Mysteries of Dune: Sufism, Psychedelics, and the Prediction of Frank Herbert

Insightful towards several concepts and words that inspired Dune saga, however the author several times forgets he's looking into a work of fiction that can and should transgress the nowadays reality. I perceive some troubles in his understanding of Tantric concepts and how they apply to a better and broader conceptualization of Herbert's saga. It seems inevitably clouded by its own paradigmatic and patriarchal religious comprehensions of reality: the idea that 'images' and 'imagination' (and the alam al mithal), to be illusions that ought to be transcended, echoes the same sick and unbalanced concepts that forget that after all we are here and we are alive - concepts that are consequence from a patriarchal view of reality and nature, a view that has dominated most of the religions both in east and west (the feminine and matriarcal perceptions did not view matter and images as impediments, only one of the infinte facets of existence)That is the great lesson from Leto Atreides II - the Golden Path and the Ultimate Gom Jabbar towards all humanity - to accept that we are alive and that the realm of forms and matter (that resemble directly the world of similitudes) is a part inseparable from reality; it is precisely the idea of separation from the whole that leads us to believe that our narrow perceptions of reality to be the absolute truth. The author's belief in Absolutes only foreshadows the ultimate doom foreseen by Leto II - A Stagnation that is constantly afraid of change, of a constant transformation that is inevitable and necessary for life!