# Bene Gesserit
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The bene gesserit () are a group in Frank Herbert's fictional Dune universe. A powerful social, religious, and political force, the bene gesserit are described as an exclusive sisterhood whose members train their bodies and minds through years of physical and mental conditioning to obtain superhuman powers and abilities that seem magical to outsiders. The group seeks to acquire power and influence to direct humanity on an enlightened path, a concerted effort planned and executed over millennia.
The Hidden Jews of Dune With DZ Kalman
Frank Herbert spent five books showing how faiths merge, mutate, and drift beyond recognition. Then, in Chapterhouse: Dune, he wrote in a community of Jews who had not changed at all. Abu and Leo gather critical takes from Jewish readers and scholars, then sit down with historian DZ Kalman to ask w…
The Real Life Bene Gesserit from Dune: The Vestal Virgins, Oracle of Delphi, and modern day Bene Gesserit
I recently rewatched Dune and have always been obsessed with the lore of the Bene Gesserit...a secret society of elite women with superhuman mental and physical abilities? Count me in! Today we deep dive the Bene Gesserit, and find their real-life counterparts in history (The Vestal Virgins and the…
The Vestal Virgins - just how virginal were they?
Few elements of ancient Rome have inspired quite such lurid speculation – by the Romans as well as ourselves – as the vestal virgins. Mary and Charlotte enter the (imaginary) temple of Vesta to separate fact from myth.
The Vestal Virgins were six (at any given time) priestesses who tended the ete…
Book Club: Hunters of Dune (Part 1)
Abu and Leo begin the book club coverage of Hunters of Dune, the first novel completing Frank Herbert's saga after his death. They walk through the first half of the book's tangled plot before turning to the continuity breaks and creative choices they think do real damage to the Dune canon.
This e…
Lost Entries: Psychology of the Fremen
An unpublished Dune Encyclopedia manuscript called Psychology of the Fremen never made it past Willis E. McNelly's editing desk, until now. Abu and Leo dig into what got cut, in part one of a two-episode dive into the Fullerton archives' unreleased psychology entries.
Carl B. Yoke, a Kent State Un…
Dune: Part One — The Mantrap
Every future anyone has ever sold you was written by somebody. This show reads the futures that lasted: the hundred most-read science fiction novels. It asks what each one saw, what was missed, and about the people who wrote it and the people reading it now.
We start with Dune.
About a hundred page…
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