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Egregores, Tulpas, and the Power of Collective Thought

Egregores, Tulpas, and the Power of Collective Thought

Apr 14, 2025
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Do Our Beliefs Take on a Life of Their Own?

We’ve all heard the phrase “the power of belief,” but what if belief itself could sprout a kind of imaginary friend? What if an idea, fed by many minds, could take on a life of its own? In occult parlance, such a creature is called an egregore; in Tibetan mysticism (and inter…

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