Order of the Occult: Inside the Sect of the Solar Temple

The Order of the Solar Temple began as a spiritual community. The group soon drifted into occultism, promising transcendence. This deadly ideology culminated in coordinated mass murders and suicides in Switzerland and Canada.

Revisit the October 1994 "transit to Sirius" through the eyes of investigators and journalists, unpacking the massacre's aftermath. Drawing on fieldwork and judicial inquiries, these experts reconstruct how these deaths were carried out.

In December 1995, 16 more bodies were discovered in a circle in France's Vercors Massif, shattering hopes that the earlier massacres had ended the nightmare. As families demand answers, questions of responsibility resurface.

The case against Michel Tabachnik leaves lingering doubts. Through testimony and legal debate, the trial probes whether his obscure esoteric writing concealed a hidden directive or were merely abstract doctrine.