Summary
Journalist Alice Hines takes audiences through an active online love cult, exploring its teachings and the dangerous effects it’s had on people trying to find love.
This documentary series, Desperately Seeking Soulmate: Escaping Twin Flames Universe, looks to unveil the dark truth behind an online love cult that masked itself as a place to help you find your soulmate but, in reality, manipulated its clients for money and sick, personal pleasure. Our review will break down the cult and explain if the series is worth watching.
Do you believe in soulmates? Have you ever met anyone and instantly felt a connection, perhaps something unexplainable? I think the concept of love, finding someone to love and to love us back equally and undeniably, is something we all want to experience and maintain in life. But what this can lead to is desperation, and when people smell that, they smell money.
Inspired by the in-depth Vanity Fair investigation, Inside the Always Online, All-Consuming World of Twin Flames Universe by Alice Hines, the Prime Video three-part series sees the same journalist delve into the online group run by the captivating and charismatic YouTube influencer couple Jeff and Shaleia Divine.
Their purpose and promise is to match members to their perfect partners. However, after speaking to former participants, Alice discovers the promise of finding true love comes at a price.
Desperately Seeking Soulmate: Escaping Twin Flames Universe Documentary Review
Modern society is a little disillusioned with the dating scene, and they look to find answers and reasons. Here is born the twin-flame influence. A twin flame is a greater spiritual soul mate — the other half of your soul. Jeff and Shaleia make promises to find your true love, and that God tells them who your twin flame is.
We get exclusive real-life testimonies from members and their family members who were involved at the time. The interviews are set up in comfortable, homely-looking environments, showing us that they are everyday people — people as audience members we can connect with and relate to.
The main interview is with the journalist Alice Hines who followed and helped expose this online love cult. Alice is incredibly easy to watch and listen to, with a direct approach, and reminded me of Louis Theroux — kind, with respect for both sides of the story.
Her investigation led to her being invited into their house and even appearing in one of their YouTube videos. Here she shares her incredibly odd experiences, calling them dangerous.
We hear from the family of Brianna (a young woman who is sucked into their cult). Whilst Hines brings the professionalism, this family brings the hard-hitting real talk we’re all thinking as viewers — and enforces how unnatural and weird this online love cult is.
At first, it seems like an online therapy group for people scorned by love and wanting advice. Then this turns into dark, shady, cult tropes, from encouraging the rabid pursuit of exes to attempting to influence members’ sexual orientations and gender identities, each episode uncovers a new shocking truth behind this online community.
Are Jeff and Shaleia Divine still on YouTube?
Video footage of group leaders Jeff and Shaleia and their popular YouTube Channel is used — it heightens their repetitive language and their responses to people’s questions and personal topics.
I think they’re rather creepy and freakishly over-the-top, but I can see how they were able to charm people into following and working for them for free.
The group remains active to this day, so if you fancy giving them a watch, you can do so on YouTube. However, please watch this documentary as it will show you how this couple is dangerous — not qualified for any of their so-called teachings. They haven’t done anything illegal yet, but morally, these two people are very manipulative and cruel.
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