The Cult Of Heaven Gate Cult

Everyone is in a consumer’s hypnosis, even if you think you are not. When you go to a store and pick one brand over the other, you are now under their spell. The spell/ hypnosis is how companies get you to buy there things over other companies and keep you hooked. Either through commercials or offering something that you think will make your life better by what they tell you. For example, you go to the store and you need to buy water, once you get to the lane and look, there is 10 different types of water you can buy. You go pick one either because the picture is better or you seen the commercial the other day and you want it. During the length of this paper we will talk about two important writers, Kalle Lasn the writer of “The Cult

Much of the essential beliefs of Heaven's Gate are spelled out in a lengthy, first-person statement published on the group's website. Written in 1995 by Mr. Applewhite (under the title “An E.T. Presently Incarnate”), it reveals that Ms. Nettles died in 1985 (or, as he wrote, “separated from her borrowed human container and returned to the Next Level”). The rest of their faith system is detailed in a 200-page book that the members of Heaven's Gate self-published. One of them wrote that they had spent 17 years undergoing a type of re-education, “a 'metaphoric' classroom experience of changing over their consciousness and behavior,” evolving to reach a stage in which they could enter the higher realm that Mr. Applewhite and Ms. Nettles preached. In these and other works, the group elaborated on its theology, based on a Christian framework, but with a whole new set of millennialist beliefs that seems more like the works of a renowned science fiction writer. The beliefs were these:

Cults influence society in many ways. They shape people’s behaviors and emotions to get them to align with the cult’s beliefs and thoughts. The people that join cults are usually very insecure about themselves and want to be accepted by then group. Cults offer people acceptance, friendship, community, and family. These qualities often appeal to someone who feels the need to be accepted by others. Cults are groups that use tactics such as the foot in the door phenomenon, entrapment, and obedience to achieve the leader's ultimate desires as seen through the cults of Jonestown and Family International.

One way in which a preacher may use this incredible novel in a sermon is to give the congregation an awareness of how the universe is ever-changing. Heaven may indeed belong to another dimension with a different way of sight, sound, and emotion. Our God may experience many emotions at once. For example, He may be angry and forlorn, jovial, and troubled all at the same time. The variety of ways in which we attain sight, sound, and emotion causes a separation between us and God that can never be fulfilled until we reach our final destination.

Additionally, Tammy represents another portion of the class division, the leader of a cult, both of religion and personality, standing over her followers and giving them orders to lay down their lives while never sacrificing her own. Similar to the celebrities that influence their audience, the corrupt religious leaders that swindle their patrons, or the politicians that send young adults to war but never leave the safety of their own homes, Tammy is a symbol of the corrupt, the power-hungry, and the egomaniacs.

its members watching to see who falls behind or gets too far ahead of thinking for the group (Ragas 8).” They also use mystical manipulation. In the cults, their supreme being is present in the group. Therefore, if an individual

“Did you know there are roughly five to seven million people who are in a cult or cult like group in America? As of July 31, 2013 there were an estimated 316,330,350 people in America alone." One way cults attract there members is by using psychological techniques to make young people in America want to join them in their holy journey. But are the leaders really insane? Some would argue yes others not so much, but how could someone who thought they knew everything there is to know about a book, written thousands of years ago, not be questioned on their sanity. Cults can affect many people as a society or individually, the effects cults have on certain people can be a great one due to they take away all your rights and give you certain rules to follow. The reason cults are shameful to society is because they control individuals and manipulate them into what they see as beneficial for a whole group not individually.

A cult is relatively a small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or sinister. The elements of a cult focus on four major factors of mind control such as Behavior Control, Information Control, Thought Control, and Emotional Control. According to the video uploaded by aperi mentis and written by Steven Hassan stated that: Behavior Control constant reminding of the authority of the leader, obedience is the most important teaching just believing but don’t question; Information Control deception is basic feature of recruitment it keeps potential members unaware of unusual group beliefs that would be distasteful at an earlier stage of indoctrination, important information which is available to the general

They dissected the whole bible with me and everything seemed to make sense. They were happy to answer all of my questions about the bible and their religion. One thing that was very strange to me was that they could not explain who their leader “Ahnsahnghong” was. They repeatedly told me that he doesn’t matter. They stressed that it was his teachings that would lead to eternal life, not who he was. Because of this, I had to do some research of my own and see what this group was really about. The first source that I used is a site called Examining the World Mission Society Church of God. The site is a blog created by an unknown source. This source is not reliable but since the site is made up of testimonies and information about Ahnsahnghong, I trust it enough to give me the background of who their leader is. Ahnsahnghong was a Korean man born into Buddhism. Once he reached the age of 30, he got baptized as a Seven-Day Adventist. In 1964, Ahnsahnghong founded his own church “The World Mission Society Church of God”. Ahnsahnghong proceeded to publish multiple books before his death. Although Ahnsahnghong never announced that he was the second coming of Christ, his followers claim that he fulfilled the prophecies that the second coming of Christ should which makes him the second coming of

At first glance, the meaning of the word cult is simple and easy to grasp. However, the dictionary definition and the definition that probably came to your mind aren’t actually the same thing. Over time, the word cult has transformed from its original innocuous meaning to something a lot more sinister. Though the negative use of this word has its time and place, overall the misuse of the word cult creates problems that we need to work to change.

Heaven’s gate is an American UFO religious millenarian founded in 1974 in San Diego California which was a cult that "combined Christian and some Theosophical doctrines with beliefs in UFO's and extraterrestrials". The religious group was founded on the belief of unidentified flying objects known as UFO’s. The group had many previous names including Human Individual Metamorphosis, Bo and Peep and Total Overcomers Anonymous. The group was founded by Marshall H. Applewhite (1932–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985) who were convinced that they were the two “Endtime” witnesses in Revelation 11. They read excerpts from the four gospels and the book of Revelation which referred to UFO landings. In particular, a story in Revelation which told a story

There are numerous amounts of cult members in this world, there is an extremely low probability that they are all persuadable because they are self- conscious or tend to seek attention or want to be valued by someone. This all depends on the cult leader, because of what they offer for example friendship, connections, identity, an opportunity to make a contribution.

In reality, it was a group of people, who were forced to live below the standard quality of life so a man would give them confirmation of their place on the “savior ship”. The members may have believed they were living the perfect life, but they were living in a dystopian world rather than a utopian one. Each member lost part of them old self in order to join the group. They “h​ad to give up sex, alcohol and tobacco and leave their families behind to be a accepted,” (Applewhite) Each member had to leave everything they owned, had to leave their families and jobs; everything had to be left behind for them to become an official member of the cult. They were forced to leave everything they had known and loved, in hopes that would be enough to allow them passage to the next life. The removal of their entire past life is not something one would see in a utopia, but something one would definitely see in a dystopia. There is one event that characterizes not only the group, but an extremely dystopian environment, and that is the mass suicide all members had to participate in. Medical examiner reports have stated that “...the suicides were undertaken voluntarily...”(Balch). Each member volunteered because they were forced to believe that if they did not take their own life, they would not have been saved and brought to the new world. Everyone was too scared to reject the plan, so while they might not have been “forced,” it was not their own idea. If any situation or group is suggesting take one’s life, then the group is not looking for the best interest of the people. Heaven’s Gate members may have thought they were doing would help them to create a utopia and have a spot

The origin of Christianity begins with mystery cults. These mystery cults were secret rituals where you have to be initiated into the group in order to be a part of the group. These cults believe in the concept of the Afterlife or paradise. In order for an individual to reach the Afterlife, you would have to reach Judgment. There are also intercessors that try to help you reach paradise however most intercessors appeal to the disenfranchised, which means that you do not have a vote. The cult of Isis was mostly lead by females. This cult was able to spread but it slowly disappeared after the Virgin Mary is claimed to be the mother of God. The Cult of Mithra was a male only cult and it was very popular with the military. Many Christians believe in the Messianic Theory. The Messianic Theory is the idea that the coming of the Messiah.

There are close patterns of interaction among cult members, as well as retaliatory actions on the part of the host culture toward them all of which create an even more clearly defined religiously deviant subculture for cults. Cults’ leader is likely to be solitary, powerful, charismatic figure. Many characterize cults as lacking a formal organizational structure and as largely controlled in an authoritative manner by their leader. Cults are often defined and identified by the names of their leaders, at least in the popular media. Barnes and Becker said Charismatic domination is established through the extraordinary qualities of the leader. Law is not the source of authority; on the contrary, he or she proclaims new laws on the basis of revelation, oracular utterance, and inspiration. There is a fact that cults are in