That's an interesting thought. I don't know much about Tibetan traditions, but there is an awful lot in Twin Peaks that seems rooted in the philosophical aspects of Hinduisim, particularly Vedanta. The concepts of connectedness, time as illusion, and existence as Brahman's dream are all prominent. Figures like Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell appreciated the aspects of archetypes and mythos which intersect and pervade all human cultures. 

Here's some food for thought you might enjoy:
https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/download/20360/19140
(PDF - verified safe)

Thanks for the link to the article. Very interesting stuff. Maybe none of this will be explained in the show, but if it is left to be open to interpretation, I will definitely be leaning on this theory.

Completely agree with your idea.

Twin Peaks invites this kind of metaphysical exploration. Your theory could be entirely or partially correct though my sense is we will only get partial answers to some of these questions. 

The most interesting thing that could happen is that the show ends and then our reality ends hahah. The simulation ends and the wizard comes out from behind the curtain to tell us this dream is over. If that doesn't happen I'll meet you at the ep 18 talkback. Hahaha

Hahaha...I agree though that we will most likely get partial answers. The mystery is the best part!

In TSHOTP there is a reference to Aleister Crowley's novel Moonchild, about two rival lodges, black and white.

That's right. I forgot about that. I thought that was there to illustrate how a specific  group of people (Thelema?) interpret this phenomenon of the conscious/unconscious mystical powers. I think Hastings didn't fully understand what he discovered either and had his own interpretation of it. However, I love how TSHOTP blends non-fiction with fiction. It enhances the Twin Peaks universe that much more.

This thread is getting at my favorite part of the whole thing.  I'm always back and forth on whether  Twin Peaks is best classified as fiction, mythology, or philosophy.  TSHOTP has so much real life fact in it that it's just as close to an interpretative linking of historical events than it is to a fantasy narrative.  Is the black/white lodge, tulpa actors, and worlds connected a philosophical take on reality, or just a good story?  And where does one draw the difference?  I mean, this isn't Narnia or Westeross, it's north of Spokane just off the Colombia river.  Immense respect for this intellectual masterpiece.    

There are also elements from Alchemy and the Freemasons too. 

There are elements from all kinds of stuff.

I think getting into a black lodge might have been mentioned in The Grand Grimoire, but I could be getting mixed up with another grimoire. I've read lots of stuff like that. There are so many interesting books out there if you are into folklore.

Here are a couple of sites that I use to read folklore/occult stuff, if anyone is interested:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm

http://www.esotericarchives.com/esoteric.htm

There's a good deal of theosophy/new age concepts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_White_Brotherhood

Written by: Nicholas and Helena Roerich

 "Certainly, when the black lodge directs its arrows against the White Brotherhood, the consequences are self-destructive, and the manifestation of a rebounding blow is unavoidable. What you heard is a consequence of self-destruction, because the aimed arrow returned to the sender."

And:

Written by: The AMORC Rosicrucian

[there's] a difference between the "Great White Brotherhood" and the "Great White Lodge", saying that the Great White Brotherhood is the "school or fraternity" of the Great White Lodge, and that "every true student on the Path" aspires to membership in this Brotherhood. 

There was a link in posted on this forum for one of the earlier episodes to a video by a guy called Jay Dyer who analysis film and TV for esoteric and occult references, so obviously had a field day with Twin Peaks.  Through reading his stuff he links this article for The Independent here in UK from 1992 which is an interview with Mark Frost.  In it he says:

'The whole mythological side of Twin Peaks was really down to me, and I've always known about the Theosophical writers and that whole group around the Order of the Golden Dawn in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century - W B Yeats, Madame Blavatsky and a woman called Alice Bailey, a very interesting writer.'

Well worth a read, but what I've just noticed is that Twin Peaks was originally going to be set in South Dakota.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/higher-peaks-in-view-the-man-who-wrote-twin-peaks-has-plans-to-get-weirder-mark-frost-talked-to-1541807.html

Posted by: Jim Lenton

There was a link in posted on this forum for one of the earlier episodes to a video by a guy called Jay Dyer who analysis film and TV for esoteric and occult references, so obviously had a field day with Twin Peaks.  Through reading his stuff he links this article for The Independent here in UK from 1992 which is an interview with Mark Frost.  In it he says:

'The whole mythological side of Twin Peaks was really down to me, and I've always known about the Theosophical writers and that whole group around the Order of the Golden Dawn in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century - W B Yeats, Madame Blavatsky and a woman called Alice Bailey, a very interesting writer.'

Well worth a read, but what I've just noticed is that Twin Peaks was originally going to be set in South Dakota.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/higher-peaks-in-view-the-man-who-wrote-twin-peaks-has-plans-to-get-weirder-mark-frost-talked-to-1541807.html

Cool article!

Here's Psychic Self-defense - where he got the idea of the lodges from: 

https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-kDIEdiqtnMyLWk6L/Psychic%20Self-Defense_djvu.txt

Pantstrovich - Awesome, thank you for that! I knew about many of the occult references and inspiration, but had no idea there was a book which spoke explicitly of concepts like the "black lodge."