A cult manipulates people looking for true love
If you could find true love, how far would you go to get it? Would you join a cult? That’s the question asked by Escaping Twin Flames. Twin Flames Universe preyed on people’s desires to find love, by espousing the doctrine that everyone has a “twin flame,” a person who is the other half of their shared soul. It promised people that its methods—and its expensive courses and coaching sessions—would help them find that person, and as a result, find happiness.
But Twin Flames Universe was—and still is—a cult, and this documentary outlines just how crazy its beliefs are. From advocating stalking and harassment, to pushing members to work for the cult, to claiming that one of the leaders, Jeff Ayan, was Christ-like, the cult used typical manipulation tactics to control its members, take their money, and convince them to do whatever its leaders wanted.
Twin Flames Universe made many promises to its members, promises that it could not keep when the soulmates the leaders guaranteed people did not manifest themselves. But because it had brainwashed its members into believing its unbelievable concepts, Twin Flames convinced members to follow new promises, new doctrine, and new guidance about how to find true love, to the point of some changing their gender identity. As the cult morphed, some members saw the true darkness underneath this twisted facade and left. Others, however, are still beholden to its nonsense.
Netflix’s three-part docuseries charts the rise of the cult and the realizations of members who left, as well as documenting the heartbreaking stories of family members of those still in the cult struggling to get them back.
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