So I don't know about ya'll, but I've been researching the occult for a few years now. I was originally doing it for a story I was writing but quit this summer because writing fiction won't take me anywhere. But a lot of the occult stuff I was looking into involved chaos magick, thoughtforms, and tulpas. I was drawn to this tweet because of the word "Egregor". Dumping my info here.
https://theosophy.wiki/en/Egregore
An egregore (pronounced egg’ gree gore) is a group thought-form. It can be created either intentionally or unintentionally, and becomes an autonomous entity with the power to influence. A group with a common purpose like a family, a club, a political party, a church, or a country can create an egregore, for better or worse depending upon the type of thought that created it.
In his article "Understanding the Occult: What is an Egregore," Theron Dunn offers four more definitions –
“An energized astral form produced consciously or unconsciously by human agency. In particular, (a) a strongly characterized form, usually an archetypal image, produced by the imaginative and emotional energies of a religious or magical group collectively, or (b) an astral shape of any kind, deliberately formulated by a magician to carry a specific force."[3]
"from a Greek word meaning “watcher” - a thought-form created by will and visualization. A group egregore is the distinctive energy of a specific group of magicians who are working together, creating and building the same thought-form or energy-form."[4]
"Any symbolic pattern that has served as a focus for human emotion and energy will build up an egregore of its own over time, and the more energy that is put into such a pattern, the more potent the egregore that will form around it. The gods and goddesses of every religion, past and present, are at the centers of vast egregore charged with specific kinds of power. This power is defined by, and contacted through, the traditional symbolism of the deity in question."[5]
"An egregore is an angel, sometimes called watcher; in Hebrew the word is ir, and the concept appears in The Book of Enoch…. Thus, Irim, the city of the Nephilim is again linked with the Book of Enoch, since the Nephilim, according to that Book, were the sons of the Irim (the egregores.)….Although the Irim, the egregores, are angels on both sides of the camp - fallen angels as well as faithful ones."[6]
Other words that have been used to describe an egregore are archetype, group consciousness, and zeitgeist. Rupert Sheldrake’s morphogenic fields are egregores.