Editing Luc Jouret (section)

=== First marriage and association with Di Mambro ===
In 1977, both Jouret and his female companion{{sfn|Introvigne|2000|p=145}} Marie-Christine Pertué, a French [[sophrologist]] four years his junior,{{sfn|Hall|Schuyler|2000|p=146}}{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=293}} became affiliated with the [[World Teacher Trust]] (WTT). The WTT, founded by [[Ekkirala Krishnamacharya]], combined theosophical Master ideas with homeopathic ones.{{sfn|Introvigne|2000|p=145}} They both visited Krischnamacharya in India, and were important players in promoting the WTT in Europe (after meeting Di Mambro, Jouret disassociated from the WTT).{{sfn|Introvigne|2000|p=145}} In 1980, Jouret and Pertué married,{{sfn|Hall|Schuyler|2000|p=146}}{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=293}} which allowed Jouret to acquire French citizenship in 1982.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=96}} He established a homeopathic practice, initially in Belgium, starting in the late 1970s.{{sfn|Hall|Schuyler|2000|p=125}} At the beginning of the 1980s he settled in [[Annemasse]], France, not far from the Swiss border, and began to practice homeopathy there, where he was very successful.{{sfn|Introvigne|2006|p=29}}

Among the groups for which he lectured was the Golden Way Foundation, a [[New Age]] group in Geneva, Switzerland, and he became close friends with the foundation's leader, [[Joseph Di Mambro]].{{sfn|Hall|Schuyler|2000|p=125}}{{sfn|Palmer|1996|pages=305–306}} They met in late 1980.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=96}} Jouret was immediately a favorite of Di Mambro; he encouraged his ambitions and exempted him from a member's typical work. Soon after, he stopped contacting his family and largely abandoned his former friends. In one letter to a former friend, he wrote that he had "changed his life" and "had a lot of work to do" but that if he could he would see them again.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=107}} According to a friend, Jouret deeply wished for other people to recognize him, which Di Mambro gave him (as well as money); in his view, Di Mambro had done to Jouret what he had done to everyone else.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=96}} Moral standards that applied to normal members of the group, particularly around sex, were not applied to Jouret, and he was given large amounts of funds.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=148}} 

At the time he met Di Mambro, Jouret was having marital and personal problems. Pertué and Jouret had only recently gotten married, but they continually argued; Jouret aggravated Pertué's [[anorexic]] tendencies by policing her diet making sure she was [[vegetarian]].{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=96}} About this time Pertué told Jouret that was pregnant, to his elation.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=96}} Jouret was extremely excited to be a father, and also saw fatherhood from an esoteric angle.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=97}} Their son, Sébastien Jouret, was born in 1981. Sébastien was born with a serious [[congenital heart defect]], and was taken to the intensive care unit at the Brussels University Hospital. He died four days later.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=97}}{{sfn|Hall|Schuyler|2000|p=146}} Sébastien's funeral was conducted secretly with no one else invited; Jouret left highly specific requirements for the [[gravestone]].{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=97}} A tornado later destroyed the cemetery his son was buried in, and the grave of Jouret's son was the only marker left standing, while heavier markers were swept away.{{sfn|Morath|Lemasson|2023a|loc=36:10–36:19}} Di Mambro told Jouret that this experience was sent to him from higher powers so that he could understand his mission on earth in the cemetery.{{sfn|Morath|Lemasson|2023a|loc=36:55–37:04}} He later expressed to his friends that he was reassured by the fact that his son had died "pure"; he told another that he was relieved his son was dead because had he lived his life would have been limited due to the defect.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=97}} Jouret became depressed following the death of his son, and Pertué would not recover; she abandoned her life plans, refused to eat and also began to believe that the child was not actually Jouret's and was conceived without sexual intercourse.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=97}}