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The hard facts or bold statements in a nutshell, that are so difficult to accept or "digest" - come down to: If you want or ever expect to go to Heaven - here is your window. That window opportunity requires:1) an incarnate (as human) Representative of the Kingdom of Heaven; 2) that all who hope to enter Heaven become active students of that Representative while the Representative is present; 3) those who endure the "transition classroom" until it ends (adequately bonding or "grafting" to that Representative) will go with that Representative - literally LEAVE the human kingdom and Earth as He is about to do. Staying behind, for any significant period, could jeopardize that "graft." That window to Heaven will not open again until another civilization is planted and has reached sufficient maturity (according to the judgment of the Next Level).

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beginning as an innocent couple, active in a UFO watching community, Heavens Gate grew its roots with the belief that extraterrestrial life was directly related to Jesus. Through many different names, and many different doctrines, Heavens Gate utilizes religious motive as a vehicle, and exploits the up and coming development of the internet to victimize their followers and to trap any and all unknown witnesses.Although the two primary leaders of this group have passed, the religious teachings along with the website are still maintained today.

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Marshall Applewhite began his journey of biblical prophecy in the early 1970's as the son of a Presbyterian minister. In March of 1972, Applewhite was admitted into a psychiatric ward where he met 44 year old Bonnie Nettles. She was immediately enamored by his religious prophecy, going so far as to claim "we had known each other in a past life". As the two began delving deeper into religious and extraterrestrial readings, a small cult following was formed behind their word. In 1975 Nettles and Applewhite gathered their group of followers at a hotel to sell all of their possessions, and say goodbye to the outside world. News crews began to cover the group, stating their mysterious disappearance, and as Nettles and Applewhite took the group underground, they changed there names to Ti (Nettles), and Do (Applewhite). In 1985, the passing of Nettles caused Applewhite to take a radical re visionary turn with the groups doctrine. The group became reclusive, using there website to lure and attract followers. In 1966, the group occupied a 9,000 square foot mansion near San Diego. Calling it "the Monastery", this home would serve as a gathering place for the group, as well as their last siren call.

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Shortly after their arrival in Wyoming, one of the group's young male members questioned the group's philosophy and the power of its leaders. This dissident believed that once the apex of purity had been achieved and dependency on human behaviour had been broken, members should be able to resume typical human conduct, including sexual relations and alcohol consumption.

His proposal was quickly embraced and most of the members proceeded to engage in sexual relations while some smoked and others took drugs. In reaction to this behaviour, Ti and Do changed their tactics in order to better control the members who were deviating from the norm. At this point, several members left the group.

In 1985 Nettles died of cancer and Applewhite interpreted her death as a sign of her great power. He concluded that as one of the oldest members, she had departed more quickly to the higher level.

In 1991, the group produced a television program called Beyond Human - The Last Call, which helped to recruit some new members.

On May 27, 1993, the group drew media attention with an advertisement it published in the U.S. daily USA Today.

In January 1994, the group visited 22 U.S. states and 63 cities to recruit passengers for the final voyage. The group held its last lecture in Boston, in 1994. At the end of this tour, the group returned to a life of seclusion and moved to a residence in Rancho Santa Fe, in the San Diego area.

The group opened a lucrative Web page design business, which attracted some area businesses and helped them to spread their ideas on the Internet.

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- Their insistence that their doctrine was correct, and their forceful and controlling nature of teaching their religion

- The idea that all human possessions and relationships must be eradicated, isolating their followers and forcing complete control

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The Heavens Gate Cult forced all of their followers to abandon all ties to humanity, giving up all money, possessions, and relationships involved with the outside world. The followers were also restricted more and more each day in terms of how much they could eat, until the followers began fasting. Because of this, the economic implications of the Cult were extremely minor, and their underground nature proved to leave any preexisting political and economical structure untouched.

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Heavens Gate began to form as the rise of the internet began, and the idea of conveying information through web pages was growing in popularity exponentially. Heavens Gate is known for its active web page that was not only used for recruitment, but also served as a messaging board for all of Do's sermons. Videos and transcripts can be found on the website, and as twisted as their message was, Heavens Gate revolutionized the idea of using a web page to form a following.

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The cult used a lot of jargon. Ti and Do. Concepts regarding reincarnation. Body/spirit relationship. Juxtapositions between kingdoms; Lower force; "Level above Humans". Concrete diction and imperative statements.

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Twenty years ago this week, the last of 39 people in identical robes and Nike trainers drank a lethal cocktail of vodka, poison and apple sauce, put plastic bags and purple shrouds over their heads - and laid down to die.

They believed an alien spaceship hiding in the tail of a speeding comet was coming to collect their souls.

The dead were all members of Heaven's Gate - the world's first and most notorious internet-connected suicide cult. They were led by Marshall Applewhite, a wild-eyed minister's son and former music teacher, who was one of the last to die.

He founded the sect in the 1970s, along with nurse Bonnie Nettles. They claimed to be alien prophets called Do and Ti, with "higher-level minds", and toured the US preaching that the Earth was due to be recycled and that humans could ascend to "the evolutionary level above human".

As Applewhite and his disciples took their one-way journey from Earth, they made sure they left behind a digital legacy.

Much of this was widely reported at the time. What wasn't is that in the days before the suicide, two group members were briefed about a side mission. They would remain on Earth - the last surviving members - and their job was to maintain the Heaven's Gate website exactly as it was on the day the last suicides took place.

And for two decades, the lone Gaters have diligently continued their mission, answered queries, paid bills and dealt with problems.

Due to them, the site remains a creepy digital time-capsule, designed with outdated graphics and fonts, and full of video sermons and rambling text.

While the pair refuse to give their identity, they are believed to be Mark and Sarah King, a couple in their sixties, from Arizona, who left the cult HQ in the late 80s and set up a company called the TELAH Foundation, which stands for The Evolutionary Level Above Human.

They acted as a "communication and clearing house" for the group's public interactions. After the suicides, they also fought a two-year legal case to recover property seized by the authorities.

In an exclusive joint interview, these last Heaven's Gate survivors, explain they are "task partners", rather than a married couple who now work normal, full-time jobs.

"We are very private," they say. "We are in our mid-sixties, but don't have any family, children or pets. Our day-to-day lives are working regular jobs, taking care of household chores and maintaining the website, emails and the other physical and intellectual property issues that arise all the time.

"People who are close to us know what we do and accept our right to our beliefs, but the regular people we come into contact with during a normal day would not know of our circumstance and probably wouldn't care."

Their Heaven's Gate mission takes up much of their time because people are still fascinated with the events of 20 years ago. "We get an average of 10 to 12 emails every day from around the world," they explain. "Some just want to poke fun, but many want to learn more. About 5% want to join, but we tell them it simply isn't possible. The group came to an end in 1997."

The pair still take pride in their roles and say they are not lonely, because they believe the rest of their comrades "are with us".

"Maintaining the information, in some very difficult circumstances, for 20 years has been very positive," they say. "We are happy because we perform a task we love to do."

However, they admit not always being taken seriously is one of their bugbears and that the cult is often represented in a "jocular, somewhat sarcastic manner".

"We don't mind a slanted point of view," they sigh, "as long as the information is truthful. It is not a lot to ask."

Their fellow sect followers were men and women aged 26 to 72, who killed themselves with phenobarbital in three waves on March 24, 25 and 26, 1997. The last group neatly arranged their comrades' bodies in bunk beds before committing suicide themselves.

They wore armbands that read "Heaven's Gate Away Team". Plans for the suicides took shape after Nettles died of cancer in 1985.

When the Hale-Bopp comet made a close pass of Earth in 1996, Applewhite believed her alien incarnation was travelling behind it in a UFO on an interstellar mission to collect him and the disciples.

A year later, when police were led to the smart rented villa in San Diego, California, where Applewhite and his followers died, the grim find made global headlines.

Prior to the suicides, Applewhite recorded several videos in which he explained that anyone who wanted to go to the UFO would have to "break away from the world" and leave behind their "human ways and human behaviour".

The web administrators continue to explain Applewhite's wacky beliefs.

"It is not a religion, it is more like an unproven scientific theory," they say. "The simple understanding is there is a real, physical level above the human one on Earth. It is real individuals, in real bodies, in real crafts taking care of the issues of their planet.

"The Next Level, as it is called, created this planet and all the life on it. The Next Level are the caretakers of not only this planet but all the systems of the universe. They periodically come down to this planet to check in on this civilisation's development."

According to the theory, both Jesus and Applewhite were alien caretakers. "Ti and Do gave initial instructions over the early years," they explain.

"They taught us how to take care of all their affairs in relation to their teachings and physical property. We were instructed to leave the site exactly as it was on March 27, 1997, for ever. It will never be updated and its purpose is to act as a historic marker for civilisation. Our last communication with Do was a phone conversation where he spoke to us about his gratitude and concern for us. He was with other members of the group on a conference phone on March 21, 1997."

Five days later, the survivors heard the news that the cult members had died. "We knew they were going to depart some time soon, but we did not know how or when.

"We were surprised that it had finally happened, but knew it was time. We were happy that they finally made it into the Next Level," they say. The couple maintain that none of the dead was brainwashed or ordered to end their lives. Instead they acted of their own free will.

So the last Heaven's Gate disciples remain here on Earth, looking after the site, answering emails and spreading the word of their leader. It would be a glum
position if it were not for their firm belief that Applewhite will one day come back.

"Do will return to this planet, since it is assigned to him," they assert. "He has been here many times before, pushing mankind along."

This time, however, if he does make a cosmic reappearance, he'll have a lot of explaining to do if the police find him.

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The house of horrors hiding dark secret where 39 people killed themselves

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Twenty years ago this week, the last of 39 people in identical robes and Nike trainers drank a lethal cocktail of vodka, poison and apple sauce, put plastic bags and purple shrouds over their heads - and laid down to die.

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Prohibitions (Straight from website)
·Lying to professor Do;

· Keeping an offence to oneself and not sharing it with others;

· Acting on sensual desire;

· Violating procedure;

· Not checking with another member if an action one is about to take is acceptable;

· Trusting one's own judgement;

· Being defensive with class partners;

· Criticizing others;

· Being selfish;

· Suggesting an action or behaviour;

· Exaggerating the reaction of one's vehicle (body);

· Having preferences;

· Seeking approval; wanting to be perceived as good;

· Being too familiar with the other students;

· Being aggressive;

· Being concerned with appearance;

· Being curious.

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Folkways and Mores: Members normal days were governed by several rules and laws and designed to decrease the amount human reactions. They followed various diets with the goal of limiting their need for food. Each day was filled up with frequent changes in activity. Some days, members had to meet their partners every 12 minutes to ensure that their behavior conformed to the group norm. Other days, they were required to wear a cone on their heads to simulate the effect they would experience when they received their extraterrestrial cones.

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Heaven's Gate - How and When It May Be Entered

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How and When Heaven's Gate, the Door to the Physical Kingdom Level Above Human, May Be Entered. Organized Religions Are Killers of Souls. UFOs and Extraterrestrials - Sorting the Good from the Bad. Final Warning for Possible Survivors.

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Following an anonymous call to 911, police entered a mansion in an exclusive suburb in San Diego, and discovered 39 victims of a mass suicide. 21 women and 18 men of varying ages–were all found lying dead in matching black clothes and Nike sneakers and had no noticeable signs of blood or trauma. It was later revealed that the leaders of the Cult preached that suicide would allow them to leave their bodies and enter an alien spacecraft hidden behind the Hale-Bopp comet. Still to this day, their are two surviving members who still answer emails that are asked through the website that is still active today.

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They argued with the idea of common religion ideals and disagreed with the idea that if you live a good life in faith you will go to heaven with god when you die. Heavens gate believed that heaven was just another level of existence and if you killed yourself you would get on a spaceship and fly the kingdom level which is there idea of heaven.