Glossary

cogito ergo sum

(lat.) I think, therefore I am.

fronting

describes a personality that is the primary focus of the mind at one given point of time.

host

the original personality existing in the body. It's you, actually.

imposition

a hallucinated experience of seeing, hearing or otherwise sensing the tulpa like if it was present in the real world.

personality

the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character.

proxy

proxying is the host's conscious effort of relaying tulpa's words, thoughts or actions to the outside observer and back.

thought form

a combination of presuppositions, imagery, and vocabulary current at a particular time or place and forming the context for thinking on a subject.

visualization

the representation in a person's mind of the physical world outside of that person. It is an experience that, on most occasions, significantly resembles the experience of perceiving some object, event, or scene, but occurs when the relevant object, event, or scene is not actually present to the senses.

the world of suffering

When we encounter phenomena, and have a feeling of dislike, worry or pain, we say that there is "suffering". This should not be generalised to "all life is suffering", because there is also a lot of happiness in life! Noises are disturbing but nice melodies bring happiness. When one is sick, poor, separated from loved ones, one has suffering. But when one is healthy, wealthy, together with one’s family, one is very happy. Suffering and happiness exist in all phenomena. Actually where there is happiness, there will be suffering. They are in contrast with each other. If we only say that life is suffering when things do not go according to our wish we are rather foolish.