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Re: do you have that quote handy? Datakim Send a noteboard - 29/08/2010 03:03:14 PM

I don't recall RJ every saying they were separate ... for some reason I thought he had given us an Aes Sedai answer when asked :)


Q: The question is, with Rand and Lews Therin, do they have one soul or two souls in the body?
RJ: They have one soul with two personalities. The reincarnation of souls does not mean reincarnation of personalities. The personality develops with each reincarnation of the soul. This is the cosmology that I [cobbled] together.


So basically, the soul that is in Rand now, is the exact same soul that was in LTT. But when a soul is reborn, he or she forgets all the memories of the past life, which naturally leads into developing a new personality that is different from the old personality, but the "energy" of the soul is always the same.

So basically Rand and LTT are two facets of the same soul, but because of different upbringing and life experiences their beliefs, memories, experiences and the personality that results from those were different.

However it seems that at the end of TGS, the two facets (LTT and Rand) of the single soul seem to have sorta merged so that presumably there is only one personality now.
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Why is LTT "gone" from Rand's mind now? malekithe - 29/08/2010 06:02:39 AM 1407 Views
Umm...are you being serious? Dark Knight - 29/08/2010 06:22:03 AM 1095 Views
Re: Umm...are you being serious? malekithe - 29/08/2010 08:21:25 AM 1045 Views
Rand/LTT had an epiphany on Drangon Mount darius_sedai - 29/08/2010 01:20:28 PM 1198 Views
Reread the chapter. You owe yourself that much. *NM* Lord Haart - 29/08/2010 02:21:34 PM 368 Views
Re: Why is LTT "gone" from Rand's mind now? Datakim - 29/08/2010 12:37:33 PM 999 Views
do you have that quote handy? darius_sedai - 29/08/2010 01:23:20 PM 753 Views
Re: do you have that quote handy? Datakim - 29/08/2010 03:03:14 PM 814 Views
thanks for providing ... that's the same quote I remember seeing before darius_sedai - 29/08/2010 05:10:44 PM 13585 Views
Re: thanks for providing ... that's the same quote I remember seeing before DomA - 29/08/2010 06:53:04 PM 947 Views
I can see it both ways darius_sedai - 30/08/2010 10:32:13 PM 897 Views
One soul, one body Japhy - 29/08/2010 06:10:30 PM 698 Views
Re: One soul, one body malekithe - 30/08/2010 05:39:34 PM 730 Views
We'll never get a final answer to this (as RJ wanted it that way...) but here's mine DomA - 29/08/2010 06:12:34 PM 1386 Views
Re: We'll never get a final answer to this (as RJ wanted it that way...) but here's mine Watcher - 30/08/2010 03:51:49 PM 886 Views
Re: We'll never get a final answer to this (as RJ wanted it that way...) but here's mine malekithe - 30/08/2010 06:03:36 PM 797 Views
Thank you for providing an explanation that makes sense... Comet Sedai - 02/09/2010 01:33:39 AM 775 Views
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