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Fellowship of Friends
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The Fellowship of Friends is a non-denominational church with headquarters in California. It was founded in 1970 on the Fourth Way ideas of George Gurdjieff and Peter Ouspensky. It later grew to include the esoteric teachings of the Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Sufi, Egyptian, and Mesoamerican traditions, in the belief that all esoteric schools share the same underlying principle—that of being present to one’s life. Currently, the Fellowship of Friends has approximately 1,500 members in 60 centers located in 40 countries worldwide. History The Fellowship of Friends was founded by Robert Earl Burton in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1971, it purchased property in the Sierra Foothills of Northern California. Members cleared and worked the land, transforming it into a central retreat for spiritual activity called Apollo. By the mid-1970's, the Fellowship of Friends began an expansion outside of California. The first centers opened on the East Coast of the United States in 1976, and then in major cities throughout Europe, Asia, and South America. 
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