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  • noun Plural form of tulpa.

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Examples

  • It happens in Tibet a great deal and the ambulatory, externalized hallucinations that follow lamas about are called tulpas.

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

  • It happens in Tibet a great deal and the ambulatory, externalized hallucinations that follow lamas about are called tulpas.

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

  • It happens in Tibet a great deal and the ambulatory, externalized hallucinations that follow lamas about are called tulpas.

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

  • But also suppose the means that ETs use for inerstellar travel are thought forms "tulpas" of sorts, that is, or whatever you want to call them.

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

  • Also intriguing are accounts of "tulpas," human-like entities crafted by pure thought.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Mac 2006

  • Capable of carrying out tasks on behalf of their creators, "tulpas" aren't unlike the maddeningly transient "occupants" seen in or around "spacecraft" sometimes digging for soil specimens in an almost parodic reenactment of the Apollo Moon landings.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Mac 2006

  • There was little else they could do on deck that Houdini and Doyle were not already doing—and the two tulpas were both younger and more physically fit than they.

    The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010

  • There was little else they could do on deck that Houdini and Doyle were not already doing—and the two tulpas were both younger and more physically fit than they.

    The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010

  • There was little else they could do on deck that Houdini and Doyle were not already doing—and the two tulpas were both younger and more physically fit than they.

    The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010

  • Could cryptoterrestrials have gotten their start this way, as, basically, tulpas thought forms of some sort -- created, say, by tribal shamans and then achieving a sort of independent existence that has allowed them to pursue their own line of development?

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

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