3spm

Tommy Sawyer, better known as 3spm online, is an American vlog channel run by a surviving member of Heaven’s Gate, an American New Age religious group known for the vast majority of all member ending their own lives in a mass suicide in March of 1997.

Heaven’s Gate
In the early 1960’s, Marshall Applewhite, a music teacher at the University of St. Thomas in Texas, was fired from his job for having a sexual relationship with one of his male students. It is important to note here that Appelwhite’s relationship was with a consenting student who was over 18.

Due to this fact, Applewhite’s wife, Ann Pearce left him and took their two children with him, leaving Applewhite completely alone.

A few years later, in the early 1970’s, Marshall Applewhite met a woman named Bonnie Nettles at a hospital. Applewhite and Nettles became very close friends and Applewhite felt that he knew her from a previous life.

Both were going through hard times in their lives. Applewhite had been abandoned by his wife and Nettles felt as though she didn’t belong in the world. In 1972, two decided to drive across America to find their “purpose on Earth.”

The two came to the conclusion that Applewhite was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ and that Bonnie Nettles was G-d incarnate, and that they were sent to Earth to warn humanity that aliens were going to “recycle planet Earth,” and that it was their job to gather a group of loyal followers who they would save from the recycling process.

In 1974, Nettles and Applewhite founded Heaven’s Gate, a religious group that would spread the conclusion Nettles and Applewhite had come to.