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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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81. Heaven's Gate
    who demands you be celibate, whether it s Heaven s gate, the Catholic Church or theCult of Dr Maybe because they re afraid of the religious Right that  
    http://www.drsusanblock.com/editorial/suicide.htm

82. A Christian’s Reflections On The "Heaven’s Gate" Cult
    For one, Cultic religion is often less than frank concerning its real need not thereforebe surprised to find out that Heaven’s gate attracted potential  
    http://members.aol.com/basfawlty/hvn_cult.htm
    
    Extractions: I Some of the outreach of Applewhite, who called himself "Do," was done via the Internet, and at this writing much of the material posted by Applewhite and his disciples was still freely available by that means. This material affords a case study in the way that such cults operate and achieve dominance in the minds of prospective disciples. In their book Cult Watch: What You Need To Know About Spiritual Deception, "Cultic religion is often less than frank concerning its real beliefs, whether by design or ignorance." "Our Position Against Suicide" ! Nevertheless, even this paper shows how malleable definitions can be in the hands of a cult: "The true meaning of ‘suicide’ is to turn against the Next Level when it is being offered Another characteristic in Ankerberg and Weldon (one which overlaps with the lack of frankness mentioned above) is "the rejection of biblical teaching," often because these have supposedly been superseded by new revelations convenient selectivity as to the use of the Bible. On the one hand, the cult made the following statement:

83. 'Statement By Rkkody
    Students of the occult, metaphysical, and even traditional religions such as Heaven sGate cult Suicide in San Diego, currently published by Harper Paperbacks.  
    http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/rel/gate/return.htm
    
    Extractions: Return from Heaven's Gate - The Book A revealing insider's perspective as to what prompted 39 Heaven's Gate members to commit mass suicide. by Rkkody (Chuck Humphrey) Overview How can 39 intelligent men and women suddenly and willingly take their own lives in what has become this country's largest mass suicide ever? What is the truth behind this cult that for over 22 years kept themselves on the fringes of society, surfacing briefly periodically to "share their beliefs". What went through the minds of 39 otherwise happy people as they systematically took their own lives in a ritualistic demonstration? And, will there be others who following in the footsteps of those 39, and will a new leader emerge to re-kindle the cult and recruit new followers? Only one person can answer these and other crucial questions people everywhere are asking. Chuck Humphrey, "Rkkody," as he likes to be called, is the only surviving ex-member who actually believed in the Heaven's gate doctrine enough to attempt to take his own life mimicking the ritualistic mass suicide of 39 of his closest friends. For over 22 years, Chuck was in and out of what has become known as the Heaven's Gate suicide cult. What happened during the 22 years this small group of highly intelligent men and women lived in obscurity and practiced a belief system that borders on Christianity from a perspective of Science Fiction and UFO's. For the first time Chuck recounts his own personal experiences in a group that even described itself as the cult of cults.

84. Cults
    about this is And The Truth Shall Set You Free and predicted more mass suicides by cults. Heaven s gate is just the 2 Hindu and Eastern religious cults;.  
    http://www.trunkerton.fsnet.co.uk/cults.htm

85. Heaven’s Gate Mass Suicide
    Discipline was the rule at Heaven’s gate. Jupiter at 13 Aquarius was applying toan opposition of his Mars which tied in his religious beliefs of radical  
    http://accessnewage.com/articles/astro/BENHEAVG.HTM
    
    Extractions: Including On Thursday evening on March 26, 1997, 39 bodies were discovered at the Heaven’s Gate compound in Rancho Santa Fe, CA by a former cult member and the sheriff’s department. The group was found carefully organized for their death and afterlife. They died in three stages so some bodies were up to 36 hours old by news reports from the coroner. They were dressed identically in unisex hair and clothes so authorities thought they had discovered 39 male bodies at first. Eighteen of the men had been castrated. They had their bags packed with IDs in their breast pockets and money in their pants pockets. According to the group’s beliefs they were going to cast off their bodies to join a spacecraft of aliens that were hiding in the Hale-Bopp comet’s tail. They thought they were going to the next step of evolution since they believed that the end of the millennium was going to be the destruction of the world as we know it. Some members had been preparing for this time up to 20 years. Marshall Applewhite was the founder called Bo along with his partner, Bonnie Nettles known as Peep. They were also called THE TWO. They believed in UFOs, astrology, reincarnation and the end of the world. The cult members were Trekkies, web page designers and extreme believers that severed all ties from the world. Discipline was the rule at Heaven’s Gate.

86. Bookmarks On The San Diego Suicides (3/27/97) By Joel Elliott
    Media Coverage Multiple Links; Heaven s gate on the Web a review of Comet Hale-BoppControversy(including UFO s!); religious Groups And Cults On The  
    http://www.unc.edu/~elliott/heavensgate.html
    
    Extractions: Emailto: elliott@email.unc.edu Note: I'm not sure I'll have time to keep this list current, so I suggest that you use this list to locate web resources, then bookmark them yourself. The YAHOO sites (the first two) are probably the best web locations for news items. There's been a massive exchange of information on the Internet about this event; the way people have utilitized the web today (3/27/97) to learn about the San Diego suicides would make for an intereresting story in itself... Media Coverage: Multiple Links Heaven's Gate on the Web - a review of online news coverage (GREAT resource by ZDNET) San Diego Union Tribune on-line (local coverage) KGTV, San Diego (local coverage)

87. Heaven's Gate
    The Heaven s gate Web site ridicules Christianity repeatedly. to Armageddon, theKingdom of Heaven, John the or any other socioeconomic-religious classif  
    http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/comet.htm
    
    Extractions: On Wednesday, 3-26-97, police found 39 dead people in a fancy house located in Rancho Santa Fe, California. They have been identified as members of the Heaven's Gate Cult. The cultists believed that the Hale-Bopp comet was a marker for them to kill themselves so that they could join a UFO trailing behind it. Each dead person had a suitcase packed so that they would have clothes for their new life. Unsurprisingly, the suitcases were left behindyou don't need a change of clothes in hell Christian-Style Eschatology? When I first read this story, I knew that the members of Heaven's Gate were New Age zealots. If you ever want to hear some mumbo-jumbo, check out a New Age site. You might read, "I know that I'm God, but Self alludes and misunderstands," or "The metaphysical hypotenuse correlates with the Arias coordinates." Today's (3-28-97) front page Washington Post story first references the cult's belief system in the third paragraph. The writers state: They were also members of a cult that mixed end-of-the-world Christian-style eschatology with a space-alien obsession several steps beyond that on television's "The X-Files."

88. Westword.com |Web Extra
    The Observer Life Magazine Cults Internet Site Includes an AZ of religious cults.Cults R Us Killer cults, including Heaven s gate, David Koresh, and Jim Jones  
    http://www.westword.com/extra/hgate.html
    
    Extractions: By Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen The cult of Nike-wearing HTML jocks whose 39 members methodically "shed their containers" last week at their plush estate oustide of San Diego may or may not be on their way to rendezvous with Alien Masters floating along in Comet Hale-Bopp's slipstream. But back here on Planet Earth, the mass suicide became the instant media event of the year. One theme that many major news organizations have sounded is the latest variation on the "Internet as root of all evil" message. It goes something like this: This cult, "Higher Source" or "Heaven's Gate" (or "H.I.M." or "Bo and Peep" or "Total Overcomers Anonymous" or, most simply, "The UFO Cult") earned its keep by doubling as a Web design firm and maintained a Web site on which they expressed their ethereal philosophies, ipso facto the Internet is a vast recruiting ground for dangerous suicide cults! Well, we don't follow this logic either. The fact that the cult has existed at least since the mid 1970s means that the Internet was an unlikely recruiting tool. And a look at the group's much-discussed Web site reveals very little in the way of "recruiting" messages. Even a manifesto the group ran in such diverse outlets as USA Today and the conspiracy zine Steamshovel Press back in 1993 (warning of "Luciferian space races" and proclaiming that "Earth's present 'civilization' is about to be recycled") had less to do with roping in new cultists than it did with railing against the cult's imagined oppressors.

89. Apocalypse Links Page Has Moved
    Doomsday, Destructive religious Cults; The End of the World; Gabriel s Horn; GetPrepared For End Times; The Gnostic Society Virtual Library; Heaven s gate; Heaven s  
    http://www.sci.fi/~phinnweb/neuro/apocalypse_links.html

90. ZetaTalk: Heaven's Gate
    The leader of the Heaven s gate cult was beset with personal anxieties Had the cultleader espoused the beliefs of an organized religion, where their  
    http://www.zetatalk.com/beinghum/b72.htm
    
    Extractions: Scarcely anyone believes, as the leader and follower of Heaven's Gate did, that a UFO was indeed following what was billed as the comet Hale-Bopp, or that they as human beings would be selected out from among the billions for special treatment. What shocked the nation and the world was not so much the absurdity of their beliefs but the extent to which they would go to adhere to them. Incidences such as suicide bombers and soldiers going into battle and even into certain death are not unknown, but behind these actions is something concrete, such as home and family or actual politicians and laws one is in rebellion against. Many church-goers prate the belief they supposedly espouse, but would hesitate to put even their time and discomfort behind them, much less their lives. And those who would discomfit themselves for a belief are sure that their belief is not as silly as Heaven's Gate. However, if one looks at just a few examples from Christian belief - that of the Rapture that many Christians cling to, or the Ascension where Jesus supposedly rose from the dead, or Baptism where splashing a bit of water is supposed to make the difference between a tiny babe going to heaven or hell - one sees that the Heaven's Gate crowd was scarcely alone in their silliness. These beliefs and the actions they generate have no more rationale than the beliefs that the Heaven's Gate crowd held. That said, why did the Heaven's Gate crowd arrive at such an absurd conclusion, and what led them to take the steps they did?

91. Heaven's Gate: Index Of Resources
    coverage of events like the Heaven s gate suicides substantially and concepts of theanticults, ie, the how basic sociological concepts about religion may be  
    http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/heavgateindex.html
    
    Extractions: Televangelism jump to resource list O n March 28, 1997, the Unites States awoke to the news that authorities in Rancho Santa Fe, California had discovered the bodies of 39 cult members who had committed suicide. For the next several days this story dominated broadcast journalism and received considerable coverage in print journalism as well. E arly reports about fast breaking stories are often fragmentary and the information highly misleading. This story was no exception. Authorities on the scene initially identified the group as "Higher Source." The age composition was reported to range of 18-24, plus two older persons. Some news accounts said all the members were male. And there were reports that branches of the group in other locations might also be planning, or already have committed suicide. A s it turned out, the group's name was Heaven's Gate although this was only the latest of several names the group had assumed over the previous two decades. Higher Source was the name of the computer company of the group. The mean age of the group members was 46.7, more than twice the average as initially reported! The sex ratio was about equal. Only the report that the event might have been related to the appearance of the Comet Hale-Bopp seemed to have been correct. I f much of the information the news media pieced together in the early hours after the story broke was wrong or misleading, those reporting errors paled to insignificance in the face of misinformation, tales of deception, and just plain lies that came from a cadre of now well known professional cult-bashers. Their role as experts is self-proclaimed, and their information is as preprogrammed and predictable as the spot in the sky were one could find Hale-Bopp on a given evening during its pass by planet earth. Their contribution to promoting hate and divisiveness in human cultures is considerable. In providing a platform for these self-proclaimed experts, the media are co-participants in a feeding frenzy that makes thoughtful assessment and learning from this tragic event extremely difficult.

92. Cults
    Doomsday / Destructive Cults The end is near or so violence is a means of achievingreligious goals Includes accounts of Heaven s gate, Jonestown, the Order of  
    http://altreligion.about.com/cs/cults/
    
    Extractions: zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About Alternative Religions Home Essentials ... Priory of Sion zau(256,152,145,'gob','http://z.about.com/5/ad/go.htm?gs='+gs,''); Religions A-Z Image Gallery Library Hermetic Tradition ... Help zau(256,138,125,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/0.htm','');w(xb+xb); Subscribe to the About Alternative Religions newsletter. Search Alternative Religions Get the skinny on the often controversial, sometimes dangerous New Religious Movements- including Scientology, Moonies, Hare Krishnas, The Branch Davidians, and Aum Shinrikyo. As many viewpoints as possible will be explored. Not all listings in this section should be considered harmful. Alphabetical Recent UFO Cults The UFO movement began in the forties, and has grown phenomenally ever since. While some UFO groups are promoters of peace, others have piled on the casualties. Explore UFO cults from the peaceful Aetherius society, to the slightly wacky Raelians, to the suicidal Heaven's Gate movement. Doomsday / Destructive Cults The end is near- or so believe many religious groups and sects. Still others believe that violence is a means of achieving religious goals. Dangerous groups act on these beliefs, often with tragic results. Includes accounts of Heaven's Gate, Jonestown, the Order of the Solar temple, and more. Scroll down for more selections.

93. Religion And Cults - Other
    Heaven s gate Order of the Solar Temple See comment on Oriental Cults . The essenceof Gurdjieff philosophyreligion is to discover the authentic self .  
    http://religion-cults.com/Cults/Other/Other.htm
    
    Extractions: Esoteric Religions: 1- Mind Sciences- Silva Mind Control 4- Swedenborgianism 2- UFOs- Heaven's Gate 5- Atheism- Marxism ... 6- Modernism- Secularism Jesus is the Lord of History The only God... The only Creator... The only Savior of your life and mine... See Art Gallery "MIND" THERAPY CULTS "Silva Mind Control": "Mind Therapy Cults", or "Mind Science", are therapy methods based on mind science, psychological or neurological, often mixed with the occult or the latent divinity that resides in every individual... and often end up being a "religion for life"... they may not be easy to recognize, but they may become psychologically just as damaging as the cults that require members to dress in robes and chant in the street. -Ernest Holmes, is considered to be the father of the mind sciences, with the foundation of the "Institute of Religious Science" in 1927, and his book "Science of Mind". There are dozens of them, with such names as "Religious Science", "Divine Science", "Science of Mind"... - "Scientology" may be the biggest and most famous, commented on "Western Cults".

94. Probe Ministries Cults And World Religions Topics
    Christian Attitude Toward NonChristian Religions Rick Rood written an excellentarticle on Cults, particularly in view of the Heaven s gate tragedy, that  
    http://www.probe.org/menus/wp-cults.html
    
    Extractions: Cults and Other Religions This page updated Feb. 8, 2004 A Course in Miracles [Russ Wise] A Short Look at Six World Religions [Sue Bohlin] Alternative Medicine [Pat Zukeran] Astrology: Do the Heavens Declare the Destiny of Man? [Michael Gleghorn] Baha'i [Lou Whitworth] The Boston Church [Russ Wise] Buddhism [Pat Zukeran] Character of the Cults [Pat Zukeran] Christ in a New Age [Russ Wise] Christian Science: Mary Baker Eddy and the Bible [Kris Samons] Communicating with the Dead [Michael Gleghorn] Confucius [Pat Zukeran] Conversation with a Muslim [Don Closson] Do All Roads Lead to God? The Christian Attitude Toward Non-Christian Religions [Rick Rood] Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping (False) Prophet [Lou Whitworth] Education and New Age Humanism [Russ Wise] Embraced by the Light of Deception [Russ Wise] Examining the Book of Mormon [Pat Zukeran] Freemasonry and the Christian Church [Russ Wise] The Goddess and the Church [Russ Wise] Hinduism [Rick Rood] Islam [Rick Rood] Islam and Christianity: Common Misconceptions [Don Closson] Islam and the Sword [Don Closson] Download Don Closson's Powerpoint Presentation on Islam (complete with extensive notes) Download slides and notes from this presentation in Microsoft Word format Jehovah's Witnesses [Pat Zukeran] Jehovah's Witnesses and the Trinity [Pat Zukeran] Letter from a Muslim Missionary Mormon Beliefs about the Bible and Salvation [Russ Wise] Mormon Beliefs About Prophecy, Heaven, and Celestial Marriage

95. Heaven's Gate
    the USA in the practice of freedom of religion. cyberspirits, sectarian, secludedmilieus and cults whose similarity to Heaven s gate entice people  
    http://www.dci.dk/en/mtrl/heaven.html
    
    Extractions: Could a similar tragedy happen in Denmark? In principle, it can happen anywhere even though Europe does have a different tradition than the USA in the practice of freedom of religion. We should rejoice in our freedom. But perhaps at this time we are actually jeopardi zing our freedom by becoming possessed by cyberspirits, sectarian, secluded milieus and cults whose similarity to Heaven's Gate entice people with their message: "I - the leader - am the one who has the keys to Heaven." Marshall Applewhite Everyone should agree that it is difficult to accept incidents of this nature. But what can we do to prevent similar situations from arising? President Clinton has perhaps said the magic words: "We will now have to uncover all details in this incident, so that we might understand why they thought the way they did and thereby prevent others from beginning to think in the same way."

96. Content Pages Of The Encyclopedia Of Religion And Social Science
    Flying saucer cults began in the 1950s after Adamski and Orfeo Angelucci attachedreligious meaning, which Christian doctrines (as did Heaven s gate) as well  
    http://hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/UFO.htm
    
    Extractions: William H. Swatos, Jr. Editor Table of Contents Cover Page Editors Contributors ... Web Version UFO/FLYING SAUCER CULTS Although UFO (unidentified flying object) sightings occurred in the 1880s, modern accounts of UFO phenomena began after World War II. In 1947, pilot Kenneth Arnold reported sighting (what came to be known as) "flying saucers" near Mount Rainier, and many people insist that a few weeks later an alien craft crashed near Roswell, New Mexico. Speculation persists that the U.S. military keeps the Roswell debris at a top-secret military base in Nevada (popularly called Area 51), and UFO believers reject the U.S. government's official explanation that the downed object was a balloon (with radar and instruments) being tested secretly as a low pressure wave detector for monitoring Soviet nuclear weapons explosions. Consequently, UFO believers harbor deep distrust of government. The most controversial groups combining UFO belief with variations of contactee assertions are the Order of the Solar Temple and Heaven's Gate. Both groups are distinctly apocalyptic, and they believe that suicide would provide them with immortality in the (literal) heavens through their contact with space beings. Often groups alleging contact with aliens who impart wisdom shade into the popular theosophical/New Age phenomenon of reputedly channeling messages from higher, more advanced entities. Likewise, Christian-based UFO groups believe that UFOs manifest angels and other spiritual guides that will help believers battle the Antichrist and survive the apocalypse. In contrast, some fundamentalist Christians see UFO phenomena as a precursor to the apocalypse.

97. Heaven's Gate Suicides
    he can get decoys like the Heaven s gate people to is performed on any and all religiousefforts, declaring with computers and websites are cults and are  
    http://www.helpingmormons.org/TLC_Manti/NewsFolder/newsHeavensGate.htm
    
    Extractions: It has been widely publicized that 39 members of the Heaven's Gate "cult" committed suicide in anticipation of hitching a ride with a purported UFO that was believed to be trailing the Hale-Bopp comet. They left their "containers" (bodies) behind as they believed they were transforming their beings into a higher form of life. TLC would like to address two separate issues regarding this recent occurrence: 1. True doctrine of Eternal life versus false doctrine. 2. The media campaign of distortion. 1. True doctrine versus false doctrine. TLC believes that the human body is sacred and that man's work on the earth is not over until the person is taken by events out of their own control or by God's will. Also, the seed of life should not be tampered with, ie. voluntary castration. The Heaven's Gate community were celibate and considered sexual union between man and woman as depraved and unclean. TLC responds by declaring that the union of the sexes in the proper marriage union is ordained of God and that the marriage bed is undefiled; also, that children and families are part of the plan of a loving God. TLC testifies that God is an exalted and perfected man and that the human family is created in His image and likeness. God is not an alien or some other being created by the fantasy of man.

98. Cult Test
    Scientology the vicious science fiction religion of Lafayette Ronald Hubbard Heaven sGate Marshall Herff Applewhite Going To Heaven In A  
    http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult.html
    
    Extractions: (Matthew 24:5) I have occasionally called A.A. a religious cult, and so have other people. It might be helpful if we ask, "What are the real characteristics of a religious cult? How do I tell if I have just walked into a real religious cult, rather than just some church with a bunch of overly-enthusiastic members?" Or, for that matter, No, not all religions are cults, far from it. So let's look at the characteristics of some typical cults. Here are a few good general information pages to start with: And then there is this list of cult characteristics, which I have assembled from a wide variety of sources books and magazine articles on cults, other people's descriptions of cults, and my own personal experiences with cults. It incorporates the ideas of Lifton, Singer, Schein, Hassan, and many others. This cult description is structured as a test that you can apply to any group that you might be wondering about religious or non-religious, crazy or not. It is a collection of the common characteristics of many well-known cults, and some not-so-well-known ones:

99. Religion News Blog : Why Some Believe In Martians
    alone in this revisionist cosmology Cults have always infused existing religioustraditions with Followers of the Heaven s gate sect committed suicide  
    http://www.religionnewsblog.com/3436-_Why_Some_Believe_in_Martians.html
    
    Extractions: The belief that aliens are abducting people seems a moderate assumption compared with the promulgations of UFO cults such as the Raelians. Claude Vorhil, a.k.a. His Holiness Rael, alleges that humans were genetically engineered by extraterrestrials known as Elohim (the Hebrew word for "God" that Rael says is a mistranslation of the term "those who come from the sky").

100. Religions On The Web
     Washington Post cult Suicide Special Report More about our friends from Heaven sGate. Also check out the work done by my students in RELI 291 Religion and  
     http://sparta.rice.edu/~maryc/Religions.html
     
     Extractions: Religions on the Web More Information About: Paganism Unitarian Universalism Buddhism Catholicism ... Other Pages T he web is an interesting and innovative source for information about various religious traditions. This page has pulled together links to a variety of religious sites that I find interesting. Most of these sites are developed by either members of the religious tradition or those sympathic to it. A bsent from this page are the Africian diasporia religious sites CUUPs EARTH Chapter (The Eclectic Association of Religious Tree Huggers) of First Unitarian Universalist Church , Houston, Texas Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (CUUPS). Promots the practice and understanding of Pagan and Earth-centered spirituality within the Unitarian Universalist Association Tejas Web , eclectic ecofeminist Witchcraft community of diverse individuals centered in Austin, Texas. Inspired by the Reclaiming Tradition of Witchcraft, which combines inner spiritual and transformative work with global political awareness, we offer public rituals, classes, workshops, and weeklong Intensives (aka Witch Camps). Aunt Agatha's Home Page Beltaine Food Circle Home Page Covenent of the Goddess ... http://uua.org/

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