Heaven's Gate : Graduating to the Next Level

On March 26, 1997, the bodies of 39 men and women were found in a posh mansion outside San Diego, all victims of a mass suicide. Messages left by the Heavens Gate group indicate that they believed they were stepping out of their 'physical containers' in order to ascend to a UFO that was arriving in the wake of the Hale-Bopp comet. The Heavens Gate suicides were part of a series of major violent incidents involving New Religions in the 1990s. Despite the major attention that Heavens Gate attracted at the time of the suicides, there have been relatively few scholarly studies.This anthology on Heavens Gate includes a combination of articles previously published in academic journals, some previously unpublished chapters, and some original Heavens Gate documents. All the material is expertly brought together under the editorship of George Chryssides.Chryssides, George D. is the author of 'Heaven's Gate : Graduating to the Next Level', published 2011 under ISBN 9780754663744 and ISBN 0754663744.