Introduction
Heaven’s Gate became famous as a harmful doomsday cult in the eyes of the media in March 1997, following a mass suicide of its followers at Rancho Santa Fe, a luxurious mansion in San Diego, California.
In retrospect, we can say that the ultimate objective of the cult was to disconnect themselves from a material world that did not treat them well in their perspective. The build-up to the climax of Heaven’s Gate members taking their own lives was a considerably long and gradual journey but was something to be expected from the group due to various factors eventually falling into place, making sense in their system of belief.
Heaven's Gate founder Marshall Applewhite on the cover of Newsweek