Dopplegangers

zippy

No clue. Is it me?

are they supposed to be the same guy?

I don't see any resemblances, but then I don't know many zoners.

Who aren't well over 50 anyway.

I did used to think that Jake Peavy had a slight resemblance to Mr. Felina though.

Felina would have had to juice up a bit to really make it work.

Dude who lives in Fresno?

Hoover?

Nah. No porn 'stash.

Mark, I am terrible at seeing resemblances, or even recognizing people I know very well in a crowd. But in this case I'd go with Bss.

this isn't one of your strongest threads, mark. 

Did that Robert Hunter novel ever get published?

Tulpa is a concept in mysticism and the paranormal of a being or object which is created through spiritual or mental powers.[1] It was adapted by 20th-century theosophists from Tibetan sprul-pa (Tibetan: སྤྲུལ་པ་, Wylie: sprulpa) which means "emanation" or "manifestation".[2] Modern practitioners use the term to refer to a type of willed imaginary friend which practitioners consider to be sentient and relatively autonomous.[3]

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Indian Buddhism

One early Buddhist text, the Pali Samaññaphala Sutta, lists the ability to create a “mind-made body” (manomāyakāya) as one of the "fruits of the contemplative life".[4]:117 Commentarial texts such as the Patisambhidamagga and the Visuddhimagga state that this mind-made body is how Gautama Buddha and arhats are able to travel into heavenly realms using the continuum of the mindstream (cittasaṃtāna) and it is also used to explain the multiplication miracle of the Buddha as illustrated in the Divyavadana, in which the Buddha multiplied his nirmita or emanated human form into countless other bodies which filled the sky. A Buddha or other realized being is able to project many such nirmitas simultaneously in an infinite variety of forms in different realms simultaneously.[4]:125–134

The Indian Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu (fl. 4th to 5th century CE) defined nirmita as a siddhi or psychic power (Pali iddhi, Sankrit: ṛddhi) developed through Buddhist discipline, concentrated discipline (samadhi) and wisdom in his seminal work on Buddhist philosophy, the Abhidharmakośakārikā. Asanga's Bodhisattvabhūmi defines nirmāṇa as a magical illusion and "basically, something without a material basis".[4]:130 The Madhyamaka school of philosophy sees all reality as empty of essence; all reality is seen as a form of nirmita or magical illusion.[4]:158

Tibetan Buddhism

Emanation bodies—nirmanakaya, sprulsku, sprul-pa and so on—are connected to trikaya, the Buddhist doctrine of the three bodies of the Buddha. They are usually emanation bodies of celestial beings, though "unrealized beings" such as humans may have their own emanation bodies or even be emanation bodies.[3] For example, the 14th Dalai Lama is considered by some followers to be an emanation-reincarnation or tulku of Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of Compassion.[5] The 14th Dalai Lama mentioned in a public statement that his successor might appear via emanation while the current Dalai Lama is still alive.[3]

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20th century theosophists adapted the concepts of "emanation body"—nirmita, tulku, sprul-pa and others—into the concepts of "tulpa" and "thoughtform".[2] The term “thoughtform” is used as early as 1927 in Evans-Wentz' translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead.[6] John Myrdhin Reynolds, in a note to his English translation of the life story of Garab Dorje, defines a tulpa as “an emanation or a manifestation.”[7]

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Tulpas in modern society

The concept of tulpa was popularized and secularized in the Western world through fiction, gaining popularity on television in the late 1990s and 2000s.[3] From 2009 onwards, online communities dedicated to tulpas spawned on the 4chan and Reddit websites. These communities collectively refer to themselves as tulpamancers and offer guides and support for other tulpamancers. The communities gained popularity when adult fans of My Little Pony created forums for tulpas of characters from the My Little Pony television series.[14] The fans attempted to use meditation and lucid dreaming techniques to create imaginary friends.[15][16] Surveys by Veissière explored this community's demographic, social, and psychological profiles. These individuals, calling themselves "tulpamancers", treat the tulpas as a "real or somewhat-real person". The number of active participants in these online communities is in the low hundreds, and few meetings in person have taken place. They belong to "primarily urban, middle class, Euro-American adolescent and young adult demographics" and they "cite loneliness and social anxiety as an incentive to pick up the practice." 93.7% of respondents expressed that their involvement with the creation of tulpas has "made their condition better", and led to new unusual sensory experiences. Some practitioners have sexual and romantic interactions with their tulpas, though the practice is controversial and trending towards taboo. One survey found that 8.5% support a metaphysical explanation of tulpas, 76.5% support a neurological or psychological explanation, and 14% "other" explanations.[15]

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpa

 >>>>>I am terrible at seeing resemblances, or even recognizing people I know very well in a crowd

So am I. Sometimes even face to face, if I'm not expecting it.

I spotted Zoner Walstib at HSB a couple of years ago when he walked through the crowd near where I was sitting,after having met a couple of years earlier at the DNB shows on the Big Island.  He was the only person I recognized in three days there.  It was too bad that it was the end of the 3rd day.  I'd gotten my brother to come that Sunday, so I declined the offer to come greet the other gathered Zoners so as not to abandon my brother.

FWIW, the correct spelling is doppelgänger.   A doppleganger sounds like a group of weather radar enthusiasts, and may apply to Noodler.

mystery solved

It'll be solved when we see a pic of Bss.

Mark, your clue would have been clever if I'd gotten it, sorry. Too much input and smoke/ash in the air these days.

It does look like him, mike. Next time you see a guy walking around who looks like that, it'll be Bss or pitcher Gausman.

Ha. I've signed three Kevin Gausman autographs just this week. 

kid is gonna be a real lady killer one day