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...TEAM' RETURNS TO LEVEL ABOVE HUMAN IN DISTANT SPACE, preceding three "exit statements" from team members. Meanwhile, several of the disciples contacted by Craig began holding conference calls to plan strategy, exchanging messages from the "Level Above" and guidance from the deceased founders of Heaven's Gate, Do and Ti (Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles). They said the Website established last week would be updated with documents and illustrations. Said Craig: "This will be an ongoing site for years to come...
...everyone practiced disciplines that had them preparing for sudden visitations by spacecraft, Ti and Do impressed the idea of a great enterprise upon them. "People lead mediocre lives, and so these leaders exploited expectations of joining an elite," says Hank Hanegraaff, president of the Christian Research Institute. The physical deprivations--lack of sleep, excessive work, repetitive chanting and duties--all contributed to subtle thought control...
This control proved tenacious, even in the face of ideological stagnation and disappointment. "Do and Ti had repeated things for so long," says Sawyer (he refuses to give his real name), later a high-ranking member of the organization. "There was frustration. We had even waited for a craft to pick us up on several dates, and it didn't happen. Ti and Do both had a lot of depression over that." Then in 1985 came a reformulation of tenets. "In the early days," says Theo Althuiszes, who joined and left the cult twice, "Ti had the real control...
...aftermath, a sense of devotion is evident even among disciples who have fallen from the faith. Says Althuiszes: "Ti and Do were not some kooky New Agers. They heard voices. They were controlled." As for Sawyer, he still believes Do and Ti's religion "makes the most sense of anything else I've heard." Of his dead compatriots, he says, "I think they're outside their bodies. I believe that 100%. I suspect they might be on a spacecraft somewhere...
...after: "During a brief window of time, some may wish to follow us...If you should choose to do this, logistically, it is preferred that you make this exit somewhere in the area of the West or Southwest of the United States...You must call on the name of Ti and Do to assist you...We suggest that anyone serious about considering this go into their most quiet place and ask, scream, with all their being." Enough noise perhaps to wake the dead...