Express your biases ahead of time to help prevent your tulpa from getting mixed up in them.
Something I noticed a few weeks ago when I made a note to write this as a post is that sometimes, when you're speaking to your tulpa, your tulpa might be prone to express thoughts that are in line with your own based on your own experiences. For example, if you're reading a news article on a topic you have a strong feeling on, you might notice your tulpa will tend to "take your side" and agree with your point of view.
I think some of this is thanks to expectation. If you're reading an article and expecting your tulpa to respond to you, they're probably going to pick up on the pool of experience/history that's available. Unless that's an article on a topic they've previously interacted with in a meaningful way - that's going to be your own.
This can be fine, and you shouldn't think a tulpa should always have to disagree with their host, but optimally I think it's best avoided. Your tulpa should ideally be drawing out of the "less-intuitively-drawn-from" pool of the history they have with other topics, their personality, and other "unique to me" pools of thought, and if they're repeating things you already think that's not great.
When you jump in and express those opinions, it seems to take the air out of that process. At the very least, you may find your tulpa talking about your opinions on the topics and asking questions/adding onto them, instead of expressing them directly.
So, if you happen to force by occasionally reading up on web articles, and you happen upon one you have strong opinions on, a quick discussion on your opinions before diving in and reading it may be helpful.
Posted Jul 26, 2021, 5:34 AM UTC