During a conversation about the theory of dimensions, thought, imagination, the simulation hypothesis and the creation of existence, a thought occurred to me and a film came to mind to represent the thought (as does happen).

The Neverending story (1984) – not the whole film as such, but the culmination of the adventure, of the realisation that the world of Phantasia and everything they knew, was disappearing into nothing. Because thought and imagination were no longer feeding it from the ‘real world’. And when The Nothing had consumed all in its path and stripped it all back to just darkness, a name had to be called and it stopped. Remaining was one grain of sand. Just one. And from that grain of sand, the whole world was created with imagination. It was thought into existence. My piece Creating a nightmare reality going into an angle on that).

Atem – this leads on from the last point rather well and is what I thought of next. “Atem is the primordial god in Egyptian mythology from whom all else arose”. A god who thought or spoke himself into existence.

And although I have mentioned Atem and this next paragraph of info in my piece Is it really the machines we should fear? I think it ties into the idea of consciousness, and what we perceieved as an existence at this point in reality.

“Tulpa or Tulpamancy – “is a concept in Theosophy, mysticism, and the paranormal, of an object or being that is created through spiritual or mental powers”.

So says Wikipedia. But it’s an odd concept and instantly made me think of when some children have imaginary friends, and they are told it’s fictional. Weird that when adults do it, it’s a real thing. But not acceptable for all, because it does seem that there is discussion whether the whole Tulpa thing is real, spiritual and paranormal, or just a sign of loneliness and mental illness.

But the concept that everything we know as the universe, where and how it began and the start of existence could have been just a thought is an interesting one. And they do say, it all starts with an idea…

(c) K Wicks