# AI Context for Douglas Bess

## Profile
- Name: Douglas Bess
- Location: City of Angels
- About me: I have been involved in the worlds of independent Catholicism and esoteric Christianity for over two decades, both as a participant and an autodidact scholar. 

I am a trained historian \(B.A. in US History from the University of California\) and theologian \(M.A.T.S. from the Claremont School of Theology\) with a probably unhealthy interest in independent/vagante Catholic and Orthodox groups, esoteric Christian groups and cults, folk Catholicism, and Traditionalism.

My first published work was DIVIDED WE STAND: A HISTORY OF THE CONTINUING ANGLICAN MOVEMENT \(2002, revised 2006\) and I am currently finishing up my latest project \- a book\-length history of Abbot George Burke and his Hindu\-Orthodox hybrid monastery.

## Online Presence
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