The human brain constructs a sense of singular identity from billions of neurons. For thousands of years it has been known by various cultures that multiple independent selves can coexist in a single braincase. Modern pathological examples include the multiple personalities often found in Disassociative Identity Disorder (Originally called “Multiple Personality Disorder”) and the spontaneously generated phenomena of imaginary friends, typically but not exclusively generated by children who have undergone trauma. In leaked verified documents from various government psychological research programs over the decades it is clear that the phenomena is well known within clandestine research and attempts were made to exploit, even induce the creation of DID in members of vulnerable populations by both superpowers during the Cold War. These secondary personalities often possess independent agency, a partioned memory inaccessible by the host personality, a completely different set of neurological heuristics for preconsciously determining what is relevant and in several clinical cases have been documented seizing control of the host mind without their knowledge. A classic example is found in Canada, in which a woman suffering from DID was unaware that her second had its own bank account and even travelled without her knowledge. Hollywood recently exploited and glorified the disorder in the movie “Split”

The practice of tulpa-building originates within Tibetan Buddhism and is not considered pathological within that cultural paradigm. A practitioner studies and interacts with a respected figure from history, generally a revered monk often centuries dead. With sufficient attention across a sustained period of time, the created tulpa is perceived to be physically present. Trade routes between the Middle East and the subcontinent likely served as the introduction of tulpaic technology to the great religion-builders of the former.

More recently tulpas have been introduced to popular culture with online forums devoted to those who build their own tulpas. This author does not condemn this practice, merely encourages caution. For those predisposed to mental illness (or youth still developing their primary personality), splitting the mind MAY be extremely dangerous. At the same time many practitioners have claimed psychological benefits from the practice and it is not the authors place to dismiss them.

Regardless of the truth or falsity underpinning religious claims of divinity, the process by which Christianity is installed on a human mind is indistinguishable from the creation of a tulpa. This author will make no attempt to delegitimize nor confirm the beliefs of any faith, merely point out the close parallels between tulpa installation and the installation of Christianity’s “personal god”. At the very least Jesus is a tulpa designed to be scalable to massive populations. A mass-parallelized tulpa, as it were.

As AI researcher Joschua Bach points out, belief in the omnipotence of a religious figure assigns read/write access to it over the host mind. Belief in the context of ideas is thus akin to the permissions a computer admin assigns to a user. In religious frameworks the installed program is given administrative control over the host, which is conditioned to believe it is inferior and subservient to the installed secondary personality.

This admin control does not have to involve supernatural beliefs or claims of afterlife experiences, indeed blind faith in any domain is equatable to these earlier religious systems. Even faith in completely secular scientific authorities installed by governments harnesses the same neurological phenomena of these ancient religious frameworks. A population of believers can personally witness an abundance of evidence to the contrary of a claim made by their chosen priesthood and yet be unable to see it as a falsehood. This is the power of belief to handicap clear thought and turn intelligent people into servants of whomever they have faith in.