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