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The Keepers of Heaven's Gate : The Millennial Madness, the Religion Behind the Rancho Santa Fe Suicides by William Henry, 1997-05
How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven's Gate by Catherine Wessinger, 2000-04
NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS: NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS AND VIOLENCE: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's <i>Encyclopedia of Religion</i> by David Bromley, 2005

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CNN - One Year Later, Heaven's Gate Suicide Leaves Only Faint Trail - March 25,
the scifi pastiche of Heaven s gate was a perfect fit. According to Wendy GaleRobinson of the Department of Religion at Duke University, cult member Yvonne
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Extractions: Web posted at: 9:49 p.m. EST (0249 GMT) (CNN) It was perhaps the strongest sign yet that the Internet was coming of age: it was implicated in a tragedy that shocked the nation. The 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult who took their own lives one year ago were professional Web page designers who used the Internet to attempt to win converts and spread their message. The cult members committed suicide over a few days in late March 1997. They died in shifts, with some members helping others take a lethal cocktail of phenobarbital and vodka before downing their own doses of the fatal mixture. Police found an eerily placid and orderly scene on March 26. Heaven's Gate members believed that Hale-Bopp, an unusually bright comet, was the sign that they were supposed to shed their earthly bodies (or "containers") and join a spacecraft traveling behind the comet that would take them to a higher plane of existence. For a time, the story became a national obsession as the media revealed details about the group. Among the most shocking: several of the cult's members, including leader Marshall Applewhite, had undergone voluntary castrations in the months leading up to the mass suicide.
1844 'Moorites' "Heaven's Gate" Religious Cult!
1844 Moorites Heaven s gate religious cult! From bikebob bikebob@MO.NET Date Sat, 29 Mar 1997 205043 0600 (CST) Fwd Date
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The Heaven's Gate Cult
are seduced into cults like the Heaven s gate cult because they are illequippedto make responsible, evidentially supported, rational religious commitments.
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Extractions: Previous Article Next Article The Heaven's Gate cult is one of literally thousands of millennial cults, including hundreds of UFO-based cults around the world. They attract followers by promising escape from expected cataclysmic events that supposedly will signal the end of this millennium. The Heaven's Gate cult is the last stage in the almost three-decade transformation of a vagabond couple's UFO delusions into a sophisticated Internet suicide cult. The Heaven's Gate cult was led by a man named Marshall Applewhite, who claimed that his spiritual name was "Do." He began his "Star Trek" in the early 1970s with a female partner, Bonnie Nettles, who used the spiritual name "Ti" (pronounced "Tee"). (She died of cancer in 1985.) Bo and Peep (Do and Ti) believed that they would fulfill Rev. 11 by being killed, lying dead in the street for three days, and then being "raised" from the dead into the space ship, along with their followers. As the day for their "sacrifice" approached, they preached that their death and "resurrection" would prove the truthfulness of their preaching. The Two and their followers disappeared by early 1976, and over time most of the followers returned to normal life. The group resurfaced at various times with various names during the subsequent decades. They paid for full-page ads in many newspapers nationwide during 1988, and again in 1993. (Ominously, their ad in USA Today and other newspapers warned that anyone who truly desired to enter the Kingdom of Heaven would have to give up everything including their human existence. In 1995, the group entered its final phase:
An Unpopular View Of The Heavens Gate Cult
The whole cult phenomena, particularly the heavens gate cult, revolves around theydie they will go to heaven, or hell but the point is all religions are based
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Extractions: The whole cult phenomena, particularly the Heavens Gate cult, revolves around faith. Remember that this cult didn't just appear the day before they killed themselves, this group has a 22 year history, a history based on the charismatic leadership of their leader, Applewhite. In the mind of cult members god spoke to Applewhite and Applewhite in turn instructed the cult about gods will. This is not so dissimilar to the method of Jesus Christ's teachings, as the son of god he knew gods will and taught it to his followers. Sometime in their history these cult members had attained real faith in Applewhite's words and at the very crux of faith is the blind leap. The action that can not be supported by empirical evidence by rather by what has been drilled into them by church leaders. Foolish you say? Within a block of where you are currently sitting there is likely to be dozen people who emphatically believe that when they die they will go to heaven, or hell, or be reborn until they attain enlightenment. There are many others but the point is all religions are based upon this leap of faith, there is no evidence to support allegations of afterlife except the scriptures that define the religions themselves. But these scriptures can hardly be considered unbiased on the matter. Trusting the word of scripture to make an argument for afterlife is like giving up control of the language to your adversary in a debate. When all the terms are defined by your opponent you are bound to lose.
Heaven's Gate Mass Suicide
This was an immense tragedy for these individuals and their families.religious cults wider implications. Heaven s gate was a small cult.
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Extractions: some early remarks More Heaven's Gate links In March 1997, once again people found dead bodies in a house in Canada. The house belonged to a New Age' religious cult, the Order of the Solar Temple . Like this group had done before, it was both suicide by cult members, and murder of people unwilling to join them in death. However, on 26 March, news about a bigger collective suicide replaced this item in the media. In a luxurious mansion at Rancho Santa Fe near San Diego in California in the United States, police found 39 bodies of members of the Heaven's Gate religious organization. Their age varied from teenager to elderly. They included an ex-Miss Rodeo, a former cowboy movie actor, and the brother of an actress in the TV series Star Trek . Some of them were castrated. This was an extreme case of negative ideas about sex, which one may find also elsewhere in occultism, like in the novel The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield. They wore uniform clothes. After their deaths, purple shrouds covered them. The American paranormal' spoon-bender Uri Geller , known from TV entertainment shows in The Netherlands and elsewhere, told on CNN television that he might have been among the Heaven's Gate dead. The cult had asked him to join. However, Geller said, though he believed in
CULTS RESOURCES
cult and mind control issues critical to our social and individual wellbeing. ).HEAVEN S gate RESOURCES. CNN COVERAGE OF HEAVEN S gate. HEAVEN S gate (religious
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Trancenet.org Cults & Mind Control News Home Page
Asahara and other former senior members of the religious cult have been of AUM sappeal to youths, Friday, March 19, 1999 Heaven s gate anniversary approaches
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Extractions: A new issue of TranceNet includes three recent studies on the Transcendental Meditation technique that find it ineffectual at best, and damaging for some, in a variety of applications. A study of female athletes finds TM to be less effective than positive selftalk, a method that the Maharishi and his followers have ridiculed in the past. Renowned social scientist Daniel Druckman reports on a three-year study that found TM ineffectual in enhancing human performance and discusses the flawed methodology of pro-TM researchers' meta-analyses. Finally, two psychologists look at meditation techniques, including TM, and their use in therapy and find nearly two-thirds of practitioners experience negative side-effects, ranging from anxiety and panic to suicidal depression even psychosis-like symptoms. These findings are similar to those of a
Heaven's Gate (cult) - Encyclopedia Article About Heaven's Gate (cult). Free Acc
is that phenomenon by which some religious groups, in this context often referredto as cults, have led which have done this include Heaven s gate; Order of
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Extractions: Dictionaries: General Computing Medical Legal Encyclopedia Word: Word Starts with Ends with Definition Heaven's Gate was the name of a cult This article does not discuss "cult" in the sense of "religious practice": for this usage see cult (religion). The current article discusses only religious or sociological cultist groups. See also: cult film, cult television, cult radio. In religion and sociology, a cult is a group with a religious or philosophical identity, often existing on the margins of society. Its marginal status may come about either due to its novel belief system or due to idiosyncratic practices that cause the surrounding culture to regard it as far outside the mainstream. Click the link for more information. led by Marshall Applewhite , whose end, coinciding with the appearance of the Hale-Bopp comet Comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1) was discovered on 23 July 1995 by two independent observers, Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp. It was dubbed The Great Comet of 1997 Discovered at an 7.1 AU from the Sun, prediscovery images were found showing the comet at 13AU from the Sun. This was quickly noted to be remarkable. The comet was very active at these distances which is unusual. Many comets have large outbursts at great distance only to quieten down. Hale-Bopp did not. It reached naked eye visibility at 2AU from the Sun and continued to brighten.
Heaven's Gate - Encyclopedia Article About Heaven's Gate. Free Access, No Regist
Heaven s gate Heaven s gate was the name of a cult led by Marshall Applewhite,whose end was a cult. This article discusses religious or sociological cults.
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Extractions: Dictionaries: General Computing Medical Legal Encyclopedia Word: Word Starts with Ends with Definition Heaven's Gate Heaven's Gate (1980) is a big-budget western movie depicting a fictionalized account of the Johnson County War between land barons and European immigrants in 1890s Wyoming. The biggest Hollywood flop of the 1980s, Heaven's Gate became synonymous for troubled and overbudget film disasters. Directed by Michael Cimino (who got a Golden Raspberry for worst director for this film), the film starred Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Joseph Cotten, Geoffrey Lewis, Richard Masur, Terry Quinn, Mickey Rourke, and Willem Dafoe.
Heaven's Gate In The News
2003. March 26, 2003 Today in History, Associated Press via KTRE News ( In 1997,the bodies of 39 members of the Heaven s gate technoreligious cult who d
http://www.cultsoncampus.com/heavgatinnew.html

Extractions: March 26, 2004 Heavens Gate Anniversary, KFMB-TV, San Diego, California (Friday marks a grim anniversary for San Diego County. It was exactly seven years ago when 39 members of a cult called Heaven's Gate were found dead in a Rancho Santa Fe mansion after a mass suicide. Cult leader Marshall Applewhite, known as Do to his followers, taught...) March 26, 2003 Today in History, Associated Press via KTRE News (...In 1997, the bodies of 39 members of the Heaven's Gate techno-religious cult who'd committed suicide were found inside a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California...) March 26, 2003 Today in History for Wednesday, March 26, 2003, CNSNews.com (...In 1997, the bodies of 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult were found inside a home in Rancho Santa Fe, California, following their group suicide...) March 24, 2003 Eye on history, Associated Press via The Charlotte Observer (...March 26, 1997: The bodies of 39 members of the Heaven's Gate techno-religious cult who'd committed suicide were found inside a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif...) Photo of Heaven's Gate leader Marshall Applewhite,
New Religious Movements - Alternative Spirituality - Academic Info
David Koresh Waco Heaven s gate People s Temple include Group Profiles ; cult GroupControversies ; Course Materials ; religious Freedom Page
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Extractions: This page contains a diverse collection of spiritual and social world views. All the groups present should be treated separately and are included together here only for convenience and no value judgment is implied. I am more interested in the popular response, both within organized religion and within mainstream media, to alternative spirituality than in any theological justification for their existence. Start with
The Closing Of Heaven's Gate
take the UFO mentality to the extreme witnessed in the Heaven s gate cult, many have thebelief in extraterrestrial creatures has taken on a religious flavor.
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Extractions: var cm_role = "live" var cm_host = "angelfire.lycos.com" var cm_taxid = "/memberembedded" The Closing of Heaven's Gate A Christian Response to a Modern Trend[1] Introduction In recent days the comet Hale-Bopp has been seen streaking across the earth's skies, and many have been looking to capture a glimpse of this rather rare celestial event. But members of the Heaven's Gate cult had visions of a different sort; they thought a massive UFO might be riding in the wake of the comet, and that this UFO could transport them to a better world. The cult's leader, named Do (as in dough)[2], considered himself to be a Christ-like figure, and led his New Age followers to believe that mass-suicide ("leaving these containers," as they put it) was the means of escape to "the level above." Since this occurrence, the subject of religious cults and their bizarre belief systems has been much discussed. Once again, UFOs are in the news. For many people of common-sense the whole scene appears ludicrous. Surely, the beliefs of groups such as Heaven's Gate pose no threat for the sane individual. Or do they? Is there something relevant to glean from this tragedy? Are there lessons we should learn and take to heart? Thirty-nine deluded individuals left this earth to stand before their Maker. Their legacy is, at the heart, religious in nature. Therefore, true believers in Jesus Christ should have something to say about these matters. Basic Lessons False teachers will always be among us.
The Anti-Cult Movement
and the ACM, ACM and the Heaven s gate. The current oppression against religious minoritiesin Germany is a through a combinaition of the anticult rhetoric and
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Extractions: Links Introduction The Anti-Cult movement is the name given by sociologists and scholars to designate the loose group of organizations and individuals who are opposing so-called "cults" on a strong "Us vs Them" duality. The movement mostly originated with Ted Patrick's kidnappings and deprogrammings in the early 70s and is based on the notion of mind-control , a concept that has been debunked in the 80's but is still alive in popular media. The movement resorted to conservatorship laws to get hold of cult members and forcibly "treat" them, and tried to legalize this practice further by trying to pass deprogramming laws . Exacerbating the fanatical reaction of cults and encouraging a cult phobia among the public and authorities, anticultists helped to precipitate mass tragedies like Jonestown Waco , and the Heaven's Gate . Today, the anti-cult movement is a potent force behind discriminative measures promulgated against minority groups in
Las Vegas Review Journal: LIFESTYLES :5155622
American as microwave ovens or VCRs, a group of religious cult members who just fieldsay people hereabouts seem to be treating the Heaven s gate suicides as
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HEAVEN'S GATE: THE END By Wendy Gale Robinson
He locates Heaven s gate s suicidal renunciation more in what technology is attracting Heassociates the cult s religious beliefs with an unnatural fixation on
http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol3/issue3/robinson.html

Extractions: Abstract In San Diego on March 26, 1997, the bodies were found of 39 similarly dressed men and women who took their own lives in a mass suicide. Led by Marshall Applewhite, the Heaven's Gate cult believed that a flying saucer was traveling behind the Hale-Bopp comet. They chose to leave their physical bodies behind to find redemption in an extraterrestrial "Kingdom of Heaven." The sect also left behind apocalyptic messages in their Rancho Santa Fe mansion and on home pages on the World Wide Web. This paper looks at online material produced by the cult and the media coverage of their tragic end, it explores the background of the cult and the science fiction and millennial influences on their beliefs, and it considers the group's connection with cyberculture and some of the questions raised by their mass suicide, which perhaps, as David Potz said in
Heaven's Gate
to promote a multidisciplinary view of the religious, spiritual and esoteric phenomena. Heaven sGate. 39 deaths. The only doomsdaycult-web-design-team of
http://www.meta-religion.com/New_religious_groups/Groups/New_Age/heavens_gate_k.

Extractions: to promote a multidisciplinary view of the religious, spiritual and esoteric phenomena. About Us Links Search Contact ... Back to New Religious... Religion sections World Religions New R. Groups Ancient Religions Spirituality ... Extremism Science sections Archaeology Astronomy Linguistics Mathematics ... Contact Please, help us sustain this free site online. Make a donation using Paypal: 39 deaths In their own special blend of millennial prophecy, the Heaven Gaters after watching too many episodes of the "X-Files" decided that, after 20 years of waiting, a spaceship flying behind the Hale-Bopp comet was finally coming to pick them up. As the Heaven's Gate web site cryptically states, "The joy is that our Older Member in the Evolutionary Level above human has made it clear to us that Hale-Bopp's approach is the 'marker' we've been waiting for. ... Our 22 years of classroom here on planet Earth is finally coming to conclusion 'graduation' from the Human Evolutionary Level. We are happily prepared to leave 'this world' and go with Ti's crew."
The Watchman Expositor: Heaven's Gate Timeline
Headline Heaven s gate Time Line. Compiled by Clete Hux 1931 internet; intendedto address the religious world, primarily cult members move in and operate a
http://www.watchman.org/cults/hgtetime.htm

Extractions: SITE DIRECTORY Home Page About Watchman Fellowship Free Subscriptions Church Presentations Weekly News Subject Index Profiles State Offices Watchman Staff OVERVIEW OF CULTS Articles JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES Articles MORMONISM Articles NEW AGE Articles OCCULT Articles SCIENTOLOGY Articles OTHER RELIGIOUS TOPICS Articles Articles on Cults Headline: Heaven's Gate Time Line Compiled by Clete Hux Marshall Herff Applewhite is born near Corpus Christi, Texas son of a Presbyterian minister. Applewhite leaves his employment as a Choral Director at the University of Alabama. Hired as a music teacher at the University of St. Thomas, a Roman Catholic college in Houston, Texas. Also involved as a singer in the Houston Grand Opera. Receives a master's degree in music from University of Colorado in Boulder. Dismissed by Thomas college over scandal involving a student relationship. Though previously married, with two children, he continues to struggle with his sexual identity, having homosexual affairs. Employed by St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas. Applewhite meets Bonnie Lu Nettles, a nurse and astrologer involved in Theosophy and reincarnation.
Free-Essays.us - Heavens Gate
The Heavens gate cult According to dictionaries a cult is 1) a system of religiousworship or ritual. 2) A religion or sect considered extremist of false.
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Heaven's Gate
comes a study of defection from a totalistic cult. religious Movements. E.The Civic Challenge of Virtual Eschatology Heaven s gate and Millennial.
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Extractions: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Cheng, Elizabeth. Charisma, Communion, and Mass-Suicide: Three Case Studies . Cambridge: Harvard University, 2000. Daniels, Ted, ed. A Doomsday Reader: Prophets, Predictors, and Hucksters of Salvation . New York: New York University Press, 1999. Lewis, James R., ed. The Gods Have Landed: New Religions from Other Worlds . Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. Miller, Timothy, ed. Americas Alternative Religions . Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. Wessinger, Catherine Lowman. How the Millenium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heavens Gate . New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2000. Zellner, William W., and Marc Petrowsky, eds. Sects, Cults, and Spiritual Communities: A Sociological Analysis . Westport: Praeger, 1998. Scholarly Secondary Sources: Balch, Robert W. Bo and Peep: a case study of the origins of messianic leadership.
UFO Evidence - UFOs And New Religious Movements: Heaven's Gate
news media personnel hammered at a suicide cult portrayal of Heaven s gate, thisonly with the public good (eg how to handle religious suicides in
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