Dune is pretty good, actually. It's an artistic allegory on "the path" (as the author calls it). Dune's bene gessiret looks like an allegory on one of the schools whetr candidates who come to the exam (gom jabbar in dune) unprepared, die. The name itself, bene gessiret, the Dune's author must've taken from "binah tipereteth" which means something like "intuition and will". Without at least some familiarity with occult symbolism, it will be difficult to appreacite Dune.