My oldest came over yesterday morning and I made a huge country breakfast.
He went and visited with his cats for a while, then came in crying. He said they were old ladies now. (They were born in 2009)
I could tell his was just overall emotionally exhausted so I hugged him and asked what was going on and he said, When I was a kid you told me I'd be an adult when I was 25. Now I'm 25 and all these adult things are happening.
He's lived on his own since he was 21 and is married.
I've had this strange thing going on the past year or so.
I've had this SERIOUS pull every time I go back to Kentucky. (I'm only like 30 minutes away but don't live there anymore. Where I grew up and where my family's at is between 1hr and 1 hr 45 minutes, depending on which family I'm visiting.
But this is a strange pull to just go off in the woods. The woods in KY are similar but not exactly like the woods where I live now.
I don't believe in gods in the same way that many do. I don't see an all-powerful, all-knowing presence like the Christian god.
I also don't relate to gods who have humanesque lives like mythological stories.
But I do feel some old primal forces when I'm out in the woods. Generally one every so often. I felt one over in Vigo County, Indiana a couple of times. I'll have to write about that some day. It was a strange pull. Maybe those are gods? Not sure.
I'm not a scholar on Buddhism, which seems to be the likely origin of tulpas, but I am quite familiar with the western occult thought-form of tulpas, which is, yes, through either serious meditation or a series of magic castings a tulpa can be created.
It can have a degree of will and independent thought, too.
That's what intrigues me so much. Similar to the Jewish Golem, they can become violent, aggressive....
I feel there are some really old, unexplainable forces (especially feel these in the woods and around large rivers) that might have been considered gods at some point but maybe are more primal natural forces/spirits.
I do agree that many deities are the creations of people, but think those creations can take a shape of their own when so many believe in them (like tulpas).
I'm all for things being dismantled to take back our country. It needs some serious work (health care, poverty, systemic racism, among others) but I'm ready to fight for it.
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