6/10
Interesting Story of a Cult/Pyramid Scheme
20 February 2024
"Escaping Twin Flames" is a mostly engrossing mini docuseries consisting of multiple first-person accounts of people who were exploited and manipulated by Jeff and Shaleia Divine.

As to the positives, the story is told in a manner that will want to make you continue watching, and it unfolds at a good pace that increases in tension as the amount of manipulation and control increases on the people who were fooled and taken advantage of. Those people interviewed who were involved in the cult and left are extremely compelling, honest, and emotional in a shocking and fascinating way.

The downsides are that the final episode of the three lacks much finalization, lacks as much tension and interest as the first two episodes, and also relies on interviews with a screwball 'Dr.' Cassius Adair. This person is some sort of so-called advocate to the trans-community, and while he rightfully criticizes the Divines' manipulation of people to undergo trans surgeries, he then completely exposes his own agenda. Dr. Adair has profited and benefited entirely in his career by pushing and forcing his own beliefs on other people, in a manner not as far from the Divines as you might think: like most on the far left and the so-called trans advocate side (I say so-called because exactly zero of their policies have ever been proven to improve the trans community, and several have measurably been negative on the trans community and society at large) he has encouraged aggressive propaganda on confused teenagers to pressure them into life-altering surgeries, participated in bullying the American Psychological Association into accepting laughably unscientific views on gender, denied basic biology (every single cell in a human body has either an XX or XY chromosome), denied sexual dimorphism and attempted to destroy women's sports, and has ignored all of human evolution and history in regards to gender/sex (yes, they are the same thing). It has become an unfortunate trend to give these kind of junk scientists platforms on the incorrect claim of compassionate understanding, but it has gone past the point of being a joke into the realm of legitimate danger.
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