Robert Earl Burton and The Fellowship of Friends: November 1975

Introduction

Robert Earl Burton founded The Fellowship of Friends in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1970. Burton modeled his own group after that of Alex Horn, loosely borrowing from the Fourth Way teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky. In recent years, the Fellowship has cast its net more broadly, embracing any spiritual tradition that includes (or can be interpreted to include) the notion of "presence."

The Fellowship of Friends exhibits the hallmarks of a "doomsday religious cult," wherein Burton exercises absolute authority, and demands loyalty and obedience. He warns that his is the only path to consciousness and eternal life. Invoking his gift of prophecy, he has over the years prepared his flock for great calamities (e.g. a depression in 1984, the fall of California in 1998, nuclear holocaust in 2006, and most recently the October 2018 "Fall of California Redux.")

According to Burton, Armageddon still looms in our future and when it finally arrives, non-believers shall perish while, through the direct intervention and guidance from 44 angels (recently expanded to 81 angels, including himself and his divine father, Leonardo da Vinci), Burton and his followers shall be spared, founding a new and more perfect civilization. Read more about the blog.

Presented in a reverse chronology, the Fellowship's history may be navigated via the "Blog Archive" located in the sidebar below.

Sunday, November 30, 1975

November 1975 Notes

(It is common to see chess played at the Lincoln Lodge these days.)

November 6:

Seven new Meissen porcelain figurines have been acquired and were displayed (Robert is collecting the rare pieces.)

November 21:

The Lao Tzu Library is set with four round tables, six seats to a table

November 22:

Six beautifully-tiled and fixtured bathrooms are finally put into use at the Lincoln Lodge extension, thus relieving the pressure on the long-inadequate two bathrooms at the “Franklin Complex” (an old single-wide trailer at times housing a small store, occasional hair salon and an architects’ office.) [The wait for a shower at the old facility could be hours long.]