firebirdflys wrote:If the group shoud disband I would imagine it does a dormant like thing, hoping for a revival somewhere down the line.
As for the other three, yes, definitely. ..they should have and expiration date. With the fetch we have done from moon to moon with usually only that time frame unless otherwise specified.
At the first part;
this is pretty much exactly right for most thoughtforms, though no thoughtform of mine has ever really died.. I guess death would be an appropriate term for a thoughtform's expiration. In a way I suppose it'd be like starving, because no energy is being given to them to maintain their life force. But all of my tulpa have at some point or another been through a dormant period, of which affects them in different ways. It can take a long, long time for them to starve though, I suppose just depending on how much energy they had been given before being abandoned. One of my tulpa lasted nearly two years without any energy from me (and not much to start off with either), though it resulted in them (and me) forgetting most everything of their developmental stages (though they may have gotten some subconscious energy, since they are a soulbond of a character of mine). Another friend of mine had a thoughtform of some kind revived from childhood, so it had been nearly a decade. chances are that thoughtform had some outside energy source however, since they had notably changed from how they were when my friend was younger.
Honestly, I don't think I've ever known a tulpa to completely 100% die, because they can also draw from subconscious energy. My best guess as to how a tulpa could actually die, is if you actively kill them yourself, or you completely forget about every aspect of them or that they ever existed.
Interestingly, I've also heard of old tulpa "coming back to life", only later to find out that it was fact a different tulpa who believed they were the previous one. A new tulpa, technically a soulbond in such a case, can even be built upon memories and lingering energies from a dead tulpa.
Thoughtforms are such hardy and yet fickle beings, can spawn out of almost nothing purely on accident, and then other times it can take years to for them to just learn how to speak. Really it all depends on the host, how much control they have over their mental energy, and how receptive they are to sharing their mind with new energies. a lot of this has to do with chakra.
At the second part;
all that said, I rather dislike the idea of tulpas dying. I guess maybe it's because every thoughtform I've ever had has been sentient, and I know it would hurt them a lot if I tried killing them because i don't need them anymore. So just like any form of witchcraft, tulpamancy is something that one needs to be careful with. You can indeed accidentally create a sentient being, and just like a child, if you're not prepared to take care of it, you're going to have to deal with the guilt and negative energy that comes from neglecting and/or killing it.
