This is the second docuseries about Twin Flames Universe, after Marina Zenovich Desperately Seeking a Soulmate: Escaping Twin Flames Universe came out on Prime Video last month. This documentary series tells of several former TFU members and one or two parents and siblings of members who are still there but have become estranged from their families.
Most of the people Peck spoke to ended up working for TFU or its subsidiary MAP, either as coaches, salespeople, web designers or social media specialists. In almost all cases, people had already met someone with whom they thought they had a strong connection, but their feelings were not reciprocated. Searching for answers, they found Jeff and Shaleia and took TFU's Ascension classes.
Stars: Arcelia, Sarah Berman, Janja Lalich
One of them is Keely, who provided the filmmakers with video footage of TFU classes through a hard drive where hundreds of videos were stored. In fact, she pursued her Twin Flame after he broke up with her and they ended up married. But her sister Marlee didn't have one of hers, but she was encouraged to pursue a man who sent her messages on Facebook as her Twin Flame; She turned out to have a criminal record and mental health issues, and when Marlee tried to get her help, Jeff talked her out of it, thinking that all she needed was a good partner.
The filmmakers also speak with Paula, whose twin sister Stephanie is still at TFU. She and her mother Louise have not heard from Stephanie since at least 2020, as it appears Jeff and Shaleia's efforts have turned her against her family. It seems that the only ex-member who overlaps between the two docuseries is Arcelia, a trans woman who was told to seek a Twin Flame at all costs; she dissociated from TFU when the Ayans began talking about the "divine" masculine and feminine in each Twin Flames couple, a result of the fact that the majority of TFU members were women.
While both Twin Flames Universe docuseries cover much of the same topic, Escaping Twin Flames cuts right to how Jeff and Shaleia recruited members, forced them to spend thousands of dollars on classes, and then hired them as trainers (who earned their own income ). ) and people who worked for the organization (who mostly volunteered their time in exchange for free classes). These were people who could barely afford these classes, but wanted to explore the spirituality behind the connections they had recently made, even if the feelings they had for those people were not reciprocated.
This docuseries is much clearer than Desperately Seeking a Soulmate about who these people's Twin Flames really were, and made the Ayans' encouragement for their members to pursue these people no matter what made more sense. In Elle's case, a DNA researcher, actually her ex, who was “certified” by the Ayans as her Twin Flame, filed a restraining order against her, and she was encouraged to ignore the order and maintain lines of trust. communication. open. When she was at the same nightclub as him, she had her arrested.
It seems like much of the information here is based on reporting by Sarah Berman, who wrote about TFU for Vice; Unlike Alice Hines, whose reporting was the centerpiece of the latest documentary series, Berman did not meet the Ayans in person. But it seems like the sources she had were in Jeff and Shaleia's inner circle, and they've put together a much more coherent picture of what the Ayans would do to stop people at TFU from changing the rules to keep people from getting discouraged. that their methods don't work, to publicly shaming them in classes, to the much-cited “mirror method” that made members turn all their external difficulties on themselves.
There is less biographical information about Jeff and Shaleia in this docuseries, and it might have been frustrating if this one came out first, but there is a huge volume of fascinating information about how Jeff and Shaleia have turned TFU into a church-like organization. with profit centers under its nonprofit umbrella, and went on to encourage cisgender people to come over to the side of the “divine” masculine or feminine. It certainly didn't make us want to know more about the personal lives of these two people who, for all intents and purposes, feel like two people who are at least selling something they can't possibly deliver.
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