Life In The Source Family: The Disempowerment of Robin Baker

As was the case with several of the young women who joined The Brotherhood of Source, Robin Baker was their inspiration to want to join. Not only because she looked terrific and very 'together', but also because she exuded confidence and assurance in the spiritual path that she had adopted, along with the man whom she was thoroughly and dedicatedly in love with---her husband, Jim Baker. Robin was called Mother in the early days of brotherhood, a title that was well-deserved by her treatment of everyone who joined showing them the kindness and concern of a mother hen attending to her brood.

Because in the early days of the group, Robin was seen as the group's spiritual mother and Jim Baker as its spiritual father, and although Robin is only a couple of years older than me; she always seemed much older and wiser, as someone who had suffered quite a lot in her own life and had acquired her own innate wisdom and insight.

Robin Baker adopted her role as spiritual mother of the group with energy and enthusiasm and most everyone who knew her, became very fond of her which made it that much more difficult for some like me to watch Jim Baker displace and replace her with another woman who joined the group, something that I felt Robin bore extremely well. Some of my best memories from the early days of being in the group were going with Robin and a handful of other women to the local flea markets or to Olvera Street to shop for the all-white Mexican clothing that most of us wore in the early days of the brotherhood, or to buy fabric, but all of those fun outings and excursions soon ended and things began to change dramatically once Jim Baker decided that he needed to create a super race of aquarian children, and in order to do that he believed that he needed to impregnate other women within his adopted aquarian family.

At that point for me, I began to lose any respect or admiration that I might have had for the man. Especially when he sent Makushla to summon me to his upstairs bedroom one day to have sex with him where it became very clear to me that he was nothing more than a debauched middle-aged man who was using his position and power to sexually take advantage of the women in the group. I felt embarrassed and ashamed for him and lost all respect that I ever had for the man, at that point.

But, when Robin was demoted from her position as spiritual mother and was replaced by Makushla at her husband's side; I was never able to view either Makushla or any of the other women whom Jim Baker began to accumulate around himself referring to them as his 'wives' with any degree of respect.

Here is a radio interview that Robin Baker did a few years back that I wanted to share with those people who have become captivated by all of the mythology that has been spread around like so much manure about how god-like, wise and loving Jim Baker was or how enlightened or inspired life in The Source Family was supposed to have been in order to give them a better understanding of the role that Robin Baker played, and all that she had to endure and sacrifice throughout The Source Family, but most of all having to powerlessly watch her own husband, and the father of her child die in front of her. https://www.everythingisstories.com/portfolio-audio/s02e05/