Heaven's Gate Cult

“I can lead you into that kingdom level above human. That can’t happen unless you leave the human world that you’re in and come and follow me. Time is short. Last chance.” A chilling narration spoken by Marshall Herff Applewhite, a previous seminarian and preacher’s son. A man who conceived a religion in which propaganda was used to lead it’s followers down the wrong path. In March of 1997, a tragic event took place. Applewhite as well as thirty eight members of a cult known as the Heaven’s Gate Cult committed collective suicide. Mass suicide is a waste and a tragedy, and causes mankind to wonder what attractions cults hold for it’s members. What could separate people from their families and responsibilities in order to follow radical leaders,

Names such as Guinea and Pig, Bo and Peep, and lastly Ti and Do. Do is pronounced as Doe. Nettles took the name of Ti and Applewhite called himself Do. Their religion was a unique blend of UFOlogy and biblical apocalyptic, in which they offered their followers a transformation to the next evolutionary level above human. Moreover, whoever accepted this message would be appropriated by the spacecraft. They explained that human bodies were nothing more than containers that they could relinquish in order to have a higher physical existance. When the spaceship never arrived the followers of Heaven’s Gate began to

In October of 1996, the group rented a large mansion in Santa Fe, on the periphery of San Diego, California. Applewhite explained to the owner that his group were made up of angels, based on Christian theologies. Applewhite encouraged sexual abstinence, and many of the male cult members followed his lead and underwent castration operations. In addition, in that same year the Hale-Bopp comet was seen. Members of Heaven’s Gate believed, with great certainty, that another object was hidden from human detection behind the comet. They affirmed that the object was a spacecraft, with which they could