Ok, I've been exploring this concept of spirits that are created via the mind, tulpas and servitors. Is this a legit practice/ belief in magick? If so I'd like to find some more credible information on it.
I have some questions too. What exactly is the difference between a tulpa and a servitor? Is one more sentient than the other? Also what experiences have you had with them? If any.
The main difference between the two is that most often a servitor is made for a singular purpose, and is destroyed once its goal is accomplished. It is not given any sort of sentience; it's like an extremely simply bit of AI, such as writing some code that searches through your environment for 'energy' and gathers some of the floating excess to you. Another way to look at it is from the perspective of people who begin with a sigil, then make it into a servitor. It's a bit more purpose-driven and less passive. Basically, like a sigil-plus.
A tulpa has some level of sentience, and requires maintenance. Some people make one for a single purpose, such as a guardian in stead of practicing shielding on themselves, their tulpa does that work. It can have a personality, and some people end up destroying theirs if they get out of control. But they take a much larger investment, needing exacting specifications to create.
Either way, the 'central server' exists in the mind of the practitioner.
I would find a resource, except the information is sort of scattered. Some information can be found among books about chaos magic (chaos as in no set rules, not necessarily as in disorder), as well as web sites all over the Internet. Much like sigil creation, servitors can be initiated in many different ways. Tulpas can as well, they just take more effort.
I have another question. I'm gonna use a child's imagination as an example; can their 'imaginary friend' be considered a tulpa? Or can it eventually turn into one? Since they're constantly visualizing them. Or would it take more than just visualization?
I ask this question in specific because I knew someone who vividly remembered having an imaginary friend as a child, but it eventually faded as he grew older.
Prsona hit the information quite well, i do have some sources you can look in on your own, with a little add. A servitor is created by the thoughts and energies we invoke to make one, you can use something as simple as the invoking pentagram for air, water, fire, earth, but you should know to banish the energies used to create one and know when to stop feeding said servitor just as well. We do not name them, or refer to them as he/her etc they are metaphysical extensions of the self and attachment can give them the power to do there own thing, and you do not want that. As promised here are some books and sites you can use to branch out your search on the topic, if you require PDF's just send me a message.
The Book of Pleasure- Austin Osman Spare
The Psychonaut Field Manual - Arch Traitor BlueFluke
I actually did read BlueFluke's manual. That I remember the author called them 'local spirits'. I wasn't sure if they were referring to the same concept though.
Well see i use to work with non-local spirits but then someone opened up the door for my to realize making my own is no less real than connecting with an outside source and that in/out sources practically come from the same place. This type of magick works well for me, probably better than any magick i ever manifested in my life. You still have non-local spirits' of course but its a matter of inviting them in, getting to know them, and basically figuring them out on this plane (physical/ conscious mind) and the astral one (spirit/subconscious), and like the field guide says, spirit's can deceive you into making you see them as something they are not. With that being said i work with my own creation's, as Prsona put it we make them temporary, they have a time and specific way to perform a duty before they are released, and then that is it. I also make them faceless/formless the only thing i specify in their creation is what energies i am using to make one, what it will be doing/how it will be doing it, and a time frame to have it done. Once the task is complete i release/banish the pentagram binding the energies/passage way to both physically and spiritually sever the ties indefinitely, and most importantly stop feeding it my thoughts.
I am from indonesia. Sorry for my english. Here is common shaman medicine man using servitor or prewangan to healing sick people. I create one servitor with aid of mystical perfume. My servitor to healing pet and family member when sick
