Robert Earl Burton and The Fellowship of Friends: May 2001

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.

Friday, May 4, 2001

The Fellowship of Friends' "Self-Remembering" website is created

[ed. - The Fellowship registers the internet domain "selfremembering.org", and creates the Self-Remembering website. The domain "apollo.org" directs to this page as well. Below is a November 18, 2003 Internet Archive capture of the site.]

	`SELF - REMEMBERING` `by Robert Earl Burton`
Overview Foreword Excerpts Review Translations About Robert Earl Burton	© Copyright Fellowship of Friends 2001 All rights reserved.		"Self-remembering is always fresh. For years I have been grateful to speak about one word - self-remembering - which means life or death for us. Self-remembering must be pursued inexhaustibly throughout one's life. As we move toward death, we realize that all we can take with us is our selves." - Robert Earl Burton