The mass suicide up in Rancho Santa Fe provides a grim backdrop for the celebration of Easter this year. The breaking of the story during Holy Week invited comparison with the Christian celebration of Easter and its message of resurrection. But in my understanding of the event, its occurrence during Holy Week was a coincidence. The real precipitating cause was not the celebration of Easter, but the arrival of the comet that many of us saw during the last days of this week.

My understanding is that they did not anticipate a resurrection, but a transport to another dimension on another planet, accompanied by extra-terrestrial beings who arrived in this solar system in conjunction with the arrival of that comet.

When I realized this, I was impressed with the similarity to Steven Spielberg's…