David Robertson has published a piece over at the blog of CenSAMM, the Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millennial Movements, on the function of conspiracy theories in Heaven’s Gate.

Srrody’s exit statement claims that those who are fighting “this or that conspiracy or global plot” are “only seeing the most obvious deceptions”, whereas Heaven’s Gate has given him knowledge of the true “negative forces” in control of the world – Luciferian extraterrestrials. As odd as this narrative might seem, it’s in fact identical to William Cooper’s Behold a Pale Horse (1991), a foundational text for New World Order conspiracy theorists.

You can read the whole thing here.