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RS 1006T group reports on... October 19, 2000 We feel that these issues are raised because the majority religions feel threatened by the majority religions and this creates the stereotypes and prejustice that we are talking about. These negitive stereotypes fo cults may have been created by the mass sucides that have happenes in the past such as: Heavens Gate and the Jones Town Masacre. These sucides were part of their religious beliefs, and because these situations happened in the past, they could be one of the main reasons newly introduced religions are feared. Also, we think that there is a double standard involved. It's usually hte majority groups talking bad about the minority groups and not the other way around. Overall, we think that the word "cult" is usually misinterpreted. If people dont know what it is and a group is labled a cult, how can they judge it if they haven't experienced it for themselvess? Matt Dick, Aleisha Graves, Caroline Henery, Cindy Stephen. Our group first discussed a point made in Dana's writing- "religious tolerance vs. immorality", which we found to mean that it uses religion as an excuse to hide or justify things our society and lives generally do not accept. It was found to be immoral. We also discussed how we thought most clut leaders are disconnected from society that they may seem unsure of themselves and how they shouldn't be role models for anyone, especially young people.

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Suggestions for inquirers 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. Most people who contact Info-Cult are interested in a specific group. Often, we can provide them with useful information ( Services: In House Research ). But there are so many thousands of groups which people have inquired about over the years that sometimes we do not have information on the group in question ( Services: Investigative Research ). Nevertheless, because the psychological dynamics of control is the key factor in evaluating the "cultishness" and potential harmfulness of a group, we can often help even these inquirers by directing them to resources that explain these dynamics. Moreover, even when information on specific groups is available, this information usually needs to be supplemented by explanations of how cultic groups gain power over their members. Adapted from "General Inquirers", in the AFF's

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CULTS There appears to be a feed back loop operating between cults and times of crisis or change. The times increase tension such that cults prosper, and the cults themselves serve to heighten the tension. But what exactly are cults, and why do they proliferate? What sorts of people are attracted to cults, and why? Are cults dangerous? Beneficial? Or simply neutral? This last point grows increasingly critical, as has been seen quite a few cults have posed significant dangers to themselves and the people around them. It is worth noting that many of the features of the cult which Christian and anti cult activists use are eminently applicable to mainstream Christianity itself, and most are applicable to the fundamentalist Christianity. Thus for such people cult is merely a term for a False Faith. One crucial point often overlooked is that most groups report a very high turnover rate so whatever is causing them to join isn't necessarily keeping them around for very long. A common speculation is that people attracted to cults lead deprived childhoods which results in deprived lives; thus they are now desperately seeking some sort of satisfaction which would make them feel more complete. This assumes that the cult serves a functional purpose of meeting people's needs. That young arrivals typically come from families with all the material benefits of modern culture would indicate that if these people feel deprived of anything it is not material in nature but instead emotional or psychological. Unfortunately, this does not adequately explain why so many such deprived individuals manage to find fulfillment in traditional religions or no religion at all.

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View Extended Coverage of Heaven's Gate: Special Report I. Group Profile Name: Heaven's Gate The group was known by various names over the twenty-two years of its existence. In the early years, at least, the group did not give itself a name. Hence, several of its names were given to it by outsiders. Robert Balch, a sociologist who studied the group during its early life, referred to them as the "Bo and Peep UFO Cult." News reporters often referred to the group as HIM ["human individual metamorphosis"], picking up on a key teaching of the group. They referred to themselves simply as "the group," and their leaders as "TheTwo." In a newspaper advertisement taken out by the groupin 1994, they referred to themselves as "Total Overcomers Anonymous." "Heaven's Gate," the name of their Web Site, is apparently the name they settled on near the end of the life of the group. Founders: Do and Ti (aka Bo and Peep) Birth/Death: Do (1931-1997) was born Marshall Herff Applewhite in Spur, Texas;Ti (1927- 1985) was born Bonnie Lu Nettles, birthplace unknown.

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Return from Heaven's Gate - The Book A revealing insider's perspective as to what prompted 39 Heaven's Gate members to commit mass suicide. by Rkkody (Chuck Humphrey) Overview How can 39 intelligent men and women suddenly and willingly take their own lives in what has become this country's largest mass suicide ever? What is the truth behind this cult that for over 22 years kept themselves on the fringes of society, surfacing briefly periodically to "share their beliefs". What went through the minds of 39 otherwise happy people as they systematically took their own lives in a ritualistic demonstration? And, will there be others who following in the footsteps of those 39, and will a new leader emerge to re-kindle the cult and recruit new followers? Only one person can answer these and other crucial questions people everywhere are asking. Chuck Humphrey, "Rkkody," as he likes to be called, is the only surviving ex-member who actually believed in the Heaven's gate doctrine enough to attempt to take his own life mimicking the ritualistic mass suicide of 39 of his closest friends. For over 22 years, Chuck was in and out of what has become known as the Heaven's Gate suicide cult. What happened during the 22 years this small group of highly intelligent men and women lived in obscurity and practiced a belief system that borders on Christianity from a perspective of Science Fiction and UFO's. For the first time Chuck recounts his own personal experiences in a group that even described itself as the cult of cults.

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March 28, 1997 Statements That Heaven's Gate Released Over the Years From a note included with a videotape from the leader of the group: y the time you read this, we suspect that the human bodies we were wearing have been found, and that a flurry of fragmented reports have begun to hit the wire services. For those who want to know the facts, the following statement has been issued. . . . By the time you receive this, we'll be gone several dozen of us. We came from the Level Above Human in distant space and we have now exited the bodies that we were wearing for our earthly task, to return to the world from whence we came task completed. The distance space we refer to is what you literature would call the Kingdom of Heaven, or Kingdom of God." Death in a Cult Related Articles: From Today's Times From CyberTimes: Behind Suicide Cult Lay Thriving Web Business From The Magazine: The Next World , Feb. 29, 1976 From The Associated Press: List of Identified Mass Suicide Victims Chronology: Jonestown to Rancho Santa Fe Map: Rancho Santa Fe Audio: From San Diego Officials and Cult Experts The Cult's Web Sites: Heaven's Gate Higher Source Web Site Design Forum: The Mass Suicides in Southern California From a statement on the videotape by the leader, identified as "Do.":

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REFLECTIONS ON HEAVENS GATE Once again, a madman with a messiah complex has led his flock off the deep end. It seems like hardly a year goes by without news of yet another fringe group acting out bizarre behaviors, on the order of a revered leader, in the name of some True Cause. And once again, the talk show hosts and news people ask "How could this happen? What makes people act so irrationally?" Professors of theology at leading universities hem and haw and tell us we don't really know what motivates these folks. Columnists point to these events as evidence of the spiritual bankruptcy of modern society. Family members comfort themselves with the belief that the cult members were "doing what they wanted". While there is some kernel of truth in these observations, they continue to miss the main point, which is the issue of mind control, and the extent to which an individuals free thought and actions can be undermined in these totalistic groups. For decades, tens of thousands of ex-members of such groups, like myself, who have experienced this reality first hand, have told of an environment that creates severe psychological pressures for conformity and absolute obedience. Yet there seems to be a reluctance in society to heed the warning, to truly accept how completely and systematically the cults can reduce peoples choices and shape their behavior. Jonestown, Waco, Order of the Solar Temple, Aum Shinrikyo, and now Heavens Gate are the extreme groups whose beliefs led them to murder or suicide. Every victim is a testimony to the power of mind control. Yet there are many other religious/political groups that have, to a lesser or greater extent, the same characteristics and similar potential for abuse, the same disregard for basic human rights.

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90. Heaven's Gate Suicides who believes in Celestial events in the heavens is most TLC and others with the Heaven'sGate type occurrences are made to conclude that any religious zeal and http://www.helpingmormons.org/TLC_Manti/NewsFolder/newsHeavensGate.htm

TLC issues an official statement regarding the recent 39 suicides in California. It has been widely publicized that 39 members of the Heaven's Gate "cult" committed suicide in anticipation of hitching a ride with a purported UFO that was believed to be trailing the Hale-Bopp comet. They left their "containers" (bodies) behind as they believed they were transforming their beings into a higher form of life. TLC would like to address two separate issues regarding this recent occurrence: 1. True doctrine of Eternal life versus false doctrine. 2. The media campaign of distortion. 1. True doctrine versus false doctrine. TLC believes that the human body is sacred and that man's work on the earth is not over until the person is taken by events out of their own control or by God's will. Also, the seed of life should not be tampered with, ie. voluntary castration. The Heaven's Gate community were celibate and considered sexual union between man and woman as depraved and unclean. TLC responds by declaring that the union of the sexes in the proper marriage union is ordained of God and that the marriage bed is undefiled; also, that children and families are part of the plan of a loving God. TLC testifies that God is an exalted and perfected man and that the human family is created in His image and likeness. God is not an alien or some other being created by the fantasy of man.

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Heaven's Gate It's now 5:30 am and I crawl back into bed, accidentally kicking Epson, waking him up and undoubtedly jarring him out of a dream about chasing a mouse or whatever cats dream about. Hopefully I can get back to sleep and finish my dream where Ed MacMahon is handing me an eleven million dollar check the size of my front door. The phone rings again. It's my grandmother. She asks me, "hey did you hear about those Heaven's Gate people? Did you know them?" I tell her the same thing I had just told my mother, "No, I didn't know them and I really hadn't heard about them until earlier today." She mumbles some sort of religious jargon, and says "goodnight." It's rather interesting that I had never met these thirty-nine people, yet they are indirectly keeping me up all night. By Thursday afternoon it's all over the news, "Internet Web Designers Kill Themselves." It was on every news program, every channel, all day. I decided to listen to a little of what the "media" said was going on. I heard all sorts of things like "Cult recruited it's members over the Internet," and "Brilliant Wed Designers Die In Mass Suicide." It drew my attention to say the least. I flipped from station to station trying to get the latest news on this Internet suicide.

93. Cult Suicide - Wikipedia cult suicide is that phenomenon by which some religious groups, in this context oftenreferred to as cults, have led to their membership committing suicide. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_suicides

Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Older versions Special pages Set my user preferences My watchlist Recently updated pages Upload image files Image list Registered users Site statistics Random article Orphaned articles Orphaned images Popular articles Most wanted articles Short articles Long articles Newly created articles Interlanguage links All pages by title Blocked IP addresses Maintenance page External book sources Printable version Talk Log in Help Cult suicide (Redirected from Cult suicides Cult suicide is that phenomenon by which some religious groups, in this context often referred to as " cults ," have led to their membership committing suicide . Sometimes all members commit suicide at the same time and place. Groups which have done this include: Heavens Gate Order of the Solar Temple Peoples Temple Jonestown ... Jews at the fortress of Masada AD) Unification Church After Jonestown, many claims surfaced in the media the members of the Unification Church would commit suicide, despite official church protestations to the contrary (i.e., suicides go to hell I personally heard 5 church members say in response to a leader's question, that they would commit suicide to show loyalty to Rev. Moon. That leader explained firmly and somewhat testily that suicide is a

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How strange were they? The San Diego cultists have more in common with other religious enthusiasts than you might think. BY DAVID FUTRELLE one man described traveling toward a "straight light like a pillar, most nearly resembling a rainbow, but brighter and purer" as he approached the end of his life on the earthly plane. Another described "the holy city, new Jerusalem, com[ing] down from heavens to earth. God's space and ours are finally married, integrated at last." No, neither of these quotes has been plucked from the Web pages of the UFO-fixated Heaven's Gate cult. Actually, like most of those curious Netizens who've punched the group's URL into their browsers, I haven't been able to get close enough to their page (or its now-seemingly-defunct Romanian mirror site) to do any plucking. (An excerpt from the page is here. ) Both quotes come not from some New Age Web page death cult manifesto, but from the pages of the stolid, service-oriented U.S. News and World Report, whose current cover story examines the possibility of life after death, a possibility some 39 Californians recently decided to research in greater depth themselves. The first man quoted was Plato, describing the near-death experience of a wounded soldier; the second quote comes from the dean of an Anglican cathedral, writing in the pages of Christian Century. Beneath this quiet exterior, news reports suggest, the Heaven's Gate members held what seem to be extravagantly eccentric beliefs. They thought they were "angels." That "planet earth [was] about to be recycled." That their deaths would allow them to "shed their containers" that is, their human bodies and "graduate from the human kingdom and enter the Evolutionary Kingdom Level Above Human" inside "a Next Level spacecraft" at this very moment sneaking up on Earth behind the Hale-Bopp comet. Those few who've been able to connect with the Heaven's Gate Web site can read in gory detail about everything from "The UFO Two and Their Crew" to the group's (now apparently out-of-date) "Position Against Suicide."

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