Talk:Tulpa: Tibetan Spirit Sigil

in an episode of monster talk doctoral student of tibetan studies said this about the symbol "Natasha: This wasn’t the first time we had come across tulpa. Joe and I are fans of the show Supernatural. One of the earlier seasons before it jumped the shark, they were hunting a creature and it ended up being a tulpa. It was funny to me as a Tibetanist, because they lead up and they say, “Oh, somebody drew this Tibetan symbol in the house which called the tulpa forth and it grew strong on the energy of all this belief.”

The Tibetan symbol that they were drawing is actually a [nagee-com-ee 00:16:37] it’s a simple little single syllable that acts as topicalizer, a colon. I remember at that time thinking, “That’s funny, they just took a colon and put it up there and said, “Oh look at this great Tibetan symbol.”

I was quite surprised when a couple months ago Joe said, “You know those tulpas, they’re back.”"

full transcript here https://www.skeptic.com/podcasts/monstertalk/14/07/30/transcript/ Nailo1 (talk) 07:46, October 21, 2017 (UTC)