Marshall Applewhite Research Paper

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In march 1997, Marshall Applewhite and his thirty-two accomplices committed one the most compelling and strange mass suicides in history. Marshall Applewhite was a successful music teacher at the University of Alabama (ask.com/wiki/heavensgate). He attended several different universitys as a student. He also served in the united states army. A year after his fathers death in 1971 he became severly depressed in 1972. Then he met Bonnie, a nurse at the mental hospital he visited for depression. They discussed their beliefs and descided that they were cosmic “messangers”. They said that they were reincarnations of “higher beings” or aliens. Sent to the “garden”, earth in order to plant the “seeds” humans, and to bring the few that would believe in the higher power back with them (www.findingdulcinea.com). At first when starting the Heavens Gate Away Team, that is what they called themselves, they had to get members to believe. Not long after starting the cult members starting filing in. they all believed very strongly that Marshall and Bonnie were descendants of aliens. Now they have thirty-two faithful members. They also had very strict rules when it came to living in the cult. Every member had the same haircut, wore the same clothes everyday, and ate the exact same food (www.dailymail.com). The members had to leave their friends …show more content…
Nothing so far has happened, they just stay at the mansion and learn about the “higher power”. In 1997, the Haley Bop comet was going to be in Earths sight for three whole days. Marshall then started saying that there was a spacecraft behind the comet coming to get them to take them away. He said that if they were all to board the spacecraft then they would be taken away to the “higher level”. The only way to board the spacecraft was to kill yourself, although in his earlier teachings he said suicide was cowardly and took away rights from the “higher level”

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