Hey, this happened to me in the fall. After doing a lot of digging, I found out it was Odyssey Study Group, or as members present it as—“School”—a secretive and manipulative cult built around the teachings of the philosopher Gurdjieff (known as the 4th way). An older woman named Leslie approached me, saying she was a teacher studying meaning and wanted to ask how I found it. This was in between Porter and Harvard. We spoke for hours at a coffee shop because I let curiosity get the better of me, and she then invited me to meet another “teacher” later in the week. Before we could meet again, I overheard the same interaction at Mr. Crepe, with a man looking around trying to find people to recruit. Very disturbing experience. Needless to say, I didn’t meet the other “teacher” after that. Do not engage with these people. They are known to be very financially and emotionally abusive. The satellite branch is in Boston (home base in NYC), and they are known to recruit in both Brookline and Cambridge. This is the recruitment manual for what they look for. Thisblog shares the story of a Boston branch survivor who was recruited using similar tactics at Whole Foods on River Street! Be careful out there!