I've never considered it dangerous, but then I don't consider craziness dangerous, per se. It's always awareness, for me, that's been the key to making everything work. Making anything work, really.

I think writers just listen better than most. Like Alice Walker signing off The Color Purple as "author and medium".

Of course, I also think the whole soulbond thing is an excuse, an externalization so the author in question doesn't have to deal with the aspects that *are* self. But that's a personal prejudice.

*thoughtful* You know, I think I envision characters as something very like language itself. They are shared symbols, shared between many people, meaning loosely the same thing, but never *entirely* the same thing. So that where they come from is partially me and partially other people. The truth... will never rest with any one of us.