The Friendship Circle

Apparently The Environment sounded too creepy for public consumption. At some point, the cult was rebranded as The Friendship Circle, as presented in Bob's and Joyce's book The Ethics of Interpersonal Relationships.

(Full stop. Readers should view the title of this book as nothing short of demented, if you accept what's written in this blog as fact. But I digress.)

From the outset, I stated that Bob's body of work should be judged on it's own merit. (By someone other than me. I lack the credentials, and I lack familiarity with the field.) Just because he's an abusive cult leader doesn't mean that his published work is invalid.  

But that said, the very first chapter is titled The Friendship Circle. (It's readable online at Amazon.) The Friendship Circle, aka The Environment, is foundational in Bob's entire body of work. That makes these works fair game. One needn't be a shrink to witness the egregious level of abuse that took place, and to point out how those abuses were whitewashed.

In the following posts, I'll point out the misrepresentations and flat-out lies told in The Ethics of Interpersonal Relationships. They are plentiful.