Although the author may be slightly on the creepy-old-bastard side of the coin, his point is a deeply intriguing one. He brings to mind the Tulpa of Buddhist lore. The same kind of monster that has been so notably connected to the Mothman Prophesies, Ghost encounters, UFO sightings and many other well documented paranormal instances. I mean, things that people actually saw. Not just trolls on the internet trying to scare twelve-year-olds shitless for giggles. I mean...real towns of people.
A Tulpa, also known as a Thoughtform, is a Buddhist concept regarding the ability to essentially wish something into existance. If enough people, with enough will power, believe in the something hard enough, that something will begin to physically take form. And they don't just create the body of the thing, but an entire, sentient life form capable of original thought, behavior and action. The only thing that requires that they exist is an intense and fortified belief in them to exist.
"Areas of intense Fortean phenomena are called window areas. Many of them were places of former religious importance that have now waned or fallen from use. Could the worship or occult use of an area over hundreds of years create a sort of artificial life form? Something that fed on the worship. When the worship is taken away the "thing" still needs to feed. It now feeds by creating fear with paranormal manifestations. Another idea is that they are a massive, collective, sub-conscious, thought form. The thought form or tulpa is said to be a 3-D semi solid image created by the power of the mind. Buddhist llamas in Tibet are said to be able to summon up tulpas during intense meditation. Western explorer Dame Alexandra [David-Néel] was said to have created a tulpa of a monk whilst studying in Tibet. Polish medium Franek Kluski (Teofil Modrzejewski) was said to have summoned up huge cats, birds, and even ape-men during séances. Perhaps, considering the types of beast he called up, he was creating tulpas. If individuals can create tulpas imagine what the collective, gestalt mind of humanity as a species could do. Perhaps dragons are a giant worldwide thought form emanating from our innermost fears" - Richard Freeman; In Search of British Dragons
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| "Thoughtform of the Music of Charles Gounod" |
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| Supposed "Mothman" Picture |
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| Artist Rendering of the Eye-witness accounts. |
Mothman is being discussed here becuase of rumblings that Mothman is a Tulpa, brought to existance by the overactive imaginings of someone with way too much weed in their system (Lets be honest with ourselves, it was 1968).
So, 1968, Point Pleasent, West Virginia. Roger and Linda Scarberry along with Steve and Mary Mallete and young Lonnie Button, are driving through a wildlife research beside the site of an old abandoned WWII TNT factory seven miles outside of Point Pleasent.
Ok, wait. Pause, hold up, rewind. Point Pleasent? Abandoned War Factories? Deep in the woods??? AT NIGHT??? What the...No wonder they summoned a Tulpa. What in God's name were they doing?!?!?
They see two red lights, apparently coming from the seemingly abandoned factory. So, like any good horror-movie victim, they hop out of the Mystery Machine to investigate. Jinkies! And find that the two red lights aren't lights at all but the glowing eyes of a creature, seven feet tall and winged, settled into the underbrush. They piled back in the car and fled towards Point Pleasent, going about a hundred miles an hour and being chased the whole way. From then a legend was born, a legend that has resulted, if legends are to be believed; in numerous sightings, terror, fear, and death. According to many, Mothman was either warning the townspeople, or sabatoging the local bridge, Silver bridge, one of his favorite hang-outs, just prior to it's collapse, taking 46 people with it. It has not been seen since.
So why are was talking about this? Mothman, if parapsychologist John Keel is to be believed, is a Tulpa. Created by the belief or imagines of the town of Point Pleasent, or perhaps even the government, created years where it still lived in the factory shell that once held it.
Is it true? We'll never know. But if it is, it could be one of the most famous Tulpa's witnessed and accepted into historical lore. Well, for now.
The Philip Experiment:
It's the 1970's. You're Canadian. You're also a Parapsychologist, but mostly you're Canadian, and therefore have really nothing better to do with your time. What do you do?
Well, if we're following the example of doctor A.R.G. Owen (which is an ironic name considering), we're going to tell ghost stories. Moreover, we're going to tell ghost stories and then we're going to make them real.
Dr. A.R.G. Owen was a renown expert in Poltergiests (that's ghosts for the uninitiated among you) who, along with a collaberation of other parapsychologists came up with one of the more intriguing experiments studying Group Think. Instead of testing peer pressure or social conciousness, he decided to test the power of collective imagination and will. He decided to see if they could literally create a psychic, paranormal phenominon.
They started with a story, a background to focus on as they attempted to breath life into their ghostly Tulpa. They named him Philip Aylesford; a aristocratic englishman from the 1600's, catholic, married to an ice-queen wife, and in love with a gypsy mistress. However, when Philip's wife discovered his mistress, she accussed the woman of Witchcraft and Philip, lacking any balls whatsoever, allowed her to be burned at the stake. Eventually grief and guilt got the better of him and he took a nose dive from the battlements of Diddington.
Now the group, consisting of eight non-psychic individuals; A Former Chairwoman of MENSA, an industrial designer, a bookkeeper, a housewife, an accountant and a student of sociology; as well as a psychologist who acted as an observer; attempted to call forth the being that they had so carefully created. Recreating a classic seance, surrounding themselves with artifacts from Philip's "life", they focused. After several weeks of effort, Philip appeared. Although he did not materialize as a visual object (Perhaps due to the groups inability to all focus in on a single image) he did communicate through raps on the table; answer questions regarding his life and times; as well as interact with objects around the room, such as moving the table, even causing it to follow people around the room.
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| Studying the veracity of the Philip Experiment and reported manifestations of his behavior. I.E. Checking out the table |
Slenderman
Is Slenderman real? Did we or can he become real? The more we study him, the more we define or establish his background and reality, the more power we give him as a tulpa. One A.R.G. brought something forth from the other side; can another?
For the original article see Here
For studies on the Philip Experiment see Here
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