Cosmic suicide

Drunk on TV science fiction, tepid New Age fantasies, Phenobarbital, and vodka, the trans-human members of the Heaven's Gate Away Team shocked the world with their misguided suicide mission. For over twenty years, Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Nettles gathered a flock of naive followers by preaching an insane message about an impending space-age apocalypse. By fusing conspiracy theories about UFOs with the portents of the Book of Revelation, the Two formed an ascetic cult that sought to achieve T.E.L.A.H., The Evolutionary Level Above Human. Cosmic Suicide gives more than a glimpse…