21. Suggestions: Everyone The central public misconception about the cult phenomenon is Tragedies, such asthe heavens’ gate or Jonestown and even commercial, as well as religious. http://www.csj.org/rg/rgfactsheet/rgfact_general.htm

NEW! AFF? CSR Trial ... new AFF resources about psychological manipulation, cult groups, sects, and new religious movements. Resource Guide Suggestions for Everyone Psychological Manipulation, cult groups, sects, and new religious movements Suggestions for General Inquirers The cult phenomenon is a difficult area to understand. Popular press analyses tend to offer limited insights. Cultic groups often deliberately obscure their actual goals and practices. Few groups have been studied scientifically. Affected persons are often reluctant to talk about their experiences, frequently because doing so involves much pain. There is no simple, easily understood explanation for why people join and remain in seemingly destructive groups. And public misconceptions about cults and cult joining tend to invite misinterpretations of the available information. The central public misconception about the cult phenomenon is that only "sick" people from troubled families would join "weird" groups. Tragedies, such as the Heavens’ Gate or Jonestown suicides political psychotherapeutic , and even commercial , as well as religious. And few people realize that research studies indicate that several million Americans have had at least a transient involvement with a cultic group, although many, buying into common misconceptions, may not recognize the cultic nature of the involvement.

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Heavens Gate FACTNet Message Board Religious Cults and Sects : Heavens Gate Anonymous Tuesday, March 05, 2002 - 08:16 pm By ROB DOLLAR rdollar@kentuckynewera.com Five years ago this month, the world learned the bizarre details of a mass suicide at a mansion in a well–to–do San Diego suburb. Apparently, they also were waiting for a spacecraft that was supposed to pick them up and take them to what they described as a higher plane of existence. Found at: Anonymous Wednesday, March 27, 2002 - 06:20 am Interviews with news organizations five years ago left DiAngelo angry at the media, but he agreed reluctantly to a phone interview with The Associated Press last week. Little remains from the group whose androgynous-looking men and women downed a lethal concoction of pudding or applesauce spiked with vodka and barbiturates. They sealed their fate by placing plastic bags over their heads. He is asking a minimum of $39,000 for the 1992 Ford van, which cult members once used for road trips to SeaWorld and Las Vegas . Two other cultists later followed with similar suicides.

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CLICK HERE! Support Our Sponsors Support Us! make a micro-donation thanks to our donors search browse faq ... free lists Register your email address with URL-MINDER to receive automatic notification when we update trancenet.org your email: Independent research on Heaven's Gate Academic Readings on Heaven's Gate From: Barry Markovsky X-Sender: markvsky@black.weeg.uiowa.edu To: Subject: FYI re the suicide cult and remote viewing allegations (fwd) Mime-Version: 1.0 John, FYI, in case you receive requests for info relating to the suicide cult biz. This is from Marcello Truzzi, a sociologist who specializes in "scientific anomalies" and sociology of science. Barry Forwarded message Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 23:08:40 -0500 From: Marcello Truzzi Subject: FYI re the suicide cult and remote viewing allegations For those of you interested in the current "cult" suicides, here is some perhaps useful additional information. ABC TV news this evening identified the leader called "Doe" as the man who earlier called himself "Bo" of an earlier cult called "Bo and Peep" or "The Two" which began in 1975! (Peep died of cancer in 1985.) In 1993, taking the name "Total Overcomers Anonymous," they took an ad out in USA TODAY stating their beliefs but with an apocalyptic tone not present earlier and which perhaps can now be seen as a signal of what was to come. Sociologists Robert W. Balch has written extensively about the earlier Bo and Peep UFO cult. Though this group called "WW Higher Source" (which had a design business web site called "Heaven's Gate") did reportedly think that the Hale-Bopp comet had a UFO hiding behind it and that the comet was acting as a "marker" announcing the arrival of spacecraft, their beliefs about this appear to have no special connection with the remote viewers' comments on the Art Bell show about the Hale-Bopp comet being accompanied by a supposed UFO in a now discredited picture of that UFO (next to and not behind) the comet, as was claimed by Dr. Courtney Brown (not Ed Dames as Randi has asserted). This group, the core members of which have worked together for over 20 years, already had a rather full blown UFO centered belief system going. They did not need the remote viewers for their conclusions which were well laid out for some years before Hale-Bopp was even discovered.

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CLICK HERE! Support Our Sponsors Support Us! make a micro-donation thanks to our donors search browse faq ... free lists Register your email address with URL-MINDER to receive automatic notification when we update trancenet.org your email: Independent research on Heaven's Gate Heaven's Gate News Week of 4/9/97 April 15, 1997 Battle brewing over control of Heaven's Gate business AP Wireservices (selections) SAN DIEGO (AP) A former Heaven's Gate member and the county are disputing ownership of the suicide cult's World Wide Web design business, which may be worth $1 million despite all its employees being dead. The county plans to auction off the cult's earthly belongings and give the proceeds to surviving family members, said Susan Jamme, the county's deputy public administrator in charge of the case. But Richard Ford, a former member who discovered the cultists' 39 bodies in a rented Rancho Santa Fe mansion on March 26, said members wanted him to assume ownership of the business known as Higher Source. ``If they want to start some ugly, post-death battle then we may have to pursue to legal action,'' said Ford's attorney, Robert Zakari. ``The county is interested in making money under the ruse of protecting the families.''

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Updated August 17, 1999, 9:10 a.m. ET Lawsuit: Maryland cult task force is religious inquisition A Maryland task force studying religious cults on college campuses is violating constitutional rights and conducting a "religious inquisition," according to a lawsuit filed by Seventh-day Adventists and Unification Church members. The suit, filed Monday, alleges that the state General Assembly has "determined that it is both unnecessary and harmful for students to think for themselves." The plaintiffs, which include the International Coalition for Religious Freedom, funded primarily by Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, claim the Task Force to Study the Effects of Cult Activities on Public Senior Higher Education Institutions is violating the establishment and free-exercise clauses of the FirstAmendment. "The government cannot, absolutely cannot, get involved in adjudicating what's a right religion and what's a wrong religion," said Kendrick Moxon, a Los Angeles civil rights attorney representing the plaintiffs. The suit seeks an injunction against the task force, as well as a declaration that the inquiry is unconstitutional.

28. The Retriever - Focus Many important religious leaders like Mani and Moses further specifies the definitionof a cult by characterizing One famed example is the heavens gate cult. http://trw.umbc.edu/articles/1917

Apr 8, 2003: News Features Sports Focus ... Opinion Feb 27, 2001: News Features Sports Focus ... The Retriever - Focus Everywhere You Look From the BSA to the NRA, What Is a Real Cult? Rachael Singerman Cult. The very word sends shivers down our collective spine as we envision FBI shootouts and satanic rituals. Fear and fascination are often associated with cults, but the most basic question is rarely answered: what is a cult? "Most explanations are situational," says Anne Rubin, an associate professor in the history department. In other words, the classification of a cult varies depending on the era in which one lives. Indeed, it is likely that you, my dear reader, were (and possibly still are) a member of a cult. The Merriam-Webster Collegiate dictionary offers four distinct definitions that include a wide range of organizations from Heaven’s Gate to Boy Scouts of America and even the Catholic Church. The first definition is about formal religious veneration, a system of religious beliefs and ritual and its body of adherents. The original meaning of the word "cult" is derived from the Latin word cultus meaning adoration and a later French word colere, to cultivate. Using this definition, all religious movements from Judaism to Buddhism are characterized as cults because they seek to instill love and loyalty to a certain set of beliefs. However, due to the pejorative connotation that cults have picked up over the past few centuries, "cult" is rarely used as a reference to mainstream religions. Biblical scholars, archeologists and many other academic disciplines that study the ancient or primitive societies still utilize the word "cult".

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Heavens Gate Home Page/Links maintained by Yahoo! The GOOD NEWS Commentary Re: Heavens Gate By Brother Michael J. Baldasaro After browsing their web site, it appears to me that these people were not a religious cult at all but rather they were mostly simply folk who believed that they were aliens from out in space who had to go back the way they did, by killing themselves whtn the comet Hale Bopp passed by the earth in the late1980's. In the end they made a mess in someone elses home to wit: leaving behind their dead smelly corpses for their earthling landlord and state to clean-up. Were they were enlightened children of IAM "God", doing His/Her work and setting a good example via the Golden Rule "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you". Were they real aliens from out in space and does it really matter? Not really - we shall be known by our works, Revelation Chap. 22. If they were real space aliens, were they dirty filthy un-caring aliens who had no respect for other peoples property ie.

31. Religious Humanitites heavens gate Comet Hale Bopp Article “Suicide cult or Aliens . Green Globe YearBook! Hail BoB Church of the SubGenius. E-mail - religious-Humanitites@iamm http://www.iamm.com/links/referenc/referenc.htm

Universal WWW Link Index Religious Humanities Wyatt Archaeological Research Peruse their List of Discoveries The Ark of the Covenant etc. The Covenant Essene Church Worldwide American Congregation of Essenic Scholars His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is widely regarded as the foremost scientist in the field of consciousness, and is considered the greatest teacher in the world today. Issue #15 Smoking Solstice Sun Gods Article By Chris Bennett "Since ancient times, solstice has been associated with the birth of a pot-smoking Sun God." What is the Point By Michael Levy - Point of Life Inc. AXIOM "The last and most important branch of non-verbal education is training in the art of spiritual insight...To know the ultimate Not-Self, which transcends the other not-selves and the ego, but which is yet closer than breathing, nearer than hands and feetthis is the comsummation of human life, and the end and ultimate purpose of individual existence." Aldous Huxley Serving the international readership of The Urantia Book since 1955 The Urantia Book Fellowship Archive Written by the Son's of God for the Son's of Man.

32. Valencia West LRC - Cults In late March of 1997, 39 cult members of the heavens gate cult committed suicidein a supposed Does the anticult movement threaten religious freedom http://valencia.cc.fl.us/lrcwest/cults.html

Cults Pathfinder April 1997 SCOPE: In late March of 1997, 39 cult members of the Heavens Gate cult committed suicide in a supposed attempt to link up with a UFO they believed to be following the comet Hale-Bopp. The almost 80 Branch Davidians who died in Waco in 1992 and the more than 900 individuals from the Peoples Temple who died in Guyana in 1978 are just some of the examples of cult members following their leaders to their death. While the tragedy of these cults suggests to some that society has an obligation to respond to cults, others believe cult members have the right to do whatever they freely choose. BACKGROUND INFORMATION The following sources will allow you to become more familiar with your topic, will give you ideas for narrowing your topic, and will serve as a starting point for your further research. CQ Researcher Speech Tables 1993 p. 385+ "Cults in America" Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America REF BL 2525 .M45 Encyclopedia of Social Issues REF HN 57 .E59 Encyclopedia of Social Work REF HV 35 .S6

33. The Cult Of Death And such cult phenomena have been in evidence around children were shot and poisoned,heavens gate, San Diego in 1993 in which 80 religious followers perished http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/icpubs/ab/may00/abtr0501.htm

34. The Little Pebble regarded as deviating from the general religious tradition or is the feast day ),the cult is increasingly lead to tragedy ( WACO, JONESTOWN, heavens gate etc http://users.bigpond.net.au/wanglese/pebble.htm

THE LITTLE PEBBLE a.k.a. WILLIAM KAMM Our Lady of the Ark. Mary Our Mother Help of Christians. Marian Work of Atonement. Order of St Charbel AUSTRALIA'S BIGGEST "DOOMSDAY" CULT cult- cult n. a particular system of religious worship, esp. with reference to its rites and ceremonies. an instance of an almost religious veneration for a person or thing, esp. as manifested by a body of admirers: a cult of Napoleon. the object of such devotion. a popular fashion; fad. [L cultus care, worship] sect- sect n a body of persons adhering to a particular religious faith; a religious denomination; a group regarded as deviating from the general religious tradition or as heretical.[ME secte, from L secta following] Macquarie Dictionary; Macquarie Library, published by The Macquarie Library Pty Ltd. Macquarie University NSW 2109 Australia "IF IT WALKS LIKE A DUCK, AND IT QUACKS LIKE A DUCK, THEN IT'S PROBABLY A DUCK" UPDATE: 7 February 2003 - James Duffy cleared of sexual assault charges. Go here for details 11 September 2002 - William Kamm, Fake prophets, and the Solar System, AGAIN.

35. The Heaven's Gate Cult to the Kingdom of the Literal heavens. into cults like the Heaven's gate cult becausethey responsible, evidentially supported, rational religious commitments. http://answers.org/cultsandreligions/hgate.html

Home Apologetics Bible Reviews ... AIA BBS Boolean: AND OR Case Insensitive Sensitive Previous Article Next Article The Heaven's Gate Cult By Gretchen Passantino The Heaven's Gate cult is one of literally thousands of millennial cults, including hundreds of UFO-based cults around the world. They attract followers by promising escape from expected cataclysmic events that supposedly will signal the end of this millennium. 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"). (She died of cancer in 1985.) Bo and Peep (Do and Ti) believed that they would fulfill Rev. 11 by being killed, lying dead in the street for three days, and then being "raised" from the dead into the space ship, along with their followers. As the day for their "sacrifice" approached, they preached that their death and "resurrection" would prove the truthfulness of their preaching. The Two and their followers disappeared by early 1976, and over time most of the followers returned to normal life. The group resurfaced at various times with various names during the subsequent decades. They paid for full-page ads in many newspapers nationwide during 1988, and again in 1993. (Ominously, their ad in USA Today and other newspapers warned that anyone who truly desired to enter the Kingdom of Heaven would have to give up everything including their human existence. In 1995, the group entered its final phase:

36. 600 Cult Links the blind leading the blind but occassionally some cults seem to be really haywireas in Jim Jones, Waco and heavens gate. Pius X? What is a religious cult? http://www.mysteries-megasite.com/main/bigsearch/cults-1.html

Cult Database Cults Part 1 Go to Frames! Break Out of Frames http://www.herbalhealer.com The Herbal Healer Academy is endorsed by Mysteries-Megasite.com as a leader in Health Care products, Herbs and natural remedies. Also they have an extremely comprehensive selection of herbs in their catalog. We have TESTED some of these products and find them to be first rate, gentle and very effective. Check out their newsletter, and products catalog. Seva Chakra Award - 20 Years Experience Credentials American Naturopathic Medical Board Certified and Accredited Hit CTRL+D to Bookmark this page! Search Mystery Links Home Page-Site Guide Complete A-Z Subject Guide 1000 Freeware Links ... http://www.factnet.org/CIF/cif.htm Last Modified March 23, 1998 FACTNet, Inc.P.O. Box 3135Boulder, CO 80307-3135USAWebmaster Cults' Impact on Children, Youth and Families Parents' involvement in cults can literally destroy a family. Individuals in cults do things willingly under the influence of mind control which they previously... http://cults.arecool.net/ Enter The Cult of... http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org

37. 600 Cult Links of 1997, 39 cult members of the heavens gate cult committed suicide Dew/Dew1/D1WhatIsAcult.htmlWhat is a cult? By Gary Amirault religious men and women have http://www.mysteries-megasite.com/main/bigsearch/cults-3.html

Cult Database Cults Part 3 Go to Frames! Break Out of Frames http://www.herbalhealer.com The Herbal Healer Academy is endorsed by Mysteries-Megasite.com as a leader in Health Care products, Herbs and natural remedies. Also they have an extremely comprehensive selection of herbs in their catalog. We have TESTED some of these products and find them to be first rate, gentle and very effective. Check out their newsletter, and products catalog. Seva Chakra Award - 20 Years Experience Credentials American Naturopathic Medical Board Certified and Accredited Hit CTRL+D to Bookmark this page! Search Mystery Links Home Page-Site Guide Complete A-Z Subject Guide 1000 Freeware Links ... http://www.serve.com/larryi/charact.htm The dictionary defines a cult as A group of followers. Psychologists define a cult as a group which deviates from cultural norms. For our purposes A cult is a spurious or unorthodox system of religious beliefs and ritual. Depending on whose list you are looking at, there are... http://www.angelfire.com/mn/discernment/ Choose Ye This Day! Alas for the Day! ...of the Lord is at Hand! Blow ye the Trumpet! Articles Tracts Jesus is God! False Religions and Cults Globalism and our Government Pagan Feast Days The Whoredoms of Rome One Bible...or Many? Look up for Your Redemption Draweth Nigh! Former Catholics For... http://police.sas.ab.ca/pubserv.html

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39. Religious Cults, From Life In The USA The Complete Guide For religious cults religious cults are still a frightening aspect own children to savethem from the cult. 39 members of the heavens gate organization committed http://www.lifeintheusa.com/religion/cults.htm

Life in the USA is a complete guide to American life for immigrants and Americans. All materials on this site Home Back Next Learn a foreign language at LINGUIX.COM! Life in the USA Religion in America Religious Cults Book Links Cults in America : A Reference Handbook The Kingdom of the Cults The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions Why Waco? : Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America All Products Books Pop Music Classical Music Videos Toys Consumer Electronics Home Improvement Search by keywords: Religious Cults Religious cults are still a frightening aspect of modern American life. They usually prey on confused young people, separating them from their families at a time when their judgment is weakest. The cults provide support networks for young people with adjustment problems or low self esteem. The most famous cult group for many years was the Unification Church run by the Korean Dr. Sung Myung Moon. Thousands of young "Moonies" would go door to door selling flowers and soliciting money for the church, sleeping in vans or communal dormitories and preaching the sect's teachings on the street. In controversial cases, parents had to kidnap and "de-program" their own children to save them from the cult. Other cults and millennial movements have from time to time caused shocking events such as mass suicides. In 1997, for example, 39 members of the "Heavens Gate" organization committed suicide together in an event designed to coincide with the arrival of the

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"Heart of the Issue" by: Rebecca MacDonald Melissa Chestnut Laura Graham Dan Budd Gil MacNutt Summary: Anti groups formed because of these new religions involving established churches who opposite, and government groups and individual people. With established churches warning their parishioners about these new religion and government taking action because their interests have been directly threatened. The author refers to the history of religion because he asks "Is it really different this time." The prosecution that new religions face today is similar to what has happened in history and today the churches that where under the most serve prosecution in the past are the most well established churches today. He refers to this as being "a conflict of interest rather than as a conspiratorial plot against Christianity, American, or innocent youth. About the Author Dr. Bromley currently teaches courses in Sociology of Religion and in Deviant Behavior on both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The undergraduate course in Deviant Behavior (SOC 303) is an introductory survey course without departmental prerequisites. Major types of deviance and sociological explanations for them are examined. The Sociology of Religion (SOC 360) is an advanced course oriented to majors in sociology and religious studies or other students with some background in the subject area. Additional information on the two undergraduate courses is contained on Dr. Bromley's web page.

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