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And they had an old car and no source of income, but they trusted the divine would provide for them.

And they pawned or gave away the majority of their belongings and kept only necessities.

and they'd even sell their blood for cash from time to time.

So fueled by pure purpose, they traveled through the Western United States, regularly camping to save money, and sometimes they'd sleep in tents or check into sketchy motels just to skip out on the bill when they left.

And money was so tight that simple bread rolls were all they had to survive on.

So the road trip for them was formative, and they created and refined their theology, drawing from a large pool of ideas.

And they would study Madame Blavatsky's writings on theosophy, psychology works by R.D.

Lange, New Age books from Richard Bach,

and also enjoyed science fiction novels by Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke.

And they also dove deep into the biblical New Testament, with a particular focus on the Book of Revelation and passages about Christology and asceticism, which is abstinence from earthly pleasures through simple living, and eschatology, which is the focus on the second coming of Christ, which

Cult leaders just love that shit.

Basically, it's like the doomsday stuff, you know?

It's like, oh, everything is going to go to shit when Jesus comes back, or if he doesn't come back and the world ends, and that's me.

And it's just like, just fear-ridden stuff, you know?

I was terrified of it when I was a kid.

The rapture, dude.

Every time I woke up, went downstairs, and my parents weren't there, I was like, shit!

The rapture happened and I am stuck on hell on earth.

What the ?

So with Marshall's seminary background and Bonnie's new age knowledge, they came to believe that humanity was on the verge of the grand cosmic event and that they were central to what was coming.