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Here is a collection of links to external resources in which tulpas were featured in media websites and publications.

Media coverage of tulpas and related phenomena

• Stanford professor asks, how does God become real to people?, April 12 2012

Tanya Luhrmann's research seeks to narrow the gap between believers and nonbelievers, which she says has grown so wide it can be difficult for one side to respect the other.

• T.M. Luhrmann, Oct. 18th 2013: Conjuring Up Our Own Gods

A study of faith and how people attempt to make what can only be imagined feel real.

• Nathan Thompson, Sept. 3rd 2014: Meet the ‘Tulpamancers’: The Internet’s Newest Subculture Is Incredibly Weird

• Disclaimer from the Tulpa.io contributors: This article features “targeted” quotes in order to portray the community in a negative fashion as well as taking quotes out of context and using images and names without permission. Please take this article with a grain of salt.

• Rachel Monroe, Nov. 17 2014: All My Friends Are In My Head

• Disclaimer from the Tulpa.io contributors: As with the prior article, though to a lesser extent, this article contains some outdated information on forcing and sensationalized sections.

• Samuel Vessiere, Apr. 3rd 2015: Varieties of Tulpa Experiences: Sentient Imaginary Friends, Embodied Joint Attention, and Hypnotic Sociality in a Wired World

• Erin Stewart, March 14 2016: The Imaginary Friends That Are Never Left Behind

• Disclaimer from the subreddit mods: This is a pleasant and tone neutral article. Recommended!

• Fusion Network's Real Future, April 13 2016: Adults with imaginary friends are finding acceptance on the internet

• Reply All Podcast Episode 74: Making Friends, August 24, 2016

• Also relevant reddit thread for this awesome podcast, where the interviewed system does a great job expanding on what was covered!

• Lindsey Kline, Nov. 02 2017: Inside the subculture of adults with imaginary friends

  • *Mentions us and talks to Falunel, one of our leaders mods!

• System Shock Podcast, hosted by /u/Aria_Song and focused on her plural experiences and philosophies

• What we can learn about respect and identity from ‘plurals’, April 20, 2020

• Article about plural identity not specifically tulpas

• The Mystical, Mind-Sharing Lives of Tulpamancers, December 12, 2019

• Daring to Hear Voices, April 15, 2016

• Joffe, Ben: "Paranormalizing the Popular through the Tibetan Tulpa: Or what the next Dalai Lama, the X Files and Affect Theory (might) have in common" in Savage Minds : Notes and Queries in Anthropology (U.S.A., Feb' 13, 2016).

• Neurons Gone Wild, December 10, 2013

  • Talks about agency in the brain mentioning tulpas, one commonly used theory for tulpas

• Tulpas: Thoughts That Can Come Alive, June 5, 2018

Some fiction and media with tulpa-like entities

• Request/Community: Submit links to and info on tulpa-like entities in recent books you have read.

• Tulpa in Modern Media (there will be Spoilers)

• Tulpa-Like beings in Media

• Things that could be tulpae

• Media Quotes and Tulpamancy

• All my friends are in my head - The Awl - 2014

• TV Tropes updatable list of tulpa-like beings in media

• Tulpa, a short thriller about tulpas (in modern sense) going rogue.

• The Shadows, a short story about a tulpa (in modern sense) living through the dissipation.

Other links and lists

• Some essays on related topics

• This poster is after the same thing

• Nobillis Library of Links and Resources

• Manipulation, Abuse, Tulpas – Breaching the Trust

A study of the abusive and manipulative tendencies in the tulpa community.