Okay so to those who don’t know, Heavens Gate was one of the first cults in the modern era to have a major suicide pack.
And yes, they are still around. Many cults are. Their messages have “changed” (a fancy word for stayed the same but with better website graphics) and so have their names, and let me tell you, they are everywhere.
I know I’m the first to turn a careful eye towards organized religion, Jewish as I am, but you have to know that these sorts of cults have ways of tricking the most run down people into their compounds and usually, after that, they don’t get out.
If someone is at a low point and starts talking about things like “yoga retreats” with “very wise leaders” who want to whisk them away across the world to learn more about themselves, help that person.
There’s a great Documentary on Netflix called Holy Hell that documents the travels of a person through a cult, from how they were initiated to how they left, and it’s definitely worth a watch.
This stuff still exists, folks. It’s everywhere. And it’s not just compounds in the woods. Sometimes its a lot more out in the open and doesn’t become Scary No Trespassing Huts until after people are lured in.
