Erin,
What great fun - I've paid so much attention to defining and Naming:
All the members of my God Posse - how I collectively refer to all the ancestors, angels, totems, spirit Guides, etc - I am constantly exploring and
writing about the conceptualization and personification that accompanies our relationships with these benevolent entities who support our experience here
Even my relationship with Money
If Money Was A Person, Who Would He Be?
For most of my life, I thought I was channeling Characters - I explained away much of the clairaudience and automatic writing I experienced as a part of my creative process.
Indeed, it is - our creativity is so closely linked to our divinity.
Reading your higher self article, I realized that although I have a sense of this, I've never really "cast" this aspect of myself - like you and the rest of us media-saturated virtual incarnators, my mind goes straight to the
"Who would play my Higher Self in a movie?" approach.
Or "If my Higher Self was a character from a book, he'd be..."
Like with all the best music, it's a Mix and a Mash-up of associations...
I had an editor who called me
"Dr. Phil on Witchcraft" - which makes me smile.
But I also feel that I am growing to meet a Higher Self who's very much the
Gandalf of the Lord of The Rings movie trilogy. Indeed, I hope to be a wise and funny crazy old coot when I'm 105 and a Martian colonist...
I am also extremely jealous of Lir, the protagonist in Son of A Witch, the sequel to Gregory Maguire's Wicked. That broom was meant for me, damn him! Now I know how his mother felt when Glinda gave those slippers to that blasted goodie-goodie with the pigtails...
I do know that my dialogue and movie posters would say things like:
Elphaba lives!
You shall not pass here!
I want you to fall in love with your life!
I don't know who this Character looks like, and I don't know where I would find him outside myself, because, of course, you know the only place he really exists is inside me, and the person born to play this Alternative White Wizard with a sense of humour, a Potty Mouth and a withering eye-roll
You're looking at him, my pretty!
: )