Review of "Tulpa Time Podcast" Episodes 1-9

(Note, Rylazide reviewed episodes 1-4, Ryleigh reviewed episodes 5-9.)
Episode One:

Podcast guy said that you have to hallucinate to hear your tulpa's voice, but that's not true! Maybe they think that because they don't think in mindvoice???

In-position? I think they meant "imposition"!

Tulpamancy back then wasn't a Buddhist thing! It was an English thing! But they got it right that the Buddhist stuff doesn't equal modern Tulpamancy!

They're talking like the ultimate goal of Tulpamancy is all the imposition stuff! Ryleigh said that was the goal way back when the community was younger! Weird!

Wait! Imposition is a part of active forcing? That doesn't sound right, either!

Weird! They mentioned mindvoice! Then I don't get the part of needing imposition to hear your tulpa at all!
They swap between it and they pronouns, which is weird!

I wonder why they say it's a meditative thing when you don't need to meditate when making a tulpa?

Good message that the mind is a weird and wacky place that you don't have complete control over!

They mistake invasive thoughts for intrusive thoughts because intrusive thoughts happen to people with mental illnesses and/or disorders like OCD and ADHD and are really harmful! Invasive or impulsive thoughts aren't harmful and everyone has them!

Interesting part about believing that Tulpamancy is for internal discovery!

Good message of unconditional love and why that's the base of a tulpa-host relationship!

Episode Two:

The reason tulpas were kicked off of /x/ was because the people on there said they were demons? I heard a different story that said that it was because they realized that tulpas weren't paranormal guys! Weird!

Still swapping between it and they pronouns!

I don't think it should be okay to make scary stories that hurt other things because they spread mis or disinformation! "More power to you," doesn't seem like the right thing to say!

Saying that you have to INTENTIONALLY make a "bad" tulpa isn't exactly right! What about if a host is mean to their tulpa? What about hosts with mental illnesses! Sometimes for weirds reasons, tulpas can be negative and not intentionally so!

Oh! They DO mention that mentally ill people can make tulpas and not have things go wrong! It makes sense why they say people with real bad illnesses shouldn't make a tulpa until they figure stuff out first!

Being in decent mental health before making a tulpa is good advice, I think!

Child metaphor is a good metaphor for making a tulpa, and being careful, and taking care of yourself first!
Podcast people have been Tulpamancers since 2012! Wow!

Good point in saying that all you have to lose when making a tulpa is time, and that time is spend meditating and doing healthy things!
Important point that a tulpa harming you is like a tulpa harming themself, but what if the tulpa doesn't care? What if they DON'T have self-preservation stuff? Big point when talking about Tulpamancers with mental illnesses and disorders!

"Why would you want to live in the head with someone who's pissy and sad all the time?" Rylanus says because of apathy!

Episode 3:

Thank you for mentioning mindscapes as a synonym!

Mindscape definition isn't bad!

Tulpas not having the ability to interact with the physical world? Possessing and switching says otherwise!

Servitors can be programmed to do things without you directly telling them to do that thing!

Good daydream metaphor for explaining mindscapes!

Good advice that visualization is a skill, and it's a skill you have to keep doing to be good at it! Or you could be naturally skilled for LOTS of different reasons! Like my host!

Unique saying about what skills you should start with depending on what you're already naturally good at! Like visualization if you can recall pictures well, or vocality if you can remember sounds and voices well!

Aphantasia affects 1% of the population, so it's actually not that rare!

*Invasive thoughts!

First site they recommend is Tulpa.info! Oh no!

Tulpa.in? Hmmm...

Episode Four:

Seems like these guys are the kinda guys who says that you NEED personality forcing! Don't agree!

Form is a very subjective thing! Agreed! But I don't fully agree that it should be between the tulpa *and* the host since it's the tulpa's form! Unless the form is a bad thing that hurts the system!

"It's about what they want," yes!

People change over time, and them saying that is a good message!

Points for saying that tulpas are people in every way except not having a physical body!

I like how they say you can start with a form, or no form!

Not all Tulpamancers experience the "alien feeling" of emotional responses!

Thank you for saying that narration requires you to direct the thoughts AT your tulpa and engage them!

Episode 5:

"Nurturing intrusive thoughts"? Then at that point, you can't call them fully accidental if you helped bring them into being.
Their definition of "accidental tulpas" doesn't sound right because like I mentioned, they're not fully accidental if you helped an invasive thought become a tulpa because you intentionally started interacting with that thought, and then with the whole head tingle thing? Again, they said you talk to them and whoop, there's a tulpa. With both of those examples, there was some form of intention behind it.

"Anything that becomes a tulpa that wasn't planned," hmm. I guess? I mean, if you specify that they were made unintentionally, then I can see where they were going with that. Should've said that earlier.

Also, like, what's with the blue-haired anime chick kinda ripping through the background and having text like, "Hi, I'm gonna be here for the rest of the video. I hope that's okay." What's the point of that? Also, probably just a me/Autism problem, but it's kinda bothering me because she's looking head-on at the screen.

Oh, and it apparently has even more text. See, that's an issue because with doing a podcast, you're supposed to just listen to it. If there's sh!t that you can only absorb through seeing it, what the point of it just being a podcast? I have to click into the video to see what she's saying instead of just listening while I do other things and that's kinda annoying, not gonna lie.

It also seems like this text dialogue is kinda pointless commentary like, "So servitors can become tulpa...? Crazy..."

That brings me to another point, they don't add anything when referring to multiple tulpas. Like, you can see in that sentence in the last point that they add an S to servitor, but not tulpa? They don't even use tulpae, which is *weird*.

Not even thirty seconds later, more dialogue that also vanishes pretty quickly. Yeah, this is getting annoying.

Seriously! The next bit of text flashed on screen for a *second.* I have to actively pause the video, go back to when the text appeared, and only for it to be, "Oh, I know who you're talking about."

They seriously just compared accidental tulpas to accidental pregnancies, and the dude was like, "I'm not just gonna like, get rid of it." Fucking yikes with the pro-life sh!t, dude. With actual pregnancies, the mother could be put at risk for their health or have serious issues because of it, and the fact that an embryo/ball of cells is not the fucking equivalent of a fucking born child. That sh!t is legit kinda fucking yikes.

Even the fucking text is like, "Danger! Do not talk about abortion!" why? Because you're fucking pro-life? How did I not notice that the first time I listened to this???

Yeah, because tulpas can already appear fully formed and sentient, which again, is *not* the equivalent to an embryo or a fucking mass of cells that isn't even alive yet.

"I believe you have to have at least a subliminal desire to have a tulpa," hmmm... Don't know what my stance on that is, and they do state that they see that purely as opinion and not fact. They think it's a key-factor, which... hmm, I think that's the case if you're not already plural since when you're plural, you become more susceptible to unintentional systemmates. So I guess I'd say half-and-half on that.

They don't have an answer for people who got accidental tulpas without even know what Tulpamancy or Plurality is. I think it's simple: talk to the void until it talks back. I don't think desire is a factor there as long as you're intentionally or unintentionally giving your attention to something mentally.

And then they get to the point that if you're already plural, you're more likely to gain new systemmates, which I agree with because that makes sense. Your brain's already wired to create new systemmates.

I do think they bring up a good point about how if you have too many tulpas, someone is inevitably gonna be neglected since attention is a finite resource.

When being a Tulpamancer, you have to have some sense of responsibility, which I definitely agree with. And some sense of restraint when you don't want any more tulpas.

I like how they reference studies about how writers accidentally create autonomous characters.

Seeing these autonomous characters as proto-tulpas or super cognitive servitors? Hmm... It is kinda sad that these characters then just fade away after their story ends.

Believing in a tulpa is important, but I don't think it's outright crucial. There are definitely tulpas who have defied the odds, and continued to exist no matter how much their hosts didn't believe in them.

"Believing in tulpa"? Seriously, why can't you just say, "Believing in a tulpa"?  Their grammar when it comes to tulpas is completely off.

I don't think your tulpa suddenly becomes a tulpa just because you found out the word, they already are a tulpa, you just finally found a word to describe them.


Episode 6:

Holy sh!t, this one's almost an hour long, sitting at 57 and a half minutes.

Tulpa-like media going only as far back as 1950? English thoughtforms and Socrates would beg to differ, my friend.

Wow, the images actually change in this one. Neat.

Good pointing out how tulpas are lifetime companions.

When they mentioned DID and blackouts, I really don't like how they called the host the "main personality."

Yeah, they're just calling alters "personalities." Kinda yikes.

Okay, okay, hold up. You don't "make" alters; they are NOT intentionally formed systemmates.

They think that "something else must be going on" for a Tulpamancer to experience blackouts or memory separation? Nope, that's false and I can say that from personal experience. You can train memory separation and a tulpa can become present enough to entirely kick the host out of front to where the host has no recollection of the physical world while their tulpa was fronting if they didn't front at all.

"The ideal female to walk into a guy's life..." that phrasing's kinda... ehhh...

I appreciate them literally saying it's fucked up to force your tulpa into a mold with their personality and form.

Very good message of putting your ego aside and letting your tulpa like what they wanna like.

Ohhh boy... they're talking about Jade and before she came out as trans. Ah, 2017 before she was outed as an abusive cult leader... Here's evidence of that, by the way:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tulpas/comments/82qpc5/regarding_a_recent_removal/

Good message about how approaching things with pessimism and caution are natural human reactions and they're understandable.

Episode 7:

Oh, this one has like, an actual intro and I can hear the star get sound effect from SM64. Nice.

What the fuck... is that an intro to a movie; some lady just yote out of a window... OHHH.

It's that one show about imaginary friends called "Happy," I think? I absolutely love the JonTron "WHAT THE FUCK," sound effects during the trailer snippets because that's accurate.

So Longbow is making a physical guide and is thus not present in this episode... I don't entirely get the logic to that one.

This dude apparently thinks 13 tulpas is a LOT; you should see some of the Tulpamancers that I've met.

Very interesting question they asked about what people do in their mindscapes. Do you do fantastical things, find your zen, or just vibe? It's a very good question.

"They haven't quite grasped the give that's been given to them," when talking about mindscapes? I find it weird that it bothers them when there's a lot of people who don't take full advantage of being powerful gods in their mindscapes. Like, some people just... want to build a nice skyscraper penthouse and chill with their tulpas in a hot tub rather than blowing up galaxies or something. (Totally not referencing what my systemmates and I have been doing recently.) Maybe just being able to *relax* and just enjoy the atmosphere is what gives some people bliss, even if they could sensually do insane things they wouldn't otherwise be able to do. Sometimes, people just crave the simpler things and sometimes, the simple things are what truly matters.

"You could literally just say what your tulpa says," or you just have them possess/switch.

I *think* this was made before Pluralkit and Tupperware existed on Discord? That explains the conversation bits.

I appreciate Lyrical's bluntness on the whole "don't make a tulpa for sex" thing because with this, you just need to be blunt.

*However,* the whole, "But it's subjective," thing rubs me the wrong way and can be a slippery slope for super fucked up topics. There have been countless dicussions why sh!t like this is wrong and when you pull the whole, "Well, morals are subjective," shtick, that opens the door for people (the tulpas in this scenario) to get hurt and that's unideal.

Most of the points they're making are pretty great, though.

Very interesting to say making a tulpa to be your companion and yours alone is a taboo, and I agree with that. It shouldn't be encouraged because that can be *super* abusive and isolating for the tulpa and denies their agency.

I do really like how they kinda sympathize with people who tick off the above point and understanding where they're coming from.

Understanding that desperation and loneliness, but also still acknowledging that it's still wrong.

"I'm not passing judgement on any of these, by the way," uh-huh...

Saying people with debilitating psychological issues should get help first before making a tulpa is solid advice.

Oh, they're talking about Jade and Aury again... *Sigh..* 2017, am I right?

"By most aspects of the word, I'm a normie," I just found that line funny.

Dude just stated that they've had several girlfriends *and* a boyfriend. You go, you funky queer dude.

I seriously feel bad that this dude is recommending Jade's channel so much, given that it was deleted and that we shouldn't endorse someone who was literally an abusive cult leader who abused people through hypnosis. I have a friend who was a victim of Jade, and it fucked them up *pretty* badly.

Ugghhh, they even recommended Jade and Aury's channel for switching/possessing resources. *This* is one of the major issues with dated resources right here.

Okay, so they prefaced that they've never tried switching, but they *have tried possession. Noted.

Their definition of possession isn't bad-- except the whole, "Possession is very hard to master," line because that's not true for every Tulpamancy system including mine and in that case, is negative frontloading.

They think possession may be "slightly" easier than switching, but they're only saying that because they think possession's incredibly hard (which I guess it's hard for them).

Okay, so they define switching as 100% leaving front and *only* being connected to the mindscape, which isn't necessarily right. You could also impose yourself in the physical plane and impose your own senses away from the body's senses too or just go unconscious.

Oh, and they actually mention "merging" (more like fusion), which like they said, a lot of Tulpamancers don't really talk about.

They're saying that merging is a whole can of worms... they have *never* interacted with the general Plurality community, have they?

"It's an entirely different being," *continues to use it pronouns.*

It's not correct that you have to literally combine the people involved to fuse, as you can just symbolically fuse with things that are meant to be extensions or representations of you, which is why Rylanus and Rylazide exist while Arcanus, Azide, and I still exist separately.

So... this dude merged with one of their systemmates and is a fusion??? That's a plot-twist I was NOT expecting in this podcast.

"Oh well, there you go, now I've done it," is another great line.

I mean, okay, in this context, merge would be the appropriate term since this one seems to be long-lasting and maybe even permanent...?

Their soda analogy's pretty great for the form of fusion that they're talking about.

Yeah, back then, fusion was regarded as taboo, but I don't think it's as taboo now?

Wait, people viewed fusion as tulpa murder??? *Well...* I *guess* it kinda depends on what methods you use.

And apparently, most people don't see a point to fusing, which... ehh, there's a few reasons, but they're all highly personal.

"Merging is insane," I'm not gonna lie, they're not wrong because it can absolutely be crazy.

"I will be posting more regularly," your next video's date tells me that's a fat lie. Seriously, episode 7 was posted in November of 2017 while episode 8 was posted in January of 2019. Hot damn, dude.

Episode Eight:

Oh, there's another intro and I'm already slightly weirded out. We're off to a great start.

The intro was literally just Solid Snake taking off some fucking goggles and him saying, "Kept you waiting, huh?" with the host's name on the screen. That was GREAT.

Oh, is there gonna be background music? Maybe it'd help me actually stay honed into the podcast.

Also, note that I haven't ever seen this one, so I'm going into this completely blind.

Welp, no music, I guess. That's a shame.

The background on this one is pretty nice, though.

They put a disclaimer that their experiences don't invalidate others, which is a very good disclaimer.

"There are many ways to arrive at the same goal," again, I absolutely agree.

So this system also lives with another Tulpamancy system; that's pretty sweet.

"Combination of two *tulpa*"? Uh, the people involved in the fusion don't have to specifically be tulpas.

They're using the soda analogy again.

And *then* they mention that a host can be the Pepsi while the tulpa can be the Coke. Hmm, maybe for these podcasts, it would be a good idea to have a script since your co-host isn't around?

Ohh, so "Flux" plus "Lyrica" made Lyrical, the podcast host. So yeah, they're a fusion or merge.

I now find it super ironic that Lyrical said that they're for the most part a normie, then just drop the bomb that they're a fusion.

Man, their whole explanation on why the merging took place is... pretty damn depressing, and Lyrical's stating that it's hard to talk about. I sympathize with you, man.

I wonder if things would've turned out differently if they could switch instead of merge?

Hearing their experiences as a merge is super interesting, though.

I really appreciate them saying that merging isn't a miracle cure.

Wow, their friends and family actually noticed the personality change? Damn.

Ohh, so they took so long to make the video because they had to work up the courage to speak about it? Okay, yeah, that makes sense, especially with such an iffy and personal topic.

So back then, there were no fusion methods because it was so taboo back then, which makes sense.

A few days ago from Lyrical's perspective, they searched to see if there were any new fusion methods and they said there were next to none? Okay, I *know* my guide had it's fusion section back then and that section had multiple methods. I guess they just never happened upon my guide.

They think that belief is a core belief in fusion, which I can see why and why not all methods are tried and true.

They stated that writing a Tulpamancy guide is hard, and with that, I kinda gotta somewhat disagree. I say this because writing a Tulpamancy guide is easy, but writing a *good* Tulpamancy guide is what's truly hard, and I can say that as the proud author of a 100+ page Tulpamancy guide.

Good point: what happened to Longbow?

Episode Nine:

Sadly the last episode of the podcast series that currently exists; I don't know if they're ever gonna make more.

Damn, within a month, the last podcast episode will be a year old now.

Within seconds of playing the video, it's suddenly a *lot* louder than the previous videos and text is appearing on the screen that seems to be lyrics to the song that's playing.

Honestly, the song makes the intro pretty long and it's not the greatest when you're listening to these back to back.
Okay, yeah, that intro was over a minute long.

Longbow's still not back... sadness.

Auditory imposition =/= vocality and you don't need to have auditory imposition to hear your tulpa's thoughts; that seems to be a huge misconception in this entire podcast.

"Tulpa are able to speak before you can hear them," I mostly agree with this because hosts also need to learn how to listen for their tulpas.

The idea that your tulpa's imposed voice is coming out of nowhere doesn't make sense because if you're imposing them, you should be imposing their form, thus their voice should be coming from wherever their form is.

Lyrical thinks that you'll hear your tulpa's voice when you aren't expecting it, which... I can see where they're coming from with that.

I still feel like their mistaking auditory imposition for vocality and that is still super confusing.

They're using that car and radio metaphor for emotional responses again.

I like how they're explaining that translation was an old community term used to explain someone translating their tulpa's thoughts into words. A bit of a community history lesson there.

"The key to Tulpamancy is to have an open mind," this, 100% this. Absolutely agree with that statement.

Doubt can span far longer than just "this could be real."

I do think belief is an important part to vocality, but there *are* cases of disbelieving Tulpamancers who still got responses from their tulpas despite not believing.

Getting slightly scared by hearing your tulpa speak for the first time? Ehh, I never experienced that with any of my systemmates.

Honestly, the tone of this one is different from all the others.

Okay, so Lyrical had aspirations to do guided meditations for people who struggle with visualization, and now they're giving an example? Not my cup of tea, but I'll continue listening.

The example they gave was very nice; it was a short, but actually pretty pleasant experience. I feel a bit more chill now. The detail definitely assisted in the picture they wanted people to see, and I think that would definitely help people who struggle. I think I've done just this in my mindscape immersion section as an example for the visual aspect.

Damn, they took six months to gain vocality, and that's not even the longest some people take. Ah, Tulpamancers from ye olden days.

Final Thoughts:

Y'know, they did say that what they said is subjective, but like a *lot* of resources, their language usage does not reflect this well.
This meaning the specific set-in-stone language like, "It *will* scare you," or, "Possession *is* very hard," and it kind of breeds that frontloading and that things are a certain way.

Because these podcast episodes are now several years old, they reference things that are no longer relevant or positive. The biggest example of this is them recommending Jade's stuff because back then, she wasn't outed yet for her abusive behavior and putting people in potential contact with her is *not* a good thing.

The overall atmosphere of the podcast episodes was very relaxed and chill; I didn't feel bothered or uncomfortable. It was just a relaxed environment, but I did catch myself fidgeting around and checking on other things out of restlessness, but that's probably just a me problem.

I checked Rylazide's feedback, and what I did grasp from it was that he found a lot of things generally "weird" or confusing like their language usage or their definitions. A big one was the conflation of vocality and auditory imposition, which yeah, that is very confusing and I wish the podcast hosts clarified better.

Both podcast hosts felt very sincere and genuine when they spoke, but like I mentioned previously, their language was odd, especially the whole "they are tulpa" thing or the flip-flopping between it and they pronouns. It was definitely kind of off-putting.

Some of the podcast episodes were more... irksome than others, especially episodes where that one blue-haired anime girl was having text and having to constantly watch the screen just to see what she was saying, or the episode with the minute-long intro and slight ear-rape, but it wasn't absolutely abysmal. The backgrounds for the episodes were pretty great and again, really helped with that relaxed and chill vibe.

There wasn't a single episode that I flat-out disliked that I personally watched and Rylazide doesn't have any disliked ones, either.

Overall, I don't think the misinformation and screw-ups present in these episodes are enough to warrant a disapproval. Even if you're like us and your system's already well-developed, these are just nice to listen to, and you may learn something you didn't know. Even after a second listen and even with a lot more experience, I still learned a few things, and I think that's a huge plus. All I ask is that you go into these knowing that these two get some things wrong at times, but are genuine in their works. I 100% wish there were more podcasts like these; they're great.