Aum Shinrikyo and Cults that Went Wacko

Order of the Solar Temple
Co-Leader: Luc Jouret

In the 1980s, the Congo-born Belgian physician led the Order together with Joseph Di Mambro, a French-Canadian jeweler. They propagated beliefs that borrowed from Roman Catholicism, the heretical Knights Templar, Rosicrucianism and astrology, all reinforced by fears of ecological disaster. They posited death as a way of interplanetary escape...
In the Reign of Fire

• The 1992 Waco Standoff