Robert Earl Burton and The Fellowship of Friends: August 1980

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, August 31, 1980

August 1980 Notes

Fellowship of Friends cult Mozart Deck at Lincoln Lodge July 1980

The Mozart Deck at the Lincoln Lodge set for dinner, July 1980 (Photo: T. Campion)

"Renaissance Vine" newsletter [summarized]

Concerts:

August 9 and 10: Menahem Pressler

September 13 and 14: Menahem Pressler

September 20 and 21: The Magic Flute
July 31: Alan Meadows [Ilan Beth] died. [He was on a run to procure tractor parts. He was killed when the Volkswagen he was driving ran into a truck from Speckert’s Building Supply, one of the Fellowship's primary materiel suppliers. It is suspected he fell asleep at the wheel.]

1,362 members

Photo: Mozart Deck at the Lincoln Lodge

From the Fellowship of Friends Wiki Page [Defunct]:

[ed. - thoughts from "The Teacher," Robert Burton, with apparent index number shown.]

Higher forces give us inconceivable shocks to prepare us for the unimaginable experience of surviving Armageddon. (082080.14)