One could, if one chose (and were perhaps of a mindset like the Col's), read all of the Aslan-moments as the voices of the characters' subconscious minds rather that any manifestation of the Divine.
I had meant to comment on this earlier as well. One concept I have been playing with is that different people, of different cultures, education, and background, see Narnia in the Pevensies, though they get there differently and come to different conclusions. After introducing the Tarot and Agnes' ambiguous use of it (which I keep deliberately ambiguous), and hearing Hev speak of Lucy in Jungian archetypal terms, I thought of pushing the Colonel into that mindset -- the spy master trained in psychoanalysis.
I am not sure if Colonel Walker-Smythe is a person of faith or not -- I suspect, traditional man that he is, that there is old COE in there, tempered with a lifetime of seeing very odd, mystical, and unexplained things. Watson said to Holmes in the recent film, "I once heard a man precisely predict his own death." I heard the Colonel speaking in that moment.
It is very likely that the Colonel would consider talking to God and dead people a manifestation of the subconscious. It is an excellent idea. He is not, as Richard is, able to take the mystery on faith. He does, I think, see the miracle of the divine in the complexity of the human mind even if he would not believe the divine to operating through that mind. It's an interesting thought to ponder.
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I had meant to comment on this earlier as well. One concept I have been playing with is that different people, of different cultures, education, and background, see Narnia in the Pevensies, though they get there differently and come to different conclusions. After introducing the Tarot and Agnes' ambiguous use of it (which I keep deliberately ambiguous), and hearing Hev speak of Lucy in Jungian archetypal terms, I thought of pushing the Colonel into that mindset -- the spy master trained in psychoanalysis.
I am not sure if Colonel Walker-Smythe is a person of faith or not -- I suspect, traditional man that he is, that there is old COE in there, tempered with a lifetime of seeing very odd, mystical, and unexplained things. Watson said to Holmes in the recent film, "I once heard a man precisely predict his own death." I heard the Colonel speaking in that moment.
It is very likely that the Colonel would consider talking to God and dead people a manifestation of the subconscious. It is an excellent idea. He is not, as Richard is, able to take the mystery on faith. He does, I think, see the miracle of the divine in the complexity of the human mind even if he would not believe the divine to operating through that mind. It's an interesting thought to ponder.