Robert Earl Burton and The Fellowship of Friends: March 2021

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, March 12, 2021

"Cult Vibes: Fellowship of Friends"

null[ed. - "Happy Hour Gets Weird" podcast hosts Cassie and Tiffany report on their research into Robert Burton and The Fellowship of Friends.]

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Robert Burton known as “The Teacher” has been abusing his doomsday cult members for decades. Listen in as we take you on the terrifying journey of Fellowship of Friends, a cult still active in the Northern California Sierra foothills.

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Sources:

Cult Education Institute: Group Information Archives

Robert Earl Burton and The Fellowship of Friends: The 44

California Cults - Yuba County's "Fellowship of Friends" (thedeviationdiaries.blogspot.com)

The Tradition of Schools – Living Presence

"Cults" from Parcast Network - two parts [ed. - See sidebar]

Thursday, March 11, 2021

Influence C arranges COVID-19 vaccine supply for Fellowship of Friends

[ed. - One might expect a "conscious tweet" to employ a spell-check tool.]