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“That isn’t possible,” Dashiva muttered into the silence, but nearly under his breath. “It is not possible.”
Silly Aginor. Or course it's possible. These primitives used the weather control device in a way far beyond its original intended purpose, and it's sent out weaves for (hundreds of?) miles. Makes channeling difficult, because your weaves are interacting with the weaves already hanging in the air. Hope that helps.✌️
More to the point here, I say again that it is impossible to force a woman into a circle.
But perhaps a man can, she implies heavily.
Can someone explain to me what the "submission to Saidar" vs "dominating Saidin" is supposed to symbolize? Its getting a bit embarrassing for me to not understand something so basic while almost done with the series
They said men like that, whether false Dragons or just poor fools the Red Ajah took against, never lived long. It was said they gave up wanting to live.
So, I contend that the party line about stilling is false, that women do typically go on living. But I also believe that the men do not. Why am I believing this way? I am struck by my own contradiction. But I think perhaps the issue lies in community. A stilled woman loses her community, but can go on to build a new one. A gentled man loses his community, and does not have the resources to find a new one. He is shunned as tainted even after he has been cut off from the Source. The tragedy of the men is therefore ongoing and inescapable.
I'm obsessed with what it must be like to live as a channeler day to day. Walking around, eating, reading, sleeping, talking, and at every moment, the True Source is near. Hovering at your shoulder, warming your skin like the sun on your back. A comfort, a tool, a weapon, available at all times. What it must feel like to sense that there, always. The wonder and childlike glee of reaching out to that Source, of feeling its power setting your blood aflame and making your heart sing. How special, to carry that light with you, at all times. How terrifying, agonizing, humiliating it would be to have that taken from you.
Idk I'm just so fascinated by the reverence and joy and wonder that channeling is described with and how it must be to have that inside you all the time
PSA: both the Saidar and Saidin focus meditations are super useful techniques for meditations in general.
Saidar: you're a leaf on the river. As you float past things on the banks (your thoughts as they pop up) observe them, and then let them pass you by without dwelling.
A related standard meditation is you sitting at the edge of a river and as leaves float by, you place your thoughts on them and let them drift away.
There's the rosebud meditation, where you're absorbing sunlight and slowly opening up. A related exercise is where you're standing in a pool of warm water, and imagining the warmth trickling up your legs and filling your whole body. Sometimes I imagine myself as the reverse, being slowly filled by lightning from my fingertips and feeling it fill one inch at a time.
The Saidin exercise is more active, the Flame and the Void. You imagine a candle in a black room. Every time you notice a thought or emotion, you put it into the candle flame and watch it burn up. Notice that this is similar to the leaf on the bank, except for the "intent" of gentle placing vs "shoving".
I imagine it like a black hole that is grabbing and absorbing all the thoughts and feelings as they come through.
Ultimately, the meditations are all about letting go of your thoughts as they come. You observe them, you accept that they are there, and you let them go. Thoughts are neither good nor bad, they just are.
https://youtu.be/_axx4D-qSbo?si=43tNevO2HX-3p7kW
I think it would be cool if Saidin (the name) was lost to time in the show cause no one was teaching men to channel cause of the Taint so there was no need to remember it. Rand learns the name from either Lews or Asmo.
Also could be a reason as to why Saidar and Saidin haven't been named in the show as of yet cause why would the Aes Sedai need to differentiate since men haven't channeled willingly for like 3000 years
For WoT book readers who read the books before watching the show:
when RJ describes channelers weaving threads of the Power, I imagine the different threads...
...literally coming from sites of water, air etc.
...being abstractions that appear 'directly from' the True Source
I don't have a clear visualization of this
other pls explain
Just curious how people imagine the weaves and threads in general. I love how the 2nd season is depicting them but it's not how I imagined them looking when I was first reading the books.
