SIGNED book Cosmic Suicide: Heaven's Gate suicide cult true crime flying saucers

Description: Rodney Perkins & Forrest Jackson are the authors of this new condition trade paperback. The title page is signed by both authors. Since we autographed several copies during one sitting a few years ago, graphology may vary slightly in the copy you receive. Warning: this title is heading toward out-of-print status. Buy it directly from the publisher while you can!Cosmic Suicide: The Tragedy and Transcendence of Heaven's Gate gives more than a glimpse into a bizarre realm of alien messiahs, their doomsday prophecies, and their starry-eyed eunuchs. By distinguishing between media disinformation and the grisly truth, the authors thoroughly examine the weird belief system and the transcendent demise of Heaven's Gate. Supplemented by the group's Internet propaganda and Marshall Applewhite's autopsy report, Cosmic Suicide also unveils the dark secrets of apocalyptic groups while it explains humanity's ongoing obsession with the end of the world. Subjects included are UFO, flying saucers, Rancho Santa Fe, California, Hale/Bopp comet, Hinduism, Christianity, prophecy, Revelation, eschatology, Cathars, Mormonism, Aum Supreme Truth, David Koresh, Branch Davidians, ATF/FBI, Jim Jones, Order of the Solar Temple, AMORC, Carl Jung, Theosophy, Blavatsky, Rael, Unarians, asceticism, the Internet, conspiracy theory, Scientology, science fiction, Star Trek, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Amazing Stories, Ray Palmer, Richard Shaver, UFOs, and NASA. Taxes may apply, depending on your state's policies. Free media mail shipping within the USA! International bidders should be aware that I use ebay's global shipping program, which adds handling fees that are out of my control. Satisfaction guaranteed! Please see my other auctions for more great books. ------------------------------------------- A review of Cosmic Suicide by Joe McNally in the Dec. 1997 issue of the Fortean Times: 'This is the first post-suicide book on the Heaven's Gate group we've seen, and it turns out to be a very pleasant surprise. Far from being a ghoulish cash-in, this is a well researched piece of journalism which wouldn't look too out of place in Fortean Studies. Perkins and Jackson examine both the beliefs and dogma of the group and the personalities involved, from Ti and Do to the surprisingly numerous surviving members. A little of the material will be familiar to anyone who read FT's report on the cult, but there's a lot here of value, including much Heaven's Gate literature and Applewhite's autopsy report. The book's strength is in the way it puts the cult's beliefs in context, both in terms of their millenarian tendencies and of the curious SF themes that informed their cosmology. It gives a history of heresy and millennial beliefs, from Zoroastrianism's apocalypse of molten metal to the People's Temple, Aum and the Branch Davidians. Similarly, it examines assorted religious-themed science fiction, taking in Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land - which was a source of inspiration for both Applewhite and Charles Manson and the VALIS experiences of Philip K Dick. Overall, this is well assembled, commendably neutral and probably as good a book as there is to be written about Heaven's Gate.'

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