The Bremen rite of passage for potential Reverend Mothers, involving ingesttoa of "the Water of Life, ' (massive doses of a form of melange) the desired racial memory and prescience The Fremen Ceremony of the Seed has its origins in so many unrelated cultures and among so many scattered peoples that its genesis can only be the result of the pressure of the immense accumulated memories of sentient beings both before and after the Butlenati Jihad Certainly, the movement to mental training to handle the vast knowledge of sentient experience and the search for the Atom tU Mithal (a mystical world where there are no physical limitations) by numerous agencies contributed to die increased successes of the Ceremony of the Seed, especially m the cases of the L.ady Jessica Atreides and Paul Muad'Dib Atreides Thus, what may have begun in antiquity as the ineffectual search for racial memory, superstitious ances tor worship, and feeble attempts at fortune telling prior to the Butlenan Jihad became a powerful source of prescience knowledge, and prophecy Central to the Ceremony s successftil access to past lives and to Alam al Mithal was the discovery of melange, the geriatric spice on Arrakis, the third planet of Canopus Among the first groups to use melange was the Bene Gessent Sisterhood in the early days of its Missionana Protectiva Some millennia later, Bene Gessent missionaries struggled then- way to the deserts of Dune, as it was then known They were quick to note the similarity between the Fremen Cere mony of the Seed and their own tentative attempts to produce Reverend Mothers soothsayers and the fabled Kwisatz Haderach The Fremen of Rakis had been using the melange in combination with die Ceremony with increasing sophistication since their ar nval on the desert planet as Zen