| A thoughtform is a term used to explain a form of | | | | actualize thoughtforms after a pilgrimage to Lhasa, |
| energy that can be manifested through the collective | | | | Tibet. As a devout Buddhist, she learned how to focus |
| efforts of a person or several persons. In Tibetan | | | | her spiritual energy and was able to allow her tulpa to |
| dialects, thoughtform is translated as tulpa, which can | | | | exist as a jolly friar image. However, the tulpa became |
| be actualized either consciously or unconsciously by | | | | uncontrollable, according to sources, and had to be |
| willpower, visualization, and the use of life energy. | | | | destroyed. Many sources relate tulpas to egrigor, a |
| Tibetan Buddhism is a religion that is strongly rooted in | | | | western occult belief that is described as a spiritual |
| meditation and in the understanding of the life energy. | | | | form brought to life through concentration and |
| All living organisms possess the life energy, it is strong | | | | meditation of a group. Egrigors, like tulpas, can be |
| in some organisms, and weak in others. Through the | | | | captured on film or digital photography. Some persons |
| proper practice and meditation, humans can learn to | | | | believe that these practitioners or occultists should |
| perceive this energy with all their senses, and in some | | | | observe caution when summoning and actualizing their |
| ways, can be able to control it. The collective efforts | | | | tulpas. Egrigors and tulpas have the ability to separate |
| of a group produce more of this energy as compared | | | | themselves from the etheric world, and remove |
| to an individual. The belief in the thoughtform exists in | | | | themselves from the control of the persons who willed |
| many cultures, particularly in Central and South Asia, | | | | them. Experts on the occult explain that thoughtforms |
| like Bhutan, Nepal, China, India, and Mongolia. Regions | | | | such as the tulpa and egrigor are the reasons why |
| that believe in shamanic practices also have their | | | | believed-to-be haunted places actually become |
| versions of these thoughtforms. In Australia, there are | | | | haunted. The human mind and spirit have an amazing |
| practices with thoughtforms that have originated from | | | | power and the ability to create things. Tulpas are only |
| indigenous tribes. In Native Americans in the United | | | | one of the manifestations of how focus can make |
| States, the Cherokees also believe in the spiritual ability | | | | things possible. There is a website that describes the |
| to create thoughtforms. The essence of the Tibetan | | | | Tulpas and numerous other creatures of |
| tulpa lies in the human ability to actualize thought. | | | | Cryptozoology in detail, this website is called: Unknown |
| Through focus and concentration, that which is only | | | | Creatures and it may be found at this url: You may |
| spiritual or invisible can manifest itself in a physical form. | | | | publish this article in your ezine, newsletter or on your |
| Tibetans believe that a tulpa is a ghost or apparition of | | | | web site as long as it is reprinted in its entirety and |
| a living person, existing in the etheric or spiritual world. | | | | without modification except for formatting needs or |
| As a person wills the tulpa to exist, it has a possibility | | | | grammar corrections. |
| to be seen by other people. Tulpas can be in the | | | | Robert W. Benjamin has been in the software |
| forms of animals, mythical creatures, and also humans. | | | | business on the internet for over 7 years, and has |
| There are accounts of persons who practice this | | | | been producing low-cost software for the past 25+ |
| actualization, and have been able to take digital photos | | | | years. He first released software on the AMIGA and |
| of themselves with their tulpas. One of the modern | | | | C64 computer systems in the late 1970's-80's. Robert |
| introductions of tulpas to the west was in the 19th | | | | has written many articles pertaining to numerous |
| century, where Alexandra David-Neel, a French | | | | subjects, and he has also developed over 6 different |
| spiritualist, writer, and explorer, discovered her ability to | | | | websites. |