Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Trusdale Nettles met twenty seven years ago and they formed a cult together because of their ideas. Marshall felt that he and Nettles had some kind of connection when they met. The year that the met and the years before, Applewhite was a failing musician with a dying dream. In addition to his doomed music career, Applewhite had homosexual desires which he hated and sought to get cured. Now, Bonnie Nettles was the one who was thought to be saving Marshall, but she was really sending him back into insanity. She was thought as the nurse that would save Marshall Applewhite. Bonnie Nettles was a nurse that worked in Dallas, Texas. She had four children and firmly believed in reincarnation. When Bonnie and Marshall met, they thought that they had met before in a past life. Let me give you a little backstory on Bonnie Lu Trusdale Nettles. She was alienated from her family, which means they had no idea of her cancer. Yes, she had cancer. Liver cancer, to be exact. She died from the cancer, however. You …show more content…
They met sometime in March 1972. They had the same absurd thoughts and beliefs. They thought of astrology, reincarnation, and others relating to the stars. Some people would characterize them with the words: crazy, nutty, insane. The two took their ideas, beliefs, philosophies and put them together to make a group of people that would worship them, or a cult. Thus, beginning Heaven’s Gate. Heaven’s Gate was started roughly around 1975. Applewhite and Nettles had hosted a meeting in Oregon sometime in September 1975. After the meeting had concluded, 20 people decided to join the cult. Now, you might be wondering how the group stayed in disguise. I’ll tell you how: they had nicknames for each other. Many of their nicknames came from children's pop culture, like Tiddly and Wink or Winnie and Pooh, but the cult was anything but childish. Soon later, in mid 1980, she died of cancer (Moran,