A major difference I’d note between Avatar and Dune is where their mysticism derives from. Avatar’s Eywa-worship is very much a Western New Age-derived position – bit of this, smidgin of that, wrapped up in a glowy ball – whereas Fremen mythology draws from a specifically Muslim Sufi current. It’s also worth noting that there’s actually more explicitly Sufi notes in Lynch’s film of Dune than the original text – the speech Paul gives on the Weirding Way sonic weaponry;
“Some thoughts have a certain sound, that being the equivalent to a form. Through sound and motion, you will be able to paralyze nerves, shatter bones, set fires, suffocate an enemy or burst his organs. We will kill until no Harkonnen breathes Arakeen air. ”
…that first line is a word-for-word quote from a piece by the quintessential Sufi master Rumi. Though I don’t think he used it to burst organs.

I think the interesting place for anyone mystically-inclined is on the margins, the interface between such dualistic impulses as tribalism and universalism – the Shen which intercedes between Yin and Yang. I think the Tribe of the Strange are those who have a foot between two worlds, whatever those worlds may be, and are driven to find synthesis, or at least a continuing dynamic balance, between them.
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