tering the concentration mode one withdraws sensory and emotional awareness from all internal areas of distraction In most cases the Sister performs a simple calmness ritual, but in great danger, she recites the litany against fear to subdue any instinctual, pnmal terror, particularly one stimulated by a race-memory 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 me I will turn to see fear s path Where the fear has gone there will be nothing Only I will remain At this point the observer can begin the concentration mode The concentration mode involves three stages of observational analysis First, one must now severely limit the attention to only the past and present data concerning the topic Second one must enter a state of total contemplation in which the attention flows in a steady stream over the topic-the observer completely enclosing the topic Third, one must be conscious not of the techniques of observation, not of the presence of self but of the topic-one must become the topic At the moment of unity, the observer under stands the topic as she understands herself Thus, all knowledge depends on the observa tion of detail and on one's body being trained to support close observation on objective classification and cataloguing, and on maxi mum retention of data Only complete con trol of nerves and tissues muscles, blood and chemistry, can detach one enough from the demands of the self to allow objective detachment during the observation, analysis, and synthesis process The control of the body leads to the purification of the mind necessary to separate the real from the unreal Although the process ot preparation, control, and analysis seems complicated and time consuming after a woman has trained for ten years first in the separate steps and then in the entire process she can if necessary, perform the entire function m less than a second One of the controls learned is the ability to release oneself from the artificial confines of the human notion of "time ' There is no "time" in the concentration mode-all activities can be managed simul taneously Once the basic processes have been mas tered, second level functional states can be invoked such as Dao Prajna and Adah Dao is the dormancy trance, a type of bmdu suspension in which an adept can slow her physiological activities to a level just on the edge of life maintenance, a trance useful for survival under threatening conditions and also necessary to rejuvenate cells The Prajna meditation trance is used for deep under- BENE GESSER1T TRAINING 136 BENE GESSERIT TRAINING standing and tor the special state of "seeing some Sisters are capable of performing (a state usually augmented with enhancement by chemicals such as melange) Adab, on the other hand, is a retneval process accessible to dll s-killed Bene Gessents, this state of recall is also called the demanding memory, a recollection of necessary data stimulated externally or by Ihe gestalt of a situation rather than being triggered consciously by the woman herself Adab is different from the consciousness impression/complete recall' method used regularly to store and process data The normal mnemonic process allows complete reproduction of any conversation, even simulating the tone and pitch control of the original speaker (a practice always used by Siiten.