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The Encyclopedic Sourcebook of UFO Religions
by James R. Lewis
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with references to "Heaven's Gate".
Excerpt - on Page 17: "
... The quite sensational suicide of the Californian Heaven's Gate community in March 1997 brought the presence of UFO movements back into public awareness . ... "
Key Phrases:
Aetherius Society, New York, Chen Tao, Heaven's Gate, George King, United States, flying saucer rumor, interdimensional science, major contactees, buffer camp, cosmic masters, millenarian cosmologies
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Cults, Religion, and Violence
by David G. Bromley
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with references to "Heaven's Gate".
Excerpt - on Page 3: "
... the Solar Temple murder-suicides in Switzerland and Canada in 1994, the Aum Shinrikyô murders in Tokyo in 1995, and the Heaven's Gate collective suicide in California in 1997. ... "
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Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism
by Robert Jay Lifton
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with references to "Heaven's Gate".
Excerpt - on Page 274: "
... Jim Jones's Peoples Temple, and Marshall Herff Applewhite's Heaven's Gate-take on a different aspect in the wake of Aum. The same is true of the cultic milieu of the present-day ... "
Key Phrases:
Heaven's Gate, United States, New Age, Peoples Temple, Book of Revelation, Jim Jones, attack guruism, megalomanic self, megalomanic guru, poa all wrongdoers, serene madness, high disciples
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Controversial New Religions
by James R. Lewis
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with references to "Heaven's Gate".
Excerpt - on Page 304: "
... Carmel community (1993), the Tokyo subway poison gas attack (1995), and the Heaven's Gate suicides (1997). The sensational violence associated with the murder of members of the Move- ment for the Restoration of the ... "
Key Phrases:
New York, Falun Gong, Theosophical Society, United States, Heaven's Gate, Father David, racist paganism, professional conspiracists, qigong boom, qigong world, racist pagans, other qigong masters
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