I've come across an interesting theory about cognitive anomalies commonly referred to as tulpas. I just want some preliminary feedback to tell me if there's something to this. I have an exercise I'll outline for you to test this out for yourself, bear with me.

1) Have faith in some kind of deity (doesn't matter which one it is)
2) Try to mentally communicate with this deity
3) Expect a response of some kind

Let me know your individual results. This is just a preliminary test.