1901: Heaven's Gate: Dissecting Cult Mentality w/ Randy Bell
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
Content Warning: suic*de
In this riveting podcast, Randy Bell, delves into the chilling story of Heaven's Gate, a cult that led 39 members to a mass suicide in 1997. Through captivating insights, Bell unravels the cult's manipulative tactics, explores the twisted beliefs of its leaders, and highlights the importance of critical thinking in recognizing and avoiding such dangerous groups. Brace yourself for a gripping exploration of one of the most infamous cults in modern history.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon |
| 0:02.1 | Story's podcast. I'm your host John Delinn. It is May 21st, |
| 0:05.8 | 2024 and today we are super excited to bring you a story that I've been |
| 0:11.3 | wanted to wanting to bring to you for a long long time. |
| 0:14.0 | It's a fascinating story. |
| 0:16.0 | It's also a disturbing story. |
| 0:18.0 | So just be warned, sort of a trigger warning, |
| 0:22.0 | there will be discussion of, it's kind of a true crime thing, |
| 0:26.0 | so all the things that go along with true crime, including death. |
| 0:29.5 | We're going to be talking about today. |
| 0:30.6 | We're going to be talking about Heavens Gate, which is a cult. about the |
| 0:33.2 | day, we're gonna be talking about Heaven's Gate, |
| 0:33.3 | which is a cult that emerged, I don't know, |
| 0:37.6 | in the 70s, 60, 70s, and early 80s |
| 0:41.8 | in California, and it's known and again trigger warnings |
| 0:46.4 | this known as kind of a suicide cult or death cult because it ended in |
| 0:50.0 | tragedy and so we're just gonna be telling the story today of the Heaven's Gate |
| 0:55.2 | Colt and joining us again on Mormon stories to tell us the story is Dr. |
| 1:02.0 | Randy Bell. |
| 1:03.0 | Hey, Randy. |
| 1:03.8 | Hey John, hi everyone. |
| 1:05.1 | Welcome back to Mormon stories, Randy. |
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