-kay-, 10/29/2010 11:43 AM:
si, questa capacità è legata, all' "anima" (anche se forse il termine anima non è il più adatto) basti pensare ai reietti reincarnati che portano con se' la loro capacità di incanalare in un nuovo corpo (ed in particolare a Balthamel, che quando viene reincarnato nel corpo di una donna, incanala ancora la stessa quantità di Saidin)
Si e no. Quello che dicono Drago Rinato e -kay- e' corretto, ed è stato supportato recentemente anche da Brandon (citazione parafrasata non verbatim:
The Gathering Storm Book Tour, Sandy, UT 5 December 2009 - kavorca reporting on ability to Channel/Souls:
"I think this has all been reported, but he stated definitively that the ability to channel is tied to soul. He stated definitively that the spark was not tied to the soul but could be affected by a specific body (i.e., if you had the spark in one life, you could be reborn and just have the ability to learn.) He stated with 85% probability that strength in the Power was not tied to soul, meaning that if you were an uber-channeler in one body, you could be weak in the Power in your next body").
Nonchè da RJ:
Emma reporting da Dragoncon05:
Question: "Previously you have made it known that an individual who is severed will retain the ability to channel in his or her subsequent life, which connects the ability to channel with the soul. How does burning out affect ones ability to channel in the next life? Specifically, will an individual born with the spark but who burns out during his or her life have the inborn spark in a subsequent life?
Jordan: I don't think I have said if you are born with the spark you would have the have the spark again. I have said if you were born with the ability to channel, to learn or with the spark, you will, when your soul is born again, you will have the ability again, whether with the spark or without. And neither burning out or severing affects that except in this lifetime, your current lifetime".
Tuttavia quanto sopra non fa scopa con il combinato disposto del concetto di reincarnazione ed il risultato della campagna di quietatura / uccisione dei maschi incanalatori che è in essere sui vari continenti.
Mi spiego. Se la capacità di incanalare fosse legata solo all'anima, in un mondo in cui le anime si reincarnano (ricordate by "my hope of salvation and rebirth"?) dovrebbero esserci incalanatori in modo abbastanza costante. Invece, nella Terza Era gli incalanatori stavano scomparendo (sempre meno persone andavano alla Torre, ecc ecc), come ha anche spiegato RJ, per effetto della caccia spietata ai maschi incalanatori. Questo vuol dire che anche la genetica gioca un ruolo.
A supporto:
RJ's blog 2 October 2005 "ONE MORE TIME":
"For Papazen, while I have spoken of souls being born with the ability to channel in response to questions, I think of it as being genetic also. In the Age of Legends, between 2 and 3% of people had some ability, following a bell curve distribution in strength. For over 3000 years, though, Aes Sedai have been removing men who actually learned to channel from the gene pool. They have been very efficient at this. As a result, the “present day” sees about 1% of the population who can learn to channel, with a much, much smaller percentage of that being born with the spark").
Quindi, sia genetica che anima giocano un ruolo - ancora:
Knife of Dreams book tour 27 October 2005, Half Moon Bay - Chris reporting: :
"There were a few questions about his series, one that I asked was: if channeling was genetic, did the Forsaken need bodies that were genetically compatible for them to be able to use the power?
His answer was that channeling is not just a recessive or dominant gene, rather both genetic and in the soul".
Mi pare ci siano quindi un qualche mix tra caratteristiche dell'anima e del corpo. Secondo me, visto che con il potere si fanno cose che non possono essere poi cancellate dall’esistenza con lo stesso potere (tipo la pietra dell'anima), dovrebbe essere possibile, almeno in teoria, anche creare con il potere capacità che prima non esistevano (tipo attivare od aumentare, con interventi di minutissimo dettaglio sul DNA mitocondriale o sui meccanismi epigenetici, ricettori dell’unico potere in un corpo).
Questo mi pare confermato in potenza, ma negato nella realtà fittizia del mondo di Rand, da questa Q&A:
Lord of Chaos book tour Seattle 25 October 1994 - Tony Zbaraschuk reporting:
“Q: Can the Power really be used to make you different? [This arose as part of a discussion of Illusion ("Mirror of Mists" is an old name for the same thing).]
RJ: Illusion is illusion. Doesn't fool the sense of touch, so you have to be really subtle (such as Moghedien's disguise) to avoid detection.
Q: So Sammael couldn't make himself taller?
RJ: He could make himself look taller, but he's not interested in looking taller. He wants to be taller. Besides, any sufficiently experienced man would be able to tell that it was illusion.
Q: So the Power really isn't capable of genetic reconstruction? (Like, for example, making you taller.)
RJ: Maybe, in the Age of Legends, someone might have been able to pull it off, if they were really skilled. Might have.
Q: Like Aginor? He seemed to be the expert among the Forsaken on that.
RJ: Aginor was damn good, but he wasn't that good”.
Se nemmeno Aginor era in grado di modificare qualcosa di così (relativamente) semplice come l’altezza, immaginate quanto deve essere difficile modificare il tratto genetico che consente di incanalare. Quindi, per rispondere alla domanda originaria di Silma, in teoria si, in pratica no.
Infine, per chiudere questo lunghissimo post con un OT, noto anche che RJ ha escluso la possibilità per un non incalanatore di imparare ad incanalare grazie ad una Illuminazione:
ComicCon July 2004 - Jason Denzel reporting:
“A question was asked about whether or not a non-channeler could go and become Enlightened through meditation and be able to sense the True Source, or even channel it.
RJ replied that there were indeed people in his world that sought Enlightenment in such ways, but no, that channeling was related to genetics. He went onto say that he estimates that the Age of Legends had about 2-3% of the population able to channel in one way or another, while in the modern world that number is down to about 1-2%.
[Update: Robert Jordan sent me an email correcting this statement]:
RJ: I went back to look at the article again and check something I thought I recalled. If I said the current population has about 1% to 2% who can learn to channel, then I misspoke, because I have set that figure at about 1%”.
EDIT: ho aggiusto un pò i quote per rendere più comprensibile il post. DR.
EDIT: grazie, non sono molto bravo con le tecniche del forum. SW.
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