Topic: Robert Burton (Fellowship of Friends)

Hey Mark.

Thanks for joining the forum.

I haven't encountered Burton until now, and he definitely seems like a candidate for discussion here. They definitely appear to be a mind-controlling cult a la Lipson's 8 criteria. I'd put him in either the "Not So Big-Time" or "Kinda Big-Time" categories. If you have a story or stories you'd like to relate, please feel free to do so, posting to whichever of those two categories you feel he fits in.

I've been to a few talks from some no-name Indian gurus when I travelled there, as well as Tolle, Ammachi and recently Gangaji. Gangaji is the only one that I really liked and went back to a couple of retreats. She is the only one I would go back to whenever she is in the area and I have some spare time. But now I find myself curious about her, her organization, followers, scandals etc. I know about the whole Eli scandal, but am curious about others' opinions about her. Dirt on her may not necessarily influence my opinion of what she has to say or how she says it (which I like), but perhaps because it resonates with me so much, I'd like to know if she really is who she presents publicly.

oops, I put my post above in this topic, instead of creating a new one. if the moderator can move it, that would be appreciated.

Hey SMPH.

Lefora is still in beta, so the moderator tools aren't complete yet, preventing me from transferring your post to its own thread. If you want, just create the new thread with the content from your post and I'll delete the old post here.

Thanks for joining. Hopefully we'll get some more folks involved and make this a rocking discussion board.

--jody.