Editing Luc Jouret (section)

=== Apocalypse predictions ===
Jouret spent much time in Martinique, starting in 1984. The OTS had more than 100 members there, mostly inherited from ORT's branch.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=179}} At the head of the Martinique branch was Pierre Celtan, who in his decision making would always refer to Jouret (himself always referring to Di Mambro); he was described as "seduced" by Jouret.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=180}} Jouret began to give more Amenta Club conferences there, to hundreds of listeners, the wealthiest of whom were drawn into the group.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|pp=180–181}} While never publicly denigrating the beliefs of the Martinicans, knowing he had to take into account their beliefs in order to appeal to them,{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=180}} Jouret expressed his annoyance with the Martinicans to a friend, Claude Giron. He told Giron that while he tried to be comfortable with all the races, "it must be recognized that they have different abilities".{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=183}} Jouret was noted to act "haughty, distant, or frankly contemptuous" to black members of the Solar Temple in Martinique, while accepting the whites.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=183}}

Within a few months, he convinced the members in Martinique that they needed a new sanctuary, which he invited them to contribute to buying. In 1986, he told the Martinicans that the island would sink into the ocean by the end of the year.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=181}} The members were terrified, but Jouret gave them a solution, which was to move to the group's Canadian base, which he said would be protected due to it sitting upon a large [[granite]] plate with a strong [[magnetic field]].{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|pp=181–182}}{{sfn|Clusel|Palmer|2020|p=224}} Jouret predicted that Quebec would be spared from the apocalypse.{{sfn|Clusel|Palmer|2020|p=224}} He told the Martinican members that if they did not move to Quebec, they would die; 30 members took up this offer, selling their houses and leaving the spouses and children who did not want to go along.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=182}} Jouret advised them to not pay taxes and borrow huge amounts of money, used to fund the new location in Quebec, as after they died it would not matter. After the new year rolled around and Martinique still existed, members wondered if he could have made a mistake. He assured them that it was merely a "remission", but that the apocalypse would soon come and it was more important than ever to maintain the location in Canada.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=182}}

Following the [[1988 Saguenay earthquake]], the view held by Jouret and other Templars that Quebec would be a safe haven from the impending apocalypse was damaged, which was the main reason they had moved to Canada.{{sfn|Clusel|Palmer|2020|p=224}} Members of the Sacred Heart commune began to criticize his leadership and his predictions (viewing them as too specific).{{sfn|Clusel|Palmer|2020|p=224}} The farm was also not self-sustaining, and the commune was close to bankruptcy.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=291}} The members of the Sacred Heart commune disliked Jouret, accusing him of a lack of financial transparency and sexual exploitation of women. He was viewed as a dictator by the Quebec members of the group, and was also not present often as he constantly traveled. There was a resulting power struggle between the Quebec and Swiss Templars.{{sfn|Clusel|Palmer|2020|p=225}} Canadian members began to question him, and Jouret was replaced as the Grand Master of the Sacred Heart commune by Robert Falardeau in about 1990.{{sfn|Hall|Schuyler|2000|pp=133, 135}} The Archedia clubs were dissolved in 1991, and at about the same time New Age bookstores in Europe began refusing to host Jouret and his conferences.{{sfn|Introvigne|2006|p=31}} 

However, Jouret could still give conferences in Canada.{{sfn|Introvigne|2006|p=31}} Jouret founded a separate group, {{Lang|fr|l’Académie de Recherche et Connaissance des Hautes Sciences}} or ARCHS (a pun on the "ark of survival"), taking several loyal members with him.{{sfn|Introvigne|2006|p=31}}{{sfn|Hall|Schuyler|2000|p=135}} Hermann Delorme was made president of ARCHS, but this was actually a ceremonial role with little meaning.{{sfn|Hall|Schuyler|2000|p=135}} His close friend Jean-Pierre Vinet, a vice president in the [[Hydro-Québec]] company, helped him transition to a different role, lecturing for management; several officials of Hydro-Québec then joined ARCHS.{{sfn|Hall|Schuyler|2000|p=135}} Jouret, having given up his profession as a [[Homeopathy|homeopath]] to devote himself fully to the OTS, began lecturing on [[personal development]] at various companies, universities and banks, mainly in [[Quebec]]. Di Mambro, who had a dim view of these lectures as "disseminating the ideas and principles of the OTS to the public", began sabotaging the lectures. Jouret eventually abandoned his activities and became totally dependent on Di Mambro.{{sfn|Morath|Lemasson|2023b|loc=34:00–35:50}}{{sfn|Introvigne|2006|p=31}} He slowly became less prominent in the leadership role of the Solar Temple and quit its executive committee in January 1993.{{sfn|Clusel|Palmer|2020|p=226}}