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	Marshall Applewhite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While at the hospital, he met Bonnie who convinced him that the experience was for a very special reason and that he could be used mightily in a group about which she knew.
		The two, never lovers, gave one another playful names such as "bo" and "peep." Applewhite saw Nettles as his superior, and there is evidence that their mental illnesses rebounded on one another within the cult fabric.
		Amongst Applewhite's radical beliefs was the belief that the surgical castration of males was a necessary prerequisite for the particular type of salvation that he believed in, which he and many of his male followers were found to have undergone, prior to their mass suicide in 1997.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marshall_Applewhite (398 words)

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		Nettles tried to explain how she and a former opera singer had become the center of a new universe, the origin of the Heaven's Gate cult.
		In 1985, Bonnie Nettles died of cancer at age 57 and was buried at an undisclosed location.
		The "Liv" Terrie Nettles met in 1986, was among the 38 Applewhite led to suicide.
	www.texnews.com /texas97/bonnie033197.html (1330 words)

	The Watchman Expositor: Heaven's Gate Profile
		Though reared a Baptist, Nettles was a member of the Theosophical Society and was involved in channeling messages from spirits.
		Nettles and Applewhite had predicted their own death and resurrection, and members were becoming disillusioned because this promised "demonstration" had not occurred.
		Nettles died of liver cancer in 1985, but not before Applewhite came to the conclusion that she was actually his Older Member from the Next Level.
	www.watchman.org /profile/hvnsgatepro.htm (1995 words)

	On the Furthest Fringes of Millennialism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Nettles are described as representatives of an extraterrestrial plane called the Kingdom of Heaven, come to earth "to offer the way leading to membership" there for those who could "overcome" their attachment to money, sex and family life.
		Nettles came to believe they were beings from outer space, incarnate in human bodies, with a mission to teach others about the possibility of reaching a new stage of existence.
		Nettles preached was well-suited to a nation traumatized by the loss of the war in Vietnam, the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon and years of social upheaval and violence.
	www.rickross.com /reference/heavensgate/gate5.html (2000 words)

	Goerman, Heaven's Gate: Sociological Perspective
		After meeting, Nettles and Applewhite spent six weeks in Texas in social isolation, and have stated that this is when they first began to learn about their "Next Level mind".
		Nettles and Applewhite were able to incorporate many ideas from their previous spiritual backgrounds and create the belief system which was later "sold" to their followers.
		Nettles was raised a Baptist and later belonged to the Houston Theosophical Society, participating in a meditation group which is said to have channeled spirits, (Balch, 1994: 98).
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/heavensgate/Goerman.html (10440 words)

	Eyes on Glory: Pied Pipers of Heaven's Gate
		Bonnie Lu Trusdale Nettles, 46, was a registered nurse from Houston, a recent casualty of the marital wars and the quietly forceful mom of three teen-agers and a 12-year-old.
		Nettles knew her Bible, but she also charted the stars, summoned the dead in seances and took guidance from the voice of someone she called Brother Francis, a 19th-century monk.
		Nettles died, her place at Do's side was generally taken by women, most often Susan Strom and Julie LaMontagne, who was a nurse.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/national/042897suicide-cult.html (8351 words)

	The Watchman Expositor: Heaven's Gate Timeline
		Applewhite meets Bonnie Lu Nettles, a nurse and astrologer involved in Theosophy and reincarnation.
		Nettles leaves her husband and four children to be with Applewhite.
		Charges against Nettles are dropped and she returns to Houston.
	www.watchman.org /cults/hgtetime.htm (734 words)

	NOT QUITE 39 STEPS TO THE NEXT LEVEL - TGS HiddenMysteries Reptilian Agenda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Nettles abandoned her husband and children to wander America with Applewhite.
		Nettles continues to play a part in their mythology; she is their link to "the Fathers" in the "chain of mind".
		Nettles is virtually deified as the "Representative from the Next Evolutionary Level" who will help them "break their ties to their humanness" and shed their "containers" (bodies).
	www.reptilianagenda.com /other/o020900d.shtml (1072 words)

	Skeptical Inquirer: The Two: a fantasy-assessment biography - characteristics of Heaven's Gate cult founders Marshall ...
		The story of Applewhite and Nettles is a bizarre tale of fantasy that led eventually to psychosis and the annihilation of an entire cult.
		Nettles, who was four years his senior and married with four children, shared an asexual relationship with Applewhite who, at some point, underwent castration.
		Early in their association they claimed to be channeling an apparition, the spirit of a nineteenth-century monk named Brother Francis, whom Nettles had been communicating with even prior to meeting Applewhite.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2843/is_n4_v21/ai_19727570 (1349 words)

	Heaven´s Gate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Nettles was a nurse when they met in Houston.
		Applewhite and Nettles met in Houston in 1972 after he had been dismissed from St. Thomas University as the result of a scandal involving a male student.
		He and Nettles were the two prophets of the eleventh chapter of the Book of Revelations.
	www.meta-religion.com /Spiritualism/Ufo_cult/heavensgate.htm (2584 words)

	CNN - Applewhite: From young overachiever to cult leader - Mar. 28, 1997
		Nettles told him he could be 'used mightily'
		Applewhite and Nettles would live together in what he termed a sexless union until she died in 1985.
		Applewhite and Nettles made news in 1975 when they convinced a group of 20 people from Waldport, Oregon, to leave their homes and move to eastern Colorado, where they would meet with a space ship.
	www.cnn.com /US/9703/28/applewhite (773 words)

	Heaven's Gate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He was the founder of the Heaven's Gate cult that was based in California.
		Nettles was a prominent member of the Theosophical Society in
		Applewhite and Nettles went to the state of California.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~reli291/HeavensGate/Heavens_Gate.html (1030 words)

	The Religious Movements Homepage: Heaven's Gate
		Bonnie Lu Nettles (aka Peep and Ti was born in 1927, though her birthplace is unknown.
		Nettles was a nurse when they met in Houston in 1972.
		Nettles had been involved in metaphysical studies and the New Age movement well before the two met.
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/hgprofile.html (3656 words)

	Heaven's Gate: The Life and Death of a UFO Cult (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Louise Winant, has told the story that her brother was very ill and had a "near death experience." Whatever the reason, it was in the hospital that he met Bonnie Lu Nettles.
		Nettles was a nurse there, and she and Applewhite soon discovered a shared interest in esoteric subjects.
		It was Nettles who convinced Applewhite he had been spared from death for a reason -- to lead others to spiritual enlightenment.
	www.parascope.com /articles/0397/hgate1.htm (552 words)

	Just Do It - FT099
		There he met Bonnie Lu Nettles, a nurse with a consuming interest in the occult nurse and patient would remain together for life.
		In 1973, Applewhite and Nettles began wandering through the American West, and in this period decided that they were the "two witnesses", prophets fated to die and be reborn, as mentioned in Revelations 11:3.
		In 1985, Nettles – now rechristened 'Ti' to Applewhite's 'Do' – died of cancer and Do began referring to her as his 'heavenly father'.
	www.forteantimes.com /articles/099_doit.shtml (784 words)

	Texas News
		It was there that he met Houston native Bonnie Lu Nettles, a married nurse and mother of four, who shared his vision that earthly bodies were irrelevant, and that they were anointed messengers from another world.
		The names were different, but the philosophy was the same: That Applewhite, Nettles and their followers would reach a higher plane of existence by riding a spaceship to a better world.
		Applewhite was convinced he was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ and that Nettles was God the Father in the flesh.
	www.texnews.com /texas97/cult032897.html (534 words)

	"Heaven's Gate" Suicides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Ironically, it was at that hospital that he met a nurse, Bonnie Lu Trousdale Nettles, whom appears to have fueled his delusions.
		Applewhite and Nettles became a platonic team and recruited followers, which grew into a group.
		Nettles could only be separated from Applewhite by death, she died from cancer in 1985.
	www.culteducation.com /hgate.html (1053 words)

	Heaven's Gate founder skipped town without paying motel bill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It seems that Applewhite, before he became famous, and a companion -- presumably Bonnie Lu Nettles, the woman who introduced him to the world of metaphysical studies -- made a one-day pilgrimage to Hopkinsville on Oct. 9, 1973, to visit Edgar Cayce's grave at Riverside Cemetery.
		About two years after seeing Hopkinsville, Applewhite and Nettles made national headlines when, claiming to be space aliens, they reportedly convinced a group of 20 people from Waldport, Ore., to leave their homes and move to Colorado to meet up with a space ship that was supposed to take them to a far-off planet.
		Nettles, a former nurse who met Applewhite while he was a patient at a Houston psychiatric asylum in the early 1970s, was not among the dead in the Heaven's Gate mass suicide.
	www.rickross.com /reference/heavensgate/gate37.html (1079 words)

	Nettles
		Nettles is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		Founded by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Lou Nettles in Rancho Santa Fe, CA: Applewhite (a.
		Do) and 38 other members committed suicide in March of 1997, believing that by leaving their bodies behind they could join Nettles (a.
	www.experiencefestival.com /nettles (851 words)

	Heaven's Gate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Similarly, Nettles left behind her job as a nurse and her family so that she and Marshall might pursue their spiritual desires.
		Applewhite was the son of a Presbyterian minister, while Nettles had been a student of astrology and a variety of New Age religions.
		1985: Bonnie Nettles dies of liver cancer at the age of 57.
	www.artsci.lsu.edu /phil/faculty/payne/Projects/AmerRel/SSmith/saucers04.html (564 words)

	Heaven's Gate mass suicide
		There, they would see Bonnie Nettles again, the movement's co-founder, who really had died of cancer.
		Nettles was a prominent member of the Theosophical Society in Houston, Texas and wrote the astrology column for the local newspaper.
		Though they were able to impress small numbers of people with their ideas, they were not good at managing large numbers.
	www.stelling.nl /simpos/heavgate.htm (1173 words)

	Heavens Gate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		They were from a range of backgrounds and ages and included Thomas Nichols, whose sister Nichelle has long been associated with spaceships from her role in the original Star Trek series and her work with NASA.
		Also numbered amongst the dead was Marshall Applewhite who founded the cult in 1970 (his co-founder, Bonnie Nettles, had already died in 1985 from cancer).
		Both Applewhite and Nettles believed themselves to be from the 'Evolutionary Level Above Human'; two entities who had each taken over a human body using it as a physical container during their time on Earth.
	www.unex-t.com /thetruth/heaven.htm (380 words)

	Wired News: Do and Ti's Long, Strange Trip Toward Death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		They were known to some of the members of their movement, which apparently self-immolated in an attempt to reach a spaceship they believed is near Comet Hale-Bopp, as Bo and Peep.
		One of their first adventures together was an arrest in 1974 in Herlingen, Texas: Applewhite was busted on car-theft charges, Nettles on a count of credit-card fraud.
		Despite Bo and Peep's sudden shyness, when Applewhite and Nettles left the Bay Area in 1975, they were leading more than 200 people who were willing to subject themselves to an "overcoming process" and give up their property for the promise of a spaceship journey to "that higher kingdom."
	www.wired.com /news/print/0,1294,2848,00.html (615 words)

	The suicides in San Diego
		No doubt the beliefs and the final actions of the Heaven's Gate group were insane, but there is no indication in the background of those who died that they were afflicted with mental illness in a clinical sense.
		As for the role of Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Nettles, what must be explained is precisely how two individuals could come to exert such inordinate influence over a larger group, to the point of inducing them to take their own lives.
		Many of the individuals involved had encountered some kind of serious personal crisis--death of a loved one, divorce, setbacks in their jobs, financial difficulties--shortly before they dropped out and became followers of Applewhite and Lu Nettles.
	www.wsws.org /news/1997/apr1997/hg-a7.shtml (1622 words)

	UFO CULT SAW SUICIDE AS PATH TO HIGHER EXISTENCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		At that time, he met a nurse, Bonnie Lu Nettles, who offered him friendship and spiritual support and encouraged him to recognize himself as a man with a mission.
		Shortly thereafter, Applewhite and Nettles became known as "Bo and Peep," leading a small band of people who expected to be lifted off the earth to a higher level of existence in a UFO.
		To their loyal following, Applewhite and Nettles later became known as "Do and Ti." Applewhite said that Nettles, aka Ti, was the more advanced of the two, and though he was the charismatic spokesperson, he deferred to her wisdom.
	www.anomalies.net /archive/cni-news/CNI.0729.html (1508 words)

	A TRUTH SEEKER GOES TO ROSWELL
		In late June, 1997, I was pleased to receive an invitation from Bonnie Lange of Truth Seeker to be their guest at the 50th anniversary festival of the "Roswell Incident"....which I call "The Roswell Hoax".
		I was anxious to meet Garner and the other people of the Truth Seeker contingency, especially Bonnie Lange, and was disappointed that she decided not to come.
		In my unsuccessful efforts to reach Bonnie after the event, all my calls were unreturned, and all I received was silence, except for a short note attached to an invoice, telling me the venture was a downer for them.
	netowne.com /ufos/ufo-coverups (4182 words)

	Skeptical Inquirer: Heaven's Gate: the UFO cult of Bo and Peep. (He... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		His registered nurse, Bonnie Nettles(1) (she was forty-four, he forty), was a former Baptist, then deep into occultism, astrology, and reincarnation.
		Shortly after their meeting, and fired with the divine mandate to rescue as many humans as possible from the destruction of our world as we know it, Applewhite and Nettles embarked on their mission, Nettles abandoning a husband and four children in the process.
		In a 1972 interview in the Houston Post, Nettles said her astrological work was assisted by Brother Francis, a nineteenth-century monk.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:19727569&refid=holomed_1 (2812 words)

	SOCIOLOGY 260 -- News Articles
		Raised in Houston, Bonnie Nettles, then Bonnie Trusdale, was born in 1927 and born again in Christ in 1938.
		Not only was Brother Francis—the long-dead monk _ loyally at Bonnie's side, but she also called on other deceased souls through mediums.
		Bonnie Nettles lost an eye to cancer in 1983, but exactly when this trained nurse accepted the reality of oncoming death is unclear.
	www.stolaf.edu /people/leming/soc260fam/news/April_28.html (8277 words)

	Jonestown
		Their predictions of physical confirmation of salvation by being picked up by a spaceship were repeatedly disconfirmed, and doubters left the group.
		The promise that members were transforming their human bodies into eternal space alien bodies was disconfirmed by Nettles' death in 1985.
		Nettles and Applewhite taught that only a small number of people could overcome their humanness, and that only those who were willing to release all attachments to human life could become members.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /~remoore/jonestown/AboutJonestown/Articles/print_millennium.htm (6799 words)

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