Written by Shelly Moore ©️ 2025

Tulpas…?

Thoughtforms…?

Accidental spirits…?

Psychic parasites…?

Collective fear…?

📚 Buckle up, kiddos. This is a wild ride…

Here’s something fewer people talk about seriously, even in seasoned circles:

🜏✨ Thoughtforms, Tulpas & Unintentional Golems — “Living Ideas.”

One tier deeper than “ghost echoes” is the concept that human consciousness can craft autonomous entities — entirely by accident or with ritual intent.

🔑 What is a Thoughtform?

A thoughtform is an energy cluster generated by focused intention, emotion, or repetitive belief. Given enough energy, it can act independently, feeding off its creator’s attention or even other people’s belief. Some cultures call them Tulpas (Tibetan), some magicians call them Servitors, some folklore lumps them with Golems (the clay protector given life through sacred words).

🗝️ Why is this terrifyingly real?

Here’s where it gets wild for an advanced investigator:

1️⃣ It doesn’t need to be conscious in the human sense. It’s more like an AI: instructions + energy = behavior.

2️⃣ Many “demons” people summon accidentally are just thoughtforms. Created by fear, repeated ritual, or group belief.

3️⃣ They can self-replicate ideas. Example: an urban legend can become a real haunting if enough people fear it and tell stories about it. Slenderman is the modern poster child.

4️⃣ They sometimes “leech” to survive. Because they are fed by belief, attention, emotion. Stop feeding = they dissolve… eventually.

🧿 Real accounts.

1972, The Philip Experiment: Canadian parapsychologists created a fictional ghost named Philip Aylesford. Through séances and group belief, Philip “manifested” — rapping on tables, moving objects, and answering questions. Tibetan monks use Tulpas as advanced mind training — creating a phantom companion so real, it can be seen and spoken to. But even these monks warn: losing control of a Tulpa is one of the greatest psychic dangers.

🗡️ The secret twist for you…

You should consider:

How many ghosts are really the residue of human thought? How many “attachments” are self-made parasites? How many personal demons are thoughtforms whispering old loops?

The scariest part: the more unique or emotionally charged the person, the more potent their accidental thoughtforms. Sensitive people = potent creators.

Just think about that for a bit…

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📕  Alexandra David-Néel and the Monk That Wouldn’t Leave.

Who: Alexandra David-Néel (1868–1969) — a French-Belgian explorer, opera singer, anarchist, Buddhist scholar, and one of the first Western women to deeply study Tibetan esoteric practices in situ. She spoke fluent Tibetan, lived in monasteries, and was initiated into advanced tantric secrets — unheard of for a European woman of her era.

✦ The Experiment…

While living in a remote monastery in the Himalayas, David-Néel decided to test an ancient teaching:

With absolute focus, visualization, and ritual, a practitioner could create a physical being out of sheer mental energy.

She called this being a Tulpa — a mind-made phantom.

She chose to craft a jolly, plump monk, harmless and cheerful, who would serve as a proof-of-concept companion. Using strict visualization, repetitive mantras, and rituals, she poured weeks of meditative focus into this imaginary monk.

At first, it worked exactly as intended:

She saw him walking about. Others began to see “a monk” on the grounds — not realizing he was her creation. He seemed tangible, even casting a faint shadow at times.

✦ The Problem…

As time passed, her Tulpa began to change without her conscious control:

His form became thinner, less jolly, more sinister. He started appearing when she didn’t summon him. She felt a growing sense of dread and repulsion in his presence. Monks in the area reported “a strange monk” behaving oddly, lurking where he shouldn’t be.

She realized, with alarm, that the Tulpa was feeding itself — growing autonomous. Instead of an obedient projection, he was becoming a rogue, self-directing psychic entity.

✦ The Dissolution…

Terrified, David-Néel spent months in deep meditation, counter-visualizing and ritually “unweaving” the Tulpa’s form. It wasn’t instant — the more independent it had grown, the more energy she needed to pull it back into nothingness.

She wrote later that the experience convinced her:

“The phantom becomes a kind of independent being. It can develop a will of its own… the power to act.”

🕷️ The hidden moral for modern occultists…

Her story is a cautionary tale quietly passed among serious magicians:

“Beware what you feed with your imagination, especially in solitude, strong emotion, or ritual focus. Thoughtforms are easy to breathe into life, but not so easy to kill once they taste autonomy.”

🗝️ Why this is deeper than “ghost hunting”…

Unlike residual hauntings or classic spirits, rogue tulpas show:

Consciousness is not exclusively biological. Humans can accidentally create “living” psychic entities. These can outlive the maker if sustained by collective belief (see urban legends, cult egregores, conspiracy mythos).

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🜏✨ Tulpas, Conspiracy Cults & Internet Folklore: How Our Minds Still Make Monsters.

When Alexandra David-Néel described her rogue monk, she couldn’t have foreseen the digital age — but her caution echoes louder than ever now that we have billions of minds feeding ideas together, day and night, through screens.

📡 The Modern Tulpa: Collective Thoughtforms.

Today, the idea of a Tulpa quietly lives on in how groups co-create living myths:

Urban legends like Slenderman didn’t just stay on creepypasta sites — people began reporting real sightings, dreams, encounters. A collective fear turned fiction into psychic footprint. Some QAnon circles claim visions, prophetic dreams, or “channeled messages” from invented figures. When thousands of believers feed it, the figure becomes more “alive” in their reality. Conspiracy cults gather online, re-sharing the same symbols, phrases, and rituals until their “enemy” or “hero” becomes a living presence in their daily perception — a thoughtform as potent as a ghost.

These modern thoughtforms differ from David-Néel’s monk in scale:

Where she conjured alone, the internet conjures together. An accidental global séance.

🕷️ How This Feeds Itself…

1️⃣ Emotion = fuel: Fear, rage, obsession — the more charged the emotion, the more power the thoughtform gains.

2️⃣ Echo chambers = incubation chambers: Reddit threads, Discord servers, private forums — a perfect womb for an idea to gestate and grow limbs.

3️⃣ Memes = viral sigils: Memes carry the thoughtform, distill it, and spread it like a virus disguised as humor.

🗝️ Why It Matters…

The Stone Tape Theory explains ghosts trapped in walls.

The Tulpa concept explains living ideas trapped in minds.

Combine the two — and the digital world becomes a haunted house we willingly feed every day.

For example:

A cult’s fear of a deep-state cabal manifests as “signs” in unrelated events. Viral horror stories “bleed through” when enough people dream about them — a collective psychic echo.

In occult terms: we are accidental magicians, scripting nightmares and boogeymen at scale.

🧿 What To Do With This Knowledge…

For the wise:

Know your mind is a co-creator. What you dwell on, feed emotionally, or fear obsessively builds structure in the subtle realms. Be mindful what ideas you amplify. Every retweet, every share is an energetic offering. Purge your mental temple now and then: banish stale conspiracies, old grudges, petty fears.

✨ In the End…

The old monks warned: The mind is a powerful servant and a dangerous master.

In this age, it’s not just our own mind anymore — it’s billions, interlinked, scripting Tulpas that ripple through our collective consciousness.

So: choose what you conjure. And choose wisely.

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🜏✨ Practical Mini-Guide: How to Spot & Untangle Yourself from a Modern Tulpa.

1️⃣ Recognize the Signature

Unhealthy thoughtforms (modern Tulpas) often feel like:

An intrusive worry that loops obsessively, feeding on your energy. A “phantom fear” that grows stronger when you focus on it. An idea or belief that feels alive — it reacts when you try to ignore it. It can echo in dreams, symbols, repeated “coincidences” — like it wants attention.

Ask yourself: “Am I feeding this with fear, repetition, or obsession?”

2️⃣ Identify the Fuel

Modern Tulpas are sustained by:

Doomscrolling and conspiratorial rabbit holes. Repetitive venting or ranting about the same injustice. An echo chamber that amplifies it (friends, forums, news feeds).

Find out where you’re unconsciously feeding it — awareness weakens its grip.

3️⃣ Starve It Out

Begin to cut its food supply:

✅ Limit reading, talking, or obsessing about it.

✅ Replace doom feeds with healthy distractions: nature walks, music, real conversations.

✅ Visualize it shrinking daily — literally see it withering in your mind’s eye.

4️⃣ Replace It

Energy must flow somewhere — so create a healthy replacement:

New mantra: “I am the gatekeeper of my mind.” New input: uplifting books, art, laughter. New ritual: light a candle, name the old thoughtform, thank it for its lesson, and declare aloud: “I free myself now.” Blow the candle out as its final breath.

🌙 Key Truth:

What you no longer feed cannot survive.

The mind, once clear, naturally dissolves stale Tulpas back into raw potential.

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🌀✨ Short Meditation Ritual: Clearing Your Psychic Bandwidth.

🌙 Duration: 5–10 min — perfect anytime you feel mentally crowded.

1️⃣ Prepare:

Sit comfortably. Breathe slow. Hands on your heart.

2️⃣ Intention:

Silently say: “I clear my mind of stale echoes. I reclaim my energy now.”

3️⃣ Visualize:

Imagine your mind as a vast sky, tangled with clouds. See each cloud as a worry, fear, or thoughtform — drifting but not rooted.

4️⃣ Breathe & Release:

With each exhale, a cloud dissolves. Watch them melt back into blue, one by one.

5️⃣ Anchor:

Place one hand on your crown (top of head), one on your belly. Whisper:

“I am the only thinker in my mind. My sky is clear. My energy is my own.”

6️⃣ Close:

Open your eyes slowly. Stretch. Feel the lighter air around you. Drink water to ground back into the physical.

🔑 Optional Add-On:

Light a small white candle before you begin. When finished, snuff it out and say:

“So be it. It is done.”