits are just...spirits originating from a piece of pop culture media. For example, Charmander is a Pokemon spirit, M'aiq the Liar is an Elder Scrolls spirit, and so on.
To me, thoughtforms and servitors are something else - they can be based on pop culture media, but they're not inherently from that source. Servitors and thoughtforms in my practice are beings of energy made by me - servitors stick to their design, while thoughtforms have some level of sentience and can develop and grow.
What was the last example I gave in the meme? Card spirits? Those are spirits that are tied to a card - typically tarot, but there's a lot of overlap with card-based pop culture spirits, such as Clow Cards or Magic The Gathering cards.
Deck spirits, meanwhile, are the spirits of the overall deck. I personally interpret it as, like, a management thing because that makes the most sense to me.
But yeah, in my practice, the origin of a spirit is the identifying factor, so I will refer to pop culture spirits as pop culture spirits.
...Please note that entities like fae, angels, demons, and deities don't fall into the spirit category here. We'll be here all night if I get into the technicalities and the exceptions to my definitions.
~Jasper
