Order of the Solar Temple
Was the Order of the Solar Temple an apocalyptic cult?
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59 mins
Explore the mysterious Order of the Solar Temple, a group that believed in Ascended Masters and a global catastrophe. Discover how the cult's leaders, Joseph di Mambro and Luc Jouret, influenced its members and led them to participate in mass suicides and murders through their beliefs.
Ep 1:
Into the Shadow of Sirius
A shocking 1994 mass murder-suicide launches our investigation into the Order of the Solar Temple, tracing how two calculating men, Joseph di Mambro and Luc Jouret, built a hidden empire of manipulation.
Ep 2:
Rituals of the Cosmic Order
Explore the mystical cosmology of Sirius, ascended masters, and the Age of Aquarius—and the elaborate binding rituals that fused members' identities to a cult preparing them for death.
Ep 3:
The Architecture of Secrecy
Discover how the Solar Temple's layered secrecy kept most followers blind to their leaders' true plans, and how failed prophecies pushed a survivalist movement toward catastrophic transformation.
Ep 4:
Transit to the Stars
Inside the final chilling months at a Canadian 'ark of survival,' as isolation and paranoia set the stage for the Order's devastating end—and the lessons it leaves behind.
Discussions (14)
Joshua
Level 5 · 9 mo agoLiteral pyramid scheme xD
Kenneth
Level 2 · 9 mo agoDi Mambro was born in France in 1924. It was Jouret who was born in the Belgian Congo.
Lillian
Level 7 · 8 mo agodi mambro was for sure convicted of fraud. yup
