![]() ![]() Sort of like inventing a conscious persona that you can talk to in your head. Common shadow totems for many people would be things like bugs and spiders, snakes or sharks.Ī Tulpa is intentionally creating a mental construct. Similarly, a shadow totem embodies something you fear, or is actually an animal you fear or dislike strongly. Or you could simply work with the idea of ‘dog’ and what that means to you things like loyalty, obedience and silliness can be associated with dogs as spirit guides.īoth totems and animal spirits fall under the category of Animism. So, you could have Dog the totem (capitalized ‘D’) and then perhaps work specifically with a beagle, as a representative of Dog. Animal spirits, similarly, are individual representatives of that totem. Totems and animal spirits are the most similar in that a totem is a representative of a species as a whole. The below was mostly taken from my TG interview on Therian Talks. may seem similar, but they’re actually different concepts. Totems, Animal Spirits, Tulpas, Daemons, etc.
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