Tulpas
A tulpa is a materialized being or thought-form, typically in human form, that is created through spiritual practice and intense concentration. The term is borrowed from Tibetan Buddhism. Modern practitioners, who call themselves "tulpamancers", use the term to refer to a type of willed imaginary friend whom practitioners consider sentient and relatively independent. Modern practitioners predominantly consider tulpas a psychological rather than a paranormal phenomenon. The idea became an important belief in Theosophy.
The 2020 film The Empty Man, written and directed by David Prior, is based on the theory of tulpas.
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