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It's funny because those things were couching certain phenomena (chiefly, being able to imagine things and, perhaps to an extent, hallucination due to external factors) into terms compatible with the dominant beliefs of the time (magicks of all sorts) while this is somewhat couched in the ideas of rationality and science, at least "reality shifting."



The Tulpa stuff has been reinterpreted in materialist terms too (apparently 80% of people treat it this way, from some study or other).

Of course, interpreting these things in just one way is a category mistake.




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