Heaven's Gate...or Heaven's Trap Door?
Hello Amigos! (and Amigas) Or, are we non-gender binary. I don't even know anymore. Anyways... Recently I visited an affluent San Diego suburb, Rancho Santa Fe. On March 26, 1997 (the year I graduated High School), San Diego deputies found the bodies of 39 members of Heaven's Gate who had participated in a mass suicide (coinciding with the Comet Hale-Bobb). Just before the mass suicide, the group updated their website: "Hale-Bopp brings closure to Heaven's Gate...our 22 years of classroom here on planet Earth is finally coming to conclusion -- 'graduation' from the Human Evolutionary Level. We are happily prepared to leave 'this world' and go with Ti's crew." Prior to Heaven's Gate, the group had been known by "Human Individual Metamorphosis" and "Total Overcomers Anonymous." The leader, Marshal Applewhite was the son of a Presbyterian minister. He served in the US Army and had a Masters degree from the Univers...