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In the News (Wed 30 Dec 09)

  
  hgate
Cult leaders employ a variety of methods to work their devotees into altered states of consciousness.
Cult leaders, like Do and Te of the Heaven's Gate cult, utilize the power of peer pressure to conform devotees to predictable patterns.
Or, as may be in the case of the Higher Source cult, that they are poised to shed their earthly containers and become pioneers of a new, extra-terrestrial civilization.
www.cultbuster.faithweb.com /hgate.htm   (1744 words)

  
  Heaven's Gate (cult) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Heaven's Gate was the name of a UFO religion co-led by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles (until her death).
The mass suicide of the Heaven's Gate group is one of the most widely known examples of cult suicide.
Heaven's Gate by Jeffrey Hadden of the University of Virginia
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heaven's_Gate_(cult)   (1931 words)

  
 Goerman, Heaven's Gate: Sociological Perspective
Heaven's Gate has been characterized by many as a religious cult, but it is important to define this term, since it has historically carried negative connotations.
Heaven's Gate, which has been known also as Human Individual Metamorphosis and various other names such as "the Bo and Peep UFO Cult", which were invented by the mass media, was a millenarian movement, which incorporated traditional Biblical teachings with the idea of space travel and beings from other dimensions.
Heaven's Gate is an interesting study in that it combines elements of all four of Stark and Bainbridge's models of cult formation.
religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/heavensgate/Goerman.html   (10440 words)

  
 The Heavens Gate Cult Research Page
The fate of cults with such a strong belief and an influential leader is usually the sad fate chosen for them by the leader.
A few members left the Heavens Gate cult when talk of suicide became more serious, but the 38 followers who were left had such enormous faith in what Applewhite was saying that they stayed and met their fate willingly.
In the case of the Heavens Gate Cult, Applewhite had everyone wear the same clothes, shaved everyone's hair into the same short buzz cut, castrated some of the men, and stopped using personal pronouns such as "he" and "she".
www.members.tripod.com /Jenkut/English.html   (550 words)

  
 HEAVENS GATE: Rancho Santa Fe Suicides
Heaven's Gate was the name of a cult co-led by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles until Nettles' death.
Cult members gave up their material possessions and the male members of the cult underwent castration.
The Keepers Of Heaven's Gate: The Millennial Madness explores the religious and philosophical ideas behind a number of "doomsday groups" in an attempt to elucidate the mystical and prophetic happenings which are fueling the furor of many new millennial cultists.
www.true-crimes.com /heavens_gate.html   (565 words)

  
 A Transpersonal and Existentialist View of the Heavens Gate Cult
The Heaven’s Gate cult was led by a couple claiming to be genderless aliens, whose human names were Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles.
Through castration the cult members were able to clear their mind of desires, but what of the sense impressions, images and thoughts which have to be eliminated.
The cult believes that as a dog becomes close to a human family it may eventually gain access to being human as a new vessel (human baby) is made available.
www.spiritwatch.ca /lemon.htm   (2119 words)

  
 Cults
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.
Cult leaders and followers are isolated and cut off from normal interaction with people outside the group.
Someone attending a cult meeting for the first time quickly finds himself the object of attention and loving regard-"love-bombing." Feelings of warmth and acceptance are experienced as the group presents itself as a closely knit family bound together by ties of affection and common purpose.
www.leaderu.com /common/cults.html   (2139 words)

  
 Cults and Crazy Thinking
Cults develop a very inward form of thinking where the recruit spends most of their time either working for the cult or pondering their own deficiencies.
Cults neglect the needs of the outer world and their social action programmes are practically non-existent.
Though cults are large (about a quarter of the size of the mainline churches) their contribution in these areas is small indeed.
www.jeremiahproject.com /prophecy/cult01.html   (1152 words)

  
 Heavens Gate
In the spring of 1987 the band was renamed Heavens Gate.
A mini-album, 'Open the Gate And Watch!' was released in April 1990, and Heavens Gate again went on tour through Germany, this time with Lawdy.
Heavens Gate were amongst the leading bands in the annual polls of the biggest Japanese magazines, and the readers of Burrn!
www.angelfire.com /music6/metalmadness_bands/heavensgate.html   (1233 words)

  
 Heaven's Gate UFO Mythology: The Escape to Oblivion (Skeptical Inquirer / July 1997)
Heaven's Gate was led by Marshall Herff Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Nettles (who died in 1985), who taught their followers how to enter the Kingdom of God.
The bizarre apocalyptic theology of Heaven's Gate is interpreted by its critics as absurd and ridiculous; yet it was taken deadly serious by its devotees, and a significant part of the UFO scenario is now accepted by large sectors of the public.
Considered cults in their own day, they were passed down from generation to generation, but perhaps they are no less queer than the new paranormal cults.
www.csicop.org /si/9707/cult.html   (2030 words)

  
 The Heaven's Gate Cult
The Heaven's Gate cult is one of literally thousands of millennial cults, including hundreds of UFO-based cults around the world.
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").
answers.org /cultsandreligions/hgate.html   (927 words)

  
 Masters Of Metal-Heaven’s Gate
Heavens Gate was formed in Spring 1987, playing at the time under the name Carrion.
A mini-album, "Open the Gate and Watch!" was released in April 1990 and Heavens Gate again went on tour throughout Germany, this time with Lawdy.
Heavens Gate had thus been able to fulfill the promise they had made to their Japanese tour promoter after the release of "Livin' In Hysteria" - to go to Japan on tour.
www.truemetal.org /mastersofmetal/heavensgate.htm   (766 words)

  
 The Religious Movements Homepage: Heaven's Gate
The group that would one day be known as Heaven's Gate first gained national visibility in the fall of 1975, when approximately 30 people mysteriously disappeared after a public lecture about flying saucers in the small beach community of Walport, Oregon.
In the end, the deaths of the Heaven's Gate group were acts of faith; they were graduating to the higher level from which Do and Ti had descended.
While Heaven’s Gate no longer has its own web page, a mirror site has been preserved as it was the day the group committed suicide: http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/heavensgate_mirror/index.html.
religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/hgprofile.html   (3656 words)

  
 Heavens Gate Cult
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.
The name of the cult is now believed to be Heaven's Gate, not Higher Source, as reported previously.
One of the videotapes showed the cult's leader, Marshall Applewhite -- a trekkie-like individual with bugged-out eyes -- in a weird triple image, stating matter-of-factly their intention of leaving earth and hitching a ride on a UFO hiding behind the Hale-Bobb comet.
francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/manifestos/heavenstimeline.htm   (2836 words)

  
 Surviving The Fall: Known Cult Groups
Heavens Gate cult was headed by Marshall Applewhite and 39 people lost their lives because of the UFO ideology that encompassed this group.
Cult members are encouraged to live on the 48 -acre compound.
According to ex cult members, the inner core absolutely believes in alien intervention and that some members are alien hybrids.
www.survivingthefall.net /known_cults.html   (1847 words)

  
 cult033197
She died like the others, after swallowing sleeping pills and vodka, seeking salvation on a space ship the cult believed was trailing the Hale-Bopp comet.
Hill, a Baptist, said she doesn't know what her son and his wife were looking for when they hooked up with Heaven's Gate.
She is guarded about his whereabouts and details of his life with the cult.
www.cincypost.com /news/1997/cult033197.html   (543 words)

  
 CNN - One year later, Heaven's Gate suicide leaves only faint trail - March 25, 1998
The 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult who took their own lives one year ago were professional Web page designers who used the Internet to attempt to win converts and spread their message.
Heaven's Gate members believed that Hale-Bopp, an unusually bright comet, was the sign that they were supposed to shed their earthly bodies (or "containers") and join a spacecraft traveling behind the comet that would take them to a higher plane of existence.
That ease of access to information led to fears that the new medium offered new opportunities for cults to recruit, and that the sci-fi pastiche of Heaven's Gate was a perfect fit.
www.cnn.com /US/9803/25/heavens.gate   (829 words)

  
 Search Tuna Report for Heavens Gate cult   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Heavens Gate from Welcome Home HEAVENS GATE words and music © Ché Zuro from Welcome Home listen!  This was so heavily inspired by the cult that committed suicide in Southern California a few years ago - the Heavens Gate cult....
Heavens Gate Suicide ENCINITAS, CA - According to the San Diego County Sheriff's Department, deputies responded to a report, from a person who identified herself as Leslie Stahl of 60 Minutes, a woman reported to her that two men may have committed suicide at an Encinitas hotel....
Heavens Gate Cult O My God The Heaven's Gate Cult William Duby The news media is delighting in a feeding frenzy since 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult committed mass suicide....
www.searchtuna.com /ftlive2/270.html   (2420 words)

  
 Heaven's Gate UFO Cult - Conspiracy Theories linking UFO cult to Waco, Theosophy, New World Order etc. - watcher ...
Summary of the Heaven's Gate UFO cult suicide from the internet source the 60 Greatest Conspiracies.
We at Watcher have been WARNING for years about the potential for people to be deceived by "aliens" (who are really fallen angels) bringing enlightenment, and the danger of viewing ETs as the catalyst for the next step in human evolution.
It is misleading and betrays an anti-Christian bias to label the recently arrested cult [Concerned "Christians" led by Monte Kim Miller], or the Branch Davidians, as "Christian Cultists".
www.mt.net /~watcher/cult.html   (1194 words)

  
 How Cults Work
Cult leaders don't want you to know that you are being recruited into a cult and so they order their recruiters to dress, talk and act in a way that will put you at ease.
Cults train their members to instantly destroy any critical information given to them, and to not even entertain the thought that the information could be true.
Cult leaders will then use this information to convince their members that they have a supernatural link, the trusting member does not suspect the very natural mechanism behind the supernatural revelations they are given.
www.cultwatch.com /hcwindex.html   (3725 words)

  
 Heavens Gate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Heaven's Gate was a cult centered in California.
They held a profoundly dualistic belief of the soul as being a superior entity which is only housed temporarily in a body.
He was given instructions by "Ti", his female companion, whom he referred to as his "Heavenly Father." He left his body behind, transported to Earth in a space-ship, moved into a human body, that of Jesus Christ.
people.stu.ca /~gvmqz/rse5.htm   (492 words)

  
 An Unpopular View of the Heavens Gate Cult
I was recently at a happy hour, a questionably named activity to be sure, it was shortly after the whole Heaven's Gate Cult Suicide thing.
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.
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.
quasisemi.com /ego/hgate.htm   (646 words)

  
 An Unpopular View of the Heavens Gate Cult
I was recently at a happy hour, a questionably named activity to be sure, it was shortly after the whole Heaven's Gate Cult Suicide thing.
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.
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.
www.quasisemi.com /ego/hgate.htm   (646 words)

  
 Heavens Gate
Heaven’s Gate Suicide: Don’t fall for "Roll your own Religion".
The Heaven’s Gate Suicide has a lot of people questioning how it could have happened in America.
Of course the whole Heaven’s Gate philosophy breaks down on one major point, the means of attaining that state beyond the body.
www.webcom.com /~ara/col/heavens_gate.html   (476 words)

  
 The oracle of Ifa and the verdict of the court (English version)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Where in the seventies the ‘cults" were the culprit for all and sundry evils, "satanists" seem to have inherited this position for the eighties.
During a relatively short period afterwards the image forming around "cults" was dominated by the high profile "anti cult movement", that gave a (semi-?) scientific foundation to the pathological aspects of cult membership with the metaphors brain washing and "snapping".
In fact traditional deprogramming boils down to making a fake appointment with the "cult member", in order to take this person against their will to an isolated place where during a period of days (as long as it takes for the "cult member to snap out of its cult personality") an intensive therapy is administered.
www.bezinnen.nl /teksten/wim_eng/oracle.htm   (8966 words)

  
 Heavens Gate (History)
The album was released in Janary 1989 and soon afterwards the band were on the road as much hailed support for W.A.S.P., as well as on their own, well-attended headliner tour through Germany.
A mini-album, "Open The Gates And Watch!" was released in April 1990 and Heavens Gate again went on tour throughout Germany, this time with Lawdy.
Heavens Gate had thus been able to fulfill the promise they had made to their Japanese tour promoter after the release of "Livin' In Hysteria"- to go to Japan on tour.
www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/flowered/746/history.htm   (704 words)

  
 HEAVEN'S GATE: THE DAY AFTER
Beyond all the media hype and the sensationalization of the Heaven's Gate incident lies the true story.
We invite you to come on a journey with us that will explore the questions that have plagued mankind since the beginning of time, thus drawing him into cults, the fatalistic dooms day approach to the millenium, the addiction of religious benediction and the ultimate self-sacrifice.
Several former members of Heaven's Gate talk about their experiences as followers of Ti and Do.
www.swmm.com /heavensgate   (170 words)

  
 Heaven's Gate - AOL Music
Heaven's Gate, Marshall Applewhite, Heaven's Gate Suicide, California cult suicide, Total Overcomers, Te and Do, The Two.
The mass suicide of the Heaven's Gate group is one of the most widely known...
Download, listen and watch Heaven's Gate music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
music.aol.com /artist/heavens-gate/299268/main   (148 words)

  
 Free heavens gate cult   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Heavens Gate from "Welcome Home"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This was so heavily inspired by the cult that committed suicide in Southern California a few years ago - the Heavens Gate cult.
The song is sort of tongue in cheek coming from someone inside a cult, and the things he/she says, and how serious they feel, yet how ridiculous they sound.
You'll never be healed unless you heed the warning No one will understand My God is real, he's on the rocketship that's made it's landing C'mon let's all join hands...
www.checheche.com /welcomehome/heavensgate.html   (203 words)

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