I'm a Pagan and walk the shamanic path, so I'm used to a milieu where all kinds of entities get contacted and (maybe) Channeled whilst Journeying.
I started shamanic life by "actualising" the this-world faces of spirits in Mask form. So - by analogy - Channeling characters from fiction works the same way. I have to say that it's easier if the literary characters connect in some way with an Archetype, whether a Universal one (say - "Trickster"), or a personal one (say - bit-of-rough-with-a-heart [Yay! Shagrat!]). In fact, I'm often made aware that a particular writer/film/tv show has produced an Archetype by the reaction I have when writing in that particular fan-verse (JKR - yes, I'm thinking of Snape here!). If the character has got free of their creator and is rampaging joyously across the fandom, then they've probably struck an archetypal nerve (and usually without the author's knowledge or approbation).
and usually without the author's knowledge or approbation
You can say that again. *grins* I'm always kind of entertained when some bit of characterization takes on a life of its own and the author tries to get it back. Never seems to work very well, does it?
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Date: 2005-02-23 02:42 pm (UTC)I'm a Pagan and walk the shamanic path, so I'm used to a milieu where all kinds of entities get contacted and (maybe) Channeled whilst Journeying.
I started shamanic life by "actualising" the this-world faces of spirits in Mask form. So - by analogy - Channeling characters from fiction works the same way. I have to say that it's easier if the literary characters connect in some way with an Archetype, whether a Universal one (say - "Trickster"), or a personal one (say - bit-of-rough-with-a-heart [Yay! Shagrat!]). In fact, I'm often made aware that a particular writer/film/tv show has produced an Archetype by the reaction I have when writing in that particular fan-verse (JKR - yes, I'm thinking of Snape here!). If the character has got free of their creator and is rampaging joyously across the fandom, then they've probably struck an archetypal nerve (and usually without the author's knowledge or approbation).
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Date: 2005-02-23 06:48 pm (UTC)You can say that again. *grins* I'm always kind of entertained when some bit of characterization takes on a life of its own and the author tries to get it back. Never seems to work very well, does it?