Seelenverwandter verzweifelt gesucht: Die Tücken des Twin Flames Universums

It's hard to know where to start with this... much like Deep Impact and Armageddon of old we had two projects release at once about the same thing. I plumped with Prime and you get three fairly aimless episodes of Alice Hines making a bit of a "quest" out of exposing these two awful frauds. What they preside over and their general personalities are enough for interesting telly but as we drifted towards a conclusion I did start to wonder how manipulative this sort of trashy little PrimeDoc itself was. There's a lot of reconstruction stuff which always feels leading, the way it made out like the central figure was dead the whole time and bits of it which focussed on the family & friends of Super Jesus and make-up lady were quite uncomfortable for all the wrong reasons. I mean the consequences of what they do are genuinely very serious and it feels like this wasn't... really helping.

People usually join cults because they think there's some kind of higher religious purpose and cult leaders have repeatedly used this as an easy way to sexually abuse members. What makes the Twin Flames Universe so weird is that romance and sex are the entire premise - essentially Jeff and Shaleia promise spiritual fulfillment by finding your "twin flame" - a person more intense than a soulmate, who you've known throughout lifetimes. Whether you believe in this concept or not, the subsequent cult that evolved from this concept couldn't be more obviously toxic or wacko if it tried.

Shaleia was an insecure young woman who had new age spiritual beliefs when she met charming malignant narcissist and possible sociopath, Jeff, a young man hoping to own his own business. It's fairly obvious she's under the spell of an attractive narcissist, and that he's thrilled to have constant narcissistic supply in the form of a compliant and obedient woman conforming to traditional gender roles. They couldn't be more reflective of manic street preacher and quiet wife in church if they were evangelical Christians. The way she silently nods or murmurs yes in reply to his ravings and rantings on YouTube would be comical if they weren't so creepy.

These two lovebirds take advantage of emotionally unstable and obsessive love/sex addicts by literally encouraging them to stalk people who rejected them or broke up with them. They claim they'll get the person back if only they accept responsibility for manifesting the situation with a mirror exercise. The elements that really take the cake, though, are that Jeff and Shaeia claim to get messages from God about who someone's twin flames are and even pressured people into gender roles and sex changes in an attempt to conform to their cult's ideology.

Seriously, people, if a religious leader tells you stalking someone who never wants to see you again is God's will, it's a cult.

Make no mistake; the true driving force behind this cretinous twosome is Shaleia/Megan, the meek and mild wifey. Truly Machiavellian and deadly. Jeff is the more passive of the two, despite his alpha dog bluster.

The residents of the bucolic small Northern Michigan town they have infested are appalled and dismayed by their presence. Many local and state police complaints have been lodged against them with no consequences so far. I do think that while they're canny and manipulative, they're not intelligent enough to maintain their Teflon existence and will someday trip up and fail. They need to be in prison.

This garbage wasted 3 hours of my time. So little content has been stretched into 3 hours. Many meaning less talking. The so called cult is such small group that is not worthy to be reported. This is no story here. There is no crime here. No drama. No twist. No surprise. The two leading roles are not worthy to be called "cult leader". They don't have any charisma, which is pretty essential to be a cult leader. They don't have intelligent. Their followers are obviously not smart. Kind of below average. There are big robberies out there, while you report on petty theft. Why? I can feel the carelessness of the makers of this TV series. They just want throw in all the trashy footages they have to make it three hours long and get paid.

Well that was way too easy, right? So no pun intended still applies, right? Talking about right (and wrong - yes I went there too), I had not heard of this before even though there seems to be another documentary about the same topic (people) ... seems like they really left a dent. I reckon trying to bring people together is lucrative ... but also if you are one searching for your soulmate ... well beware because people will take advantage of that fact.

Now you can make up your own mind about what you want to believe at first ... let's just say that it will become quite apparent what happened - very early on. It is not that the signs weren't there ... but if you want to believe something so bad ... you ignore those things.

Good interviews, good background and good research done.