Concerning the thread itself:
Has anyone ever read on and then understood the nature of a golem?
Golems are soulless, as you might know. They've been known to imitate life, the given life, heck they might even try to take it over.
They are a based on residuals, residuals within the creator of said golem. The given Buddhist monks are made to create one, in order to learn lessons on such things. It teaches the given monk exactly how much residual crap is still floating around in their given hindbrain connection and how much ego they may still have to shed. You see.. you create a golem by feeding it into existence, the crap of the mind sort of.. 'comes to life'. Golem is a Judaic term. The monks call them Tulpas.
They can, hopefully obviously, then... even be made collectively...
1 + 1 = .........
Just another angle...
Read carefully. Sound familiar?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpa