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	Bene Gesserit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the novel Dune, the Bene Gesserit breeding scheme was, in theory, to have come to full fruition from the union of an Atreides daughter (born of the Lady Jessica and the Duke Leto Atreides) and the Na-Baron Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen (son of Abulurd Harkonnen, brother of the Siridar-Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.
		Without the benefits of Bene Gesserit mental conditioning, however, this led to her downfall as she was unable to maintain control of the other egos striving for dominance.
		Bene Gesserit are trained in the use of their Voice (it is always emphasized as "the Voice" in the novels) to compel obedience in listeners on a subconscious level.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bene_Gesserit (4210 words)

	Bene Gesserit: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
		The bene tleilax or tleilaxu are a secretive society in the fictional dune universe created by frank herbert in the dune series of novels....
		The bene gesserit are a key group from frank herberts science fiction universe of dune....
		Bene Gesserit are trained in the use of their voice to compel obedience in listeners on a subconscious level.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/be/bene_gesserit.htm (4663 words)

	Bene Tleilax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
		The use of "Bene" before their name suggests that they are an order of some kind, like the Bene Gesserit; this becomes clear in the last two books of the series.
		By the events of Chapterhouse: Dune, the Bene Tleilax had been all but eradicated...save for one Master, Scytale, presumedly a ghola of the original Scytale of Dune: Messiah (though the Scytale from Dune Messiah was a face dancer whereas the one in Chapterhouse: Dune was a Master) who was captured by the Bene Gesserit.
		In Chapterhouse: Dune, the Bene Gesserit have acquired axolotl tank technology and are able to use it to make gholas for their own purposes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bene_Tleilax (976 words)

	Dune
		Bene Gesserit tokens in a space that was declared to be coexisting during the turn do not count as occupying a stronghold for the purposes of determining victory, even if they are the sole occupants after battle is resolved.
		Bene Gesserit coexistence status is attached to the territory (as opposed to the group of tokens occupying that territory).
		Bene Gesserit tokens in a space that was declared to be coexisting during the turn may not collect increased spice flow.
	www.boardgamers.org /yearbkex/dunpge.htm (5717 words)

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		This particular Bene Gesserit talent can be one of the most enjoyable to RP around, as it gives others an opportunity to play on subtle nuances of their character that they may not often get to expose more openly.
		Bene Gesserit train to be fully fluent in every commonly used tongue within the Imperium, in additi on to all ancient derivative and hunting languages, such as Chakobsa.
		Bene Gesserit finishing schools refine young noblewomen; the same etiquette training these young women receive is taught to members of the Sisterhood itself.
	www.dune3.net /handbooks/bene_gesserit.txt (5205 words)

	SCIFI.COM \| Frank Herbert's Children of Dune
		Bene Gesserit Sisters strive to achieve a profound awareness of the universe itself, and all that exists within it.
		The Bene Gesserit had instructed one of their sisters, Lady Jessica, sworn concubine to the Duke Leto Atreides, to bear the duke a daughter who could be mated to a son of the Harkonnen bloodline.
		The Bene Gesserit had at first feared that Jessica's defiant siring of a male offspring might have derailed the sisterhood's generations-long plan to create the Kwisatz Haderach; they later speculated that Paul himself might be the Kwisatz Haderach, arrived a generation early.
	www.scifi.com /dune/about/pri_benegesserit.html (265 words)

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		The Bene Gesserit Required stats for a Bene Gesserit are strength 15, intelligence 14, wisdom 16, dexterity 17, constitution 16, charisma 16, and comliness 13.
		The Bene Gesserit are a organization of females whose permenant mission is the preservation of the demihuman races.
		Bene Gesserit tend not to trust anyone other than those who passed the test of pain.
	www.textfiles.com /rpg/cl-beneg.d&d (261 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Frank Herbert's Dune Universe
		This convention is enforced by the Landsraad, the Bene Gesserit, and the Spacing Guild.
		The Bene Gesserit Lady Jessica, mother to Paul and concubine of Duke Leto Atreides II plays a major role in the Dune Universe along with her son Paul.
		This is used in the Bene Gesserit ritual to become a Reverend Mother and the Fremen "Water of Life" ritual.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/getwriting/A244595 (1267 words)

	Dune
		Many Bene Gesserit women train to become something known as a Reverened Mother, a person who possesses the ability to communicate with their ancestors through the genetic line that everyone carries with them.
		Bene Gesserit means "Shortening of the Way" and they were responsible for bringing one into existance.
		He was the most trusted male in the Bene Gesserit ranks and served as their military leader when the Sisterhood needed him.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /sherlockazulu/dune.html (2959 words)

	Chapterhouse Dune - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
		The Bene Gesserit have accepted Murbella as a novice and are training her to be a Sister, despite their belief that she intends to steal their secrets and escape back to the Honored Matres.
		The Bene Gesserit wonder about Idaho's capabilities and potential; they suspect he remembers more than this ghola existence because they see signs of his being a mentat, a talent not taught to him.
		Murbella's ascension to the leadership of the Honored Matres and, by necessity, the Bene Gesserit is not accepted as victory by all the Bene Gesserit.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Chapterhouse_Dune (3326 words)

	Frank Herbert's Dune: My Interpetation
		The Bene Gesserit is an order of women who through training have incredible mind and body control powers, including the ability to look at the pasts of their female ancestors, and access to their memories and knowledge.
		The Bene Gesserit are mixing the various blood lines of the people of the universe in order to create their version of the perfect human, the Kwisatz Haderach.
		The Bene Gesserit are a group with a mission, and they will do everything in their power to create the perfect human, even if it means the loss of life.
	www.mrs.umn.edu /~swl/is1001/f00/jamboree/Dune/me.html (1132 words)

	RPGnet: The Inside Scoop on Gaming
		Since the Bene Gesserit Way skill is basically the Observation skill, only except that it can only be used to "read" people and it gets a bonus against any attempt to decieve it, it probably would have made more sense to have an advantage that gave adepts a bonus to Observation for certain uses.
		Bene Gesserit martial arts are covered by the Weirding Combat advantage (more on that when I cover the combat chapter) and the feats of personal control are covered under the Prana-Bindu Conditioning advantage.
		They don't point to Bene Gesserit manipulations, cuckoldry and marital jealousy, or genealogical research as ideas for plot elements, though - their idea of representing this theme in game is "have the players defend their House against attack".
	www.rpg.net /news+reviews/reviews/rev_6027.html (4081 words)

	Dune (Frank Herbert) - A Science Fiction and Fantasy Page
		The Bene Gesserit is a secret female society, often referred to as witches, with almost inhuman powers developed through control of gene lines and many years of physical and mental conditioning called prana-bindu training.
		The Bene Gesserit are conducting a breeding program to develop a superhuman male who can recall both his male and female ancestral memories, as well as the ability to see (and thus control) the future.
		The Bene Gesserit perform many functions in the Empire, as Truthsayers (human lie detectors), negotiators, advisors, and teachers, but all these functions serve one deeper purpose: they are selectively breeding humans trying to improve humanity.
	www.thebucklist.com /dune.html (3521 words)

	SparkNotes: Dune: Themes, Motifs & Symbols
		The Bene Gesserit are familiar with numerous religious texts, from the Orange Catholic Bible to more cryptic texts such as the Great Mysteries.
		Bene Gesserit can exploit these legends to earn the respect of the native inhabitants, who believe in the contrived legends.
		Most of the characters with precognitive powers are members of Bene Gesserit or the Guild, but Paul develops this power beyond all others because of three factors: his genetic heritage, his Bene Gesserit and Mentat training, and his exposure to melange.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/dune/themes.html (1515 words)

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		This chemical, carried in her blood to the womb, activates the fetal psychic awareness and produces a babble of sound and sensory imagery which the un-born is unable to comprehend or assimilate.
		The Bene Gesserit, believing the state of Abomination and Possession to be the most evil within which a person can live, give five "commandments" by which the Sisterhood hopes to avert any occurrence of this condition.
		In the Bene Gesserit open files in the Wallach IX library, Abomination Inquiry folios show surveillance of seven hundred suspected people between the Great Revolt and the God Emperor, five hundred and twenty of whom were executed.
	www.nkweb.net /scifi/dune/abom.htm (877 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Chapterhouse Dune at Epinions.com
		The "democratic" Bene Gesserit are completely comfortable reviving corpses for their own use and "imprinting" them to insure their loyalty to the Bene Gesserit, intentionally creating a condition of psychological dependance in the person.
		The Bene Gesserit see nothing anti-democratic in foisting off their social lessons on people who have no say in what is being done to them.
		So, the Bene Gesserit enforce their rule over people who don't want it and have no say in it, and exclude half of the human population from their government on grounds of sexism, but this is supposed to be a democracy?
	www.epinions.com /content_53883342468 (1447 words)

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		That was the Bene Gesserit view of history, ancient Santayana's words resonating in their lives: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." The buildings of Central itself, this most powerful of all Bene Gesserit establishments, reflected that attitude wherever Odrade turned.
		And the Missionaria Protectiva of the Bene Gesserit was ready to launch her onto an unsuspecting humanity prepared for religious adoration.
		But these Bene Gesserit have not achieved wisdom and it is their grail that prevents it." She could see it on his face.
	www14.brinkster.com /fumadoe/dune/Dune_6_chapterhouse_dune.txt (21299 words)

	The Landsraad
		The Bene Gesserit thought her a shockingly unsisterly rebel against their careful discipline, but actually Jessica did not so much revolt as evolve into another dimension of selfhood, that of Hetaira.
		Ghanima agreed with her Bene Gesserit ancestresses that "motherhood" was preferable to "Motherhood"'; to preserve her sense of personal identity she needed to control, even to diminish the Archetypal, viewing it in safely personal terms.
		She refused to play "mother" in the Bene Gesserit way of frightening others into psychological childhood, but instead let people make up their own minds about the Archetypal reality she embodied; and so she sacrificed the satisfaction of knowing whether her transformation had really benefited anyone but herself.
	groups.msn.com /TheLandsraad/ladyjessica.msnw (1689 words)

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		I see a lot of potential for the Bene Gesserit as being a sort of grey area between the light and dark side of the force.
		The Bene Gesserit care little except for the acquisition of power and influence through knowledge, learning, and mastery of the senses.
		To this end, the Bene Gesserit long ago embarked on a centuries long program to breed a human being that is immune and invisible to the force.
	drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu /~jae/sw/NPCS/BENEGES.TXT (705 words)

	DuneIII MUSH: Lexicon
		Bene Gesserit: The ancient school of mental and physical training established primarily for female students after the Butlerian Jihad destroyed the so-called "thinking machines" and robots.
		Kwisatz Haderach: "Shortening of the Way." This is the label applied by the Bene Gesserit to the unknown for which they sought a genetic solution: a male Bene Gesserit whose organic mental powers would bridge space and time.
		At the apex of their sway over the affairs of the Universe, their swordsmanship was said to match that of the Ginaz tenth level and their cunning abilities at in-fighting were reputed to approach those of a Bene Gesserit adept.
	www.dune3.net /lexicon.php (3181 words)

	Review of Frank Herbert's Chapterhouse: Dune
		Darwi Odrade is Mother Superior of the Bene Gesserit, and has to contend with the drastic changes that she herself helped to effect in the previous book.
		The Bene Gesserit are under sustained attack by the Honoured Matres, with few allies in sight.
		Slyly, Herbert writes in a major flaw for all the Bene Gesserit (except Sheeana and Murbella), and in Odrade herself, whose main scheme is later revealed as a cure for that very flaw.
	www.challengingdestiny.com /reviews/dune6.htm (739 words)

	Kwisatz Haderach - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
		The name means "Shortening of the Way," and is the label applied by the Bene Gesserit to the unknown for which they sought a genetic solution — a unique male Bene Gesserit whose organic mental powers would bridge space and time.
		The Bene Gesserit hoped to create a male Reverend Mother capable of absolute powers of prescience, able to predict all possible futures and to cause select threads of time to be realized through manipulation.
		Jessica Atreides was conceived through the flmail of the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen by Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, and born to the Bene Gesserit in the year 10,154 after the formation of the Spacing Guild.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Kwisatz_Haderach (575 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Dune at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
		What had happened is that in order to get Harkonnen to a Bene Gesserit as part of their Kwisatz Haderach program, the Bene Gesserit flmailed him in the most vulgar and heavy handed of ways to have sex with one of their sisters.
		Despite the fact the Bene Gesserit sister has been, basically, tasered by Piter de Vries, she is able to infect the Baron with a wasting disease — that's the reason he's fat, the books reveal.
		The characters are stupid, either because they're literally stupid or because they're excessively perfect, the Bene Gesserit are ridiculously portrayed as smug superbeings and the political maneuvering is insipid.
	www.epinions.com /content_52096175748 (3229 words)

	Heretics Of Dune Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
		They are similar to the Bene Gesserit, but they far outnumber them and their plan is to destroy everything.
		Teg was raised by a mother who was Bene Gesserit, and she actually taught him too much as far as the Bene Gesserit are concerned.
		This forces Teg, Lucilla (the Bene Gesserit Sister that is supposed to imprint Idaho in the ways of sexual manipulation) and Duncan to go into hiding on Gammu, the former stronghold planet of the Harkonnen's.
	abysslord.com /dune5.htm (1701 words)

	Dune Chronicles.org: Dune books, films, characters, pictures and multimedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
		Bene Gesserit was a school for females originally created after the Butlerian Jihad destroyed all thinking machines.
		Bene Gesserit training included the ability to control any and every muscle of the trainee's body -even the most tiny one- so that all the body's secret possibilities were explored and used in a combat situation.
		Some very well-trained and charismatic members of the Bene Gesserit sisterhood finally became Reverend Mothers(women who had the power to transform an illuminating poison within their bodies, raising themselves to higher states of awareness).
	www.dunechronicles.org /houses/benegesserit.php (361 words)

	Chapterhouse Dune Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
		The characters include Odrade (Mother Superior of the Bene Gesserit), Sheeana (who is now a Bene Gesserit and in charge of watching the desert grow on Chapterhouse), and a gang of characters trapped inside a no-globe: Duncan Idaho and Murbella, along with the sole surviving Tleilaxu, Scytale.
		They also train Murbella to be Bene Gesserit, hoping to acquire the skills she has as a former Honored Matre (such as lightning quick speed).
		Then Murbella, now a Bene Gesserit, arrives on the planet and gets into the base by saying she is an Honored Matre who has tricked the Bene Gesserit into teaching her their ways.
	abysslord.com /dune6.htm (1163 words)

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