What does "to channel someone" mean?

[hoodsmom]

I ran across the phrase, "I'm trying to channel (someone)" while perusing the gallery today. What does that mean?

 

[Heather Prins]

It means to scrapbook like them, to use their energy, have their talents

 

[Nickel]

Jung, a psychiatrist from last century believed there was not only a individual unconscious but also a collective one, a kind of Matrix where ideas were put in...To channel is a way to connect with that energy