Talk:Fear Creation Theories/@comment-1988716-20140124171841/@comment-1988716-20140124175620

The idea has been around for a long time, but not in the form of "If we all believe in this exact appearance and personality and all get it right, that exact thing will come true." The idea is more commonly seen as "If we all believe in a general idea, the idea will manifest itself though the details could be anything." That's religion. And that's also the Tulpa Effect, at least if you want to apply it to multiple people having to believe in something rather than just one person (one person can get all the details right, multiple people can't all get it perfect). And due to the nature of the Fears, it would have to be multiple people-- a large portion of people, in fact-- believing in them in order for them to become real. And that couldn't have started out as "HEY GUYS LET'S ALL THINK OF SPECIFICALLY A GUY IN A HOODY AND A GAS MASK EXCEPT HE'S NOT REALLY A GUY AND BEHIND THE GAS MASK IS SOMETHING WE LITERALLY CANNOT COMPREHEND AND HE CAN DO THIS AND HE CAN DO THAT AND HE IS THE EMBODIMENT OF THE AFTERLIFE." The Archangel, going by the Tulpa Effect, would have started out as a lot of people fearing the afterlife and then those fears manifesting as a personification of all their collective fears, taking the most prominent fears in particular and making them more prominent aspects of The Archangel.

Do you see what I'm getting at? That's what you describe Fear Energy/Embodiment Theory to be, but that is literally what the Tulpa Effect is. xD