101. ! The Final Offer: Heaven's Gate, One Year Later The whole Heaven s gate scenario was scripted for everyone to see in + Thereligious cults who have separated from the world have picked up on one http://www.parascope.com/nb/articles/heavensGate.htm

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. As a historical footnote to the mass exodus of the "UFO Cult," ParaScope presents Marshall Applewhite's "Final Offer." This text is taken from the ad printed in the July 22, 1993 issue of

102. The Watchman Expositor: Heaven's Gate Profile Heaven s gate. By Bob Waldrep. Founders Bonnie Lou Nettles and Marshall Herff Alnor, a Philadelphiabased Christian writer and researcher on cults and http://www.watchman.org/profile/hvnsgatepro.htm

SITE DIRECTORY Home Page About Watchman Fellowship Free Subscriptions Church Presentations Weekly News Subject Index Profiles State Offices Watchman Staff OVERVIEW OF CULTS Articles JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES Articles MORMONISM Articles NEW AGE Articles OCCULT Articles SCIENTOLOGY Articles OTHER RELIGIOUS TOPICS Articles Watchman Fellowship Profiles Heaven's Gate By Bob Waldrep Founders: Bonnie Lou Nettles and Marshall Herff Applewhite, a.k.a.: The Two Witnesses, Guinea and Pig, Bo and Peep, and Ti and Do. Founding Date: Official Publications: This group produced a number of publications, primarily in the form of posters, flyers and statements. These include: "Undercover 'Jesus' Surfaces Before Departure," " '95 Statement by an E.T. Presently Incarnate," "Last Chance To Advance Beyond Human" and "The Shedding of Our Human Bodies May Be Required To Take Up New Bodies in then Next World." They also produced a video series entitled: "Beyond Human - The Last Call." Finally, they published an official record of their history and beliefs: Heaven's Gate (The Door to the Physical Kingdom Level Above Human)

103. The Watchman Expositor: Heaven's Gate Tragedy Index of Cults Religions, State Offices, Watchman Staff, OVERVIEW OF CULTS In the days following the first thirtynine Heaven s gate suicides, http://www.watchman.org/na/heavengt.htm

SITE DIRECTORY Home Page About Watchman Fellowship Free Subscriptions Church Presentations Weekly News Subject Index Profiles State Offices Watchman Staff OVERVIEW OF CULTS Articles JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES Articles MORMONISM Articles NEW AGE Articles OCCULT Articles SCIENTOLOGY Articles OTHER RELIGIOUS TOPICS Articles Vol. 14, No. 2, 1997 Articles on the New Age Lessons to be Learned: Heaven's Gate Tragedy by James K. Walker In the days following the first thirty-nine Heaven's Gate suicides, the staff at Watchman Fellowship was barraged by the news media. Nightline, ABC World News Tonight, CNN, USA Today, Time, Newsweek and a host of other international, national and local journalists interviewed our staff. At one point there were three network news teams setting up cameras and lights simultaneously in Watchman's offices. They were all asking crucial questions: "How could these people be so deceived?" "Could more suicides follow in the coming months?" "Don't these people have the right to choose death?" "By voluntarily giving their lives for their faith, were Applewhite and his followers really different than Christian martyrs?" One of the frustrations in working with television news media is the necessity of reducing significant and complex discussions to the infamous ten second "sound bite." Difficult and important questions need a more thorough discussion. This issue of the

104. Religions Of The Ancient Mediterranean Blog: June 2005 In the 1990s, the Heaven s gate group combined Christian apocalyptic expectationof the For a short overview of the types of imperial cults, go here. http://www.philipharland.com/Blog/2005_06_01_archive.html

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?blogID=13149921"); Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean blog Posts on religious life among Greeks, Romans, Jews, and Christians in the Roman empire and on the social history of Christianity. Thursday, June 30, 2005 Aliens, Fallen Angels, and Heaven's Gate A week or so ago, Jim Davila discussed a recent novel which combines stories of the fallen angels and giants (Nephilim) with UFOlogy and fundamentalist Christian apocalypticism (also discussed on the new blog Caf© Apocalypsis ). The combination of an imminent expectation of the end with the role of alien races as either the saviours or the villains is not new, of course. In the 1990s, the Heaven's Gate group combined Christian apocalyptic expectation of the final intervention of God (in this case aliens) with the notion of good and bad alien races (the group clearly believed in their views as they ended their lives in expectation of the end and the move to the "level above human"). The malevolent space races, the "Luciferians," likely included the notion of fallen angels, whose activity was outlined in some detail by the Heaven's Gate: The term "TRUE" Kingdom of God is used repeatedly because there are many space alien races that through the centuries of this civilization (and in civilizations prior) have represented themselves to humans as "Gods." We refer to them collectively as "space alien races in opposition to the Next Level," what historically have been referred to as "Luciferians," for their ancestors fell into disfavor with the Kingdom Level Above Human many thousands of years ago. They are not genderless - they still need to reproduce. They have become nothing more than technically advanced humans (clinging to human behavior) who retained some of what they learned while in the early training of Members of the Level Above Human, e.g., having limited: space-time travel, telepathic communication, advanced travel hardware (spacecrafts, etc.), increased longevity, advanced genetic engineering, and such skills as suspending holograms (as used in some so-called "religious miracles"). The Next Level - the true

105. CSA - Hot Topics Heaven s gate was also typical of cults in that it was headed by a charismatic Many fringe religions or cults have been accused of using brainwashing to http://www.csa.com/hottopics/archives/y2k.php

Guide to Discovery PsycBOOKS now available on CSA Illumina! Hot Topics Quick Links CSA Illumina Login Administrative Tools Try a Demonstration Request a Trial Hot Topics Areas Natural Sciences Social Sciences Technology Holy Y2K! Millennial Cults and TEOTWAWKI (Released September 1999) by Kathlyn Hyatt Stewart, M.S. Glossary Contact Overview Time magazine (January 1999) reported that 9% of respondents fully believe that the world as we know it will end on January 1, 2000. In 999, people didn't have to worry about a "Y1K" bug, though many were preparing for an apocalypse, nonetheless. The world was still thought to be flat, the law of gravity was centuries from being discovered, diseases were of mysterious origin and unlikely cure, illiteracy was rampant and the printing press had yet to be invented, and most phenomena now known to be part of the "natural" world were perceived as the product of supernatural forces; the world was a scary and unpredictable place. Prophets of doom reigned, and, despite the fact that the millennium has no basis in geological, celestial, or sidereal fact, these seers gathered legions of followers with their predictions of Armageddon. What are millennial cults?

106. Bounded Choice Bounded Choice presents a unique comparison of two charismatic cults. Looking closely at Heaven s gate and at the Democratic Workers Party, http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9497.html

@import "style.css"; 353 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 18 b/w photographs, 3 line illustrations, 12 tables Published September 2004 Available worldwide Entire Site Books Journals E-Editions The Press Janja Lalich Bounded Choice True Believers and Charismatic Cults In stockships in 2-3 days In stockships in 2-3 days Categories: Sociology Cultural Anthropology Social Problems Psychology ... MORE INFO AND CHOICES Email: Description About the Author Related Books "Lalich's newest book, Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults, puts her unusual experience and extensive scholarship to excellent use. Bounded Choice presents a unique comparison of two charismatic cults. . . . Lalich combines inside knowledge of the everyday life of cult members with a scholarly capacity to clearly illuminate the intricate social processes involved in cult formation. . . . This book will certainly reshape scholarly thinking about cults and cult members. . . . With her combination of extensive scholarship and extensive personal experience, Lalich is perhaps our best available interpreter and theoretician of the cult phenomenon."Karla McLaren, Skeptical Inquirer "Fascinating. . . .Lalich combines inside knowledge of the everyday life of cult members with a scholarly capacity to clearly illuminate the intricate social processes involved in cult formation. Lalich is perhaps our best available interpreter and theoretician of the cult phenomenon."Karla McLaren

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