Egregores

Group belief congealing into something with appetite. The internet, occultists warn, farms them.

The egregore concept — a thoughtform sustained by collective belief, eventually acting on its believers — is documented occult doctrine (the term enters through Éliphas Lévi-era French occultism; the Watchers of Enoch supply the etymology). Its secular restatement is respectable social science: institutions, brands, and movements behave as agent-like patterns their participants feed. The node bridges the occult file to the internet-era question (Dead Internet, tulpamancy communities — a documented online subculture) of what group attention builds. Links tulpa, manifestation, and the meme-magic folklore.