Editing Tulpa (section)

===Alexandra David-Néel===
Spiritualist [[Alexandra David-Néel]] stated that she had observed Buddhist tulpa creation practices in 20th-century Tibet.<ref name="TrackTulpas"/><ref name="Campbell" /> She described tulpas as "magic formations generated by a powerful concentration of thought."<ref name="David-Neel">{{cite book|last1=David-Neel|first1=Alexandra|last2=DʼArsonval|first2=A.|title=Magic and Mystery in Tibet|orig-year=Original French published 1929|year=2000|publisher=Book Tree|location=Escondido, California|isbn=1585090972}}</ref>{{rp|331}} David-Néel believed that a tulpa could develop a mind of its own: "Once the tulpa is endowed with enough vitality to be capable of playing the part of a real being, it tends to free itself from its maker's control. According to  David-Néel, this happens nearly mechanically, just as the child, when her body is completed and able to live apart, leaves its mother's womb."<ref name="David-Neel"/>{{rp|283}} She said she had created such a tulpa in the image of a jolly [[Friar Tuck]]-like [[monk]], which she claimed had later developed independent thought and had to be destroyed.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Marshall|first1=Richard|last2=Davis|first2=Monte|last3=Moolman|first3=Valerie|last4=Zappler|first4=George|title=Mysteries of the Unexplained|date=1982|publisher=Reader's Digest Association|location=Pleasantville, New York|isbn=0895771462|page=176|edition=Reprint}}</ref><ref name="Westerhoff2010"/> David-Néel raised the possibility that her experience was illusory: "I may have created my own hallucination", though she said others could see the thoughtforms that she created.<ref name="David-Neel"/>{{rp|176}}