Tulpas

Thoughtforms that outgrow their thinkers. Alexandra David-Néel made one and regretted it.

Alexandra David-Néel's 'Magic and Mystery in Tibet' (1929) reported creating a thoughtform monk that developed autonomy and required deliberate dissolution — her account, from a documented explorer (first European woman in Lhasa) reporting a practice Tibetan Buddhism describes differently (sprul pa, emanation doctrine). The modern tulpamancy community (documented in ethnographic studies since 2012) reports created companions with subjective autonomy, studied by researchers (Veissière) as hypnotic-social phenomena. The node holds the 1929 source, the doctrine it filtered, and the living experiment, linked to egregores.