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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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Q & A: Health And Spirituality: Religious Cults Prey Upon Young Adults
a group such as the Moonies or, more recently, Heaven s gate. will be less vulnerableto cultlike influences experiences they have had with religious points of
http://www.selfhelpmagazine.com/qa/qahealth/qaheal47.html

Extractions: Health and Spirituality Department Please remember, this column is designed to help the consumer seeking behavioral-health information, and not intended to be any form of psychotherapy or a replacement for professional, individualized services. Opinions expressed in the column are those of the columnist and do not represent the position of other SelfhelpMagazine.com staff. As a parent, I am frightened. There seem to be religious cults all over the place that seem to prey upon young adults. Yet I do not want to discourage my young persons' efforts to define their own spiritual paths. Can you offer any help? There is indeed an abundance of religious cults around. In addition, there appear to be cult-like groups that espouse forms of psychotherapy and personal growth. What becomes increasingly clear is that it is not weak- minded people who end up in cults. To some extent, we are all vulnerable. As a parent, one key element is to establish an atmosphere of open discussion as far as spiritual issues are concerned. Keep in mind that many young people are disillusioned with organized religion and are looking elsewhere for spiritual sustenance. The acceptance and open discussion of such doubts and disillusionments at home makes it less likely that young people will turn elsewhere for guidance on finding answers. Second, learn something about cults. There are different definitions as to what constitutes a cult. Our first thought is of a group such as the Moonies or, more recently, Heaven's Gate. There are two facets of cults which are especially noteworthy. Cults limit freedom of choice and cults do not tolerate dissent. In other words, cults assault our capacity to think. This is why open discussion within your family is the best line of defense. If you encourage your young people to think for themselves instead of demanding blind adherence to a specific doctrine, then they will be less vulnerable to cult-like influences.
Religious Cults, From Life In The USA The Complete Guide For
for example, 39 members of the heavens gate organization committed Cults do runthe gamut from benign to highlight two key facts about religion in America
http://www.lifeintheusa.com/religion/cults.htm

Extractions: Religious cults are still a frightening aspect of modern American life. They usually prey on confused young people, separating them from their families at a time when their judgment is weakest. The cults provide support networks for young people with adjustment problems or low self esteem. The most famous cult group for many years was the Unification Church run by the Korean Dr. Sung Myung Moon. Thousands of young "Moonies" would go door to door selling flowers and soliciting money for the church, sleeping in vans or communal dormitories and preaching the sect's teachings on the street. In controversial cases, parents had to kidnap and "de-program" their own children to save them from the cult. Other cults and millennial movements have from time to time caused shocking events such as mass suicides. In 1997, for example, 39 members of the "Heavens Gate" organization committed suicide together in an event designed to coincide with the arrival of the Hale- Bopp comet, which they interpreted as their signal to leave the earthly existence. Cults do run the gamut from benign to frightening, but they also highlight two key facts about religion in America: it is intense, and it is highly varied.
Heaven's Gate #3
The members of the Heaven s gate group referred to it as HaleBopp. Should we bemore afraid of the cult of the media than of any fringe religious group?
http://www.witchvox.com/cases/hgpeg.html

Extractions: Chapters WhoisWho Traditions Basics Books Bardic Cats Essays-A Essays-T Earth Festivals Fest Tips Gay Holidays Issues Military Music Opinions Parenting Protection Site Notes TV/Movies Traditions Unity Weekly U WitchVox WitchWars White WrenRants Your Area Your Town Adults Teens Military New Groups-A Groups-C Groups-T Events Shops-Net Shops-Loc 5000 Links Local Web Your Info articles It is a famous quote: "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions." It is generally interpreted as a commentary on Murphy's Law: "Anything that can go wrong, will." In other words, no matter what we may do to avoid a particular outcome, whether through effort or faith or denial, there seems always to be something outside ourselves that intervenes.
Heaven's Gate UFO Mythology: The Escape To Oblivion (Skeptical Inquirer / July 1
Thus an unbridled cult of unreason can attract otherwise of the salvation myths ofmany religious creeds. of the misguided acolytes of Heaven s gate, who, fed
http://www.csicop.org/si/9707/cult.html

Extractions: Heaven's Gate has stunned the world. Why would thirty-nine seemingly gentle and earnest people in Rancho Santa Fe, California, voluntarily commit collective suicide? They left us eerie messages on videotapes, conveying their motives: they wished to leave their "containers" (physical bodies) in order to ascend to a new plane of existence, a Level Above Human. It was a celestial omen, Comet Hale-Bopp, that provoked their departure. For they thought that it carried with it a UFO spacecraft an event already proclaimed on the nationally syndicated Art Bell radio show when Whitley Strieber and Courtney Brown maintained that a spaceship "extraterrestrial in origin" and under "intelligent control" was tracking the comet. According to astronomer Alan Hale, co-discoverer of the comet, what they probably saw was a star behind the comet. Interestingly, the twenty-one women and eighteen men, ranging in ages from twenty-one to seventy-two, seemed like a cross section of American citizens though they demonstrated some degree of technical and engineering skills, and some even described themselves as "computer nerds." They sought to convey their bizarre UFO theology on the Internet. Were these people crazy, a fringe group, overcome by paranoia? Or were there other, deeper causes at work in their behavior?
Heavens Gate Leader Claimed To Be Space Alien Named Jesus.
even though he frequently speaks about Religion to groups letter from an EXMEMBERof heavens gate who confirms Article about how Files about cult were altered.
http://www.theeunderground.net/Features/heavensgate3.shtml

Extractions: The ASI Net Banner Exchange What's Hot! in... UNDERGROUND NEWS and REVIEWS This page features Featured articles To get to the above UNDERGROUND featured article click on banner above... Dateline 3/29/97 Heaven's Gate More Higher Source Info... Written by J. P. Essene I've really enjoyed some of the email we've been getting... Even though we get alot of traffic at this INFORMATION site this Heavens Gate thing has really made our band width hum... Although I have written much recently about Heavens Gate, I've even read alot more... I trust nothing I have read, since I've analized the documents from the mirrors I've accessed against the pre-suicide-murder? indexes from such engines as Alta Vista and Info Seek. Almost every file has been changed as to it's original size on the indexes and the size of the files now appearing on the mirrors... The information about Heavens Gate can't be trusted right now do to this FACT! The mirror information though is quite funny... Marshall Applewhite (what a name like Johnny Appleseed) claims to be Jesus ... Well so did David Koresch and Jim Jones and many others... Only this time according to the files on the Mirrors, Marshal Applewhite aka Do (pronounced DOE) claims to also be a space alien...
Closing Heaven S Gate
where they found the bodies of 39 members of the Heaven s gate religious sect,covered France and Canada by members of the Order of the Solar Temple cult.
http://grace-for-today.com/549.htm

Extractions: At 4 p.m. on Wednesday 26th March an anonymous tip sent two sheriff's deputies to a huge mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California where they found the bodies of 39 members of the 'Heaven's Gate' religious sect, covered with purple shrouds and lying on beds and mattresses throughout the house. Post-mortem examinations revealed that the 18 men and 21 women had killed themselves by taking a mixture of alcohol and phenobarbital and then placing plastic bags over their heads. Evident similarities The news made headlines around the world and people made the obvious link with the mass killings of the Branch Davidian sect in Waco Texas led by David Koresh and those of the Jim Jones sect in Jonestown, Guyana. Similar events have taken place in Switzerland, France and Canada by members of the Order of the Solar Temple cult. The leader of that cult, the 69 year-old Joseph Di Mambro, claimed that in a previous life he had been a member of the Knight's Templars during the Crusades and that he would lead them, through death, to the planet Sirius. He founded a school near the Swiss border called 'The Centre for the Preparation of the New Age', the proceeds from which enabled him to purchase a 15-room mansion in Haute-Savoie. The Heaven's Gate sect was started in 1975 by Marshall Applewhite and his "partner" Bonnie Nettles. They told their followers that they were "two individuals from the next kingdom" who had come to earth to save those who were willing to be saved. Applewhite claimed to be the "Present Representative" of the spirit that filled Jesus Christ 2,000 years ago and he offered his followers a 17-step process of personal transformation.
Heaven's Gate -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Online Article
, Heaven s gate Ontario Consultants on religious Tolerance Informationabout the cult and its founder, Marshall Herff Applewhite.
http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article?eu=409648&query=unidentified&ct=
The Keepers Of Heaven's Gate
the true details of the religious beliefs of the statements, documents and interviewsby cult members. The day the Heaven s gate cult, believing they alone had
http://www.earthpulse.com/halebopp/keeper.html

Extractions: The Religion Behind the Rancho Santa Fe Suicides Readers may find parts of this book difficult to believe. This is, however, the true details of the religious beliefs of an extraordinary group of people. The 'illuminations' drawn from their beliefs have been selected from the statements, documents and interviews by cult members. Since the beginning of time, people have sought to answer the questions raised in this book. It is dedicated to all who have ever asked these questions, and written in hopes that all who pursue these questitons in the future will do so with the healthy understanding that perhaps we are not meant to answer all of life's questions. The key of life may be to enjoy it to its maximum while we are here. "It is often the fanatics, and not always the delicate spirits, that are found grasping the right thread of the solutions required by the future."
Beam Me Up, Scotty
Heaven s gate another web site designed by the Higher Source team crypticallystates time they tried to show the house, the religious cult was having a
http://www.mayhem.net/Crime/heavensgate.html

Extractions: March 26, 1997 - W.W. Higher Source - Up to 39 bodies were found by sheriff's deputies inside a multimillion-dollar mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, an exclusive community in northern San Diego County. Victims of an apparent mass suicide, the dead were mostly white males and females with some Latinos ages 18 and 24, with tightly cropped hair, dressed alike in dark pants and black Nikes. Initial reports have identified them as members of W.W. Higher Source, a self-sufficient new-age quasi-Christian group sustaining itself by developing Web pages. Welcome to the millennium! The Web site itself features pictures of stars and nebulae dowloaded from the NASA site, and appears as business-like as anything else on the Web. Heaven's Gate another web site designed by the Higher Source team cryptically states that suicide is acceptable for cult members who want to ascend to a "higher level of life." In this case the "higher level of life" refers to a spaceship behind the Hale-Bopp comet. Sam Koutchessahani, the owner of the hilltop mansion, rented it to members of the group on October 1996. At the time he told a neighbor that he couldn't sell the house and he was going to rent it to "bunch of monks." Members of the cult told Koutchesfahani, that they were sent to Earth as angels and met in "middle America." Locals thought the group was a bunch of harmless "computer nerds" and "space cadets" whom they described as "very conservative."
What S News April 21, 1997
The cult s online documents prove that Heaven s gate s roots were anything butChristian. Like many religious groups, they employed some biblical terminology
http://www.gospelcom.net/apologia/textown/ttWhatsNews/ttWN970421.html
Statements That Heaven's Gate Released Over The Years
their language, we re seen as a religious cult on an attempting to make the Trekkie vernacular into a religion. on the Web site of the group Heaven s gate
http://www.ishipress.com/mass-sui.htm

Extractions: March 28, 1997 From a note included with a videotape from the leader of the group: y the time you read this, we suspect that the human bodies we were wearing have been found, and that a flurry of fragmented reports have begun to hit the wire services. For those who want to know the facts, the following statement has been issued. . . . By the time you receive this, we'll be gone several dozen of us. We came from the Level Above Human in distant space and we have now exited the bodies that we were wearing for our earthly task, to return to the world from whence we came task completed. The distance space we refer to is what you literature would call the Kingdom of Heaven, or Kingdom of God."
! The Final Offer: Heaven's Gate, One Year Later
The whole Heaven s gate scenario was scripted for everyone to or cults, particularlyof seeming religious types. will cause our part of the heavens to look
http://www.parascope.com/nb/articles/heavensGate.htm

Extractions: It's been a year now since Marshall Applewhite and 38 of his followers took their own lives with overdoses of Phenobarbital and vodka. They expected their souls to be taken onboard a giant spaceship which they (and a lot of other people) believed was cruising in the wake of Comet Hale-Bopp. The comet is long gone, and the phantom spaceship proved to be as lasting as the mainstream media's attention to Applewhite's "UFO Cult," which is to say, it was all just a nine-day wonder. Several other people have joined "Do" and the away team in death a former associate or two of the Heaven's Gate group, and a few copycats have OD'd since last March. Each subsequent death got me to thinking about the plainly circulated intentions of Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Nettles Bo and Peep, Him and Her, Do and Ti and I got my hands on a strange manifesto Applewhite's group published in a number of newspapers around the country back in 1993. The whole Heaven's Gate scenario was scripted for everyone to see in black-and-white, and no one noticed.
Books By Cambridge UP - Cults, Religion, And Violence
leading international experts on religious movements and on the four major episodesof cult violence during collective suicide by the members of Heaven s gate.
http://www.cesnur.org/recens/cults.htm

Extractions: This explores the question of when and why violence by and against new religious cults erupts and whether and how such dramatic conflicts can be foreseen, managed and averted. The authors, leading international experts on religious movements and violent behavior, focus on the four major episodes of cult violence during the last decade: the tragic conflagration that engulfed the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas; the deadly sarin gas attack by the Aum Shinrikyo in Tokyo; the murder-suicides by the Solar Temple in Switzerland and Canada; and the collective suicide by the members of Heaven's Gate. They explore the dynamics leading to these dramatic episodes in North America, Europe, and Asia, and offer insights into the general relationship between violence and religious cults in contemporary society. The authors conclude that these events usually involve some combination of internal and external dynamics through which a new religious movement and society become polarized.
ISO Science2Religion
The Heaven s gate website was place on my site the night that themembers of the Heaven s gate religious cult were found dead. As
http://www.observations.org/Science/ISO/Sci2Rel/S2Rv1n3.html

Extractions: New Weekly Column by Dr. Dan Woolman Subject: Science to Religion June 16, 1997, Vol 1, No 3 Hello everyone, Every week I review my growing stack of questions from which to answer. I have thought of increasing the number of questions answered but simultaneously rejected that thought as well. It is not the number of questions I answer every week, it is the quality, forethought and research I put in to every response that is important. I run on a very strict standard and time schedule and simply can not find within my schedule time to research and answer a larger volume of questions. I will no longer be posting the Science to Religion Column on the ISO Update mail service. So, if you do like the subject matter and would like to receive a free copy of From Science to Religion With Dr. Dan you can send an email post to: majordomo@primenet.com and enter in the body of the message: subscribe science-to-religion You can also review the entire column by going to: http://www.in-search-of.com/frames/ask-dr.dan/ask-dr.dan_nf.shtml So, without more initial discussion here are those questions and answers you have been waiting for.... The Doc Science to Religion June 16, 1997, Volume 1, Number 3
Fade To Black - Buying Guide: Cult$
have not been good PR for most religious cults. After all how many of us were puzzledby the mass suicide on March of 1997 by cult members of Heaven s gate?
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Extractions: If you are looking for religious belief in order to fill that empty hole in your soul, or simply want to be different and the first on your block with a strange theology, there are lots of cults to choose from. If you always wanted to join a cult yet never had the time to decide which one was right for you, nor the attention span to investigate the different religious dogmas attached to each cult, we present to you The Fade to Black's Cults Buyer's Guide. We compared a number of religious cults to the cult of all cults .... Scientology. We contacted nearly dozens of today's most popular sects with the following letter. Dear Believer: After careful study of the information about your religion I found that a lot of your ideology might suit me. I would like to know what does your doctrine offer that I can't get from another sect such as Scientology? Even though I find Scientology extremely overpriced, the literature is easy to understand and they do have a lot of celebrities. I am currently looking for a theology which is not very complex, rigorous or expensive, offers an easy passage to heaven and hopefully is tax deductible.
HEAVEN'S GATE
The UFO group that proceeded Heaven s gate is described in The Gods have LandedNew Religions from Other Milieu in Joining a UFO cult. , American Behavioral
http://www.religioustolerance.org/dc_highe.htm

Extractions: HEAVEN'S GATE Christian / UFO believers Click Here to Visit our Sponsors. Heaven's Gate is a destructive, doomsday cult centered in California. 21 women and 18 men voluntarily committed suicide in three groups on three successive days starting on 1997-MAR-23. Most were in their 40's; the rest covered an age range of 26 to 72. Two months later, two additional members, Charles Humphrey and Wayne Cooke attempted suicide in a hotel room a few miles from the Rancho Santa Fe mansion; Cooke succeeded. Humphrey tried again in the Arizona desert during 1998-FEB and was successful. "Heaven's Gate" was the latest of three organizations founded by Marshall Herff Applewhite and Bonnie " Ti " Lu Trusdale Nettles, a.k.a. " The Two ." The first was Human Individual Metamorphosis (HIM) which they organized in 1975. They traveled to the Colorado desert to wait for the arrival of a UFO. None came. Bonnie Nettles died of cancer in 1985. Applewhite organized a new group called Total Overcomers Anonymous or "TOA" in 1993. They placed an ad in
Apologetics Research Resources On Religious Cults And Sects - Hanegraaff, Hagin,
from Trancenet.org Additional OnSite Information Heaven s gate - Webzine (site Heaven sMagic. HRWF mails daily press releases about religious Intolerance and
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/h00.html

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Cult Apologists?
Experts Regarding Heaven s gate Suicide; List Includes Gordon Melton ReligiousResources recommended by the Church of Scientology Church not a cult, says
http://www.rickross.com/apologist.html
TheologyWebsite Internet Resources Index: Religions : Cults And Sects : Heavens
TheologyWebsite.com, Internet Resources IndexReligions Cults and Sects heavens gate.
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