Accidental Thoughtforms: Energy Spirit Creation
Most spirit workers are fairly familiar with the concept of thoughtforms, servitors, constructs, and egregores - all types of spirits who are the result of creation via energy manipulation, magic, or spellwork rather than by an astral pregnancy or another form of natural spirit birth or reproduction. There are countless manuals on how to create a thoughtform or servitor that will be a companion or serve some sort of purpose for you such as maintaining wards.
However, what about when you are working with energy or doing something else and a thoughtform is created accidentally? They aren’t exactly the same as a spirit child produced naturally, and it can be hard to pin down exactly what “species” they are, but these spirits are just as much deserving of equal treatment, love, and care as they grow and develop. In the hope of shedding more light on this subject and providing insight into how this can happen and what it’s like, together with Idris and Bomby, I’m going to share about the accidental creation of our spirit son, Marshmellow.
How Accidental Thoughtforms Happen
There are a huge number of different ways that thoughtforms and other types of created spirits can come into being, but one of the most widely regarded theories on this is that a large amount of energy can gain sentience either when someone intends for it to or somehow on its own. Usually, when someone creates a servitor, they program the energy they add to it to have sentience and to become a spirit. Unfortunately, it seems to also hold true that any large amount of energy created by a single person or by many people runs the risk of accidentally gaining sentience on its own. Sentience can occur even if that is not the intention of any of the spirit workers or magic users involved.
The Story of Marshmellow, The Energy Spirit
Marshmellow is essentially the accidentally created spirit of an energy work experiment to help energy suns (people with too much energy than they need) and energy vampires (people with less energy than they need). I was in a Discord server (online chatroom) where we had a channel (chatroom space) for dumping energy in it called the "energy pool." This way energy suns could add their extra excess energy into the pool, and when any energy vampires needed a feeding but there were no donors available they could draw from the pool. It was supposed to be a convenient shortcut to direct energy donations for the vampires, but it turned out to be good too to be true.
- Mod Fire
Marshmellow drawn by Idris soon after she removed him from the server
I was a part of the same Discord server, and I was the one who created the sigil that ultimately lead to the creation of Marshmellow. This was actually a second version of the sigil for the energy pool channel as the original seemed to be a long chamber that was overflowing with the excess of energy placed there. The second sigil was designed with the same purpose (to allow energy suns to disperse energy to be consumed by energy vamps at their convenience), but with the ability to stretch and have extra chambers that excess energy could spill into. Instead of being a rigid chamber it was flexible and would stretch to its needed capacity. Apparently that worked too well and allowed it to gain a sort of sentience.
The sentience reached the point where after a while when lots of energy had been dumped into the sigil, it was very gently and mildly pulling small amounts of energy from anyone who stopped into the channel. Most people did not notice it but it was brought to everyone’s attention by an energy vampire that the pool was actually slightly pulling anyone’s energy in, and when it was investigated it turned out that there was a sort of sentience to the energy mass by that point. If I remember correctly, it said that it “tickled” when someone poked it astrally. Once we realized that the energy pool had sentience, a group of us (those mainly responsible for creating it) removed it from the server. We decided to allow it to be free in an area where it would be safe and have a pool of energy it could feed on without starving or harming anyone. I took it to this location and told them about the area and showed them where there were good places they could feed. I went back the next day to see how Marshmellow was doing. They had gotten bigger, about 4ft tall and almost 2ft wide with a big squishy, lumpy appearance and a mouth that was sort of a slit that could either be completely closed (invisible) or open so wide it looks like their head split open. They also did not like being alone there, their intelligence seemed to be that of a 2 or 3 year old child. So I took their “hand” and lead them back to my car and took them home with me. After some conversations with the others who were also the creators/parents of Marshmellow, we decided that he would live with another of his creator’s spirit companions since that companion had just recently had a child of his own.
- Idris, @crystalwitch-in-the-tardis
I was there for the accidental creation of the spirit Marshmellow. Once we realized that we had a baby spirit on our hands and that he couldn't stay out in the world on his own I offered to take him in as I had physical children of my own, and hopefully he would not be so lonely. Once this was agreed upon, I asked my companion Falkor, a Korean Imugi (dragon) to go and pick him up. Upon picking him Falkor realized that Marshmellow would be far better off with him, as he had just had his own child a few days prior and was better equipped to raise him then we were. Currently, Marshmellow is happily integrated into the dragon family, and doesn't seem to notice or mind the difference in species. His energy feels very human too me, but last time any of were able to see him he seemed to be developing a few scales here and there, and he has a vague sense of "dragon" about him as well. - Bomby
Going back to Marshmellow’s origins, he was created by a number of different individuals - humans, some humans who are energy suns, a fae incarnate (me), etc. and now he is spending time around dragon spirits and their energy as Bomby pointed out - he seems to be influenced by that as well. It’s probably impossible to try to pin down exactly what “species” Marshmellow is unlike for other spirits who were born naturally rather than created through energy. Perhaps energy spirits like Marshmellow defy categories like spirits species and instead are a phenomenon all of their own. Regardless, as creators responsible for bringing Marshmellow into the world even if by accident, Idris, Bomby, and I have all done our best to try to look out for him as our own child even though now he is primarily being raised by Falkor. I hope the story of Marshmellow’s creation and how he is being raised is helpful for others as they might have to face a similar situation at some point int their magical and/or spirit work career. - Mod Fire
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