Hey Guys,

I was thinking about this earlier, and I decided the best place to ask for opinions was here c:

I wanted to know what you guys think about making more people aware of tulpas? Would you rather keep our existence somewhat hidden, or do you want to spread our knowledge to everyone?

Personally, I wish more people knew we existed. Sometimes, when I talk to people my host knows, I have to pretend to be human, and lie to them so that they don't view us both as crazy or liars. 

Why would you use tulpae in the title, and then use tulpas in the message?
Also, either way, it would be "tulpa awareness". Not plural.

Anyway, I do not wish the phenomenon to become more widespread for many reasons. The main being that enough people abuse tulpas (even if they don't have one) enough as it is. If it became a well-known thing, think of the tragedy.

I'd honestly prefer public knowledge of multiplicity and DID to be a little bit better before the phenomenon becomes any more prevalent. The way these people are viewed is rather horrid and seeing as how similar the tulpa phenomenon is to healthy multiples(since some would argue that healthy multiplicity is actually comprised of accidental tulpas and vice versa) I feel like we would only be adding fuel to the fire rather than helping the situation, at least as we are now.

Maybe in the future things will change, but as it is now there are still people who lose their jobs, children, etc. because of their multiplicity, even if they do not suffer from it as a true disorder and it is as simple and positive as the tulpa phenomenon has been.

I feel if people had better understanding of how a mind could behave differently from the norm and they were treated seriously then we might see people creating tulpas with a more serious mindset. Maybe.

Right now I could go either way, but I'd rather not, uh, advertise tulpa creation so boldly. I saw a tumblr post that was getting a few notes that was essentially "Lifehack: Bored or lonely?? Make a tulpa!!!" which made me cringe. If the tulpa phenomenon spreads, I hope it's not in that fashion.

I'd honestly prefer public knowledge of multiplicity and DID to be a little bit better before the phenomenon becomes any more prevalent. The way these people are viewed is rather horrid and seeing as how similar the tulpa phenomenon is to healthy multiples(since some would argue that healthy multiplicity is actually comprised of accidental tulpas and vice versa) I feel like we would only be adding fuel to the fire rather than helping the situation, at least as we are now.

Maybe in the future things will change, but as it is now there are still people who lose their jobs, children, etc. because of their multiplicity, even if they do not suffer from it as a true disorder and it is as simple and positive as the tulpa phenomenon has been.

I feel if people had better understanding of how a mind could behave differently from the norm and they were treated seriously then we might see people creating tulpas with a more serious mindset. Maybe.

Right now I could go either way, but I'd rather not, uh, advertise tulpa creation so boldly. I saw a tumblr post that was getting a few notes that was essentially "Lifehack: Bored or lonely?? Make a tulpa!!!" which made me cringe. If the tulpa phenomenon spreads, I hope it's not in that fashion.

I agree that we need to proceed with caution, or not proceed at all.

If we could correctly explain to the public how tulpas work, and how to be responsible with creating them, then I think we could do alright 

The best way to do this however is still up for debate 

As of right now, I wish LESS people knew of tulpa.

When I think of tulpas going mainstream (that is, even appearing on the news as a recent hype), I see a number of things happening.

For one, there would be lonely teenagers who would start making them, and then putting the blame on their tulpas for everything they might've done wrong. Even for extreme cases like when being convicted of crime, they would be able to say "it wasn't me, i was switched and my tulpa did this without me being aware of it" and this would of course cause issues if said person would be imprisoned, because moralfags from everywhere would start debating how that person is innocent and in jail.

Next, there would be such a large amount of controversy about it that it would be unbearable. If you look at #tulpa.info or the tulpa.info forums, many discussions/arguments on there are either:

A) Semantic arguments
B) Muh feelings and opinions
C) Anecdotal evidence treated as absolute proof
D) Issues that shouldn't even be issues (i.e. "halp someone impregnated my tulpa and isn't willing to pay child support")

In short, it is the relatively large number of members who do not take tulpas and tulpaforcing seriously that are ruining tulpas and their image. There are plenty of reasonable tulpamancers and tulpas out there, who will be as fair as they can be (i.e. saying "i know i can't prove my existence to you, but you can always make one yourself and have them do it for you" as opposed to "Are you implying that I'm not real!!???") when it comes to this subject, but somebody who enters the community and sees things like tulpa magick, pregnancy, marriage and other nonsensical topics that usually have nothing besides drama or speculations and empty claims behind them will not give the reasonable tulpamancers a chance, because their image of this phenomenon has already been ruined.

So, in my opinion, even if tulpas had scientific research behind them and were a proven phenomenon with their possibilities and restrictions, I still wouldn't want them to become mainstream. The more people there are, the higher the chance is that these communities will turn to shit.

tl;dr

As of right now, I wish LESS people knew of tulpa.

I don't really know anyone that should know about tulpas, so I'd rather keep it on the down-low.

Heck no, I would hope less people knew about tulpas.
I wouldn't mind telling others about tulpas, it's just the scum that can be attracted and that can ruin everything for others.
If I were to tell other about tulpas so they could become serious tulpamancers, I would need to find a way to tell the right people.
Which is hard.
Like, shouldn't there be some kind of test to be made up or something?