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Heaven's Gate
JCMC 3 (3) December 1997
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Heaven's Gate: The End?
Wendy Gale Robinson
Department of Religion
Duke University
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Table of Contents
Abstract
Introduction
Who Were Heaven's Gate?
Decoding the Code
Advertisement
Keywords
Apocalypse 2000
Is Cyberculture to Blame?
Cyborg: Meat Machine
Transcending the Body
Online Multiplicity
Afterlife
Footnotes
References
Web Sites Cited in the Article
About the Author
Hale-Bopp's approach is the "marker"
we've been waiting for --
the time for the arrival of the spacecraft
from the Level Above Human
to take us home to "Their World" --
in the literal Heavens.
-- Heaven's Gate Home Page
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Abstract
In San Diego on March 26, 1997, the bodies were found of 39 similarly dressed men and women who took their own lives in a mass suicide. Led by Marshall Applewhite, the Heaven's Gate cult believed that a flying saucer was traveling behind the Hale-Bopp comet. They chose to leave their physical bodies behind to find redemption in an extraterrestrial "Kingdom of Heaven." The sect also left behind apocalyptic messages in their Rancho Santa Fe mansion and on home pages on the World Wide Web. This paper looks at online material produced by the cult and the media coverage of their tragic end, it explores the background of the cult and the science fiction and millennial influences on their beliefs, and it considers the group's connection with cyberculture and some of the questions raised by their mass suicide, which perhaps, as David Potz said in Slate, "promises to be the first great Internet mystery" [(Potz, March 28, 1997)].
Introduction
These "keys to the kingdom" link to further information on the Heaven's Gate home page, which serves as the cult's suicide note and mission statement.
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It was late Thursday evening, March 27, 1997, when the first headlines crossed my desk at the Raleigh News and Observer. I had come to expect a certain decorum at the N&O, but with the Heaven's Gate suicides, the difference in tone was striking: "Cult members were deeply into cyberspace," "Cult leader believed in space aliens and apocalypse," "Tapes left by cult suggest comet was the sign to die" [(Nando.net, March 28, 1997)]. At last, I thought, the press has found the bad-news story with an Internet angle that it has been waiting for.
Since the first Internet covers of Time and Newsweek in 1992-93 that legitimized and sensationalized the Internet, followed by the mainstream popularity of the World Wide Web, the Net has been vilified as often as it's been hailed as a panacea to the world's ills, a late twentieth-century electronic Eldorado.[1] In practice, of course, the Net is in itself neither a utopian nor a dystopian place, but rather is made up of people who for the most part are sitting in front of monitors and keyboards exchanging commonplace information a bit more conveniently, if often with a sense of "virtual community" [(Rheingold, 1993)] within "cyberspace" [(Gibson, 1984)]. Nevertheless like William Gibson who coined the term, the press seems deeply ambivalent about cyberspace and its populace. As Joshua Quittner wrote in "Life and Death on the Web" in Time, "Every time this country extrudes any significant bit of evil at its fringes my editors dispatch me to the Internet to look for its source" [(Quittner, April 7, 1997, 47)].
The Heaven's Gate techno-deaths delivered the sensationalist goods. [(Quittner, 1997)] continued, "Here was obsession, delusion and mass suicide played out in multimedia and hypertext -- a horror, finally, best observed online." Yet most of the early reports spent disappointingly little time looking at Heaven's Gate online. There was abundant coverage of the curiosities -- the castrations, the purple shrouds, the comet, The X-Files -- but little about the individual cult members as celebrated Webmasters. It seemed to be enough that the group had a Web presence business and used the online medium among other media to disseminate messages to declare the Net guilty by association.
The virtual community reacted with outrage.[2] The suicides and the media's blinkered condemnation came fresh on the heels of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), which had been argued with mixed success before the Supreme Court on March 19 (but which was overturned on June 26 [(Reno v. ACLU)]). A groan passed across the Net as members of the community wondered whether the actions of the cultists might influence public policy at a particularly vulnerable time, when free speech and openness, and the Net's importance as an electronic town hall, was a matter of public debate [(e.g., in 1996-97, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Blue Ribbon Campaign, the Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition, and 24 Hours of Democracy]). In "Deaths in the Family" on HotWired, Jon Katz said:
The killings gave our fearful guardians in politics and mainstream media yet another new Net phobia to warn America about. Cultists momentarily pushed aside pornographers as the demonic and threatening offspring of new technology. The Internet, just last week an interstate highway for perverts, was transformed for a few days into a natural breeding ground for fanatics and zealots [(Katz, March 31, 1997)].
Writing for The New York Times, George Johnson similarly noted in "From Porn to Cults, the Net Looks Nasty":
For the techno-libertarians intent on keeping the abstract duchy called cyberspace the freest of all lands, the last few months have been a nightmare of bad vibrations rippling through what the electronic elite derisively calls the "old media." Every day, it seems, television newscasts and newspapers carry reports of unspeakable acts conducted over the Internet. Pedophiles and maybe even prisoners trade pornography and tips on kidnapping, while trying to seduce children in electronic chat-rooms. . . . From listening to some people's fears, one would think that Internet bandwidth had increased to the point where a distant evil hacker could download your mind [(Johnson, March 30, 1997)].
Rather than informing the public and setting the record straight, the singular Heaven's Gate incident was exploited by the traditional media to fan the flames of suspicion much as pornography had been used all along.[3] The Net of dangerous pictures became the Net of dangerous ideas. The media, which over the past year or so had been colonizing and commercializing the Web, and therefore didn't even seem to be acting in its own best interest, let us down. Again [(Rheingold, 1996)]. As Highersource.org, one of the best known parodies of the cult that quickly sprouted on the Net, put it:
The media spin on the suicide of religious cult members is, in a word, inexcusable. Television, radio and print media sources have reported this as if the cult did all their recruiting online and killed themselves by ingesting poison computer parts. The cult was around for 22 years, LONG before the web. They only recently began making some money making VERY bad web pages (Highersource.org, March 1997).
A vocal segment of the online community seemed to hold the group in disdain because they did less than stellar Web work in terms of graphic and programming sophistication. While the term "Webmaster" often has little practical meaning, the fact that these apparently minor-league talents represented the majority of people putting up Web pages was felt to be insulting, although the democratization of publishing wrought by the Web does mean precisely this: that anyone with some pages written in HTML can claim Web expertise. Morgan Davis, operations director of one of San Diego's largest Internet providers, typified this attitude when he said, "They're rather mediocre. . . . Their art work is kind of amateurish. The layout and typesetting is not cutting-edge. It really looks like anything anyone could have done in their spare time" [(as cited in CNN, March 28, 1997)].[4]
Still the scornful Webmasters were hardly alone. With the notable exception of the millenarians, nobody wanted to be associated with Heaven's Gate, not Nike, not the gay community, not San Diegans, Californians, astronomers, the UFO community, or Trekkies [(News and Observer, March 30, 1997; Nando.net, April 1, 1997; Wambaugh, April 7, 1997)]. Even other cultists were backpedaling [(Kendall, March 30, 1997)]. Heaven's Gate's strange amalgam of beliefs made them the fringe of the fringe. In remarks that were widely quoted, the ultimate head of CNN himself, Ted Turner said: "It's a good way to get rid of a few nuts, you know, you gotta look at it that way. Well, they did it peacefully. At least they didn't go in like those S.O.B.s who go to McDonald's or post offices and shoot a lot of innocent people and then shoot themselves. At least they just went out and did it to themselves" [(Reuters, March 29, 1997)]. Gallows humor seemed to be the main statement made by their deaths.
Heaven's Gate quickly became a cyberculture in-joke.[5] By the time I was invited to speak on the topic ten days later [(Robinson, April 8, 1997)], friends were feeding me one-liners. It took all the restraint I could muster not to use the presentation as an opportunity to get my start as a stand-up comic with puns playing on Unix and eunuchs and references in questionable taste to keeping up with the "Joneses" (Heaven's Gate Humor, 1997). But the incongruity between these shallow jokes and sensationalist press coverage and the brutal reality of 39 people choosing to kill themselves upon a sign from the heavens was startling. Here was a group that scorned mortality, who considered their bodies to be nothing more than disposable shells, for whom the most profound issues of life and death and faith must've been part of their daily existence. Yet they seem ridiculous to many of us, whether we consider ourselves to be members of a Net community or not.
The gap between us and them in itself struck me as interesting in both the Freudian, cathartic sense [(Freud, 1922)] and in the way that [(Stephen O'Leary, 1994)] uses Kenneth Burke's conception of the tragic and comic frames to simultaneously embrace the open and closed aspects of the apocalypse. Yes, laughter provides a safety valve for the aggression we feel toward the members of the sect for their apparently complete lack of basic common sense, but it also helps us accept the enormity of the end-times that await us all. Heaven's Gate didn't shrink from this reality; they embraced The End. The headline of their suicidal home page in bold print announced [italics added]: "Red Alert -- Hale-Bopp brings closure to Heaven's Gate . . . . "
What is it about these people, their chosen end, and what they believed and practiced that touched a common chord? Why were we so eager to dismiss them out of hand?[6] To what can we attribute their thorough alienation, I wondered. After all, while many of us thought that Hale-Bopp was memorably spectacular, few were inclined to read the comet as an omen -- or did we? And do we today view Applegate's followers less as flesh-and-blood people with whom we might feel a sympathetic human connection than as representatives of dangerous cults, as signs of the coming millennium, and not least of all, as a case-in-point of what's wrong with cyberculture or, conversely, how the media typifies cyberculture?
Who Were Heaven's Gate?
Higher Source is the sect's Web presence business. Clients included the San Diego Polo Club, a mail-order music catalog purveying early Madonna, and a New Age Christian company specializing in inspirational messages (see Keep the Faith's statement on Heaven's Gate).
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The facts are well known. The group lived together in a large immaculate house in Rancho Santa Fe, a wealthy community in San Diego. On March 26, 1997, the bodies of 21 women and 18 men, ranging in age from 26-72, were discovered in various stages of decomposition. Several days before, they had ingested applesauce or pudding laced with barbiturates and a shot of vodka, and they had submitted to suffocation from plastic bags placed over their heads. They were identically dressed in unisex black shirts, pants, and Nikes, and had purple shrouds placed across their faces. Many of the men had been castrated. Nevertheless still frustrated with their bodies, they chose to leave their "earthly containers" behind in San Diego to join aliens who would take them to the Next Level with a newly embodied life. The extraterrestrials were believed to reside in a starship traveling behind the Hale-Bopp comet.
Much more than a Net cult, Heaven's Gate was a UFO cult. Marshall Herff Applewhite, known as "Do" (formerly "Bo"), and Bonnie Lu Nettles, known as "Ti" (formerly "Peep"), met in Texas and formed Heaven's Gate in the early 1970s.[7] The group settled in the Southwest where they lived in seclusion, eventually attracting as many as 1000 followers [(Niebuhr, March 28, 1997)]. Do and Ti preached that they were Christ-like extraterrestrials who had taken human form. As early as 1975, Applewhite and Nettles (who passed on from natural causes in 1985) told of a spaceship that would spirit true believers away toward a higher level of existence [(Phelan, 1976)]. The Two as they called themselves, after the "Two Lampstands" prophesied in the Bible, always drew as much on science fiction as on Biblical prophecy. Their early chronicler, Robert Balch, wrote about the group circa 1975:
Claiming that [a] biblical cloud referred to a UFO, Bo and Peep promised eternal life in the "literal heavens" to anyone willing to devote "100 percent of his total energy" to overcoming his attachments to the human level. Over a period of six months Bo and Peep recruited over 200 believers, and for a brief time the UFO cult was America's most publicized new religious movement. . . . Bo was a tall, greying, slightly overweight figure with remarkable stage presence and steel-blue eyes which he could use effectively to captivate an audience. By all accounts Bo was extremely persuasive. A few ex-members claimed their minds went blank in his presence, and one man insisted that he saw a vivid image of a UFO the moment Bo touched him on the shoulder. The experience was so real that even long after defecting, the man continued to believe he had actually put his hand on the spaceship's landing gear [(Balch, 1982, 21-24)].
Heaven's Gate flourished in the Southwest, where UFO sightings have been common since the postwar boom in aviation and the government's use of the region for nuclear testing. UFO mythology resonates strongly in contemporary popular culture. Concerns over the atomic bomb as well as hopes and fears that we aren't alone in the universe have spurred countless Hollywood films and television shows in which beings from outer space warn the people of earth of impending disaster. H.G. Wells in his late phase, notably the apocalyptic The Shape of Things to Come (1933), is a major literary influence. Another well-acknowledged influence is the 1947 UFO sighting and rumored cover-up that took place near the airforce base in Roswell, New Mexico, where some believe two alien starships collided. Located northwest of Las Vegas, the inspiration for last summer's Men in Black is Area 51, thought to be the government's top-secret installation for investigating flying saucers.[8] The members of Heaven's Gate took such science fact and fiction seriously; indeed, they watched The X-Files and Star Trek religiously.[9]
The group recruited with pamphlets and other print publications for two decades before moving to California and actively using the Internet to transmit messages in the mid-1990s. Members of the cult opened a Web consulting business, Higher Source (a name that can be assumed to be intended to evoke both bodily liberation and HTML source codes). Despite what the Net community thought of their work in retrospect, in Southern California they had a reputation strong enough to attract a client list that included the San Diego Polo Club and Kushner-Locke, a Hollywood production company. Their work shows some programming expertise in that they used Java, VRML, audio and video clips, and advanced HTML that many mom-and-pop Web businesses did not provide in late 1996-early 1997. Similarly, Higher Source was ahead of the curve with using meta tags in inventive ways, in their case for evangelical purposes.
Members of the cult believed they were leaving their bodies behind in a chrysalis that would take them to The Evolutionary Level Above Human (TELAH). According to Balch, these beliefs date back to the early period:
Ultimately the Two held out the promise of eternal life at the "Level Above Human." There . . . their followers would become . . . complete with androgynous bodies forever free of disease, decay, and death. Eventually they also might be able to help with a harvest in some distant part of the universe, or even, like Jesus and the Two, "do the Christ trip" on another garden [(Balch, 1982, 27)].
From the beginning, then, the group made plans to leave this planet and their bodies, which they called "shells" and "vehicles," for new life in a more evolved corner of the universe. The sign they were waiting for came with Hale-Bopp and its ghostly companion vehicle.
On Nov. 14, 1996, Houston-based amateur astronomer Chuck Shramek phoned Art Bell's "Coast to Coast" to say that he had taken a photograph of a mysterious object traveling behind Hale-Bopp.[10] Art Bell's popular radio program discusses matters of interest to the UFO community. The next night a guest on Bell's show, Courtney Brown, director of the Farsight Institute in Atlanta, asserted that three professional psychics associated with his organization had detected the companion vehicle and found it to be inhabited by extraterrestrials. Although there are conflicting reports as to whether Shramek's call was intended as a hoax or was simply a mistake, the sighting of Hale-Mary, as the companion spaceship came to be known, has been widely attributed to have been enough to break Heaven's Gate's holding pattern and to have perhaps triggered the 39 cult members' exit from their mortal containers. O'Leary is among those who point out that the "suicide of the Heaven's Gate sect was timed to coincide with the nearest approach to Earth of the comet Hale-Bopp -- a celestial event that, like many comets throughout history, has been greeted in apocalyptic circles as a harbinger of cosmic change" [(O'Leary, April 1997)].
There is no question that when first reporting the Rancho Santa Fe suicides, the press acted irresponsibly by hastily pointing the finger at the Net although many factors influenced the decision of Applewhite and his followers to end their lives. And the follow-up coverage was never given the prominence of the first few days in which the Net was implicated by the association with UFOs and cult mania. The general public probably still associates Heaven's Gate with the Net and thinks that the Rancho Santa Fe suicides somehow happened because the cult members spent too much time in spooky cyberspace.
The mass media based broad assumptions about the group on the "fact" that they were part of the online community and therefore were taken to be representative of cyberculture. Whether we accept that premise or consider the Heaven's Gate cult members' connection with the Internet to be tenuous at best -- as just another medium they used for proselytizing if also for commerce -- there is nothing to be lost by examining the online evidence, even if it's not difficult to see that the blame, if any, for their deaths should be shared. In addition to bringing out the significance of celestial influences, O'Leary notes, "Heaven's Gate gives a new and terrifying significance to previously innocuous media products which had long enjoyed what are commonly, and unthinkingly, referred to as 'cult followings': the 'X-Files,' 'Star Trek,' and 'Star Wars'" [(O'Leary, April 1997)]. Perhaps the Net encourages pop idolatry. Perhaps the Net encourages addictive behavior. Perhaps any number of assumptions, which is all they can be without examining the evidence first-hand. In the hope that it might be illuminating to explore the ways in which the members of the sect were typical or atypical of the Net and its virtual community, a consideration of the Heaven's Gate Website is in order.
Decoding the Code
The Heaven's Gate Website contains "secret codes" used as keywords for search engines and for proselytizing purposes. To see these codes hidden within the meta tag, click on the graphic and display the source code of the cult's home page on your browser. With Netscape, choose View on the menu bar, then Document Source. The words excerpted below appear behind the top and bottom of most pages on the site.
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Much has been made of the liberatory potential of hypertext, of its undoing and decentering of the author, authority, and linearity itself [(e.g., Bolter, 1990; Malthrop, 1991; Landow, 1992; Lanham, 1993; Gaggi, 1997)]. The World Wide Web, however, offers other avenues of exploration. Unlike how we interpret the printed word, with the Web we aren't restricted to the foregrounded text since we can look beneath to see what's embedded in the computer code or literal subtext. We can, in other words, decode the code or do a digital deconstruction of pages written in HTML to uncover what they reveal or suggest. As it so happens, the material below the surface of the Heaven's Gate pages is unusually rich.
Nevertheless, in terms of intentionality, the subtext of the Heaven's Gate pages is every bit as deliberate as the messages that might otherwise be considered the "preferred reading" [(Hall, 1980)]. Already a subculture in the sense of being a cult, Applewhite's followers were cannily in control of their messages on several levels although obviously their audience reception could not be prescribed [(Hebdige, 1979; Fish, 1980; Radway, 1984; Fiske, 1989)]. It's difficult to accept the cynical view that Heaven's Gate might've staged their suicides for laughs or as a publicity stunt. Although Heaven's Gate's suicide page is surely one of the best read open letters to the Net community, its message has proven to be largely incomprehensible despite its intratextual redundancy.[11] Hale-Bopp did not bring closure to Heaven's Gate.
Access the home page of the Heaven's Gate site and view the source code.[12] (If your browser is Netscape, go to the menu bar, choose View and then select Document Source). At the top and bottom is text otherwise hidden from view contained within the meta tag (a.k.a. <meta>). The meta tag is used by some people making Web pages, particularly commercial sites, to supply information for search engines. Some search engines, such as AltaVista and Infoseek, gather information by pulling up the first few lines of code from a file. The reasoning goes that if you want your site to float to the top when a user does a search, you stand a better chance of being found if you control what words the search engine finds. Just as a user chooses keywords when running a search query, you as the Web page designer can help things along by providing keywords to match the expected query.
This is fine in principal, but Heaven's Gate took keywording and developed it to an unusual degree. They glutted search engines in a form of spamming or sending out junk mail on the Internet. Using the meta tag this way is considered poor Netiquette, or bad manners online and an improper use of bandwidth.[13] But the group's use is consistent with how they used other media. Like many evangelical groups eager to spread their message, they used direct mail techniques, broadcast and video, posters, books, pamphlets, and word of mouth. Heaven's Gate's use of the meta tag is in keeping with their media suffusion. It's worth pointing out, however, that just as most of us in the general public don't completely welcome unsolicited mail, the cult's "spamdexing" was frowned on by what we can consider to be the Net community. Their misuse of HTML put the cult at odds with the accepted practices of the Net rather than in accord. Furthermore, Heaven's Gate not only placed these meta tags at the top of their pages, they also ran them along the bottom for reasons that will be discussed shortly but that serve little practical purpose in terms of search engines.
Advertisement
When we examine the meta tag at the top of the Heaven's Gate home page, the first information that comes to view is an advertisement that was posted to a wide variety of newsgroups:
Heaven's Gate
How and When the Door to the Physical Kingdom Level Above Human May Be Entered
Organized Religions Are Killers of Souls
UFOs and Space Aliens -- Sorting Good from Bad
Final Warning for Possible Survivors
-- www.heavensgate.com (Heaven's Gate)
The recruitment ad lays out the four basic tenets of Applewhite's teachings:
That the physical body can be left behind for TELAH in which the inviolate spirit will live on at a higher evolutionary level,
That traditional religion is untrustworthy,
That escape is forthcoming through alien abduction, and
That this is the final warning.
The latter was a common theme following the death of Nettles. The ending of her life from cancer instead of from alien abduction proved difficult to explain to the faithful. Wojcik notes that after Nettles' death Heaven's Gate disappeared for nearly a decade until May 27, 1993, when they "placed an ad in USA Today entitled 'UFO Cult Resurfaces with Final Offer,' which declared that societal institutions and mainstream religions are controlled by a conspiracy involving Satan" [(Wojcik, 1997, 182)]. When they re-emerged, it was in crisis mode.
Heaven's Gate was a doomsday cult with a predilection for conspiracy theory, views they vigorously disseminated. Sixty-two of the group's Usenet postings from rep@heavensgate.com, ranging from alt.bible.prophecy to alt.blasphemy that date from mid-1996, can be accessed through Deja News. The Washington Post maintains a large collection of "Heaven's Gate" Documents, including videotapes and advertisements such as the USA Today ad that cost nearly $30,000 [(Bayles & O'Driscoll, March 28, 1997)]. The Heaven's Gate Manifesto,"Time to Die for God?," which was posted to a number of newsgroups, can be found on the Pathfinder site. Earlier in 1995, they posted their philosophies on the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (WELL), but discontinued after being flamed by members [(Guglielmo, March 31, 1997)].
The Heaven's Gate group's cross-posting did not endear them to the Net community. Indeed, the cult can be considered guilty of deviating from at least the first five of what [(McLaughlin, Osborne, & Smith, 1995)] have defined as the seven "Standards of Conduct on Usenet." However, it seems as though Heaven's Gate never felt an obligation to observe the tacit rules of the Net; rather, it was the Net community that was supposed to come around. There is nothing in their literature and the interviews with surviving cult members to support the idea that they felt part of cyberculture or that the Internet was anything more than a digital bulletin board on which to affix their messages. The communal joy of connecting, sharing, flaming, ranting that many people associate with what it means to be online apparently was not part of the cult members' experience or interests. In other words, there was no interactivity. Heaven's Gate's messages are one-way, authoritarian. Applewhite, presumably, talks at the world, preaching, proselytizing. Submission is the expected response, not dialogue. In "'Un-Homey' Potential in the Public Discourse of Heaven's Gate," Robert Glenn Howard notes:
The Heaven's Gate group's newsgroup "recruitment" communications display a static and deterministic rhetoric. Railing against the bodily manifestations of human beings, they developed a belief set that allowed them to view suicide as a positive experience. This attitude failed to effect large groups of individuals on the Internet because, for the most part, their rhetoric failed to attempt any sort of persuasion. In their e-mail posts, they made no real attempt to persuade anyone of anything. They simply dogmatically asserted their version of the truth [(Howard, 1997, 51)].
Nor does Heaven's Gate seem to have experienced the medium as a new religious agora. The potential for participatory affirmation called "the ritual view of communication" by [(James W. Carey, 1975)] and celebrated by those who write on the Internet's interfaith networking potential [(Davis, 1995; Brasher, 1996; O'Leary, 1996; Cobb, 1998, in press)] similarly wasn't valued by Heaven's Gate. Posting information on the Net doesn't seem to have been any more meaningful to the members of the cult than buying a newspaper ad, although obviously the Net was quite a bit less expensive. The group wasn't "of" the Net from lack of interest as well as ostracism, which likely fed each other. Heaven's Gate was alienated from the virtual community that they in turn alienated by failing to observe the social contract.
Keywords
The next set of words within the meta tag is a list of keywords used for search engines. Strung together in this form, the keywords resemble chanting. If you scroll to the bottom of the source code, you'll see two more lists, the first in a meta tag, the other colored black so that it isn't visible against the background. On the home page, they run behind the foregrounded text in the blank space at the bottom (below the footer and information on how to order Applewhite's book). The lists are provided below:
Heaven's Gate Heaven's Gate Heaven's Gate Heaven's Gate Heaven's Gate Heaven's Gate Heaven's Gate Heaven's Gate ufo ufo ufo ufo ufo ufo ufo ufo ufo ufo ufo ufo space alien space alien space alien space alien space alien space alien space alien space alien space alien space alien space alien space alien extraterrestrial extraterrestrial extraterrestrial extraterrestrial extraterrestrial extraterrestrial extraterrestrial extraterrestrial extraterrestrial extraterrestrial extraterrestrial extraterrestrial extraterrestrial extraterrestrial misinformation misinformation misinformation misinformation misinformation misinformation misinformation misinformation misinformation misinformation misinformation misinformation freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom second coming second coming second coming second coming second coming second coming second coming second coming second coming second coming angels angels angels angels angels angels angels angels angels angels end end times times end times end times end times end times end times end times end times end times end times.
Key Words: (for search engines) 144,000, Abductees, Agnostic, Alien, Allah, Alternative, Angels, Antichrist, Apocalypse, Armageddon, Ascension, Atheist, Awakening, Away Team, Beyond Human, Blasphemy, Boddhisattva, Book of Revelation, Buddha, Channeling, Children of God, Christ, Christ's Teachings, Consciousness, Contactees, Corruption, Creation, Death, Discarnate, Discarnates, Disciple, Disciples, Disinformation, Dying, Ecumenical, End of the Age, End of the World, Eternal Life, Eunuch, Evolution, Evolutionary, Extraterrestrial, Freedom, Fulfilling Prophecy, Genderless, Glorified Body, God, God's Children, God's Chosen, God's Heaven, God's Laws, God's Son, Guru, Harvest Time, He's Back, Heaven, Heaven's Gate, Heavenly Kingdom, Higher Consciousness, His Church, Human Metamorphosis, Human Spirit, Implant, Incarnation, Interfaith, Jesus, Jesus' Return, Jesus' Teaching, Kingdom of God, Kingdom of Heaven, Krishna Consciousness, Lamb of God, Last Days, Level Above Human, Life After Death, Luciferian, Luciferians, Meditation, Members of the Next Level, Messiah, Metamorphosis, Metaphysical, Millennium, Misin |
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