Ti & Do Father & "Jesus" Heaven's Gate UFO Two Witnesses

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It seems likely,” he wrote, “that I will be rescheduled for a future incarnation into a future classroom to complete my overcoming of mammalian behavior and to strengthen my connection with the Next Level Above Human.” Thomas, Evan (April 6, 1997). "The Next Level". Newsweek . Retrieved June 3, 2019. March 23: The first group of 15 swallow applesauce ... March 24: Fifteen more die ... March 25: The remaining cultists kill themselves In the early 1960s, Marshall Applewhite, a music teacher at the University of St. Thomas in Texas, was fired from his job for having a sexual relationship with one of his male students. It is important to note here that Appelwhite's relationship was with a consenting student who was over 18.Due to this fact, Applewhite's wife, Ann Pearce left him and took their two children with him, leaving Applewhite completely alone. For 'Heaven's Gate' Podcast Host, The Cult Story Hits Close To Home". NPR.org . Retrieved 2022-03-25.

Among the dead were nurses, veterans and even a valedictorian who left their daily lives, careers, families, friends and even young children behind for the Heaven's Gate cult.Balch, Robert W. (1995). James R. Lewis (ed.). "Waiting for the ships: disillusionment and revitalization of faith in Bo and Peep's UFO cult". The Gods have Landed: New Religions from Other Worlds. Albany: SUNY. That May, over a month after the main wave of suicides, two other members attempted to kill themselves, according to the New York Times. One of them died, sending an “exit statement” to his daughter. Yet, it's like my life passed before my eyes and it felt like whatever I went through before then was to prepare me for connecting with these Two, then called Bo and Peep. Heaven's Gate Cult Threatens Lil Uzi Vert With Legal Action Over 'Eternal Atake' Artwork". XXL Mag. 3 August 2018 . Retrieved 2023-05-21.

The crew used numerous methods of recruitment as they toured the United States in destitution, proclaiming the gospel of higher-level metamorphosis, the deceit of humans by false-God spirits, envelopment with sunlight for meditative healing, and the divinity of the "UFO Two". [23]

With all of the time you spent with everyone, did you ever learn about each others early days? Childhood? What life was like before Heaven's Gate? A few years later, in the early 1970s, Marshall Applewhite met a woman named Bonnie Nettles at a hospital. Applewhite and Nettles became very close friends and Applewhite felt that he knew her from a previous life.Both were going through hard times in their lives. Applewhite had been abandoned by his wife and Nettles felt as though she didn't belong in the world. In 1972, two decided to drive across America to find their “purpose on Earth.” On January 7, 2007, Sawyer created the 3spm account. The purpose of the account, according to Sawyer, was to preserve the message of Heaven's Gate and help people decide if they want to live according to the Heaven's Gate doctrine. Balch, Robert W. (1982). Roy Wallis (ed.). "Bo and Peep: A Case Study of the Origins of Messianic Leadership". Millennialism and charisma. Belfast: Queen's University. Raine, Susan (2005). "Reconceptualising the Human Body: Heaven's Gate and the Quest for Divine Transformation". Religion. Elsevier. 35 (2): 98–117. doi: 10.1016/j.religion.2005.06.003. S2CID 144033418.

Gardetta, Dave (21 January 1994). "They Walk Among Us". LA Weekly. Archived from the original on 2007-03-28 . Retrieved 2007-08-23. On 22 March 1997, thirty-nine members of the Heaven's Gate class, including Marshall Herff Applewhite, "exited" planet Earth by means of suicide. Several former members of the class who still believed in the teachings subsequently exited. Two different media productions—a four-episode documentary on HBO Max and a ten-episode podcast—do a good job of helping viewers understand the UFO group known as Heaven's Gate. A third media production, an ABC 20/20documentary, aired in 2022. While of interest to scholars, this documentary, featuring broadcast journalist Diane Sawyer, falls into the category of sound-bite reporting on cults. No students left behind step up to become a channel. I don’t know why Ben is admitting that DO never claimed to be a channel and then talks about TI being a channel and that students left behind when/if they both left becoming or stepping up to become a channel. That’s all a bunch of confusion and misinformation and I hope Ben reads this and uses better terms that can be sThe two came to the conclusion that Applewhite was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ and that Bonnie Nettles was G-d incarnate, and that they were sent to Earth to warn humanity that aliens were going to “recycle planet Earth,” and that it was their job to gather a group of loyal followers who they would save from the recycling process. the gate is closed. theologically it remained upon for short a while after the exit. 23 years after the fact is not "a short while". it can only be open when older members (or member) from the next level form an away team come to incarnate physical bodies to start a classroom to teach students classroom members on how to shed humanness as to be able to join the next level. In a group open only to adults over the age of 18, [86] members gave up their possessions and lived an ascetic life devoid of indulgences. The group was tightly knit, and everything was communally shared. In public, each member of the group always carried a five-dollar bill and a roll of quarters. [87] Eight of the male members of the group, including Applewhite, voluntarily underwent castration as an extreme means of maintaining the ascetic lifestyle. [88] The group initially attempted castration by having one of its members, a former nurse, perform the castration, but this attempt was unsuccessful, almost resulting in the patient's death, and caused at least one member to leave Heaven's Gate. Every castration that followed the first one was done in a hospital. [89] Get up, take a sponge bath or shower, work in the Nutri Lab (kitchen), consume, clean up, do laundry, go to a job in the world, clean house, gather firewood, go to town to buy supplies, shovel snow as needed, deal with the weather when living outdoors, play games like statego and pac man.

Simultaneously, the church sought to restrict what manuscripts they were going to share with the public, having various councils to decide what was part of the “canon” and what was not. Then when the dead sea scrolls were found and the Nag Hammadi library they sought to hide them from people and/or claim they were not authentic and probably are still hiding parts of them. Members of Heaven's Gate believed that evil space aliens—called Luciferians—falsely represented themselves to Earthlings as "God" and conspired to keep humans from developing. [76] As technically advanced humanoids, these aliens have spacecraft, space-time travel, telepathy, and increased longevity. [76] They use holograms to fake miracles. [74] They are carnal beings with gender, and they stopped training to achieve the Kingdom of God thousands of years ago. [76] Heaven's Gate believed that all existing religions on Earth had been corrupted by these malevolent aliens. [77] The cult is also parodied on Seth MacFarlane's adult animated series Family Guy in an episode titled " Chitty Chitty Death Bang" aired in April 1999. In 2021, Heaven's Gate was one of the subjects in the first season of Vice Media's documentary television series Dark Side of the 90's entitled "A Tale of Two Cults". [97] Heaven’s Gate astutely points out that Do’s championing of asexuality—and castration, which is recounted in grisly fashion by Sawyer—stemmed from his own self-hatred regarding his homosexuality, just as the 1997 arrival of the Hale-Bopp comet provided Do with the prophetic “sign” he needed to motivate followers to go through with his final plan. Director Tweel shines an illuminating light on the group’s twisted manipulations and rationalizations, which became even more convoluted once Ti died of cancer in 1985, thereby disproving her and Do’s metamorphosis doctrine and forcing Do to continue onward with a revised version of their fate: now, they’d all exit their human forms (i.e their “vehicles”) to spiritually ascend to the “Next Level.”The cultural theorist Paul Virilio described the group as a cybersect, due to its heavy reliance on computer-mediated communication prior to its collective suicide. [91] In popular culture [ edit ] Which member aside from Ti and Do would you say you missed most? Are there certain characteristic traits about different members that you can give us? Aside from the exit interviews and People article "Who They Were" - we really don't know much about the members who left. The style of Sawyer's videos include him, in hour plus long videos, explaining Heaven's Gate and trying to prove that the ideologies expressed in the group were correct. He also uploads old tapes from Heaven's Gate. Natural death, accidental death, or death from random violence. Here, the "graduating soul" leaves the human container for a perfected next-level body. [83]