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In prison, there are standards.
They're like a ranking of crimes that are more acceptable
or less acceptable for the prison population.
And if a crime's way too serious, way too bad
then one "is doomed," as they say.
So if someone's doomed on the level that I was,
it's someone's responsibility,
if you have the opportunity to kill the bastard, you do it.
All the inmates wanted to kill me,
and also half of the guards.
I believe it's a normal reaction, right?
But... not once did I feel more threatened
than all those countless times I found myself at risk within the cult.
Nothing about the intensity of being in prison
came even close to the intensity of being enslaved within the cult.
The seven members of the cult detained in Santiago jails
are under permanent protection to prevent possible attacks inside the prison.
Why not talk?
It was a horrifying, inconceivable event, worse than any crime we've ever reported.
According to the PDI, it's the first time there has been a human sacrifice in Chile.
To thus avoid, listen well, the end of the world.
The crime is so awful that nobody wants to look beyond that.
This wasn't a crime of passion.
This wasn't a murder to steal someone's car.
This was a crime to save the world.
I don't like to talk about this story.
Because people tend not to understand how bad it really is.
If I tell you everything there's to it,
I'd make you feel distressed, know what I mean?
THE DOOMSDAY CULT OF ANTARES DE LA LUZ
I'm Verónica Foxley, I'm a journalist.
I've dedicated the last 30 years of my career to investigative journalism,
as police journalism always has been my favorite.
I like crime stories
because they directly link to the human condition.
With those fragilities...
JOURNALIST ANTARES DE LA LUZ BIOGRAPHER
...that occur in our minds,
and those secrets that you have to discover
to try to understand what makes people commit crimes.
And in this case, the one about the cult
was one of the things that interested me the most when I started on the case.
What was the motive?
The motive was to save the world.
That's when I said, "This is crazy. This needs to be investigated."
SOMEWHERE IN SOUTHERN CHILE
I'd never been as happy as when I joined the cult.
EX-MEMBER OF THE COLLIGUAY CULT
It was a group of people
whose calling was
to be
of service to this higher good.
To serve the light, love, and healing the whole world.
They took me in.
They accepted me for who I was.
I'd never belonged to anything before.
HEADQUARTERS CHILEAN INVESTIGATIVE POLICE
I remember that in the month of December...
DEPUTY CHIEF, SPECIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION BRIGADE
...a group of relatives of a woman showed up at the headquarters.
They came to us saying that
their relative belonged to a cult.
The Worship Law, specifically in Chile,
says that no one can be discriminated against
due to their religious beliefs.
- Here! - Back there!
Since there are no restrictions,
it's difficult to investigate a cult.
It was a new crime
for all the detectives working in that unit.
We had no idea, no knowledge of how a cult was investigated.
What allowed us to investigate the Colliguay cult
is the ayahuasca that was trafficked from Peru to Chile.
Then, everything changed.
We knew there had been a murder.
Tests were carried out and it confirmed human bones.
Yeah. Positive?
We'll wait for the DA and begin due diligence.
A horrific homicide.
In April 2013, I got a call from the Santiago Metropolitan Prosecutor...
FORMER CHIEF PROSECUTOR OF QUILPUÉ
...telling me that a big case was gonna be transferred
to the Quilpué Prosecutor's office.
He said I would be given more information
by the Investigative Police leading the case.
The investigation had been ongoing for the last months of 2012 in Santiago,
and they had already determined
that there were human remains in Colliguay
that matched very closely
with the information we had in relation to that cult.
The prosecutor immediately granted us an arrest warrant
for the members of the Colliguay cult.
This is the case that has shocked me the most
because... of the human brutality.
- Do you regret it? - Do you regret being in a cult?
It was challenging for us.
How could we deal with something that was unprecedented?
DETECTIVE CHILEAN INVESTIGATIVE POLICE
It was my job to interview those men, and... it was truly complex.
THE TESTIMONIES OF THOSE INVOLVED IN THE TRIAL
WERE RECREATED USING OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS FROM THE CASE.
SOME STATEMENTS WERE SIMPLIFIED FOR CLARITY.
David Pastén Rojas.
EX-MEMBER OF THE COLLIGUAY CULT
These people had spent years being victims
of the domination imposed on them by Antares.
Carolina Vargas San Martín. Fifteen.
And the subjugation was then turned into threats...
Pablo Undurraga Atria.
...which created a sense of fear that kept them together.
Josefina Isabel López Núñez.
Natalia Guerra Jequier.
FORMER MEMBER OF THE COLLIGUAY CULT
María del Pilar Álvarez.
In specific, Pablo Undurraga was the second-in-command of this group.
Karla Franchy Arana, 12.
He was the most frightened.
I've always been a solitary person.
And all of a sudden, I found a family.
Out of the blue.
With people who loved me and wanted me there.
I'd say that Pablo was a very happy kid. Very connected to nature.
FATHER OF PABLO UNDURRAGA
He was happy until he started third or fourth grade, around that age.
Pablo had a deadly combination in elementary school
because he was small with braces and glasses,
and he didn't like football.
I mean, he was...
he was the perfect victim for bullying.
I spent my days drawing. I liked studying, got good grades.
I was the perfect target.
It was unfair. It made me angry.
I didn't understand why I was being bullied.
I didn't know what I know now.
I was upset, frustrated.
I didn't know how to cope with those emotions.
And by the time I turned 18, I was clearly depressed.
And, uh, towards the end of high school,
I stopped trying to fit in
and began looking for friends somewhere else.
I couldn't wait to leave school.
And when I finally did, I went to college.
I discovered music. I began to sing in a band.
I realized music helps me.
I fell in love with it and started to get more involved.
Little by little, I started to have normal relationships.
I got a girlfriend, and I started to make real friends.
And then one day, I met the mother of my oldest child,
who's 16 years old now.
I found out I was gonna be a dad when I was 23
and became a dad at 24.
For many people, at 24, you're an adult.
But in my case, my ID said that I was,
but emotionally, I wasn't.
I looked at myself and thought I was a total mess.
I had to sort myself out.
I wanted to be good for my son
and I wanted the world to be good for my son too.
It's one small step for man...
Climate change, deforestation,
the accelerated population growth...
Oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded.
214 people were arrested...
We must do everything we possibly can to stop terror.
...troops told to be ready.
The US military has begun strikes...
Is it the World Trade Center?
They say that a plane crashed!
I began to fall for everything that was offered to me.
Reiki, I began going to Temazcals, I started reading about Buddhism...
anything that wasn't Catholic.
So, one day, my Reiki teacher said that he had the perfect workshop for me.
It was close to my home, so I went.
Not knowing what it was, I discovered Antares.
Before being Antares de la Luz,
he was called Ramón Castillo Gaete.
A working-class young man from Peñalolén
who used to play ball,
have friends in the neighborhood, ride a bike.
Who used to tutor kids from a village in Lo Hermida,
with a political and social commitment.
He was a young man who studied music.
He used to love Andean music,
and even became part of a band called "Amaru."
He was an accomplished musician.
He was good at playing the clarinet, saxophone, and charango.
RAMÓN CASTILLO GAETE'S UNCLE
I actually admired Antares Ramón a lot.
He had the ability to...
FORMER ANTARES FOLLOWER
...connect with the needs of others and to help them.
From a very young age,
Ramón Castillo Gaete began to feel pain in his body.
A pain that immobilized him,
that made him suffer a lot and that didn't let him sleep.
He told me that the pain was so bad that he'd rather die.
He said that he was gonna take ayahuasca
because he'd taken it once, two years before, and it had helped.
He was pain-free for about two to three hours.
And for him, that was amazing.
Ramón Castillo came to my house, like many other people.
SHAMAN
At the time, I was doing weekly ceremonies at home.
He came and took the medicine just like everyone else.
We held a ceremony.
Ramón was here, and the ceremony guide over here.
So I shut my eyes,
and I began to feel a bright light
coming from where Ramon was sitting.
There are millions of plants in the jungle.
Each plant has medicine.
Each plant has a spirit.
And ayahuasca's like a synthesis of that entire world,
having a little bit of each of those plants out there.
In a sense, they're incorporated in these two plants,
chacruna and ayahuasca.
And by cooking them, you get all that wisdom.
It has a lot of purposes, but healing's the ultimate goal.
And awareness.
After taking the medicine a few times,
he said that he didn't like being called "Ramón,"
and that he preferred to go by the name of "Antares."
Ayahuasca can obviously help people in many ways,
but a very direct way is providing self-awareness.
Ramón Castillo called himself "Antares de la Luz..."
DECEMBER 2007
...in reference to the brightest star from the Scorpio constellation.
His partner at the time and one of his friends
can be considered his first followers.
They went to a gathering called "Rainbow"
and met people who were on a similar journey.
EX-FOLLOWER OF ANTARES DE LA LUZ
I was genuinely open, and also very receptive.
And of course, with all I was experiencing, I saw three beings.
One of them was Ramón, who had this really long beard
and was sitting on a rock in the middle of the river.
They asked me to sit with them and meditate.
They offered to show me a meditation.
They showed me the meditation, and it was really awesome.
The craziest feeling.
It was the second time visiting the Rainbow Community,
and he showed up with two other people...
EX-FOLLOWER OF ANTARES DE LA LUZ
...and began to form a group to meditate with him.
I remember there was a river at that place. A big river.
So one day, I was walking along the river, and I saw them all meditating.
I walked over.
And that was a key moment in which we felt a closeness.
I felt something in my body, the kind of thing you can't explain.
Antares de la Luz was a magnetic guy.
And his magnetism was due to several reasons.
First and foremost, his looks.
He was a pretty tall guy.
And, he had a very striking complexion.
His presence was absolutely shocking.
He was very different from other people.
He had the voice of a teacher, the posture of a teacher,
the beard of a teacher, the bald head of a teacher.
His confidence
in the philosophy that he was in... was something contagious.
I was in love with him.
I wasn't with him because he asked me to,
but because I did feel so much love.
Antares came with other people who also had powers.
Those people were more advanced. They were like "superiors."
There was my Reiki teacher, another Reiki teacher,
and the kind of people I certainly considered real "heavyweights."
And they looked up to Antares with great reverence.
He was 100% the personification of my fantasy of a teacher.
This man had a great deal of knowledge that he had researched and remembered,
and turned into some sort of spiritual pastiche or collage.
He mentioned Carlos Castaneda a lot,
the Mayan prophecy,
and about Viracocha.
So if, as a seminar attendee, you had any questions
and you approached him, you'd find
a very attractive person.
And the answer would include some sort of quote.
And it would always have some kind of special content
and also a source of information.
Carlos Castaneda.
The Teachings of Don Juan...
which were an icon in the time of the hippies
in the United States.
In the 1960s,
Carlos Castaneda
studied the ancestral rituals of Native Americans.
He shocked modern anthropology
and became a self-proclaimed shaman.
Carlos Castaneda was a guru of the US counterculture.
He was a source of inspiration for filmmakers, writers, and musicians,
and was a major influence at the time.
The totality of the universe is just perception,
how we perceive things.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
VOICE OF CARLOS CASTANEDA
Ramón, like any other human being, read all this information...
and then said that his main purpose in life...
was to help people.
JANUARY 2009
Five minutes into the workshop, I was fully committed to it.
Those were the tools I was looking for.
It was about awakening your "inner self."
The Activation of Chakras and Inner Self Workshop.
What he did was ask you to sit down
to assume the lotus position,
and he gave a guided meditation.
We had to imagine walking down some stairs and reaching a door.
Imagine
a descending stairway.
We reach a door.
I'm going to put a box on your left-hand side.
"In that box is a golden key. Pick up the key."
"Use the key to get to a door that's at the end of the staircase."
Open the door.
Go in.
"You're in a space, which is the space where your inner self lives."
Try to hug your inner self.
And I felt like I was embracing a body.
And I had a sensation of... deliverance.
He'd always imply that the answers to all questions
lay in working with your inner self,
and reaching those answers depended on
how disciplined and how willing you really were
to discover the whole truth.
I felt I was about to experience true knowledge.
Profound truths, deep truths.
Of why I exist.
I might be able to find the answer to why I had been depressed for so long.
I started feeling better.
I was dating Pablo Undurraga for a year. The relationship was pure torture.
EXCERPTS FROM THE INVESTIGATION FILE
I hated the fact that he smoked marijuana.
We broke up and were separated for three months.
I started seeing him again,
and Pablo told me that he'd been to a self-healing seminar,
which had really helped him, and he no longer felt stressed.
PABLO'S APARTMENT
Pablo was, in a way, the magnet or link to reach his friends,
who were the people he wanted joining the cult.
He invited David Pastén to live in his house,
an apartment in Los Militares street.
EXCERPTS FROM THE INVESTIGATION FILE
I saw a big change in... in his behavior.
I witnessed just how much he admired Antares.
David Pastén introduced him to his girlfriend, Pilar.
So there's a kind of networking with a group of people surrounding him,
who were all friends with Pablo.
My life was improving.
I wanted my best friend to benefit from this, and my girlfriend.
I wanted everyone to know about this tool that I believed was real.
Pablo had his awakening process,
and he became one of the most disciplined soldiers.
The awakening was a turning point.
It was the point when someone really joined the group.
The awakening is the moment when you find out
that Antares
is God's incarnation.
The inner self of Antares is God.
At some point, he brought us all together.
There were about ten of us meditating.
He said he had news.
He wanted us to see it.
I remember we started to take a little bit of ayahuasca, just a little,
and we meditated.
Antares asked me to sit in the back
to receive the energy that I already knew he was gonna channel.
So that day, my inner self was gonna tell me its name.
I looked for my inner self. Everyone was doing the exercise.
I had my eyes closed.
He stops next to me and says...
Ask him who I am.
What I remember seeing was, like, a large being.
It kind of emanated energy in the room.
And at that point, when he said,
"Do you know who I am?"
it was as if we all wanted to say it, but no one dared to say it.
Something broke inside my mind,
and I began to have a lot of visions.
One after the other, they were very intense.
They were like two or three-second flashes
of certain situations,
different clothing styles, different eras, different scenarios.
I saw a lot of suicides.
I felt a lot of things,
as if my neck was breaking, my arms were breaking,
and a lot of anguish, and a lot of grief, and a lot of pain,
a lot of shame.
After all of that,
waterfall of images.
I finally see a scene, kind of biblical, and there was a large group of people.
And in the middle of the group was a person facing away from me.
The person was glowing.
The person turned around,
and he had Antares' face.
His posture was everything that I associated with the image of Jesus.
The workshop finished.
Antares asked me what my inner self had told me.
I said that it had shown me a lot to process, and I'd talk to him later.
I agreed to drive Antares back to the house he was staying at
after the workshop.
I was quiet the whole trip.
I dropped him off at the house, and then, when he said goodbye,
I asked him if he was Jesus.
His face changed. His expression changed.
He turned very serious, very stern.
He asked me to sit down and tell him what I saw.
And I told him everything.
"The truth is that I am Jesus."
"But I am Jesus
in the sense that Jesus was an incarnation of God."
"And so, Pablo, I am God."
"Do you doubt that I am God?"
I said,
"I just saw that you are God, so I think that I know you're God."
And I started crying.
Antares said, "Pablo, don't worry."
"You just experienced your awakening."
"You just awoke to the truth of what's going on."
"I have incarnated many times."
"The purpose of some of these incarnations has been to teach."
"For example, when I was Jesus, when I was Buddha,
and when I was Krishna, I came to teach."
"In this incarnation, I didn't come for that."
"In this incarnation, I came to burst the darkness."
In the years prior to 2012,
some information began to spread around the world
through the social media, via Google,
basically through unofficial channels...
saying that the end of the world was near.
Three years may be all the time we have left on Earth,
as December 21st, 2012...
According to the ancient Mayan calendar,
December 21st, 2012 is the day of the end of the world.
December 2012, the day of no dawn.
A collision between an asteroid and the Earth
may be the catastrophic event predicted in another verse from Revelation.
Will the world end like the ancient cultures foreshadowed?
He began to reveal to me this context.
The real context in which
I had been called to help.
There was a battle between light and darkness
that was close to come to an end,
on December 21st, 2012.
Imagine being a person with such a damaged self-esteem,
and suddenly a guru appears and tells you that
you're gonna save the world.
I decided to believe in him.
I believed what I had seen and decided to act accordingly.
They probably believed that too.
Some sooner than others,
they all concluded that they should follow him.
When I had my awakening,
Antares said that I had just joined the most exclusive club in the world,
and I should be prepared because
it wasn't for having fun, it was pure labor.
Then he changed his tone,
from being this parsimonious teacher,
very focused, who doesn't say scribble,
to speaking harshly.
"The first thing you need to know is that I'm not here asking for favors."
"I give orders."
I thought the one who was talking to me was God,
so of course I was gonna take orders.
In the first two months came a series of orders
which were simple orders, basically.
But always too close to the limit of what one was able to sacrifice.
For example, deleting all of your pictures.
Pictures documenting,
I don't know, my son's birth, my son's childhood,
you know, my pictures.
OCTOBER 2008
I had a small room in my apartment where my son stayed.
He lived with me half the time.
One day, Antares said he was moving in with me.
I said, "I'm deeply sorry, Master Antares."
"I humbly understand that you need somewhere to live,
but I already have a responsibility to my son."
"I believe I have this son for a reason."
"Who do you think you're talking to?"
"I'm not asking for bullshit."
"I'm giving you an order."
"I'm informing you that I'm gonna move in and live in that room."
"You're talking to God here, so get your act together."
Up to that point, there had been no physical violence,
but there was a lot of anger coming from him.
It felt like weariness. Like a challenge.
It was always as if Ramón was not punishing me,
but kind of challenging me,
saying things like I wasn't paying attention or meditating enough.
What Antares wanted was for no one to question him on anything.
He wanted them to follow religiously all his instructions,
and to surrender to him all their material possessions,
all their affections.
Suppress their feelings.
Antares was our leader, our teacher, our spiritual guide.
We were considered warriors
who had to combat the "I" in order to diminish the "ego."
As such, we had to do what he ordered, even if we didn't want to.
There was a whole protocol around living with him.
You couldn't talk directly to his face. You couldn't touch him.
We had to read Carlos Castaneda's books,
read certain portions of the Bible,
stay away from those who were "asleep."
We had to get rid of as many material possessions as possible.
Shave our heads
because the hair accumulated negative energy.
We had to wear colorful clothes. We couldn't wear black.
I wasn't allowed to whistle.
I couldn't whistle again, I couldn't sing,
I couldn't make music.
"How could I even think of making a record?"
"What I should be doing was helping him save the world."
He was building a path of warriors,
and each warrior had to be more flawless and relentless.
According to Castaneda's books, a warrior is
like, a highly powerful being.
And he's that powerful because he has no ego,
no attachments,
thanks to the fact that he doesn't have superfluous earthly emotions,
and doesn't self-sabotage with a code of ethics built by society.
Once a warrior decides to take action,
he stops questioning
whether it should be done or not.
Basically, a beast.
There are three types of beings. Pure, impure, dark.
The pure beings have always been in the light.
The impure are those who committed crimes against the universal laws
dictated by God in some way.
Dark beings are those created by Lucifer, the devil,
to go into an astral war.
Antares said that the mother of one of the girls had a dark inner self,
and I could see how inside of her eyes
there was another set of different, metallic eyes.
So I was talking to this person and inside,
at the same time, I was, like,
wrapping my wings around me.
I was blocking attacks.
And I saw black energy snakes coming up in the air,
and I'd run them off.
Then I'd feel something touch my shoulder during a conversation,
and I'd be like...
It was a state of open and continuous warfare.
So one day, Antares, after taking ayahuasca,
saw Pablo's cat and said it was cursed.
We were living in the apartment at the time, and my cat got pregnant.
And Antares got... very intense and said,
"Dude, do you think this is a game?"
"Who are the inner beings of those kittens that are on their way?"
"Because this could perfectly be an attack of Lucifer."
"So the inner being of the cat that got your witch cat pregnant
could have been him,
with the intention of placing the five main dark beings inside my home
to attack me," so he said.
"What's up with the kittens, Pablo?"
The idiot put my cat in a Tupperware.
As soon as he put her inside,
I started to see how a cloud of black energy came out of my cat.
I thought, "This shit's real."
I could see how all of her fur stood on end.
She was very rigid.
He took me near the San Carlos canal.
He got out of the car,
approached the bridge, and I threw the box with my cat into the river.
That was the first time I had to kill a dark being.
In March 2010,
we decided to change our place of residence
and move to Olmué.
We moved away from the city where my family lived,
and we went to live far away.
Antares explained that we had to move out because houses have power.
Therefore, the house we rented in Olmué
had more power than the apartment where we lived.
He told me they wanted to set up a healing center in Olmué.
In fact, they asked me
if I could lend them the money to pay a full year's rent
because it was cheaper.
A part of the warrior's path was the art of ambushing,
which basically is a strategic lie for the greater good.
They presented me with a business plan,
brilliantly done,
but it was all a bunch of lies.
As part of having to read all Castaneda's books,
we had to learn the "art of ambush."
We had to ambush everyone who was "asleep."
Like Neo in The Matrix,
you can't tell the truth to people who are "asleep,"
'cause how are you gonna tell them a truth they won't understand?
The best thing you can do, so that they eventually wake up,
is trick them for their own good.
They paid me on time because that was part of the plan.
When we started living together in that house,
we considered ourselves to be a community.
We dedicated our time to forming the Calypso Production Company
in the audiovisual field.
We sold sushi and organized self-healing seminars.
At one point, we were, like, six or seven people,
all working... just to meet the needs
of Antares.
And Antares was not a hard worker, he was the opposite.
He needed to be served.
Pablo had to take him out for walks.
He needed to receive massages all the time.
Antares never swept a floor. He never touched a broom.
Antares never worked.
Well,
his job was to save humanity.
He suffered the burden of carrying the darkness.
He had the task of enduring the pain of carrying this darkness inside,
so his job was to resist.
His job was to not die.
They believed so much in the story
that they believed everything.
For around, six, seven, eight months,
I'd been thinking that I had to do everything Antares said.
And that's like losing your will.
Like... not having to think
because someone else is telling you what you have to do.
You ask yourself,
"What do I have a brain for?"
And "What do I have a heart for?"
"Why do I have my will?"
"Why am I free if God will tell me everything I have to do?"
FEBRUARY 2011
Pablo called me. He said
that, as part of a ceremony,
he needed to
hit us three times on a Chakra,
and that way, we were gonna... heal a great deal.
First, we cut our hair. And he said, "Okay, take your clothes off."
And... we obeyed.
And after that,
we were hit three times on our first Chakra here.
Three blows with a stick.
It hurt, obviously.
More than fear, I felt guilty.
Because I thought I had never done enough to be effective in helping Ramón.
So, on the contrary,
instead of
going back to how he was before,
his distortion of reality
was actually getting worse.
I found it shocking that anyone would believe him in that state of mind.
OCTOBER 2011
One day, he ordered me to stop seeing my son.
"Your son is out of your life."
"I'm sorry, I know you love him,
but... next year is 2012."
"And this mission is
too important."
"So, as a servant of this endeavor,
it is essential that you give it your full attention,
and you waste too much energy on your son."
"I'm sorry, I know this is gonna hurt,
but... you have to come up with a way to
trick your son's mother, give her some excuse."
"But," uh... "it has to be final."
"You have to remove your son from your life."
"I don't wanna see him."
The kid was super cute.
Pablo came by a lot.
He saw him every two weeks.
He took him to Olmué with them.
Had I known what was going on at Olmué, I would've gone crazy.
But I didn't know.
Fuck.
It's such a level of grief that it's hard to put into words.
I think anyone who has children
empathizes.
It devastated me. It destroyed me completely.
I had always wanted to be a dad.
And even though I was an idiot and had a lot of issues,
it was important for me to be a dad.
I was immersed in a constant state of religious ecstasy.
Of absolute pain.
But more like a martyr's pain, like,
"Fuck, man, I've lost everything. I'm in pain."
"But don't forget the benefit that comes after."
And so,
strangely, it was one of the happiest times of my life.
I even cried out of happiness at times.
Antares decided to move again,
so now they had to rent a house in Mantagua.
They did healing seminars there,
and a lot of people went there,
but only some of them, chosen by Antares,
were allowed to interact more intimately with the group.
Only they could go in and out of the house.
There were moments of happiness, when they felt real ecstasy.
There were love stories mixed in as well, embedded,
because Pablo was with Natalia,
David was with Pilar.
There was a constant flow of love relationships present.
So it was like a spiritual journey,
an adventure you could start with your partner.
But Antares started to take control of those relationships as well.
During that time, I ended my relationship with Pablo
because Antares told Pablo that he had to give Carolina therapy.
And he began to fall in love with Carolina.
Antares gave him the order to be with her because she was his soul mate.
Regarding relationships,
Antares would build up and break down couples as he saw fit,
to remove something that, according to him,
was distracting the servants.
One of the activities carried out within the community
was known as 'taking,'
where Antares would take ayahuasca.
Antares... got the order,
after taking ayahuasca, from his inner self,
that Natalia had to be with him.
Ramón told me that... that I had to be his woman,
which meant that we had to be in a relationship,
and that the order was a revelation from his inner self.
That it was inevitable.
That he was God.
He made me take ayahuasca for three nights.
The first two nights, I told him that I didn't want to be with him.
But the third, Antares told me that if I didn't comply with the order,
his inner self was going to burn me alive on judgment day.
DECEMBER 2011
At some point...
things started to get out of hand.
And that is when
that woman, Natalia Guerra, got pregnant.
That's when everything went south.
Then the story starts to take a turn.
A tortuous one.
Antares said that he couldn't have children
because his mission in this incarnation wasn't that.
His mission was to save the world.
Um, Natalia got pregnant,
and we all wondered how could that be since he wasn't supposed to have children.
And Antares said he didn't know
and that he needed to take ayahuasca to understand
because he had known for a long time that it shouldn't happen.
So, until he was sure whether the baby was dark or light,
he couldn't have Natalia in the same house,
because if the being inside her was dark, and he didn't realize it,
the being could attack him, and that would be devastating.
So we needed to get Natalia and the baby their own place.
At that point, Natalia not only had to go through an unwanted pregnancy,
but she
also had to keep up a lie in front of her family.
JUNE 2012
He told me to come up with a story to tell my parents,
because nobody could know that I was pregnant.
And the story was that I was going to travel around Latin America.
Antares took ayahuasca,
and he supposedly discovered
that, uh,
the inner being of that child was Lucifer.
He said that, in his human form,
he could spawn Lucifer at a given moment,
and that he would be the climax of the salvation of Earth
because, if he did spawn Lucifer,
he would be forced to... kill him.
There always comes the moment, which for me is the most magical moment,
when you find that person who can show you the big picture.
And in the case of this story, it was an anonymous woman.
She's a protected witness.
She went to file a report
when the cult was still operating.
LOS ANDES HOUSE - 2012
She couldn't handle that stressful, rigid, and intense situation,
so she left.
But she left knowing that... Natalia was pregnant,
knowing that Antares slaughtered dogs,
knowing how intense and insane it all was.
She went to the police station to tell her story.
What she wanted was to warn the police
about the possibility of serious things happening there.
The sisters of María del Pilar went
to the Metropolitan Special Investigations Brigade...
CRIME INTELLIGENCE ANALYST
...accompanied by the protected witness,
who told us about the characteristics of the cult.
All the information the witness gave us was clear.
It was urgent to find out what had happened to the child and to Natalia.
ANONYMOUS EX-MEMBER OF THE COLLIGUAY CULT
When they arrived, Antares told her, "My love,
you have to be strong."
"This is your karma. You can do this."
"I understand everything now."
"Now I know how I'm gonna heal this world."
"This child could be Lucifer."
"I trapped him in you."
While trying to build trusting and collaborative relationships
with the families of the members,
we were able to contact Natalia's mother,
and at that moment, she thought her daughter
was not in the country.
We told her that wasn't the case.
And that it was very likely that something had happened to Natalia.
NOVEMBER 2012
A month before Jesús's birth,
he said, "I just saw it all. Everything's fine."
"Jesús is gonna be born on December 18th, exactly."
We asked him how a ten-month pregnancy would be possible,
but he said that his son was a miracle, so he would be born a month later.
His inner self had instructed him to go south
to rest before the last battle against the dark in Colliguay,
so we had to take him to Icalma on a holiday.
And we had to rent him a cabin there for a week.
Every time I asked Antares
what we were going to do if Natalia had the baby before December,
he scolded me.
But in November, Natalia had already started to...
to go into labor.
"I'm screwed."
"This can't be possible. My inner self showed me."
"It means that what I saw wasn't actually him."
"It was shown to me by the dark side. It was an attack."
"We have to plan what to do."
"Grab your stuff. We're leaving in an hour."
The following day, a never-ending marathon started.
I had to drive over 800 miles
so that Antares could take ayahuasca.
So after driving all that way,
I had to take ayahuasca all night.
Meanwhile, Natalia was in labor.
I was in labor for three days.
Antares brought ayahuasca.
He told me that he couldn't be born there but rather in a powerful place.
And that place was Colliguay.
For Antares, places were very important.
For him, places had power.
The hill in Colliguay, that hut in Colliguay,
was the place in which he had received his awakening,
his illumination,
where he chose himself as a mentor.
The birth had to happen in that cabin.
I am the owner of the farm in Colliguay.
I was introduced to this young man.
A guy with light eyes, very kind.
His name was Ramón, and he was... a music teacher.
He asked for my permission to come once a year.
He said that I had a very beautiful house, that it emanated, uh, "beautiful energy."
So I let him come once a year
to stay there.
It was about 11 p.m.
It was...
it was dark.
There, we got to the adobe house,
where the conditions... weren't right for any kind of birth.
EX-MEMBER OF COLLIGUAY CULT EXCERPTS FROM INVESTIGATION FILE
We had no water nor light.
It was just Natalia and me inside the house.
Antares had ordered that Natalia had to be dressed
in a Calypso tunic
that covered here whole body,
except her eyes.
We had to try to manage a natural birth
with an absurd level of stress.
And obviously, no mother would be relaxed,
having a baby in those conditions.
Antares was shouting at Carolina to take it out of me later,
because it was really attacking him and it had two heads.
Antares put Caro in charge of having a contingency plan
and learn about C-section techniques.
I told him no,
that I didn't have anything to perform a C-section.
Antares insisted that I open up her belly,
that if I didn't do it, he would.
Natalia was about to pass out from the pain.
She was very weak.
Her blood pressure was very low.
And I told Antares, using his... his language,
that if I did what he was ordering me to do,
I was going to kill a light being.
And that was like a bucket of cold water for Antares,
and he said, "No way."
"This bastard won't make me kill one of my light beings."
"We're gonna save Natalia. I'm gonna protect her."
We left for the clinic in Reñaca, which was two hours away.
Consider we were in Colliguay.
We drove nine miles along a dirt track to the next highway. It was quite far.
We were in the middle of nowhere.
I was not doing well at all.
Antares shouted at me that I had to fight.
That a warrior is always beyond his limits.
And that I was an impeccable warrior,
the only one that had been saved, and that my being was now pure.
That I was pure now. And that if I died, he was going to resurrect me.
We had to come up with a story about why we were showing up
with a woman who was giving birth without ever seeing a doctor.
Finally, we came up with a half-baked story
about a young woman we found walking in the middle of nowhere,
and came from a group of hippies,
and that she'd tried to have a natural birth.
But the midwife didn't show up,
something had happened,
and we had picked her up and rescued her.
We were somewhere on the road to the clinic.
Antares got off the truck and hid.
Pablo took us to the ER of the Reñaca Clinic and left.
Natalia arrived wearing only the...
the Calypso tunic,
with no underwear, barefoot,
covered in dirt, mud, and blood.
And I looked pretty similar.
REÑACA CLINIC
And this whole picture didn't catch anyone's eye.
All I could think about was that they called the Carabineros,
and that way, I could tell them everything.
That could've been the moment when this whole story came to an end,
but... the lie worked.
She gave birth at 6:31 in the morning.
He weighed over six pounds and was healthy.
She called him "Jesús," because that's what Antares had said.
They gave him to me the next day
at around 3:30 p.m.
It was super nice because I breastfed him,
and it was an amazing feeling.
It was incredible.
I had extremely mixed feelings.
The mothering instinct is very strong.
NOVEMBER 21, 2012
And when they left the clinic,
Natalia didn't want to have contact with the baby,
because...
she was in "warrior" mode.
At the house in Mantagua,
Antares shaved my head and washed me with cold water.
Then he took me into the living room.
He made me listen to a song.
And he said that his inner self had already told him what he had to do.
I told him that I didn't care.
He said, " Mija, we're gonna be okay."
"We're gonna be in the light, and we're all gonna be free."
He was talking to himself.
And he kept cursing.
Saying like, "You bastard, you're not gonna defeat me."
"I know how I can beat you."
It was implied that he was talking to Lucifer,
to Lucifer's being.
Carolina locked herself away with Jesús
at around 3:00 in the afternoon.
He told us that we had to go to Colliguay.
Josefina and Pablo were waiting at the fire when we got there.
There was an old latrine,
a hole that was maybe... maybe three feet deep.
Antares made a fire inside that hole.
So, at around 11 p.m.,
he made us get in the truck.
It was Carla's truck, I remember, to go to the farm.
Pablo was driving.
I was in the back with Carolina, Pilar,
and Natalia and the baby were sitting in the front.
We all had to stay in the truck with Natalia at one point
while he lit the fire.
I was upset, and could hear Antares' voice in the background.
I couldn't hear what he was saying, but... I could hear his voice.
I felt the crackling of the fire
and could see the glow of the fire from afar.
Then, Pablo got out and said,
"So, look, the orders are as follows,
you have to take Jesús's clothes off,
tie his feet and hands up,
put a sock in his mouth, and cover his eyes with masking tape."
And we had to take Jesús
maybe halfway between the truck and that fire pit.
And there...
Antares took the baby off me, and Pablo took me far away.
As soon as Antares took the baby,
both us understood what was about to happen.
Antares was
about to kill their son.
NOVEMBER 23, 2012
By that moment, it was too late to stop him.
Or, at least, the people that were with him at the time
weren't capable of stopping him.
We were halfway back to the truck when Natalia burst into tears.
And when we got to the truck, I... also cried.
I was crying. I couldn't stop crying
We were both as if a bomb had exploded very close by and we were disoriented.
We didn't really know where we were.
Then I looked straight ahead, and Antares suddenly shows up in front of the truck
with two oven gloves.
He ordered me to feed the fire and keep it
lit.
I, um, approached the fire
about a minute after he had thrown... their son in it,
and there was no sound coming from the fire.
My hypothesis is that he must've
killed him before throwing him in the fire.
Plus, he had told us that morning
to get him the sharpest, uh,
knife we had.
I went to Antares to find out what had happened.
He told me that he didn't want to see me.
Natalia was suffering.
I knew how much she wanted to have children.
Antares asked Natalia and Josefina to cook.
Some ate, and others didn't.
Antares repeated that he was now beginning to cleanse the world of darkness.
And that now he could explain why the baby had been born earlier.
Later, he told us that...
that we had to sort out sleeping arrangements.
We were a tent short, so...
I asked Antares if I could sleep in the truck.
I started to cry in the truck because
I saw some of the baby's clothes.
I broke down.
Something that
I possibly wouldn't have been able to do in the tents
without being scolded.
I felt a lot of grief, a lot of anguish.
But I couldn't show it because that's self-pity,
and self-pity is ego.
Something that I couldn't show.
We woke up the next day,
and Antares said,
"You have to go to Viña to buy wood and make some furniture."
And nothing more was said.
I mean, he didn't even say anything about what had happened.
We didn't even pass the area where the fire had been.
We were surrounded by that warrior attitude,
Like, "Let's go. There's 21 days until the end of the world."
"We're going to be free."
"This is all coming to an end."
One might think
that the group changed completely after that night,
that we were divided or split up,
but... it was the opposite.
Everyone became hyper disciplined and entered into war mode themselves.
It was like what had happened
had just been one more battle of the war.
An intense battle, yes, a harsh battle,
but just one more battle.
Like the dozens that we had in the last year.
What happened?
What exactly
transformed the mind
of Ramón or Antares de la Luz?
That it occurred to him that...
by sacrificing a three-day-old baby,
he'd solve the world's problems.
There were five days left of November,
and the orders from Antares's inner self
were that we had to live there from December 1st
and stay there for 21 days until the last day.
We had five days to get the house ready for those 21 days of taking ayahuasca.
So Antares became even more liberated, if that was even possible.
Antares ordered me and Carolina to be with him,
a situation that had a negative effect in Carolina.
This triggered a massive punishment
in which Antares ordered the most severe beating
I have ever witnessed in my life.
We had to stand naked
and, uh, get beaten.
He began with Caro.
My girlfriend was slim.
Petite.
That bastard was as tall as me.
Six-one.
And, uh, he slashed her back...
fractured her wrist.
Instinctively, she tried to protect her back with her hand.
He hit her and broke her wrist.
And she didn't see a doctor for a month.
He hit Caro 11 times.
It was my turn.
I think that maybe on the sixth or eighth lashing,
I started to go blind.
All I could see was black, and I started to...
I simply passed out.
He said, "Get up, we're not done." I said, "Yes, I'm sorry."
I slapped myself, "Go."
And, uh,
I got the other 20 lashings that were left.
And, uh... I thanked him.
And I sat down.
He made us get dressed. We were all naked.
When I told Antares that he'd broken my hand,
he said, "My child, that is your karma."
"Do you realize that you're crazy?"
And I said, "Yes."
I was sure that he could kill me.
People wonder why they didn't run away
with all these terrible things happening.
But they were fully convinced that they were the soldiers of God,
the world was ending,
and this was the last step to take.
We were preparing for the end of the world.
Antares started with the ayahuasca on the first day of December of 2012.
Every night.
That was supposed to bring enlightenment, precisely on December 21st.
The rest of the community, including myself,
took ayahuasca from December 11th to the 21st of 2012.
The ayahuasca we took during those days
led us to endless battles
with many angels, wings, swords, demons,
battlefields full of screaming, and blood, in hell
with light, with hope, and
lots of insanity.
Those were the last days of the world.
For me, December 22nd of 2012 didn't exist.
DECEMBER 21st, 2012
The last day, the hours started to go by.
Nobody was looking at the time.
No one looks at the clock when the final judgment is near.
It comes when it comes.
Time went by.
Nothing happened. Nothing at all.
We were quiet.
And suddenly,
Antares said...
And he started to laugh and said,
"You fools thought that after four years of hard work,
you were gonna ascend and achieve freedom?"
"You're so naive."
"Reality doesn't change straight away."
"And my inner self just explained to me that
freedom won't come right now."
"It'll happen in three months in Ecuador."
He was very relaxed.
He acted like it was all a joke.
And that's it.
We finished and went to bed.
The next day, I realized that it was December 22nd, 2012.
A date that wasn't supposed to arrive.
It was that event that ultimately created a major split in the group.
In my head, my contract was until December 21st, 2012.
It was the 22nd.
Quite a few people were like, "What do we do?"
"I mean, the world didn't end."
We were hugely in debt,
we had to carry on living,
and we didn't have any money.
On that date that didn't exist,
December 23rd, we had
a lot of family plans,
like going home for Christmas,
that we clearly had made up.
And I'd said that I was spending Christmas with my family, with my girlfriend, Caro.
I told Pablo
that I couldn't stand living with Antares anymore
and that if he gave me orders to be with him again,
I was going to kill myself.
And, uh, Caro said to me,
"He's always telling us about Jesus and the apostles,
how we have to be like them, we have to sacrifice ourselves."
"But you know what?"
The apostles were with Jesus because of love."
" And I'm here out of fear."
And that added to the doubts I was already having.
But if we wanted to leave, we couldn't go to Santiago.
We had to disappear.
JANUARY 2013
We had to go South in the middle of nowhere,
otherwise he'd hunt us down and kill us.
When Pablo and Carolina escaped to the South, they were paranoid.
We hid for a week in my stepmom's house.
From there, we sent an email to each of the members
saying that we weren't going to go back
and telling Antares that we still believed in him,
but we weren't going to follow him anymore.
So Natalia called me and said, "I'm screwed."
"I'm here with the police. I told them everything."
INVESTIGATIONS POLICE OF CHILE
Natalia wrote to me at the secret email address I'd given her
saying, "Pablo, I'm in trouble."
"The police came. They're talking to my family."
"They want to know where the baby is."
"They're asking what's going on with us."
And when she mentioned they were asking about a cult,
I thought, "No, that's like a bunch of satanic morons
who wear black hoods,
who worship the devil and do mass suicides."
"We're not a cult."
I looked up "cult" in Google.
I start reading,
and it was 100% my life over the last four years.
I was in a cult.
I was in shock.
It was all a fucking lie.
That baby
wasn't Lucifer.
He was a baby.
Everything changed
when... it was discovered
that the baby...
had been murdered.
On February 19th, Antares left Chile
because Natalia Guerra told him the police was investigating them.
AIRPORT
FEBRUARY 19, 2013
Antares didn't have any other choice, because he knew
they were going to confess what happened to the baby.
So he escaped to Peru.
They realized that each had their own share
of direct or indirect responsibility,
at least the ones present the night of the crime.
Natalia confessed before the others did.
In a paranoid state,
the most important thing to do is to speak first,
because the other cult members
could potentially hold you liable in this context.
When I got to the office where Natalia was with another detective,
I asked her... if they had actually burned the baby,
to which she replied, "Yes."
But I didn't notice any sign of regret at all.
Anything that would make me believe they did it.
Because there were no tears. There was nothing there.
The next day, we took her to Colliguay,
to the pit where they burned the baby.
That's when she broke down and cried her eyes out.
She was heartbroken.
For me, it was as if a bucket of ice water had been thrown over me.
They said, "This happened at your farm."
Just like that.
I had a heart attack. It sent me to the hospital.
It's here. It's here.
- Right there. - Yes.
Leave it there, then.
The most important evidence
we could collect from the Culenes farm was a piece of bone.
The left ilium of the baby's hip.
On November 23rd,
Pablo and Carolina took the baby to the Reñaca Clinic
for an exam to rule out genetic illnesses, which is mandatory for newborns in Chile.
They took five drops of blood.
Those five drops of blood were key
in determining what had happened to Jesús,
and if the baby's DNA corresponded with the same DNA from Antares
and the same DNA from Natalia.
And thanks to that,
we managed to get all of the respective arrest warrants
to capture the remaining cult members.
Pablo called me in the middle of the night with a solemn voice.
He said, "I need to see you and my mom tomorrow."
"It's urgent."
"What's the matter?" "I can't tell you over the phone."
We were on the plane, imagining what could have happened.
We got to the airport, and Pablo and Carolina were there.
And they both looked like death.
We got into Pablo's Jeep.
And in a very calm voice, Pablo said, "Listen."
"First, I'm gonna tell the truth, then I'll tell you what's a lie."
"It's true that we have this Jeep."
"It's true that we're living in Caburgua, in the cabin I told you we were renting."
"Everything else I've told you over the past four years is a lie."
We knew we were facing a mega crisis. Mega.
This is a horrifying, inconceivable event,
worse than any crime we've ever reported.
This is the first human sacrifice in our history.
And the victim, a boy who was just three-days-old.
That's when they realized the news was on all the TV channels,
that the police were looking for them.
They saw their faces plastered on walls.
Today, four members of a religious sect were arrested
and charged for allegedly incinerating a two-day-old baby
because they believed he was the antichrist.
"I wanna turn myself in."
I said, "Do it in Santiago."
And that was a very
difficult journey.
Very difficult.
Because it was full of
a mix of rational decisions and emotions.
Imagine stopping at a gas station,
and watching your son on the news on the run.
Very difficult.
For Pablo Undurraga,
from the moment the arrest warrants were issued
until the moment he turned himself in,
it was a period of planning his statement for the police interview.
They called me because Pablo had turned himself in
and he needed to be interviewed.
So I went to the station,
and came across a calm Pablo Undurraga.
"Hello, I'm Pablo Undurraga, the person you are looking for."
"I was involved in the Colliguay cult."
"I'm here to turn myself in."
APRIL 2013
At eleven o'clock,
the couple entered the Supervisory Courthouse in Quilpué.
Both turned themselves in to the PDI this weekend,
after seeing on the news that they were wanted.
The approach of this interview was difficult
because he was a very smart man
and he had a lot of information to give us.
So what we did
was divide his interview
and compartmentalize it
to be able to understand the process he went through in that community.
They were charged
as accessories to the murder of the two-day-old baby,
arguing that both are a danger to society.
They have been brutally manipulated by a perverse mind, by a twisted mind.
PABLO AND CAROLINA'S DEFENSE ATTORNEY
And they have not acted freely,
which prevents them from being seriously reproached
from a criminal point of view.
What has been claimed by the defendants, particularly my defendant,
gives me the impression that they're victims of manipulation...
NATALIA'S DEFENSE ATTORNEY
...by this person who is currently on the run.
We know that this person left the country,
headed to Peru, and has not yet returned.
So we coordinated with INTERPOL
to generate an international warrant.
INTERPOL RED NOTICE
An intelligence group
of 1,500 officers from the Peruvian Police
is on the hunt for Antares de la Luz.
He is presumed to be in Cuzco.
I think that everyone encouraged me to go to Peru.
because they were all involved in the crime but me.
I went there not knowing what I was getting myself into
and what I was gonna come across.
They stayed there for about a week, a week and a half,
and left shortly after.
They went to a town nearby Cuzco called Ollantaytambo.
He sang.
He played his instruments
and sang in the bars, restaurants, and places like that
to get tips.
He was very stressed, and very... violent.
He treated me real bad.
He beat me with a stick and locked me up.
And he told me that I couldn't leave.
I wasn't there.
I think maybe she got scared and, uh...
took the first flight back to Santiago.
I always thought that he was gonna turn himself in,
because I told him he should do it.
When I got to Chile,
I saw in the newspaper that they had already found Ramón's... body.
It has been reported that a body has been found in Cuzco.
This man that you can see here...
Ramón Gustavo Castillo Gaete, 35 years old,
took his own life there.
The media described this tragic end in many different ways.
Three kids went in first.
And they told me that it looked like a hanging doll.
He was lonely, as you can probably imagine.
Maybe he thought that was as far as he could go.
That was it.
He didn't face the consequences of his actions.
And, comfortably, left the rest of us paying the price on his behalf.
With the coldness of a robot,
the two main culprits of the sacrifice of the newborn in Colliguay
today described that fateful night to the police at the crime scene.
Pablo Undurraga and Natalia Guerra Jequier
were at the reconstruction of the crime scene.
DECEMBER 2013
And they told us how they prepared... the baby, um,
to be burned.
So, you got out of the truck. And the fire was lit, correct?
Yes.
He was there, and Antares told me to put him there.
Natalia put the baby-- She put Jesús there.
And as soon as she put him there,
I grabbed her, and we ran away. We ran back that way.
For us, as police officers,
it's extremely important to establish each person's role in the crime.
Who did what and when.
Because that way, we can put the facts together.
We'd just started putting sticks on.
Five minutes later, David came.
Antares had ordered him
to keep bringing sticks so I wouldn't run out of firewood.
The flame was 20 cm higher than the hole in the ground.
When I first looked above the flames,
I saw that mixed with the real flames were black flames
that turned into a sort of black dragon head.
And it soared up.
It went up?
Is that what you saw?
I saw it. I know now it was a hallucination, but I saw it.
That sort of stuff was normal.
It's important to understand the role each played
at the time of committing the crime.
Tell me about when you tied the baby up.
I can't cut tape with my teeth.
So Pablo was cutting the tape while I tied it around the baby's feet.
Then, when Pablo told me to do the arms,
we both did it together, and Pablo finished doing the rest.
I've never been able to cut anything with my teeth.
It's true, I'd cut the tape.
- I see. - She can't cut tape with her teeth.
What I remember within that...
context of who could do what according to their energy,
we all had strict orders
that the only ones who could touch Jesús
were Natalia and Carolina.
Yes, but when Pablo finished doing it,
he said, "Don't you dare tell Antares because we didn't do it impeccably."
What I was going to finish saying is I don't remember that.
What I remember is that I didn't touch him.
But, I mean...
I mean, the context was obviously deranged.
Neither admitted to tying up the baby,
putting cotton in its mouth, and covering it.
They both said that the other one did it.
They both carried out the act
of silencing the baby before it was sacrificed.
I understand, from what Pablo said,
that he kind of took it for granted
that we all knew what was going to happen that day.
And I must say, I was never given any sort of information
about what was going to happen.
Because, being possessed,
I couldn't have any kind of explanation or information about it.
Because that could've made Jesús's inner self do something to me,
like make me kill myself, or escape, or something.
So I couldn't have absolutely any kind of information.
Sorry, did you see anything?
- No. - No.
You may not know, but Natalia ratified it in her statement today.
She said that she could see the glow.
- No, no, Carolina. - Sorry, Carolina. Carolina.
She didn't see the fire or anything, but she could see the glow.
And she could hear the fire crackling.
- Did you know that Carolina sees energy? - No.
She sees the aura, she's much more sensitive than us.
I didn't see a thing. Can you see the house over there?
When you helped Pablo throw the stones,
you brought them in wheelbarrows, right?
The stones were stacked right here.
- Where they are now? - Yes.
Shall we wrap this up?
Thank you very much.
Let's go.
ACCUSED
This is the report from April 22nd, 2013.
It was the day I met with the Investigational Police
in my office in Quilpué.
They brought me this information
with the data that had been compiled from the group.
As far as I knew, there were no similar cases in Chile.
The rest of the investigation was more about determining the level,
uh, of criminal responsibility
and what we were gonna do with these people.
To determine if they were mentally ill,
if they were healthy, or somewhere in the middle.
And, uh, from there, make the decision regarding the law.
One of the arguments
given by most of the defenses of the members of this cult
is that they were under the influence of destructive mind control,
and that, at that time,
they were not able to choose voluntarily what was happening,
because they were also...
The way they phrased it was,
"shared mystical delirium."
There was a kind of agreement within the defense.
They said they had all been...
DOCTOR IN LEGAL AND FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY
...they had somehow been "victims"
of a shared psychosis,
of a folie à deux, madness in pairs.
Which I think was the strategy that gave them more chances.
Because they weren't psychotic, per se,
but they state that at the time of the events they had been.
In legal terminology, they are not guilty.
The law assumes that people in general are not crazy.
So we all have to answer for our actions
when it comes to conducts that constitute a crime.
Therefore, if someone alleges
that a certain person who is under investigation is insane,
they have to prove it.
The whole trial was not gonna be about whether the child had died
or whether they had been there that day at that time.
It was all gonna be about this diagnosis of shared psychosis.
It goes without saying, Your Honor,
that this new report fully ratifies the previous conclusions.
This is shared mystical delirium, mental derangement.
Legal consequence ten, number one, unimputability.
Every mental health expert concluded
that these people suffered from this mental condition.
Therefore, they were non-imputable.
We faced an accumulation of evidence and reports produced by the defense,
essentially designed to exonerate completely
all the members of the cult.
Despite establishing their responsibility,
none of them will be imprisoned.
You felt the pressure, yes.
Because it was out there every day.
When there were hearings, there was always a lot of press attention.
The Prosecutor's Office has no alternative
other than... analyzing the background information
and seeing if it's susceptible to being criticized or questioned
from another perspective.
I took the case because the prosecutor, Juan Emilio Gatica...
PSYCHIATRIST
...called me. He wanted to talk to me.
He explained the context.
I thought it was important to clarify
the doubts the prosecutor had.
His idea was that I would examine
the two most important ones,
which were Natalia Guerra and Pablo Undurraga,
but they refused to be examined.
Which is why the prosecutor then asked me to do a meta-expertise,
which means giving an expert opinion on the expert opinions.
Expert opinions about the past events.
OFFENSE COMMITTED
A psychiatrist making a diagnosis about a patient without having seen them
seems to me a complete lack of ethics.
The question is, in the moment
that Pablo and Natalia hand over
the baby to Antares, right there, did they have options?
Could they have not given him the baby?
We do believe so. They had options.
Although they had spent years...
under the stranglehold and subjugation of this person known as Antares,
they had the knowledge and the awareness of what they were gonna do
from the time they decided to take Natalia Guerra out and hide her.
It's a context where there are rules.
PSYCHOLOGIST SPECIALIZING IN ABUSE OF CONSCIENCE
Obedience, a series of rules.
A leader who's in the divine position of God.
And therefore he manipulates the person,
and impedes them from having their own point of view.
We could say that their identity
has been damaged.
The person doesn't have their own judgement.
Doctor Otto Dörr actually says, "Well, yes."
"It seems that this is what happened."
"There was a shared psychotic disorder."
But, given we can't have the chance,
and never will,
to examine Ramón Castillo Gaete,
because he killed himself in Cuzco, correct?
We can no longer establish that these people actually were
the induced subjects or the secondary cases
and Ramón Castillo Gaete was the primary inducer.
We didn't want this case to go unpunished.
If it was gonna be so,
in the sense that these people were not gonna be held criminally liable
for what they had done,
it was because they were convinced
there was no doubt that these people were mentally deranged.
While analyzing the reports,
I realized
I could reach a first argument that somewhat demolished the reports.
Insofar that the diagnosis of this shared psychosis
is discarded.
When the episodes they talked about
are framed within the context of consuming drugs,
alcohol, or another type of stimulant,
which was the case.
MARCH 2017
The facts lead us to reflect on the issue of diminished accountability.
To what degree can we accept that their reasoning ability
was hindered when the crimes were committed
for them to escape legal justice, or to lessen condemnation?
To what extent can justice give value
to psychiatric theories
based on shared mystical delirium
to exonerate its participants from responsibility
for crimes against human rights?
Thus, by legal mandate,
the defendants, Guerra and Undurraga,
do not deserve alternative sentences.
And the sentences were five years for Pablo and Natalia,
and three years for the rest, as accomplices.
Obviously, in the world of guilty-not guilty,
we're going to find someone either guilty or not guilty.
And that's where the complexity of the analysis of the situation is missing.
And it seems to me that, psychiatrically, it was unfair, really.
The main convicted party, Natalia Guerra, mother of the baby,
is not serving her sentence and has been a fugitive for seven months.
The police are carrying out investigations to locate her whereabouts.
She grew her hair and changed its color.
She stayed in so as not to be recognized.
However, thanks to a piece of paper she threw in the bin,
the Investigative Police finally located her whereabouts.
Hands up!
Stay put!
Hands up!
Stay there.
I'm coming to you.
On the ground.
Hands up, over your head.
She tried to escape from the police,
but she was completely surrounded.
Natalia Guerra was handed over to the Gendarmerie.
She is being held
at the San Joaquín Female Penitentiary Center.
Particularly for me,
Miguel Ampuero, not the police, or the Prosecutor's office, or the judges,
they deserve life in prison.
All of them.
regardless of their participation, because we have to think
that this was a human being who had no help.
As a society, we all have to ensure
that these victims, because they are victims...
I think that
they have to be... understood,
and they have to analyze with their families what happened.
And find out what do we all have to do with an event as dramatic as this.
Give me a minute.
Be patient.
Please.
Reintegrating to society is difficult.
People said I should move to another country, change my name.
The process of reintegrating into a normal life,
not wanting to give up,
and not ending up in a spiral of drugs living with my parents or in a cave,
is difficult.
People say, "I would've killed myself,"
but I don't have permission to kill myself.
My kids need me.
There's no information about destructive mind control,
and it creates pure demonic scenarios.
So,
I have to reinstate myself back into a society
that's absolutely terrified of me.
Understandably.
It's difficult wanting to reinstate yourself in an ecosystem
in which some of the components want to actively attack you.
They don't want you to be reinstated. They want you to kill yourself.
Since we are the worst human beings in the world,
people feel they can bring out the worst version of themselves
and get away with it.
Ten years later, I'm destroyed. I don't want to fight.
I'd like to be able to work and live in peace.
But if we have to ask for forgiveness for being alive,
it's difficult to live in peace.
I honestly don't even like talking about it,
because every time I do,
I feel a profound,
immense pain.
Regarding the house in Colliguay,
we're just gonna demolish it so there won't be
any more traces of this misery.
Cults don't pop up out of nowhere.
Cults are a response to an effect
and something that is happening in society.
And there lies a great emptiness
and a tremendous need for a sense of belonging.
We live permanently surrounded by different types of influences
that show us a perfect world,
but that hide, in a perverse manner,
mechanisms of mind control.
Pablo Undurraga served two years in prison
and was released on parole in 2019.
Natalia Guerra served two years in prison
and was released on parole in 2021.
The rest of the cult members
served their sentences under probation.
They are all now free
and undergoing the process of social reintegration.