The Heaven's Gate Cult
How do you talk 39 well-educated, mostly white people living in a mansion in San Diego
to all kill themselves at the same time by eating poison applesauce and pudding?
The Heaven's Gate Cult all wore tennis shoes and jogging suits, and their age-old religious fervor raises just a ton of questions.

Mirror of Complete Original Heavens Gate Website
you know-for a group of very successful web designers
it's not the greatest...even for 1997

Manifesto
reconstructed as best as I could from the website and some other resources

Scene Video Which Resembles A Nike Commercial

Heavens Gate - The End?
excellent essay

Timeline
mayhem mayhem mayhem

List of the Dead
the names

Why We Love/Need Gurus
by Wendy Kaminer

Hale-Bopp Comet Images

There's Always Room For J-E-L-L-O
background on the pudding

Why Did They Do It?
as if any answer would satisfy your sad human level logic

How To Win Friends and Influence People
in a group setting, anyways...go with the group

Why Do We Care About What They Did?

A Survivor Still Believes

1998 Look Back from CNN

The Man Who Would Be King
who was Marshall Applewhite?

Existentialist View of the Heavens Gate Cult

 
 


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