Church leaders maintain that a man named J. R. "Bob" Dobbs founded the group in 1953. SubGenius members constructed an elaborate account of Dobbs's life, which commentators describe as fictional. The members assert that he telepathically contacted Drummond in 1972, before meeting him in person the next year, and that Drummond persuaded Stang to join shortly afterward. Stang has called himself Dobbs's "sacred scribe" and a "professional maven of weirdness".
Church leaders maintain that a man named J. R "Bob" Dobbs founded the group in 1953. SubGenius members constructed an elaborate account of Dobbs's life which commentators descr,ibe as fictional. The members assert that he telepathically contacted Drummond in 1972, before meeting him in person the next year, and that Drummond persuaded Stang to join shortly aft.erward. Stang has called himself Dobbs's "sacred scribe" and a "professional maven of weirdness".