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(NewsNation) — A erstwhile subordinate of Twin Flames Universe says she’s relieved to larn the Michigan-based spiritual organization, which was profiled successful a Netflix docuseries, is nether probe by authorities and national authorities.
“I consciousness truthful validated for instrumentality enforcement to beryllium taking this seriously, and I deliberation that it’s a truly large measurement successful the close absorption to getting justice,” Keely Griffin, who near Twin Flames Universe 4 years ago, told “Banfield” connected Thursday.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel this week announced her office, the Michigan State Police and the U.S. Department of Labor-Office of Inspector General, were among agencies that executed hunt warrants connected 2 residences associated with Twin Flames Universe. She described the radical arsenic a “largely online enactment … that allegedly uses coercive power implicit its members, some successful Michigan and crossed the United States.”
Nessel said her bureau believes “many of their actions whitethorn person been illegal.” She urged anyone with accusation astir the radical and its leaders, Jeff and Shaleia Divine, to interaction her office.
Twin Flames Universe has romantically paired people, for a fee. Former members person said the enactment exerted cultlike power implicit its followers.
“Jeff and Shaleia person an enactment that’s cleanable for exploiting peoples’ weaknesses oregon vulnerabilities due to the fact that it’s each centered astir sharing your astir deepest secrets and your traumas, and they assertion that they tin heal those things,” Griffin said. “Instead, present they cognize your weakness and they tin usage it against you.”
In immoderate cases, she said, enactment coerced members to alteration their genders and intersexual orientations.
“Unfortunately, determination person been members that person undergone superior surgeries due to the fact that of their alleged ‘guidance,’” she said.
Cecilia Peck, who directed the three-part Netflix amusement “Escaping Twin Flames,” said she helped erstwhile members get successful interaction with prosecutors successful Michigan.
“That led to the hunt warrants and this ceremonial investigation. And so, it conscionable indicates that they took the experiences of the erstwhile members precise seriously,” Peck, who besides directed the 2020 docuseries “Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult,” told “Banfield.”
Twin Flames Universe did not respond to a petition for comment, but successful a connection earlier this year, the enactment denied allegations it mistreated members, saying it is simply a “community founded connected emotion and communal respect.”
