Heaven\'s Gate Cult Documentary PDF

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Dr. Ashley Wellman Contemporary Topics in CRJU Cults class. Class was mostly documentary-based....

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Heaven's Gate Cult Documentary Monday, March 4, 2019

1:02 PM

• Cult in San Diego • Committing suicide to "re-enter" the level above human • "we are going home to those individuals who sent us here to do this task" • "happiest thing you can possibly imagine" • Marshall Applewhite and Tea started the cult • Believed that they had been sent to Earth on a special mission ○ Promised their followers to entry to the kingdom of heaven without having to die first • Michael Conyers was one of the first members, was mesmerized ○ Message was talking to his Christian heritage in a modern way ○ Answers were technical, had physicality to it • You have avenues with imagination • Cult seems to offer a viable alternative to people • Designed for a person not to think for themselves, designed to take will over to benevolent being that will help take you to the other side • They used to joke that they were the cult of cults, were there to be begged to be brainwashed • Leave behind everything of human ways, human behavior, human ignorance, human misinformation • Big part of the class was to seek androgyny • Sex was considered too human and was banned • Members tried to find techniques to eliminate sexual desires • If you slip in to human territory, it was "bad" • Have to admit to a slippage of sexuality • Paranoid of government, police • Had elaborate systems of security with all the people that were involved • They often experimented with different diets, spent a lot of times indoors • It was clear that it was hard to dissuade members from leaving. David

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David would say he can't see his family--like what we were taught about in lecture. Believed Do is 21st century Jesus Had group meetings that help accelerate departure Earth is a garden to grow souls ○ Everything sounded so incredibly believable Master cleanser--lemonade with cayenne pepper and maple syrup, dietary formula to cleanse the vehicle, get rid of toxins Group was making money from making its own websites There was a couple that gave up their twin children to join the group ○ They too had to overcome their sexuality and attachment to each other Before they died, they claimed they were about to return to where they came from They all went to a restaurant, wore the same thing and ate the same things for "the last supper" "Heaven's Gate Away Team" Make the conscious choice to exit the world 39 people were in their beds, dead ○ Looked like they were all sleeping COD was sedatives and hydrocodone, and plastic bags ○ Also showed that 8 of them had been castrated "I have a really good feeling that they graduated, they are in the next level" ○ "dying for your belief system is a valid way to die"...