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...time you receive this, we'll be gone," read the first of six new pages Craig posted on the Web on Thursday. Above that message blared the headline HEAVEN'S GATE 'AWAY 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...
Michele B. Harper '99, a resident of Daniels 402, got caught trying to exit her hall...
...roommate woke me up and there was smoke covering the entire ceiling of the hallway, probably to head level," said Katherine M. O'Connor '99, who lives in Gilbert 405 and was able to exit by the stairs...
...Diego, they say, was unprecedented. James Tabor, who teaches religion at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and was involved in the last desperate attempts to communicate with David Koresh by radio broadcast, says, "This group is completely different. These people rather calmly followed suicide as their exit, in a very positive way, to a higher level of existence. They define death not as the enemy of life but as life itself." United Methodist minister J. Gordon Melton, editor of the authoritative Encyclopedia of American Religions, agrees. "In this case they had a positive motive, a great place...
...nothing left here on the face of the Earth for me, no reason to stay a moment longer." Some members apparently believe their leader was dying of cancer, but the coroner's office found no evidence of cancer in Applewhite's body. The newly-discovered notes, called "Earth Exit Statements," were on two computer disks sent to former cult member Richard Ford at his Beverly Hills office, along with the farewell videotape shown last week on national TV. Ford has been in hiding since he discovered the bodies of his former colleagues last Wednesday. Until Saturday night, when his employer...