Heaven's Gate Tapes - AN ABHORRENT ARCHIVE ORIGINAL EXCLUSIVE RELEASE!

THIS IS AN ABHORRENT ARCHIVE ORIGINAL EXCLUSIVE RELEASE!

Heaven's Gate was an American new religious movement known primarily for the mass suicides committed by its members in 1997. Commonly designated as a cult, it was founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985), known within the movement as Do and Ti. Scholars have described the theology of Heaven's Gate as a mixture of Christian millenarianism, New Age, and ufology, and it has been characterized as a UFO religion. The central belief of the group was that followers could transform themselves into immortal extraterrestrial beings by rejecting their human nature, and they would ascend to heaven, referred to as the "Next Level" or "The Evolutionary Level Above Human".

On March 26, 1997, deputies of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department discovered the bodies of the 39 active members of the group, including Applewhite, in a house in the San Diego County suburb of Rancho Santa Fe. They had participated in a coordinated series of ritual suicides, coinciding with the closest approach of Comet Hale–Bopp. Just before the mass suicide, the group's website was updated with the message: "Hale–Bopp brings closure to Heaven's Gate ...our 22 years of classroom here on planet Earth is finally coming to conclusion – 'graduation' from the Human Evolutionary Level. We are happily prepared to leave 'this world' and go with Ti's crew."

Infamously the cult recorded a series of propaganda material to promote their ideology, recruit members, and spread their message. They also recorded "exit interviews" of members declaiming their beliefs and stating their last wishes before commuting suicide. This is the complete collection of all these various materials.

Set Includes:
Heaven's Gate Tapes 1 - 12
Do's Final Exit
Student Exit Interviews
Mansion Tour
Special 1997 News Report