Topic: Ursula Le Guin

Ursula Le Guin comes up in 1 chapter across 1 episode of The Higherside Chats Free Show, in November 2018.

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Patrick Harpur | Unpacking The Paranormal, Our Daimonic Reality, Myth, & Alchemy
• 1:00:20 - 1:02:49

Patrick Harpur | Unpacking The Paranormal, Our Daimonic Reality, Myth, & Alchemy

Shamanistic Experience of Writing Fiction

The act of writing fiction is described as a shamanistic experience where characters come alive and the author engages with the daemon realm. Harper reflects on how his skills as a novelist allowed him to better understand "real life" paranormal encounters. He suggests that the imagination is a whole other world that can manifest spontaneously in the physical world through anomalistic events.