Date Posted:12:55:13 06/04/03 Wed Author: IDAHO Subject: Paul and proof of his Other Memory
This quote is a conversation between Paul and the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam from the first chapter of Dune, after his gom jabbar test:
"The drug's dangerous," she said, "but it gives insight. When a Turthsayer's gifted by the drug, she can look many places in her memory- in her body's memory. We look down so many avenues of the past...but only feminine avenues." Her voice took on a note of sadness. "yet, there's a place no Truthsayer can see. We are repelled by it, terrorized. It is said a man will come one day and find in the gift of the drug his inward eye. He will look where we cannot- into both feminine and masculine pasts."
"Your Kwisatz Haderach?"
"Yes, the one who can be many places at once: the Kwisatz Haderach. Many men have tried the drug...so many, but none has succeeded."
"They tried and failed, all of them?"
"Oh, no." She shook her head. "They tried and died."
Okay, so basically the fact that Paul takes the Water of Life and lives is one piece of evidence. But also it is written that he IS the Kwisatz Haderach, the one who can be many places at once. That means he can see both the masculine and feminine avenues of the past.
We needed to look no futher than the first chapter of Dune to see what other memory is and that the Kwisatz Haderach is to bridge the masculine and feminine. Paul IS the Kwisatz Haderach.
