Tell me, would you like to have a friend? Any person or other creature who will be your best friend, having the appearance that you like, and the character that you need, which will not need to be shared with her or his friends, parents, dog, toys or studies. And the secretary, who is always with you, has direct access to your memory, will remind you, prompt, and give the necessary idea, a partner for a brainstorming session?
Tulpa is a strong individual hallucination. In Tibetan Buddhism, a quasi-materialized embodiment of thought, a kind of internally visible and even internally tangible image created by a person's imagination. At the same time, the tulpa can be visible to strangers.
Among the Europeans, the Frenchwoman Alexandra David-Neel happened to see the tulpa, who spent many years studying the remote regions of Tibet. In the 1920s, while living with Tibetan yogis, Alexandra repeatedly observed the materialization of tulpas, after which she decided to create a tulpa herself.
Alexandra David-Neel in Tibet
“It is believed,” wrote A. David-Neel, “that this practice is fraught with danger if the one who resorts to it has not reached a high level of spiritual and intellectual enlightenment and does not fully realize the nature of the psychic forces used. Once a tulpa is endowed with enough vitality to play the role of a real being, it begins to rapidly release from the control of its creator.
This, say the Tibetan occultists, happens almost mechanically, just as a child leaves the mother's womb when his body has developed enough to become possible independent existence. Sometimes such a phantom becomes a kind of rebellious son, and then, they say, a merciless struggle takes place between him and his creator. In doing so, a tulpa can harm, injure, and even kill the one who created it.
Tibetan magicians also tell of cases when the tulpa, being sent on a mission, did not return and began his own wanderings as a semi-conscious, dangerous and evil puppet. The same thing is said to happen when the tulpa maker dies before he can dissolve him.
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As a rule, a phantom either disappears by itself at the time of the death of its creator, or disappears gradually, as a body deprived of water perishes. At the same time, other tulpas are initially focused on outliving their creator."
Further, David-Neel says that, having decided to test this statement, she set up her own experiment. The tulpa that she conceived to create seemed to her as a monk with a certain appearance and character. The researcher closed herself in a cell and began to perform appropriate exercises for mental concentration and other ritual actions.
A few months later, a ghostly monk appeared. His appearance gradually became more clear and vital. He became, as it were, a guest living in a strange room. After a while, David-Neel broke off her solitude, setting off on a journey along with the created double. And here's what is surprising: without any command, the phantom performed various actions that were quite natural for a traveling person.
For example, he walked, stopped from time to time, looked around. The illusion was mostly purely visual, but on several occasions the traveler felt like a light touch of his clothes and once even a hand. Gradually he became more restless and aggressive, as if completely out of control.
“One day a shepherd who brought me butter as a gift,” continues David-Neel, “found a tulpa in my tent and mistook him for a lama. I would have left the ghost alone, but the presence of an unwanted companion began to get on my nerves, turned into a constant nightmare. Finally I decided to dissolve the phantom. I succeeded only after six months of hard struggle. The offspring of my thought stubbornly clung to life …"
From this narration, we can conclude that in a certain situation, phantom creatures and someone's counterparts can, obviously, stay in the world out of control and not even knowing about those real people from whom they separated. Such spontaneously arising or deliberately created doubles who have acquired being and the will to live will least of all strive to be recognized, so as not to cause confusion.
It can be assumed that such a double will try to dissolve, get lost among people who do not realize that their interlocutor, a neighbor in a compartment, an acquaintance is not a real person, but, say, an energetic copy of some real personality. Such phantoms, doubles are completely indistinguishable from ordinary people, moreover, according to testimonies, they are endowed with complete physical reality.
It should be noted that such a product, endowed with an independent life, can be a phantom that has the appearance of not only a person. Sorcerers of the Komi people have long created ghostly beasts in order to confuse other people's hunters who hunt outside their territory. Moreover, the creation of such creatures sometimes took on the character of rivalry and even a duel among sorcerers. Ghost animals are also mentioned in the fights of shamans.