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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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39 MEMBERS OF HEAVEN'S GATE CULT COMMITTED SUICIDE -- SATAN, THE MASTER MARIONET
For most religions with a concept of heaven, death is not completely frightening . Now, listen to the teaching of this Heaven s gate cult.
http://www.cuttingedge.org/n1066.html

Extractions: Resources to aid your Understanding The implications of this mass suicide are both frightening and compelling. We will discuss what happened, the occult nature of the suicides, its ties to Christianity, and its implications for the coming New World Order. Our Christian Webmaster immediately logged on to Heaven's Gate web site, before it overloaded and saved it on his hard drive for our reference; so, we shall be able to quote verbatim from their site, examining their religious beliefs. We have a link from this article to a mirror site of Heaven's Gate so you can see for yourself.
Heaven's Gate
They have been identified as members of the Heaven s gate cult. The cultistsbelieved that the HaleBopp comet was a marker for them to kill themselves so
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."
ZetaTalk: Heaven's Gate
The leader of the Heaven s gate cult was beset with personal anxieties, Had the cult leader espoused the beliefs of an organized religion,
http://www.zetatalk.com/beinghum/b72.htm

Extractions: Note: written on May 15, 1997 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?
Social Psychology Of Cults
News Coverage of Heaven s gate New religious Movements Index Cults that KillPsychological Issues. Overviews Obedience and Conformity Dissociative Disorder
http://cla.libart.calpoly.edu/~cslem/Wizdemo/16-WizCults.html

Extractions: This site is under construction during Spring Quarter. Check back frequently as we add in additional resources and more elaborated links. As usual, browse at your own risk and use your good judgement. Some sites may seem offensive to some individuals. We are often struck by what appears to be the senseless acts of mass suicide by large groups of people who belong to cults...Jonestown, Order of the Solar Temple, and now Heaven's Gate. The more recent incidents suggests that most of these people were bright, competent, and productive individuals. There are powerful social forces that can distort one's perception of reality and influence people to do things that they would normally not even consider as responsible individuals. As you will find in the links below, the social psychological effects of groups can produce alterations in personality (a dissociative state), post traumatic stress disorder, and the commission of illegal acts. News Coverage of Heaven's Gate Psychological Issues ... Article: CULTS AND THE MEANING OF LIFE CNN News Summaries MSNBC Coverage This excellent resource can link you directly to websites dealing with cults. It is associated with a Sociology course at the University of Virginia. In the words of the teacher, Professor Jeffrey Hadden:
Heaven's Gate UFO Mythology: The Escape To Oblivion (Skeptical Inquirer / July 1
According to documents left on the Heaven s gate Web site, In the early 1970s, Reading about the strange behavior of this cult of unreason,
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?
Heaven's Gate (cult) - Enpsychlopedia
Heaven s gate was a secretive New Age religion. Knowledge of their practices is It uses material from the Wikipedia article Heaven s gate (cult) .
http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Heaven's_Gate_(cult)

Extractions: home resource directory disorders quizzes ... support forums Advertisement ( Heaven's Gate was the name of a cult co-led by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles until Nettles' death. The cult's end, coinciding with the appearance of comet Hale-Bopp , created a sensation in the United States in . Applewhite convinced 39 followers to commit suicide so that their souls could take a ride on a spaceship that they thought was hiding behind the comet ; members reportedly believed themselves to be aliens Heaven's Gate was a secretive New Age religion. Knowledge of their practices is limited. Upon joining the group, members often sold their worldly belongings in order to break their attachments with earthly existence. For many years the group lived in isolation in the western U.S. Members often traveled in pairs and rendezvoused with other members for meetings or presentations they gave to recruit new members. For a time, group members lived in a darkened house where they would simulate the experience they expected to have during their long journey in outer space. Much of what is known about the group comes from the research of Robert Balch and David Taylor , who infiltrated the group in the Group members gave up their material possessions and the male members of the cult underwent castration . In preparation for their suicide, members of the cult drank
Witchvox Article
The Cyber Sitter Issue. Year 1997 religious Hate Sites The religiousFreedom Amendment religious Freedom Restoration Act Heaven s gate 1 (Intro)
http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usma&c=cases&id=4890
Heaven's Gate
He was the founder of the Heaven s gate cult that was based in California. Freud thinks religion is a illusion because when you were involved in it as a
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~reli291/HeavensGate/Heavens_Gate.html

Extractions: Our Version of Heaven's Gate Photo from http://www.artbell.com/mirror/heavensgate/index.htm The leader of this group of misguided souls was a man named Marshall Herff Applewhite. He was the founder of the Heaven's Gate cult that was based in California. PHOTO FROM http://atlas.comet.net/~gus/heavensgate/clone/ History of Heaven's Gate Heaven's Gate had started in the 1970's. Applewhite, a music teacher then, landed in a psychiatric asylum. Bonnie Nettles was his nurse there. Nettles was a prominent member of the Theosophical Society in Houston, Texas and wrote the astrology column for the local newspaper. Together, Applewhite and Nettles read The Secret Doctrine by Madame Blavatsky, the founder of Theosophy. When Heaven's Gate started, Nettles called herself Shakti Devi. Later, Nettles and Applewhite called themselves Ti and Do. Though they were able to impress small numbers of people with their ideas, they were not good at managing large numbers. So, Heaven's Gate stayed small. They also stayed small because the leaders kept announcing that a UFO would come to take them to heaven very soon. Some followers started to
The Keepers Of Heaven's Gate
The Keepers of Heaven s gate. The Millennial Madness The Religion Behind the The day the Heaven s gate cult, believing they alone had the answers to
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."
The Cult, The Comet, And The Web - From Rancho Santa Fe To Heaven's Gate. By Dav
(Heaven s gate hints that the cult was founded in 1975.) Religion PresidentBush used to be content to revel in his own ignorance.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2583/

Extractions: The Heaven's Gate mass suicide promises to be the first great Internet mystery. When the members of the UFO/computer cult "shed their containers," they left behind a trove of clues on the Internet about their work, their suicide, and the Hale-Bopp comet. Here's an introduction. Early news reports link the Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., group to a loopy, apocalyptic Web site called Heaven's Gate . (Warning: This site and most others described below have been overwhelmed with traffic since news of the suicide broke. Don't be surprised if you're denied access.) According to the Heaven's Gate introductory page, the Hale-Bopp comet heralds the imminent arrival of an alien spacecraft "from the Evolutionary Level Above Human (the Kingdom of Heaven)": The UFO may be traveling in the comet's wake. (For more on the Internet controversy about the Hale-Bopp UFO, click here Continue Article placeAd(2,'slate.homepage/slate')
Cults Raelians Scientologists Heaven's Gate
So, what separates a cult or a sect, from a certified religion? The HeavensGate cult were made up of Fruit and Nut Cheerios who believed that everyone
http://www.thebeefboy.com/archives/feature/cults.htm

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HEAVEN'S GATE
by the San Diego sheriff s department illustrate the uniformity that definedthe cult. Members of Heaven s gate were so ordered they died in shifts.
http://www.time.com/time/reports/cult/heavensgate/heavensgate1.html

Extractions: Pictures of the Heaven's Gate mansion released by the San Diego sheriff's department illustrate the uniformity that defined the cult. Members of Heaven's Gate were so ordered they died in shifts. NICK UT - AP TIME Cover Story The incredible saga of how a charismatic former music teacher and 38 androgynous followers killed themselves in order to hook up with a UFO. "Planet earth about to be recycled. Your only chance to surviveleave with us." Do, leader of Heaven's Gate By Elizabeth Gleick If a group of people are going to choose to die together, it is best to have a master plan: proper burial outfits, packed suitcases, lists, farewell videotapes, even recipes for death. The ghastly jumble of bodies piled upon bodies discovered in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978 may have provided a stark lesson in how not to do it. That mass suicide was a disorderly, ungracious way to meet your maker, a study not in serenity but in chaos. So last week, in that spacious Rancho Santa Fe mansion, with the bougainvillaea in full bloom outside, 39 bodies were laid out on their backs on bunk beds and mattresses, looking like so many laboratory specimens pinned neatly to a board. Each was dressed in black pants, flowing black shirt, spanking-new black Nikes. Their faces were hidden by purple cloths, shrouds the purple of Christian penance. Those who wore glasses had them neatly folded next to their body, and all, helpfully, had identification papers for the authorities to find. The house, more than one awed witness noted, was immaculate, tidier even than before the victims had moved in. It was as if, in preparing for their death, the members of what the world now knows as the Heaven's Gate cult were heeding the words of the prophet Isaiah: "Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live."
Heaven S Gate
While the Web sites mounted by the vast majority of religious fringe groups do not In fact, some attacked Heaven s gate for its belief that the souls of
http://www.earthportals.com/fringe.html

Extractions: Insights Earth Portal Controls Home May 8, 1997 T he search for spiritual fulfillment, whether in the form of a god or a set of beliefs, is as old as the species. It has tamed societies, nurtured civilizations, launched wars and played muse to philosophers and artists. Now the age-old quest is making its way, sometimes in a bizarre fashion, to the World Wide Web. Cyberspace is emerging as the staging platform of choice for religious fringe groups to dispense their precepts, raise money and if their critics are to be believed recruit new members. While the Web sites mounted by the vast majority of religious fringe groups do not overtly encourage actions as extreme as those of Heaven's Gate, whose leader and 38 followers committed mass suicide this spring, many share the basic beliefs of Heaven's Gate an aggregation of ancient mysticism, extraterrestrial redemption, modern Eastern and Western religious doctrines and millennialism. For example, Stargate and the International Raelian Movement link God, alternative lifestyles and alien life forms. Until now, they and groups with similar beliefs have been geographically isolated curiosities, but with the emergence of the Web as a populist medium for publishing and distribution, these groups are finding each other and reaching out to proselytize.
Heaven's Gate?
I am not an expert on Heaven s gate, but there are some important things that But HG, like Jonestown, might have been a test to see how long a cult
http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/heavensgate.html

Extractions: by Steve Mizrach Although I have long wanted to stay away from this whole matter because of the way the mass media have overly sensationalized it, I feel that as usual they have focused on the ridiculous while ignoring the aspects of the event that are more interesting but harder to hype. I am placing this essay on the Internet for the Fortean community as well as any other interested parties. I am not an expert on Heaven's Gate, but there are some important things that need to be said about this group, because there's so much misinformation floating about. Here are some basic facts to chew on: There is no spacecraft behind Hale-Bopp. I have viewed the comet with a small telescope with minor magnification, and from what I have seen, there is nothing in the nucleus of the comet or trailing behind it, especially not anything the size of a planet or larger. On this fact alone, I agree with Alan Hale, one of the original amateur astronomers who discovered the comet. However, Hale took the opportunity of the Heaven's Gate mass suicide to hype the late Carl Sagan's book about our "demon-haunted world," and to lament all the "superstition" about a mere "dirty snowball." I agree with Hale that comets are not heavenly messengers, have nothing to do with the millenium, and are balls of ice and rock. However, I find it interesting that he kept asserting with vehemence the irrationality of believing that comets influence life here on Earth. This despite the fact that other members of the scientific community have recently asserted that a) comets may periodically contribute to the extinction of life on other planet and b) comets, through spreading organic compounds, might have led to the genesis of life here as well.
Q & A: Health And Spirituality: Religious Cults Prey Upon Young Adults
There seem to be religious cults all over the place that seem to prey upon young is of a group such as the Moonies or, more recently, Heaven s gate.
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.
HEAVEN'S GATE: THE END By Wendy Gale Robinson
Led by Marshall Applewhite, the Heaven s gate cult believed that a flying In the end, the religion propounded by Heaven s gate owes more to the Age of
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/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
whether it s Heaven s gate, the Catholic Church or the cult of Dr. Laura I m not saying that the Heaven s gate tragedy is all about sex.
http://www.drsusanblock.com/editorial/suicide.htm
Articles By David Icke
predicted more mass suicides by cults. Heaven s gate is just the latest . as cults 1 NeoChristian cults; 2 Hindu and Eastern religious cults;
http://www.davidicke.com/icke/articles/diarticle-scare.html

Extractions: O ne of the biggest stories during my recent speaking tour of the United States was the "suicide" of 39 members of the Heaven's Gate "cult" in San Diego. My alarm bells immediately began to ring. A "cult suicide" blared the mainstream media with one hysterical voice. Oh yes? Now where have I heard this before? Jonestown, Guyana, Waco, the Solar Temple in Switzerland and Canada and so on. H ere we go again. I do not believe for a moment that the real story of Heaven's Gate is anything like the one we are being asked to believe. First of all, you only have to look at the eyes of the people in the videos taken of them to see that they were under some form of mind-control and/or drugs. I believe they were murdered and this is just the latest in a series of events stages to condition public opinion against "cults." I wrote about this is ...And The Truth Shall Set You Free and predicted more "mass suicides" by "cults." Heaven's Gate is just the latest. B ehind it all is the not so hidden hand of the CIA which operates through an organisation called the Cult Awareness Network (CAN) that was set up to discredit the term cult, and then apply it like confetti to anything they wish to destroy. This will be achieved when the public automatically associate the word "cult" with "dangerous nutters." Many already do!
About Religion News Blog
Religion news about religious movements, cults, sects and world religions, forcult experts such as the Branch Davidians case or the Heaven s gate case,
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Extractions: Religion News Blog (RNB) is published by Apologetics Index . RNB is a religious news service, presented as a weblog that highlights and archives news items and other resources about cults, religious sects, alternative religions, Christian denominations, and related issues. RNB's non-profit news clipping service is used by - among others - Christian apologists countercult professionals, anticult organizations, teachers, religion professionals, government officials, legal professionals, reporters and other researchers.
Heaven's Gate (Part 11)
postings on the Internet, rambling statements by members of the Heaven s Gatecult about UFOs, comets and religion were largely ignored until now.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/39dead11.htm

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