Bene Gesserit - Truthsaying

The Bene Gesserit (from Latin: see the origin of the name) are a key social, religious and political force in Frank Herbert's science fiction universe of Dune. They are a secretive sisterhood who train their bodies and minds through years of physical and mental conditioning, attaining powers and abilities that can seem almost magical. Due to their secretive nature and misunderstood abilities, outsiders often call them witches. Trained at the Mother School on Wallach IX, and later headquartered at the hidden world known a ...

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• Bene Gesserit - Strategies and goals of the Bene Gesserit
• Bene Gesserit - Breeding program
• Bene Gesserit - Avoiding direct power
• Bene Gesserit - Missionaria Protectiva
• Bene Gesserit - The training of the Bene Gesserit
• Bene Gesserit - Training from childhood
• Bene Gesserit - Spice Agony
• Bene Gesserit - Bene Gesserit Government
• Bene Gesserit - The powers of the Bene Gesserit
• Bene Gesserit - Other Memory
• Bene Gesserit - The Voice
• Bene Gesserit - Petit perception
• Bene Gesserit - Truthsaying
• Bene Gesserit - Simulflow
• Bene Gesserit - Prana Bindu training and the Weirding Way
• Bene Gesserit - Internal Organic-Chemical Control
• Bene Gesserit - Considerable Sexual Talents
• Bene Gesserit - Weaknesses of the Bene Gesserit
• Bene Gesserit - Addiction to the melange
• Bene Gesserit - Abomination
• Bene Gesserit - The litany against fear
• Bene Gesserit - Appearance in prequel novels
• Bene Gesserit - Origin of the name
• Bene Gesserit - External link

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Thanks to intensive training, all Bene Gesserit possess skills and abilities that appear to those outside the order as magical powers. These include both mental and physical powers. All Reverend Mothers are storehouses of information through Other Memory; they are trained to notice tiny details; and they have fine control over each muscle in their bodies. Bene Gesserit - Other Memory. One of the 'powers' of a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother is her Other Memory: the combined ego and memories of ...

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Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Strategies and goals of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Breeding program, Bene Gesserit - Avoiding direct power, Bene Gesserit - Missionaria Protectiva, Bene Gesserit - The training of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Training from childhood, Bene Gesserit - Spice Agony, Bene Gesserit - Bene Gesserit Government, Bene Gesserit - The powers of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Other Memory, Bene Gesserit - The Voice, Bene Gesserit - Petit perception, Bene Gesserit - Truthsaying, Bene Gesserit - Simulflow, Bene Gesserit - Prana Bindu training and the Weirding Way, Bene Gesserit - Internal Organic-Chemical Control, Bene Gesserit - Considerable Sexual Talents, Bene Gesserit - Weaknesses of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Addiction to the melange, Bene Gesserit - Abomination, Bene Gesserit - The litany against fear, Bene Gesserit - Appearance in prequel novels, Bene Gesserit - Origin of the name, Bene Gesserit - External link

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In the real world, the name "Bene Gesserit" was likely extracted from the legal Latin phrase "quamdiu se bene gesserit" = "as long as he/she shall behave himself well", via someone knowing that "bene" is also Hebrew for "sons of". Bene Gesserit by itself means "(s)he shall have behaved well". Gesserit is a form of the Latin verb 'gero' (specifically the third person singular of the future perfect active indicative), whose meanings include "to carry", "to wear", "to manage", "to bear [a child]", "to behave", or simply "to do". T ...

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Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Strategies and goals of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Breeding program, Bene Gesserit - Avoiding direct power, Bene Gesserit - Missionaria Protectiva, Bene Gesserit - The training of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Training from childhood, Bene Gesserit - Spice Agony, Bene Gesserit - Bene Gesserit Government, Bene Gesserit - The powers of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Other Memory, Bene Gesserit - The Voice, Bene Gesserit - Petit perception, Bene Gesserit - Truthsaying, Bene Gesserit - Simulflow, Bene Gesserit - Prana Bindu training and the Weirding Way, Bene Gesserit - Internal Organic-Chemical Control, Bene Gesserit - Considerable Sexual Talents, Bene Gesserit - Weaknesses of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Addiction to the melange, Bene Gesserit - Abomination, Bene Gesserit - The litany against fear, Bene Gesserit - Appearance in prequel novels, Bene Gesserit - Origin of the name, Bene Gesserit - External link

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In the prequel novels written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson, the Sorceresses of Rossak, who possess powers only females can use and have a breeding plan to create more powerful telepaths, are undoubtebly the precursors to the Bene Gesserit (although most fans do not consider the prequels canon). They make their appearance in Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, where they sacrifice themselves to destroy some of the Titans and Neo-Cymeks. In Dune: House Harkonnen, the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen forces his way into the Bene Ge ...

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Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Strategies and goals of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Breeding program, Bene Gesserit - Avoiding direct power, Bene Gesserit - Missionaria Protectiva, Bene Gesserit - The training of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Training from childhood, Bene Gesserit - Spice Agony, Bene Gesserit - Bene Gesserit Government, Bene Gesserit - The powers of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Other Memory, Bene Gesserit - The Voice, Bene Gesserit - Petit perception, Bene Gesserit - Truthsaying, Bene Gesserit - Simulflow, Bene Gesserit - Prana Bindu training and the Weirding Way, Bene Gesserit - Internal Organic-Chemical Control, Bene Gesserit - Considerable Sexual Talents, Bene Gesserit - Weaknesses of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Addiction to the melange, Bene Gesserit - Abomination, Bene Gesserit - The litany against fear, Bene Gesserit - Appearance in prequel novels, Bene Gesserit - Origin of the name, Bene Gesserit - External link

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Bene Gesserit - Addiction to the melange. Reverend Mothers are dependent on melange. Bene Gesserit however, have no dependency upon the drug unless they undergo the spice agony. Though the effects of melange are highly favourable, including vastly increased lifespan and mental powers, it is an addiction. Withdrawal causes death and individual Reverend Mothers are vulnerable to isolation and being without the sisterhood's resources. Melange is expen ...

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Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Strategies and goals of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Breeding program, Bene Gesserit - Avoiding direct power, Bene Gesserit - Missionaria Protectiva, Bene Gesserit - The training of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Training from childhood, Bene Gesserit - Spice Agony, Bene Gesserit - Bene Gesserit Government, Bene Gesserit - The powers of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Other Memory, Bene Gesserit - The Voice, Bene Gesserit - Petit perception, Bene Gesserit - Truthsaying, Bene Gesserit - Simulflow, Bene Gesserit - Prana Bindu training and the Weirding Way, Bene Gesserit - Internal Organic-Chemical Control, Bene Gesserit - Considerable Sexual Talents, Bene Gesserit - Weaknesses of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Addiction to the melange, Bene Gesserit - Abomination, Bene Gesserit - The litany against fear, Bene Gesserit - Appearance in prequel novels, Bene Gesserit - Origin of the name, Bene Gesserit - External link

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Bene Gesserit - Training from childhood. The Bene Gesserit begin training acolytes when they are very young, and those of preference they would begin training from birth. The younger a child becomes an acolyte, the more likely that child will become a Reverend Mother. The Bene Gesserit do train people at later ages, but only if they are supremely talented (e.g., the House Corrino leader Farad'n) or if they have already received similar training (e.g., the Honoured Matre M ...

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Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Strategies and goals of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Breeding program, Bene Gesserit - Avoiding direct power, Bene Gesserit - Missionaria Protectiva, Bene Gesserit - The training of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Training from childhood, Bene Gesserit - Spice Agony, Bene Gesserit - Bene Gesserit Government, Bene Gesserit - The powers of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Other Memory, Bene Gesserit - The Voice, Bene Gesserit - Petit perception, Bene Gesserit - Truthsaying, Bene Gesserit - Simulflow, Bene Gesserit - Prana Bindu training and the Weirding Way, Bene Gesserit - Internal Organic-Chemical Control, Bene Gesserit - Considerable Sexual Talents, Bene Gesserit - Weaknesses of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Addiction to the melange, Bene Gesserit - Abomination, Bene Gesserit - The litany against fear, Bene Gesserit - Appearance in prequel novels, Bene Gesserit - Origin of the name, Bene Gesserit - External link

Read more here: » Bene Gesserit: Encyclopedia II - Bene Gesserit - The training of the Bene Gesserit

Bene Gesserit - Breeding program. The ultimate goal of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, up to the novel Dune ,is the creation of the Kwisatz Haderach, a male Bene Gesserit. This is a being achieved through a massive human breeding program, which the Sisterhood has conducted for countless generations; using careful manipulations of relationships and people in general, the Bene Gesserit have controlled bloodlines through the ages. The Kwisatz Haderach, with access to both male ...

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Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Strategies and goals of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Breeding program, Bene Gesserit - Avoiding direct power, Bene Gesserit - Missionaria Protectiva, Bene Gesserit - The training of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Training from childhood, Bene Gesserit - Spice Agony, Bene Gesserit - Bene Gesserit Government, Bene Gesserit - The powers of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Other Memory, Bene Gesserit - The Voice, Bene Gesserit - Petit perception, Bene Gesserit - Truthsaying, Bene Gesserit - Simulflow, Bene Gesserit - Prana Bindu training and the Weirding Way, Bene Gesserit - Internal Organic-Chemical Control, Bene Gesserit - Considerable Sexual Talents, Bene Gesserit - Weaknesses of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Addiction to the melange, Bene Gesserit - Abomination, Bene Gesserit - The litany against fear, Bene Gesserit - Appearance in prequel novels, Bene Gesserit - Origin of the name, Bene Gesserit - External link

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In the Dune novel, the Bene Gesserit used the following chanted words to reduce their fear. "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone th ...

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Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Strategies and goals of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Breeding program, Bene Gesserit - Avoiding direct power, Bene Gesserit - Missionaria Protectiva, Bene Gesserit - The training of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Training from childhood, Bene Gesserit - Spice Agony, Bene Gesserit - Bene Gesserit Government, Bene Gesserit - The powers of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Other Memory, Bene Gesserit - The Voice, Bene Gesserit - Petit perception, Bene Gesserit - Truthsaying, Bene Gesserit - Simulflow, Bene Gesserit - Prana Bindu training and the Weirding Way, Bene Gesserit - Internal Organic-Chemical Control, Bene Gesserit - Considerable Sexual Talents, Bene Gesserit - Weaknesses of the Bene Gesserit, Bene Gesserit - Addiction to the melange, Bene Gesserit - Abomination, Bene Gesserit - The litany against fear, Bene Gesserit - Appearance in prequel novels, Bene Gesserit - Origin of the name, Bene Gesserit - External link

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