I spoke with one of them on their address posting. I asked them who their leader was and they said that God was with Applewhite as the updated message of “the mind of Jesus”. So, in turn what they are saying is the same mind that was in Jesus, not named Jesus (???), was in Applewhite. (???)

These new converts don’t have a compound or base or mansion. I was told that some new believers exist in Canada and the US and across the world not including prospects. I was told that they are “self temples” and are here to claim that the information has truth in it. When I asked them if they are encouraging people to commit suicide, they responded by saying “No. We aren’t telling people to stay or leave. We’re just asking people to read the information and decide for themselves what best course of action they should take if they believe it is true.”.

On their links area on their main page, I discovered that a documentary called “Heaven’s gate: A Decade later” is being filmed. Hoooookay…!

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Every remote viewer I’ve interviewed has a dim view of Dames. Most are polite, but I’ve heard some stories! One told me that Dames subscribes to scientific journals and makes his “predictions” based on stories that the scientific community is aware of months or years before it hits the general press. It’s a strange way to scrabble for a living, but there are chralatans galore in the psychic business–unfortunately, they are the most vocal, and the only ones we ever really hear about.

I haven’t read that story yet, partly because I wish I’d written it! This week I”l take a look at it for sure, then go to the back of the L.A. Weekly and look for music show listings.

As I said in an earlier post on Heaven’s Gate, I have little problem with cult memebers killing themselves, as long as they are not forced into it, and the “leader” goes along with them. I feel sorry for them, and especially the friends and relatives they leave behind.

TOA/ Heaven’s Gate was a screwed-up bunch to be sure, but they pretty much kept to themselves. This sort of thing will happen again, to be sure, but let’s hope that less people are involved.

That whole business was a ghastly mess, but filled with enough weird ironies to really give you the willies.

And maybe he was - in which case we’re all doomed, because all he had to teach us was to get the hell out of the world, and who amongst us hasn’t at some time or other felt degrees of the sort of despair were we could’ve easily dreamed up this ’solution’ for ourselves?

At least with his First Coming, Jesus had a certain classiness about him.

With his Second Coming, alas, he wasn’t so much Do as DOH!!!