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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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Academic Readings On Heaven S Gate
Academic and source readings on Heaven s gate and the cult of Two. Balch,Robert, Looking Behind the Sceneces in a religious cult, SOCIOLOGICAL
http://www.trancenet.org/heavensgate/read.shtml
Beam Me Up, Scotty
Post mortem on the Heaven s gate Suicide cult. agent complained that everytime they tried to show the house, the religious cult was having a meeting.
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."
Cults
For example, the 39 members of the Heaven s gate cult believed a space ship It is true that the cult leader or religious founder often shows signs of
http://skepdic.com/cults.html

Extractions: Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults by Janja Lalich Faculty cult expert helps explain Smart case A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion. (source unknown to me) The term 'cult' expresses disparagement and is usually used to refer to unconventional religious groups, though the term is sometimes used to refer to non-religious groups which appear to share significant features with religious cults. For example, there are some who refer to Amway and Landmark Forum as cults, but I think the term is best reserved for groups such as Scientology the Order of the Solar Temple (74 suicides in 1984), Heaven's Gate (39 suicides in 1997), the Raëlians the Urantians the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation program, the followers of Sathya Sai Baba , and the group that followed the Rev. Jim Jones to Guyana where more than 900 joined in a mass murder/suicide ritual in 1978. Three ideas seem essential to the concept of a cult. One is thinking in terms of us versus them with total alienation from "them." The second is the intense, though often subtle, indoctrination techniques used to recruit and hold members. The third is the charismatic cult leader. Cultism usually involves some sort of belief that outside the cult all is evil and threatening; inside the cult is the special path to salvation through the cult leader and his teachings. The indoctrination techniques include
The Anti-Cult Movement
MindControl, Jonestown Waco Heaven s gate Europe The Anti-cult Mindset The current oppression against religious minorities in Germany is a good example
http://bernie.cncfamily.com/acm.htm

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
An Unpopular View Of The Heavens Gate Cult
To me it seemed clear why the Heaven s gate cult did what they did. There aremany others but the point is all religions are based upon this leap of
http://floyd.quasisemi.com/ego/hgate.htm

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
The cult above All cults . Overall, Heaven s gate embraces many known ideas On Higher Source s own home page there was no direct religious or cultic
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."
UFOs And NRMs; Heaven's Gate: Bibliography
Strange odyssey of Heaven s gate former members recall the cult s nomadic Looking behind the scenes in a religious cult implications for the study
http://home.uchicago.edu/~ryancook/un-hgbib.htm

Extractions: 12 May 2002 rj-cook@uchicago.edu TOP OF PAGE discussion links Most every printed item HG ever turned out has been collected in the following: The group provoked a mountain of of journalistic output, both in their initial appearance and recruitment drive (1974-5) and in the aftermath of their 1997 mass death. I will only list off articles that are important or readily available, in chronological order. "Flying saucery in the wilderness." Time 27 August, 1974. Pp. 58 James S. Phelan. New York Times , 29 February, 1976 Joel Aschenbach, Laurie Goodstein, Marc Fischer. "Group Awaited Spacecraft Behind Comet; Members Designed Web Sites, Saw Hale-Bopp as 'Marker' to Trip 'Home.'" Washington Post , 28 March, 1997. p. A01.
Heaven's Gate (cult) -- Facts, Info, And Encyclopedia Article
Categories UFOs, cults, New religious movements Heaven s gate was the name ofa (A system of religious beliefs and rituals) cult coled by (Click link
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Extractions: var dc_UnitID = 10; var dc_PublisherID = 512; var dc_BackgroundColor1 = 'white'; var dc_BackgroundColor2 = 'white'; var dc_TitleColor = 'blue'; var dc_TextColor = 'black'; var dc_URLColor = 'blue'; var dc_URLVisitedColor = 'green'; var dc_sm_type = 'horizontal'; var dc_Width = 700; var dc_Height = 75; var dc_caption_font_bgColor = 'white'; var dc_caption_font_color = 'blue'; var dc_OutBorder = 'no'; var dc_adprod='TM'; [Categories: UFOs, Cults, New religious movements] Heaven's Gate was the name of a (A system of religious beliefs and rituals) cult co-led by (Click link for more info and facts about Marshall Applewhite) Marshall Applewhite and (Click link for more info and facts about Bonnie Nettles) Bonnie Nettles until Nettles' death. The cult's end, coinciding with the appearance of (Click link for more info and facts about Comet Hale-Bopp) Comet Hale-Bopp , created a sensation in the (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) United States in 1997. Applewhite convinced 39 followers to commit
The Heaven's Gate Cult
The Heaven s gate cult is one of literally thousands of millennial cults, Don t follow any religious leader to death until he s proved his credentials,
http://answers.org/cultsandreligions/hgate.html

Extractions: AIA Home Apologetics Atheism Bible ... 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:
Heaven's Gate
to promote a multidisciplinary view of the religious, spiritual and Heaven s gate. 39 deaths. The only doomsdaycult-web-design-team of the
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 ... Science home Religion sections World Religions New Religious 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." Ti refers to Bonnie Lu Trusdale a cofounder of the cult who died of cancer in 1985. The cult first surfaced as the "UFO Cult" in 1975 when Marshall H. Applewhite, a sexually confused music teacher and opera singer, met Nettles who was working as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital where Applegate was looking for a cure for his homosexual impulses. Years later, together with seven other members of the cult, Applegate was surgically castrated leading one to believe that he finally took care of those "bothersome instincts."
EndLinks: Heaven's Gate
It provides information regarding The Heaven s gate cult. of the website area summary of the tragedy that befell the Heaven s gate religious group,
http://merlin.alleg.edu/employee/a/acarr/endlinks/do.html

Extractions: When the Heaven's Gate group committed mass suicide on March 26, 1997, they left a website explaining their beliefs. A few years ago, that original site was still active, and heavily mirrored throughout the web. Many of those copies are gone, but at least one remains: http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/heavensgate_mirror/index.html . Go here for the original material mentioned in some of the reviews below. Mass Suicide of Higher Source...
Heaven's Gate
Heavens gate religious otherworldliness American style. Bible and the Americanmyth. cult Mass Suicide/Homicide Jonesboro/Heavens gate Replay?
http://science.gcc.edu/reli/kemeny/HeavensGate.htm

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.
Cults
What is a cult, and how is it different from a religious group? We thinkimmediately about the Heaven s gate cult and the 39 otherwise bright people who
http://www.leaderu.com/common/cults.html

Extractions: LU-Announce Cults by Rich McGee Rich McGee directed the recent conference on origins entitled Mere Creation which was held in Los Angeles and was attended by 192 scientists and scholars. Rich, a 20- year staff member of Campus Crusade for Christ, is also director of International Expansion for Christian Leadership Ministries, where he has been since 1982. Rich earned a Th.M. in Old Testament from Dallas Theological Seminary in 1981. What is a cult, and how is it different from a religious group? I will seek to answer this and discuss what the cults believe and what it is that motivates people to enter these groups. What is it that makes people stay in cult groups and sometimes be willing even to die for their group? We think immediately about the Heaven's Gate cult and the 39 otherwise bright people who recently killed themselves so they could supposedly be transported to a UFO trailing the Hale-Bopp Comet. Or we think of David Koresh and the Branch Davidian cult near Waco, Texas in 1993, who barricaded themselves at their Mount Carmel headquarters and died in the flames. An even more dramatic memory is Jim Jones and his 911 followers, members of the People's Temple, who in 1978 committed mass suicide by drinking poison in Jonestown, Guyana.
CNN - Related Links For The Higher Source Mass Suicide
a Usenet posting by Heaven s gate to alt.conspiracy; cult Information Centre CIC is religious cults, Sects And Denominations - definitions, examples,
http://www.cnn.com/US/9703/28/mass.suicide/links.html
DOLHENTY ARCHIVE: A Philosopher Looks At Heavensgate
The facts surrounding the suicide of thirtynine members of a religious group in The Heaven s gate group was constantly referred to as a cult by
http://radicalacademy.com/heavensgate.htm

Extractions: Heaven's Gate Tragedy by Jonathan Dolhenty, Ph.D. What is Philosophical Realism? contained in The Radical Academy. As all "media events" do in this age of instantaneous communication, the Heaven's Gate tragedy had become somewhat of a pathetic circus, as networks and newspapers scrambled to provide the latest bizarre details about the group and its leader. It seems all of the reporters and television anchors have had to recall the most grotesque adjectives and adverbs available in their memory-banks. With the Simpson fiasco in retreat and the JonBenet Ramsey situation in limbo, this mass suicide of members of an obscure little group was almost made to order. But the media's job is to report the news and that was for the most part well done.
A Christians Reflections On The "Heavens Gate" Cult
6} In the Heavens gate cult, there was a convenient selectivity as to the Though most people think of these records as religious, they are for the
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:
All About Heaven's Gate Cult By Katherine Ramsland
Heaven s gate was an end times cult whose 37 members committed suicide together, religious scholar Catherine Wessinger calls the groups that form around
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/mass/heavens_gate/1.html

Extractions: The mind of the fanatic, according to social philosopher Eric Hoffer in The True Believer , needs something to worship, even to the point of annihilation. He will sacrifice everything for the impossible dream. Many fanatical mass movements form in our society but only those that act in some dramatic manner, such as announcing the world's end or committing mass suicide, seem to get widespread attention. Heaven's Gate was among the most startling. A peaceful and secretive group, they made occasional forays into recruitment, but most of their time was spent in rigorous training for reaching a higher plane of consciousness. While there's nothing unusual about that, they are among the few cults who went all the way. To understand how they formed the beliefs that led to their ultimate actions, we need to look at cults as a whole that hold philosophies of an approaching Armageddon and a savior messiah. "All mass movements," Hoffer wrote, "generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred, and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and a single-hearted allegiance."
Heaven's Gate Cult
They have been identified as members of the Heaven s gate cult. criminals,farmers or any other socioeconomic-religious classif they ain t got Jesus,
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False Religions/Other Pagan Mumbo-Jumbo/heavens_g

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:
Heaven's Gate: Sign Of The Times
Article about the Heaven s gate cult. and strict regulations are the essenceof most cults, to contrast them from a normal religious sect or church.
http://www.excult.org/heavensgate.html

Extractions: Sword of the Lord Ministries (Excult.org) Return to Sword front page Heaven's Gate: Sign of the Times A former cult member discusses the whys and wherefores of this recent tragedy by Marlene Jones-Skurtu Mark Applewhite, son of Heaven's Gate cult leader, Marshall "Do" Applewhite, was quoted on ABC this week as saying, "People need to go back to the Word of God to find out what it really says." I wish I had done that. In the interviews I have seen this week on Nightline, Good Morning America, and CBS News, the interviewers have repeated often the phrase that we (as a nation) are "trying to make sense of this". The ex-members and other estranged family members have often repeated that "I would not define what they did as suicide," and "we accept our brother's decision." Cults and cult-like churches have a way of creating their own certain brand of truth by taking a normal, Biblical concept such as "the Kingdom of God" and making it into something completely unidentifiable as "the mother-ship" where you can go once you have "evolved" to where you can "become the Level Beyond Human", to quote Heaven's Gate. By the view on the their web page, this character appears like something out of E.T. or some other science fiction creation. Ultimately, they were deceived enough to believe that "suicide" was not suicide , but that it would be suicide to stay in this world when "then next Level is Being offered," as their document "Our Position On Suicide" says.
Heaven's Gate (Part 14)
the leader of the Heaven s gate religious cult and 38 of his followers ``We re very happy and proud to have been members of the Heaven s gate group
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