ragnar wrote:EnderDracolich wrote:Everyone calling it pseudoscience is missing the mark by a long shot. Pseudoscience pretends to be science, it uses fake data and jargon to fool people; belief in Tulpa is an openly supernatural belief that does not make any claim of being scientific. Calling it pseudoscience is like calling belief in God, angels, ghosts, demons, or sorcery pseudoscience. It's categorically incorrect; these are mythological and supernatural beliefs, not pseudoscience.
What are you talking about?
I'm pretty sure people can create their 'tulpas' in their mind, and I'm just as sure that there is nothing magic or supernatural about it. While the exact process hasn't yet been explored and explained in detail by neuroscientists, it is clearly a self-inducted psychic involved, you're just being delusional.
Considering that most people making tulpas tend to have social phobia or, in general, troubles socializing with other people (as they claim they did it for company among other things), it is not unlikely that it might have correlations with schizotypal disorder; a disorder characterized by social anxiety, hallucinations, and magical thinking.
First: I don't take well to being insulted; calling people delusional is an insult. I am mentally healthy, thank you very much. Simply having religious beliefs does not render a person dellusional; if that was the case, 84% of the Earth's population would be diagnosed with clinical delusions. Like it or not, believing in supernatural forces is a commonplace and normal human behavior.
Second: The concept of a Tulpa is taken STRAIGHT from Buddhist mysticism. It is part of the ancient Tibetan Buddhist religion, and within that religion, it is classified as form of Siddhi, which is quite *literally* defined as magic achieved through meditation. Saying it isn't a magic concept is like saying Baptism or Communion (in the Christian faith tradition) aren't magical concepts. Please do your research before you make assertions about culture which you clearly have not studied in any detail.