AbstractThe zombie is the tulpa most typically used to highlight socio-political subtext in horror films. The undead creature and its mythos have been used to highlight subjects as diverse as Slavery, the Vietnam War, rampant consumerism, the military-industrial complex, and ecological disasters. This chapter looks at the Catholic Zombie, a subgenre of zombie film from Roman Catholic countries...
Social CompassJune 1, 2024Satoko Fujiwara, Hiroki Miura2 citations
This article discusses the transformation of religious and non-religious practices in contemporary Japanese youth culture. The article employs both western analysis of ‘nones’ and Japanese theories to explain this transformation. Three concepts characterize (non-)religiousness in Japanese youth culture: ‘practicing belonging’, ‘vicarious spirituality’, and ‘gendered fetishism’. These concepts...
In 2009, the internet gave birth to a monster. The Slender Man, like many other forms of online storytelling, is a product of mass communal storytelling. What has led to the Slender Man’s unique long-lasting position online is in part due to the way the community initially dealt with the issues which arose in mass communal storytelling. These issues are primarily found in two modes: 1) the...
Buen Vivir o Wët wët fxi´zenxi (lengua Nasa Yuwe) es la esencia para el desarrollo de la vida, comunidad, y plan de vida colectivo, fundamentado en la cosmogonía del pueblo indígena Nasa. Buscando profundizar en este concepto, desarrollamos una investigación cualitativa en la comunidad de la Institución Educativa Marden Arnulfo Betancur y el grupo de mujeres tejedoras de la zona baja del...
Review of psychological data of how children engage in imaginary friend play (IFP) shows that it involves a lot of explicit embodied action and interaction with surrounding people and environments. However, IFP is still seen as principally an individualistic activity, where, in addition to those interactions, the actor has to mentally represent an absent entity in imagination in order to engage...
Reality shifting (RS) is a trendy mental activity that emerged abruptly following the flare-up of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and seems to be practiced mainly by members of the post-millennial generation. RS, described as the experience of being able to transcend one's physical confines and visit alternate, mostly fictional, universes, is discussed by many on Internet platforms. One RS forum...
Lucid dreaming (LD) is a fun and interesting activity, but most participants have difficulties in attaining lucidity, retaining it during the dream, concentrating on the needed task and remembering the results. This motivates to search for a new way to enhance lucid dreaming via different induction techniques, including chemicals and electric brain stimulation. However, results are still...
Starting around 2009, online communities envisioned and began practicing “tulpamancy”—the ability to imagine a sentient being, or “tulpa,” into existence through heightened states of imagination. Originating in Tibetan Buddhist mysticism and contemporary paranormal lore, online users create tulpas, which they sense as a distinct personality within their minds and bodies, for companionship....
This chapter seeks to resource Anthropocene debates through the transversal conversations with the Dharma, tackling alternative modes of thinking–being about material causality, material agency, the morality of artefacts and corporeality. It also seeks the experiences of the lady-lama Alexandra David-Neel (ADN) as she encountered the various and multiple aspects of the mortal frontier to...
Previous chapters discussed Slender Man prototypes, the original telling, the propagation of the story to new spaces, and second-level stories in the form of fan fiction; this chapter begins by following that trajectory to its next destination: the mainstream. The Slender Man is presented both literally and figuratively as a form of a “tulpa,” a creature brought to life by collective thought....