[Jeff] We're talking about Christ, we're talking about the Antichrist.
- [ambivalent music playing] - [sighs]
Why would Christ be so casual?
Hi, I'm Jeff. Today, we're going to talk about, "Has Christ come again?"
Hmm… He's got the beard and the hair and blue eyes,
but yes, I'm suggesting that, "Could I be Christ?"
Jeff, he fully admits, he's like,
"I'm the master Christ, I'm the second coming."
[laughs] God's the best troll.
[Alice] A few years ago, he had short hair.
First, I want to talk about my hair.
- [laughs] - It's a fun thing to talk about.
And he has since grown it out to be about shoulder length.
He has a beard.
- Welcome back. - Welcome back.
- Jeff cultivates
- the master Christ image physically. - [singing] Holy, holy, holy.
- Yeah! - [ominous music playing]
I want you to receive my teaching. I want you to receive my enlightenment.
If somebody is claiming that type of divine power,
there's often abuse going on.
- Deceit. [laughs] - I think Jeff and Shaleia are dangerous.
If you want to be gross, if you want to be weird,
if you don't want to do your inner work, fuck you.
My business depends on all of you.
If you're looking to them for help, then they become even more dangerous.
Show me what you got, and I'll show you what the fuck I got.
[upbeat music playing]
[overlapping chatter]
[Jeff] Welcome back to another juicy Twin Flame Ascension School class.
- [bell rings] - [meditative vocalizing]
[Alice] I had good reason to believe at that point that they were running a cult.
I wasn't sure yet. I wanted to get their opinion
and kind of hear them out, of course.
[Shaleia] …is, "Blessed be, and namaste."
- We will see you next week. - Namaste.
So in June 2020, I finally convinced my editors, despite the pandemic,
to send me to Michigan.
["Chaise Lounge" by Wet Leg plays]
I was dying to meet them because so many of their followers
have only seen them online.
I want to see who they are behind the camera.
Like I want to see how they actually live, because I feel like that's often
the most revealing part of someone is not just what they deliberately present
to the outside world, but how they behave when they think no one's watching.
I was alone, I was far from home,
and some of the stuff I had heard from the ex-members definitely frightened me,
and I didn't know what they were capable of.
So I did take some precautions.
You know, did a location share on WhatsApp with my editor,
as well as with my fiancé, just in case. [laughs]
In five years, Jeff and Shaleia have moved from like crashing on people's couches
to their own lakefront property
in a semi-private community in northern Michigan.
When I showed up at their house, it was really disorienting.
I was like, "Oh my God, I'm actually here."
[Shaleia] So this is, uh… the view.
So the first thing you'll notice about our grass is it's got a lot of weeds in it,
- [laughs] - [Shaleia] It's organic.
[Jeff] Like our lawn guy kind of came with the house.
He said that this is what it… this is what's best.
[laughing] So we believed him.
- [Shaleia] Yeah, this is the pool. - [Jeff] This is the pool.
We keep it very warm because we're not into cold water.
- No, not into cold water at all. - [Alice] Nice. It's really pretty.
I was nervous, and I hid it. I had watched so many hours of video of them,
I feel like I knew them, but I had never seen them in person.
[Shaleia] So this is where we shoot our sermons. We just got this up.
I wasn't going to bring up anything super controversial when I was there
just because I didn't want to piss them off like while I was in their house.
- How many rooms are there down here? - [Shaleia] Two.
[Alice] Two. Okay, got it.
I was a sponge. I was there to absorb as much information
as possible about the way Jeff and Shaleia live.
[Jeff] Like, we're co-creating this home together. Let's go up this stairway, babe.
- That's not the best… - [Shaleia] Oh, you're right.
We're like still in the process of designing and selecting
because you have to like special order a table.
[Alice] They were decorating, and they had just ordered
these giant crystals, these amethysts that were like about that tall.
There were two of them.
In here, this is calcite that's growing in the amethyst.
Shaleia was telling me that she actually like communes with them daily,
like she sits by the crystal and listens to what it's telling her.
The crystal is literally sending her messages from the other side.
And she also, through these messages, divined that one crystal
is masculine and the other is feminine.
So the crystals are gendered, which I think that says
a lot about Shaleia's world view.
Hallway's unfinished. We'll have a wall of masters here.
[Alice] I was creeped out for most of my time at Jeff and Shaleia's,
but I really wanted to see them film a YouTube video.
That's a big part of their influence.
This is my new friend, Alice Hines. Don't worry, she's just my friend.
She is not my new twin flame or anything like that.
He insisted on me being in the YouTube video
and kind of interviewing me.
If you reader knew what you knew and know,
do you think your reader would believe that twin flames are real?
Yeah, I guess the honest answer is I'm not sure.
I have to think about it.
I knew that they were going to try to push me, like they were going to try
to use all their methods on me to get to the bottom
of what my motivations were and why I was there.
- I knew I had to be ready for that. - There's no one…
- I've never met anyone like you. - Really? Why is that?
[laughs] Well… Well, you're you, for one.
I was kind of disarmed by his gaze, like he has really,
like striking blue-green eyes, and will just stare at you.
I think those are two metaphors.
And if you're a person who's insecure, or you were unsure of yourself,
in the first place, that can be really manipulative.
So it's all in the makings. Thanks so much for joining us.
Thank you, Alice. We will… I'll see you more videos.
- Thanks for having me. - [laughs]
So I spent all day there Saturday, and I kind of like got into a rhythm,
and I started to relax.
- This is our beauty room. - We call it the beauty room, yes.
- I got my makeup in here, and… - [Alice] It's very well organized.
[Alice] Jeff and Shaleia like material possessions.
- [Jeff] This is our music room right now. - [Alice] Pretty.
[Jeff] We've got to build a garage.
They're saying to be a spiritual leader also means to be wealthy.
This is called "ground effects", it's a special package.
And so this goes around, all around the outside of the car.
Now, that's just an extra layer of detail.
I wanted a car where I could feel like a fucking rock star going around.
It means to be affluent. It's the prosperity gospel.
[Jeff] I got my special glasses that I only wear in the Corvette.
- [Alice] Seriously? - Yeah. This is just for the Corvette.
- [Gabe] …old man. - [Jeff] And, uh…
- [Shaleia] Come on down. - [Jeff] Okay, hi.
So our household has a couple in quarantine right now.
Things got even stranger when I went to the basement.
They had a few students who were actually living in their house.
That was when I met Gabe and Briana.
I talked with them, and Gabe and Briana were living in one room together
in Jeff and Shaleia's basement that was pretty crowded with stuff.
Gabe recently came out as trans,
and he had been guided into his identity as a trans man
by one of Jeff and Shaleia's coaches.
And then he had been paired into a twin flame relationship with Briana
and Briana was like, "I'm straight. I like guys."
And Jeff and Shaleia were like, "Well, he's going to be a guy."
[laughs]
Basically, it just seems like Gabe and Briana,
as well as all of these other people, were providing free labor,
like these people would cook and clean.
They would eat meals with Jeff and Shaleia,
and Jeff and Shaleia would kind of like provide off-the-cuff coaching.
They called it the Spiritual Boot Camp program.
That felt like a big red flag.
The Twin Flames Universe community provides a lot of support
and reinforcement and friendship, but it also is a mechanism of control.
I left Jeff and Shaleia's house with lots of questions,
particularly about the influence they have over people like Briana and Gabe.
[Briana] Okay, I think we're live now.
So we kind of started talking about this a little bit earlier,
about how, you know, we've only been really attracted
to men our whole lives, so it is a different experience.
Briana and her partner had been asked to go to Michigan
to be with Jeff and Shaleia, and to observe them in harmonious union.
At this point, I cannot believe what's happening in my life.
I cannot believe this is my life now, dealing with this.
She told me she worked like a dog. She was working and working constantly.
She went there willingly. She paid to go there, which is crazy.
Briana took on the more feminine, stereotypical roles
of cooking and cleaning,
and her partner was going to learn how to be more masculine.
They showed Gabe power washing a house, chopping wood.
[Lynn] Shortly after that, Briana was cutting his hair.
He was wearing masculine clothes.
They were teaching them how to be the roles
that they thought they should fulfill.
I'm Jules Gill-Peterson. I'm a historian of sexuality and gender.
I think I first saw references to twin flames just in media coverage,
over the controversy over the organization in general,
and then specifically the controversy over, you know,
the accusations that they pressure people into transitioning.
If people are being pressured to do things that they didn't ask for,
and it's supposed to be a supportive therapeutic environment,
I mean, yeah, that concerns me on its face.
I just think it's, at minimum, unethical.
But it just really makes you question like, well, what else…
I mean, how far could that logic go?
[Lynn] A month or so later,
I got a text asking me if I supported her twin flame union.
And that's when I said, "I love you unconditionally with all my heart,
but I don't understand this union. Please help me to understand."
And she said, "Well, that's really not good enough, Mom."
And cut off communication.
Nothing is gained by holding onto past disappointments.
Just let it go and let yourself be free.
I'm extremely upset.
I feel like my heart is ripped out because of all of the advice
and coaching that they're getting from this,
that this organization is giving to my daughter.
[Cheryl] She didn't look happy.
We know what Briana looks like when she's happy,
and she just wasn't happy.
And I called the police just to see, have they heard of any activities?
Are they investigating? Because we are concerned about a relative.
And they said that they had been investigating.
I was hopeful that, "Okay, they know, this is going to go someplace."
[tense music playing]
- [detective] Hi, Jeff? How are you doing? - [Jeff] Yeah.
- Doing okay. - [instinct]
- I'm sorry? - Farmington Hills Police Department.
You mind if we come in and talk to you for a minute?
[Jeff] Can we go somewhere else and talk?
[detective] If you want, you want to come down in the police station?
[Jeff] Not really.
[detective] I mean, we just got to talk to you.
[detective] People are claiming that you brainwash them…
- [Jeff] Okay. - …to do work without being paid,
to commit crimes…
- [Jeff scoffs] That's absurd. - …by stalking their "twin flame",
that you're tricking them into scamming them out of their money.
[Jeff] How could I brainwash someone to do something against their will?
[detective] All these calls come in that, you know, there is a cult.
Why we take this serious is you look back at Waco, Texas,
and some of these kind of cults,
you know, where they convinced them, you know, to all drink cyanide
- or whatever they did… - [Jeff] Right.
…and we just want to make sure anything like that is not going on.
[Alice] Jeff and Shaleia have a lot of enemies,
in particular the family members of people who are still in the organization.
And these people really want to see Jeff and Shaleia face legal consequences.
The tricky part of that is that, you know, running an organization
that a lot of people think is a cult is not actually illegal.
[Jeff] Where is the illegal activity that you're alleging here?
[detective] That's what we're trying to--
[Jeff] You're trying to find out if there's something illegal here?
[detective] Correct.
We understand that you're running a business,
and if people buy and utilize your product,
then that's up to them.
[Jeff] Exactly, it's a product online that people can elect to purchase or not.
[detective] Correct.
[Jeff] And if there's a community associated with that product
- that people can elect to be in or not. - [detective] Appreciate that. Thank you.
[Jeff] Okay. Well, best of luck with your investigation.
[detective] Thank you, sir.
[Jeff] Hopefully this can be wrapped up quickly.
[Alice] A lot of the people who are in Twin Flames Universe are claiming
that they made these decisions themselves.
But then if you look at the way that those decisions were made,
Jeff and Shaleia are coercing people for months,
if not years, and breaking down their sense of self,
basically completely eroding their autonomy and their sense of reality.
Today, we're going to talk about a much, much asked for and talked about topic.
Yes.
The divine masculine and the divine feminine twin flame energy.
Superpower!
Jeff and Shaleia teach that in every twin flame union
is a divine feminine and a divine masculine.
So if a twin flame couple is a single soul divided into two halves,
there will always be a masculine, and there will always be a feminine.
I spoke to several members who were pressured
to change their pronouns and their gender identity
under the guidance of Jeff and Shaleia and their coaches.
These people had a really hard time.
The public image of Twin Flames Universe is very interesting to me.
On the surface, of course, there's all this kind of LGBT-accepting language.
You know, you can be any gender inside any body.
You know, any pairing of people is okay visually,
as long as it's divine feminine, divine masculine, right?
It doesn't look like conventional conversion therapy
because we're so used to Christian conversion therapy in particular
using really anti-trans language.
But that, you know, when you look at sort of the purpose
to which that's put, you know, I think it starts to look a lot
less progressive or just a lot less inviting.
And so in that sense, it doesn't really matter to me
what sort of progressive language or veneer is being put on this,
that the sort of practice and the techniques
and the endpoints that Jeff and Shaleia are employing are just part and parcel
of that longstanding American conservative and Christian lineage.
Welcome back to another juicy Twin Flame Ascension School class.
Yay, today! Today is good. Today, I'd like to do some deep diving
with Anne and Catrina, if they're available to do so.
What's up, Anne and Catrina? How's your day going?
Hey, good. How are you guys?
[Catrina] When I first got involved with Jeff and Shaleia,
I really did think that at the heart of that group was compassion
and love for others and for humanity.
That's why I got involved, you know.
I want to ask about some things,
some specific things, and they're going to be sensitive subjects.
And so I want respect everyone in encountering this sort of topic,
so that everyone can feel at peace and at ease
and not pressured about this subject
because it can be very sensitive for people and understandably so.
- Mm. - Okay.
So are you comfortable with everything I just said, guys?
[Catrina] Yes. I'm comfortable with what you said.
Okay, good. So I want to ask Catrina first.
Catrina, what is it like to be with a divine masculine in a woman's body?
We understood, you know, kind of how they were using
divine feminine and divine masculine, and at first, it didn't rub us the wrong way.
But then we started to realize they were getting really literal with it.
You love Anne completely, physically?
Yeah, I love Anne's physical form completely, everything that Anne is.
My level of attraction doesn't change
based on the way Anne expresses gender at all.
Okay, how do you feel about having such a feminine name,
being called such a feminine name as Anne?
That's how I've always, I guess, labeled myself and referred to myself, so…
Why would you keep a name that's so obviously feminine?
I don't know. I haven't really thought about it.
[Jeff] What about Dan?
[Anne] I didn't have any interest in becoming a man.
This is me. I'm a Anne, I'm a she.
When that wasn't respected, it did feel like a sense of betrayal.
What doesn't feel good about the name Dan?
I don't know. It just doesn't resonate.
- [laughs] - Jesus Christ.
You're playing in avoidance game,
and it's the avoidance game that prevents you from moving forward here.
Just let the name be.
And he just kept on and on and on until the very end.
And I mean, I think we both just completely broke,
and just agreed like, "Fine, we'll do it."
- I would consider that name. - [Jeff] Boom!
- Mm. Yeah. - There.
I just wanted it to be over.
- Thanks. - Yeah.
Anne the man and Catrina, it's been a lovely class with you guys.
Very good. Thank you.
He needed Anne to agree to that publicly, so that he could go turn to what was like
a 95% female community and say, "Okay.
Now, you're the guy and you're the girl, and you're the guy and you're the girl,
and that's your twin flame.
And now you're all pairs."
He sent messages, private messages to me asking, you know,
"Why hasn't your man accepted the name I have given him yet?"
He had so much power over the group, and he had a lot of power over our,
you know, well-being as well, because we knew what was going to happen
if she didn't agree.
- Here we are in class again. - Yeah.
For a call last week, we talked to Anne the man and Catrina.
Let's check in with them again if they're available.
[Anne] I was very stressed by it, doubly stressed
because our whole business and livelihood was tied to them.
Don't you look upon me, Anne the man, and say, "Man, I love how he is.
I want to be more like that."
It's not a good deal. It's time to make a new choice to be a man.
[Arcelia] What the fuck they did to Anne,
making her feel like she needs to be a man to be herself.
It boiled my blood. Let her just be herself.
Let her be her fucking self.
Dan and Catrina. Mr. Dan. Except I call you Dan and Mr…
- Well, I don't like the name, Dan. - Don't like Dan? It's a perfect name.
Anne had no intention of ever transitioning genders in any capacity.
But he just kept pressing in.
Do you believe me when I say you're a man inside?
I have to be willing to…
This is very political. Do you believe me or not?
I say that you're a man inside. How does that feel?
It feels like you're talking about something that's an outer reality
- and putting it inside. - You're pissed off right now.
And you're going away from that anger, and it's not serving you.
I know a pissed off man when I see one, that's you.
There was a really big display of power there, trying to get us to submit.
And it was very tactical. It was very abusive.
We were the one couple who they needed to be all in.
So that was a real threat for them, for their community to witness.
Jeff being unsuccessful at control.
They accused us of abusing people.
They told people to go and file chargebacks on our account.
I felt so bad for them. I was like, "Wow."
I mean, they could literally just be like, "I hate you, I hate you, I hate you."
And you're like… [gasps]
He could tell that we ultimately weren't people that would submit.
We had done all of this work and all of this personal growth
and mustered up all this courage to be out as lesbian women.
And they cut us out of the group.
We shut our business down overnight.
It happened so quickly, and we didn't have any footing under us.
All I was left with was just kind of this terror of being
really disconnected with who I am and not knowing how to move forward.
Makes me feel sick just to think about how it felt.
People deserve better than that. You know?
Anne, there's no like, "I have to become that."
The truth is, you already are that.
They were doing the same thing that they did to them to me.
They were encouraging me to change genders because of how masculine I was.
I was like, "No, I don't want to do that."
And they kept pushing and pushing, and I was like,
"No, I don't want to be a man."
I say that you're a man inside. How does that feel?
It feels like you're talking about something…
Where are people even getting this idea from in the first place?
Except, you know, this deep, deep, deep need
to ensure that at the end of the day, textbook, on paper, technically,
we've achieved heterosexuality, right, that is just like, oh, so gross. Yeah.
[Alice] While I was reporting this story, I got emails from people
who were in Twin Flames Universe.
Some of them changed their gender identity
and appear to be living with that new gender identity
and living happily with it.
I'm gonna turn on the camera and talk to you guys a little bit.
And a few others experienced a lot of dysphoria.
The root issue is just that there is a context in which
you know, someone is claiming "I can see who someone really is,"
and that's just a root structure of harm
that trans people have faced for an incredibly long time.
We can't peer into people and know who they are.
There's just no way to do that.
I decided to do a follow up interview over Zoom with Jeff and Shaleia.
I was eager to confront them about the issue of gender identity coercion.
I just wanted to fact check some stuff.
Coercing people to change their gender, would you say that you do that?
Absolutely and unequivocally not. Not once, not ever.
- Nor will it ever happen. - Okay, great.
And those who say that it did happen are lying about the reality
and the true context of what was being communicated.
- Mm. - They are misleading you.
- You are being misled, Alice. - Okay.
I have like, you know, things that I've watched myself, or of you myself
that point me to a particular interpretation, and this message to Anne
sure looks like you do tell people to change things about themselves.
Okay. Well, I don't.
Well, Anne definitely tried to tell you guys that she wasn't comfortable
taking a guy's name and pronouns,
- and you shut it down. - That's not true. That's not true.
- She said that… - If you watched the same video.
- Yes, that's what she said. - That's my take.
Didn't care, okay, fine. Take whatever, whatever take you want to take.
That's not the truth.
The truth is Twin Flames Universe members have socially transitioned
under the guidance of Jeff and Shaleia.
I'm not evil.
I hope that if someone looks carefully at us,
I hope they find, as I have found, unconditional love
is at the root of everything that we do.
[Jeff] Obviously, we're not having sex on camera.
[Alice] By now, I was convinced that this was a cult,
but I wasn't sure who the driving force behind it was.
Jeff is the person who talks more, both in the videos and in person.
Shaleia, you want to talk about spiritual things
and help people fall in love?
- Oh, yeah, I do. - Shaleia is quieter,
but I also think that she is kind of the spiritual force of the organization.
So let's focus in on our heart center while we're "Om"-ing.
If you can't "Om" out loud with Jeff and I, please "Om" mentally in your head.
- [bell rings] - [meditative vocalizing]
Shaleia is the one who is more up on the theology of twin flames,
she's definitely complicit in the abuse that's happening.
Is she driving it, and how much is she driving? I don't actually know.
[Michelle] After being apart for almost 20 years,
it's strange because it's… It feels like she's a different person.
I can't imagine her conniving and thinking up this…
…you know, plan to take people's money from them.
And it makes me wonder what the heck happened?
Like, what happened to her?
I hope that she is happy, and I hope that she is in a loving relationship.
But for someone to have changed so much, I do wonder if…
…something has influenced her and maybe continues to influence her.
It's easier for me to imagine her as a victim
than as someone who would do something unkind.
Some people felt that Megan was victim number one, and I reject that.
Megan was a complicit participant. She was not a victim.
I say that because I know Megan well enough.
I've seen numerous examples with me, with her family.
She may play submissive, but that isn't happening behind the camera.
No, she participated willingly for all of this.
Megan had the vision and the twin flames idea,
and Jeff was the guy that knew how to set a camera, set businesses up.
And so it was a perfect combination.
The last time I heard from her is we got a letter probably about four years ago,
and it was a diatribe of hatred.
When she cuts the world off,
she does it with a finality and an almost brutal-ness.
It's a very painful thing.
The person that I refer to as Megan, I treat her like she's dead.
I have to, because the person that she's become, this Shaleia person,
is alien to me, and I have no respect for her.
There's only so much heartache you can take as a father.
I have to treat her as dead because I can't live with what she's doing.
But I miss the Megan that I raised.
And I don't know if it'll ever come back. [sniffles]
I hope it does, but I love her and I miss her.
But I can't abide what she's doing, and I can't just forget it.
But I hope that she apologizes and makes amends to the people that she's hurt.
That's all I got.
[Alice] Jeff and Shaleia do not live in reality.
They have their property where they barely leave.
They're surrounded by people who worship them.
They don't encounter the outside world. They don't see their families.
Jeff has a sister who has been trying to get in touch with him, but without luck.
They are in like their own bubble.
I think that's part of the reason why
they thought that my article was going to like
be this really awesome thing for them and make them famous
because they think they're the master Christ, right?
So like who, but an adoring, positive journalist would ever be
sent to them by the universe, right? They really believe that.
After my article came out, Jeff sent me this email.
He said, "You must be going through a lot right now
because we know what was published was not worthy of you.
We believe that the authorities at Vanity Fair
felt threatened by who and what you discovered.
But we know you know the truth.
We believe you were given a choice to follow your boss's direction…
- …feel like someone unworthy of love… - …and essentially destroy…
- …your status, your education… - …your mind is fragmented by fear…"
Basically, he's saying that I was forced into publishing my article,
which is definitely not true, I mean… I mean, it goes on. It's a long email.
After this email, they published this 7000-word article,
trashing me, trashing the media.
They were very upset. They claimed to have been deceived,
which is just not true.
Like they knew from the beginning that I was going
to be looking into the claims that they were a cult.
But then I learned that a couple dozen members left the organization
after my article came out.
You know, people were leaving, I was leaving.
When I saw that members that I looked up to were leaving the group,
talking about their negative experiences with Jeff and Shaleia and the group,
Then it started to open my eyes like, okay,
these people were so connected to them.
They left. Like, there has to be something wrong.
Those who have taken advantage of me are not happy
with their relationship with God.
- It's like you took my shit and said… - [Shaleia] Yeah, really inappropriate.
"This is you. Look at me, Look at me, Look what I've done."
And it's not you who's done it. It's me. You're my student.
You do not school me.
And you should shut the fuck up and listen.
I got booted out of the group on Facebook
because I said something back to Jeff, and he didn't like it.
They were making serious money off of our trauma, and that's sick.
Why am I in this community that isn't helping me
with what I came here to get help with?
Once I left TFU in September, I wanted nothing to do with it.
Literally wanted nothing to do with any of that shit.
I know what the fuck I'm talking about.
And if you don't think that, fuck off, bye.
[Eric] I haven't talked to them at all since October 1st, 2015,
since they moved out of the house we were living in together,
and at that point, I mean, it was a hard door slam on their part, right?
It was removed from me.
All of my close friends, everyone that was really connected to them
from Jeff's past life, it was cold turkey, completely cut off.
Removed and blocked on social media, everything like that.
So I have to imagine there's no chance that any phone call
is going to be received at all.
But you never know.
[automated voice] Your call has been forwarded
to an automated voice messaging system.
At the tone, please record your message. When you've finished recording,
you may hang up or press one for more options.
Hey…
If… I don't know if this is Jeff's number or not.
It's, um…
This is Eric.
I don't know for sure where you're at or exactly what you're doing.
I miss the… I miss the Jeff that I knew.
I have no clue if you're still in there somewhere.
But if you do, I miss you, man.
And I hope I get to see you again somehow.
The old Jeff.
I miss you, man.
[Eric] I have accepted that there is no getting the old Jeff back.
He's gone. He's not that person anymore.
There's still some part of me that
treasures the memory that we did have.
He was my best friend for years and years and years and years.
And I love those memories.
So it's completely natural if you're finding yourself crying a lot,
or just releasing a lot of old patterns.
I persisted with Briana, and I would send her periodically, texts,
emails, pictures from home.
I didn't get a response until February of 2021.
I got a call from her saying she was very unhappy.
She wanted to come home.
I was, of course, shocked. She said, "I don't want my partner to know.
I just want to come home. I'm bringing my puppy. I'm not doing well."
I said, "Fine, book the first ticket, I will get you."
I went to the airport, picked her up. Within a few days, she was home.
But she was even in a worse state of mind than I had never seen her.
[Lisa] We're outside by the fire pit, and she came with her dog.
And we were talking, and she kept crying. And Cheryl said, "Bri, are you okay?
Let me give you a hug." I remember Cheryl getting up and hugging her.
If you can provide the love and support
for the person going through this, that's the most important thing,
is just to have continuous love and support.
And that's what we do.
I know she's starting to think for herself.
I can see it. I see little sparks here and there.
I'm very hopeful that she's going to get out of it.
It won't be easy because how do you get someone out
of an organization like that, that's controlling your mind,
and you're allowing them to do it? I don't know.
I pray for justice and for the truth to be revealed,
and people will be aware of what's happening
within the Twin Flames organization.
She'll get back again.
I'm hopeful. We're gonna get there.
Oh, look at that one.
Yeah, I know. That's one of my favorites.
I just remember thinking we had worked for that day for so long,
and we had to do so many hard things.
But our wedding day, it was the perfect
way to celebrate everything that we had become
and that we were able to do together. I just had this sense of victory.
I hope that telling my story in this way helps me
let go of it forever.
Let go of this experience and just walk away with myself
and my relationship with Anne.
Catrina proposed to me. Of course, I was going to say yes.
We have overcome unthinkable things together.
And this is just another thing that we overcame.
And now, kiss your bride.
[claps and cheers]
It's given me a lot of evidence of the strength and resilience and permanence
of our relationship.
I think that we have a beautiful love story.
We are a success story for love.
I think the best that I know, in fact, you know,
that's what we wanted all along, to show people that it's possible
to be your whole self, and that it's possible to create
a love experience with someone where they are their whole self.
And you can both just be who you are exactly.
All right, let's take a deep breath in, let's focus in on our heart chakra.
- [bell rings] - [meditative vocalizing]
It's never appropriate to call it quits on your twin flame journey
unless you're a quitter.
Go right ahead. Go be my guest.
In 2016, when they first started their Facebook group,
and Shaleia was adding people, I think they had about 70 members.
When I was writing my article in 2020, it was 14,000 members.
And today, they have almost 40,000 members.
They're not like over posting and oversharing as they used to be.
There are a lot more careful, but they continue to manipulate people's
conception of their gender identity and sexual orientation,
and people continue to join the organization.
There's new members joining all the time.
Welcome back to the channel, my name is Gabriel.
And today we're going to talk about…
Regardless of what the truth might be for Gabe, which we don't know,
I feel 100% confident saying that the techniques that Twin Flames Universe
uses to determine people's, for lack of a better phrase, gender identity,
are fallacious, aren't real, don't have any evidence behind them.
…guide you there, and I will see you all in the next video.
[Lorraine] Twin Flames has been able to create like
international status because this is an international pandemic,
this feeling of loneliness.
We don't know where we belong, and we don't know how to rectify that.
That's why people seek religion.
That's why people seek anything, you know, because it gives you an answer.
Spirituality is a great business because you don't need any credentials,
because institutionalized religions are on the decline in the United States,
and people need some type of meaning in their life.
So they want answers from something that feels transcendent.
And Jeff and Shaleia say that they have that.
They use vulnerabilities and the insecurities that exist in the world,
and they funneled it as a vehicle to make a lot of money
and to create a lot of trauma for a huge amount of people.
I hope that this whole thing can just dissolve,
like their whole entire community can dissolve,
and their business and their hopes of having a following can just die.
That would be ideal. Yeah.