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## The Beginnings
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<span class="date">04/25/2012 11:03:00 AM</span>
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[●](http://blog.tulpa.info/post/21791461284)
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Today marks the first “official” start of the Tulpa creation process.
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Creating a consciousness from scratch takes some work. For instance,
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you have to not only be able to visualize the entire Tulpa’s form (right
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down to the smell and touch), but if you want something sentient, you
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also have to give it character; your mind needs to string up a
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personality.
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An important part of creating a Tulpa would be establishing a base for
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the personality. Without the personality, your mind may not have
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anything to bootstrap for the subconscious. Obviously, like when
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visualizing the body, the more work you put into the personality the
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better – it’s also said to make the Tulpa become sapient faster. You
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can read the importance of the personality
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[here](http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15779683/tulpa/personality2.png).
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I honestly haven’t decided on a form, gender, or name for the Tulpa yet,
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nor do I plan to do so at this moment. I wouldn’t want to let the
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personality be affected by the preconceived form. FAQ\_man was kind
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enough to give his comments on the subject:
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> Also just my two sense when it comes to form finding as a whole. Most
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> everyone has what they want in mind when they make a tulpa. I did, and
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> so do most people. When it comes to what you want your tulpa to be,
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> it’s fine to have a form in mind. But I think designing a
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> personality around the form is when it starts to go a little far. You
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> should make a personality as it’s own end before you think about the
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> form. Like, say you want a big fiery demon of death. When you’re
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> starting out on personality, don’t immediately think “Well she’s a big
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> fiery demon of death, she has to be fierce and intimidating” because
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> that’s letting the form affect the personality. Just sort of make a
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> personality you know you’re gonna mesh with, and then work on the form
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> afterwards, as sort of it’s own separate thing.
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>
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> You can let personality affect form
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> You can let neither of them effect each other
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> But try not to let form affect personality.
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I’m structuring my personality similar to how [Chupi is doing
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it](http://chupitulpa.tumblr.com/personality), utilizing several traits
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with the [Big Five personality
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traits](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits) and
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the [16 Personality
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Factors](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_personality_factors), and I’ll
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probably be getting my traits from
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[here](http://www.gurusoftware.com/GuruNet/Personal/Factors.htm).
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My plan is pretty much to do no visualizations until I have the
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personality fleshed out. Once it’s done (and I want to allocate at
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least 10 hours to doing so, though I’m still putting a list of traits
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together), I’ll decide on a form based on the personality. Then
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finally, I’ll start my visualizations and tulpaforcing based on the
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newly designed form.
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I asked FAQ\_man about this plan, he said it sounded perfect so far;
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we’ll see how well it comes to fruition.
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