It was the intention of Aggie Confidential to wait until we had another interview’s worth of answers from the unit known as ‘Telah’, but some odd turns in what I thought I understood about Heaven’s Gate caused me to throw out a brief continuation for now so our readers are aware on the latest. First off, though, a retraction from the interview, straight from the source themselves.

“One thing We read in your blog/interview that was an incorrect assumption: Bonnie Nettles was not Do’s wife. They has separate lives and came together in 1973-1974. Please make sure that correction is made. They never had that kind of relationship and never had a personal relationship. Ti was Do’s teacher and Do was clearly Ti’s student. Thank you.”

This has since been altered to better reflect the statements of Telah, and we will continue in our effort to write the most accurate news and interviews that we’re able. That said, we received an e-mail about our interviewees when Part I was released from a man named Jason Bartel. He has been involved in Heaven’s Gate himself (but left before their mass suicide), and his account of what Heaven’s Gate wished to occur after their exit from this Earth was somewhat different than that I had heard from Telah.

It isn’t the intention of Aggie Confidential to turn this into TMZ instead of the informative and educational interview it has been so far, but to not allow our readers access to all sides of this matter would be a serious dent in our standards as a source for arts and culture. We’ve edited the statement since it contained the real names of the individuals within Telah, but the rest of it is written here.

“The heavensgate.com website was left to four individuals, two of whom you are apparently interviewing and two of whom are now gone having followed in the Class’ (HG’s) footsteps. One of the individuals you are interviewing [Editor’s Note: We will call him Dale] was asked to leave the group by Do in 1987 because he could not accept the lesson of “I could be wrong”and another [Editors Note: She’ll be called Denise] left the group shortly thereafter and they subsequently married. When they initially received a FedEx package from HG in March of 1997 they wanted nothing to do with the tasks that the group offered them and they met with one of the other aforementioned individuals [Editor’s Note: He’ll be called Brennan] who was given the Intenet acct info for the website. At this meeting they turned over everything the group had given them to [Brennan] and asked that the Phoenix address of their business be taken off of the hg.com site. Only later after the media had died down and after talking to a high-priced lawyer did they want their tasks back. [Dale] and [Denise] were too cowardly to retrieve any of the group’s items from a storage locker in San Diego which included hundreds of audio tapes that the group had produced between 1982-97. [Dale]manipulated [Brennan] into giving him the tapes and [Brennan] did so under the condition that they would be released which [Dale] promised would happen and he still is suppressing these tapes to this day. Later when [Brennan] and I made copies of some of the tapes that [Brennan] had copied unbeknownst to [Dale] and gave them away to three different Universities at no charge [Dale] tried to intervene and demanded the return of his “property”. I have copies of the letters that the Class sent to [Dale and Denise] because they gave them to [Brennan] when they met him under cover of night in a parking lot in the spring of 1997. TELAH has copyrighted all of the HG info that was left behind which is something they did on their own, not as per any instructions from the Class. TELAH has in fact done more to distort and suppress HG information than anyone else on the planet and they have the temerity to cloak themselves in some kind of sick martyrdom. They will most likely claim that I am a liar and troublemaker but they always conveniently ignore the fact that I have the letters that the Class sent them and that [Brennan] was asked to upload the Final Statements to hg.com and not them. [Dale] is very good at painting himself as a martyr and victim but the truth will out him.”

Before I allowed this on the site tonight, I talked a little more to Telah about Jason Bartel and what he had told me. Here are some cut-outs from our conversation about it. I know that I do little more than brush this surface that I have now discovered, but there’ll be more talk about it and the rest of Heaven’s Gate as our interview with Telah continues and as we talk more with Jason Bartel. Until then, here’s what Telah and I have been on about as of late.

TELAH: “Jason Bartel (Crlody) was in the Group from three months in 1994. He has formed some hard and mis-informed views about us but has never sought to ever talk to us or get any real information as to what happened. We don’t know what to say about him other than we disagree with his views and they are are not the ones expressed by the Group’s choice in this matter. Our task will continue based on the instructions we were given in 1996 and 1997 and before and after the Group’s departure.”

AGGIE CONFIDENTIAL: Much has been said about Do (since he was in his human form for longer than Ti had been in hers), but tell me more about her. What are some memories that you have of events or discussions with her?

TELAH: “Ti was clearly the leader of every aspect of the Group. She would look into your soul when talking to you and display a depth of compassion and concern that normal people don’t display. The relationship between her and her student, Do, was very thoughtful and respectful.”

AGGIE CONFIDENTIAL: What did the members of Heaven’s Gate do for work while they were within their human forms? What fields do the members of Telah work in now? Outside of the enlightenment from Ti and Do (as influential as it seems to have been), do your days follow a similar routine to that of most other individuals?

TELAH: “The members of the Group did a variety of work. From IT jobs to waitressing, computer sales and repair to tech writing, the Group always found work. We now have traditional sales work now and we follow similar routines to what you and others may follow each day.”

AGGIE CONFIDENTIAL: Does Telah have restrictions that it abides by in terms of food and drink?

TELAH: “Ti and Do had a variety of foods, all carefully prepared and thoughtfully served. We did’t eat as much meat as others but we still had some recipes that contained them. We didn’t drink alcohol and still don’t. Lots of dishes with fruits, vegetables, grains. We tried all different kinds of diets to see their effect on the body but found good quality with moderation to be the key.”

AGGIE CONFIDENTIAL: To assist with our curious nature, what were the favored Kurt Vonnegut novels within Heaven’s Gate?

TELAH: “This was before the Group in 1975 but the classic “Slaughter House Five” and “Welcome to the Monkey House” and others along those kind of works. The Group read many books where the human condition was examined for in inconsistencies and shortcomings.”

AGGIE CONFIDENTIAL: [When I sent them Jason Bartel’s statement, I asked for them to counter it with their own words]

TELAH: “The information presented by Jason is just not true. It is one individuals perception and is something that Ti and Do would never have expressed or even conceived.”

AGGIE CONFIDENTIAL: If all instructions and advice were received from Ti and Do, what left Jason so misdirected? Wouldn’t he have been taught the same ideals as all others involved with Heaven’s Gate?

TELAH: “We can’t speak for Jason’s behavior or attitude.”

AGGIE CONFIDENTIAL: I still have a sensation that when I ask about what you’ve witnessed as an individual, it is diverted or answered in a broad manner. I’d still like to understand why this is, and why it is difficult to remember back to those times. What was advice or kind words that Ti told YOU as a unit within Telah?

TELAH: “Ti spoke to us about what it was like in the Next Level all the time. In particular to me she helped me understand a higher way to look at the lessons of life. Her and Do’s insight were extraordinary.”

AGGIE CONFIDENTIAL: Do the members of Telah stay in touch with or on occasion contact friends and loved ones?

TELAH: “We do, and we think Rio does. Can’t speak for Juan.”

That’s all for now, but look forward to more soon. Regardless of what is true and what isn’t, this interview went and found itself a few twists and turns. Provided that none of the information we receive can be used to locate our interviewees, rest assured that we will host all the answers we receive to better fill our readers in as it all unravels.