tulpa

In a lighter vein, there's even a wonderful Dr. Seuss treatment of the subject, in which a brother and sister home alone, of course create a kind of tulpa called a "Glunk" which they then can't get rid of.

Posthuman Blues Mac 2006

It's also known that one of the projects assigned to rinpoches-in-trainig in Tibetan Buddhism is to create a tulpa which is "solid" enough to be perceived by other people.

Posthuman Blues Mac 2006

It was Dee, and then Blake, who realized that by making a tulpa of oneself, the consciousness, the soul, if you will—

The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010

Jonathan Swift would occasionally join them, as would Rudyard Kipling, who, like Verne, was not a resident of the gallery but a tulpa—a younger, virtually immortal version of himself.

The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010

“As we saw with Defoe, a tulpa body can still be destroyed.”

The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010

But a tulpa of anyone else, be it a manservant or a colleague, would simply have to be ignored to make it fade back into the ether.

The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010

He would not have become a tulpa, and as we discovered, painting a portrait does not work on Fictions.

The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010

A tulpa can only be maintained by a deliberate act of will—and when he was certain it could be done, Charles switched his attention to his own.

The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010

That you had been able to be with him before his death and create a tulpa.

The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010

“None of which would have been an issue if Stellan had been a tulpa,” he said, not really enjoying the admission.

The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010