Initiation by participation in imaginative fictions

Over at The Notion Club Papers blog; I discuss how a genuine participation in the process of reading imaginative fictions - including many children's classics, fairy tales, some sci-fi, and works in the fantasy genre - can be a process of initiation through various stages and levels of broadening and deepening experience. 

Such experience may stay at the level of the strange and marvellous, or ascend right up to an initiatory of experience at the level of deity.