ialdabaoth comments on Post ridiculous munchkin ideas! - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ialdabaoth 14 May 2013 05:19:28AM *  11 points [-]

As someone who both successfully experimented with tulpa creation in his youth, and who has since developed various mental disorders (mostly neuroticisms involving power- and status-mediated social realities), I would strongly second this warning. Correlation isn't causation, of course, but at the very least I've learned to adjust my priors upwards regarding the idea that Crowley-style magickal experimentation can be psychologically damaging.