der to leave behind this world and move on to the next, people had to give up their family, sensuality, selfish desires, your human mind and your human body if necessary. You needed to have a pure unified consciousness. This is reached by a great effort to purify ones mind of distractions, defects, or whatever else was keeping them from reaching that state. The group believed that their chance to enter the kingdom of heaven was when the comet Hale-Bop passed over the earth. They thought that they were destined to rendezvous with a spacecraft they thought was traveling behind the comet. Their belief was that they spaceship would take their souls into the kingdom of heaven with them. Because of this, 39 members of the Heavens Gate Cult committed suicide on March 26th 1997. They thought it was time to leave their vehicles or human bodies. The cult members dressed in dark clothes and made a mixture of either applesauce or pudding mixed with vodka and some medicine. Some also suffocated themselves. Dark purple shrouds covered their upper bodies, and they had identification with each of them and had also packed a suitcase and left the suicide recipe next to their bunk beds where they laid dead on their backs in sleeping position. There were 21 women and 18 men who put themselves to death in the California home. On the cults web site there was a section titled Our Position Against Suicide. In this section they explained how their vehicles were fragile to them and they must take care of them while they have time here on earth. Their soul was the only part that would move on to the next level and it needed to be protected by the body that it was placed in. They said they would not destroy their vehicle until it was time to move to the next world.The Heavens Gate Cult is again one of many Internet UFO- based cults. It has had major influence on many people today. There are many cults that have came about as a result of this cult. ...
