Stephenie Meyer's muse, & Tori Amos' "strange little girls"

Reading how Stephenie Meyer described her writing process...as being character-driven...and almost seeming to me in the sense of her 'channeling' them, it reminded me a lot of what I've heard in interviews and read from Tori Amos, about her relationship to the songs that "reveal themselves" to her. Tori frequently speaks of them as "girls" who visit her and talk to her. (I'd read one reference say that the naming of her album Strange Little Girls was at least partially attributed to that.)

It's kind of funny: two different kinds of artists that I have encountered, grown to appreciate & admire, now have this eerie muse thing in common.

Actually, I've heard more than a few masters (particularly in the musical field) say they felt as if their best stuff came as if they were "channeling" it. Now I can't recall the primary third one I'm thinking of.
But it's been several.

And they range from Christians to atheists, agnostics & in-betweens. Seemingly universal.

It kind of gives me an eerie smile, go across my lips. There's something there....
You've gotta know this isn't just coincidental circumstance. This is a Thing.

Is it God? If it's God, what's he saying, there? It seems he's saying a lot of different things, or trying to touch people in all sorts of different ways, if it is God.

If it's not God...then who, or what is it? Is it all the same Who/or/What?--Or are there several?

I suppose it all depends on your spiritual world view, perhaps.

I have my theories...
But I think they're deserving of another blog post, later. In fact I'm sure of it.