Twin Flames: Finding Your Ultimate Lover by Jeff Divine and Shaleia Divine
Season 1 is barely in the history books, and its time to start Season 2 with our first episode. As a celebration of all the Pieces of Shit we’ve read, we’re hosting an official Poo-litzer Prize Awards Banquet where we review the worst stuff we read in the first 10 episodes.
Following that, we dive into Twin Flames: Finding Your Ultimate Lover by Jeff and Shaleia Divine, the introductory text of a romance business-turned-religion that has faced widespread allegations of financial predation and abuse alongside pressuring clients into gender transition through manufactured spiritual mandates.
We’re also going to post a People’s Choice Award to the subreddit – keep your eyes out for that and be sure to cast your ballot for the worst of the worst.
Twin Flameout: Book Review
If you’re anything like us, you’ve felt that moment of longing, that hope for love and affection. That desire to meet your soulmate and dance off into the sunset. But it never works out the way it does in Hollywood, and many of us are left floundering.
Well, this week’s piece of shit book is here to address that problem, and guarantees that it will help you find your soulmate, or “Twin Flame” and to establish a “harmonious union.” In their book “Twin Flames: Finding Your Ultimate Lover”, written by Jeff and Shaleia Divine. The good news is that everyone has a twin flame in the world, and the better news is that Jeff is a “Divine Channel” able to help you identify who is your twin flame. All you have to do is give them tens of thousands of dollars and attend their online courses and work for their soulless company for free, while victimizing and bullying your fellow group members.
This book is tough to get through; it’s a mishmash of various religious and spiritual commentary. There is a mother-father god. A sun god. There’s UFOs. There’s Jesus, and also new-and-improved New Jesus (by the way, Jeff might think he’s Jesus). There are some really bad love poems. But that’s not even the worst part of the book.
It’s hard to identify what is the worst thing about the book itself. Largely written by Jeff, it’s surprising how often he insults his wife. He informs us that she isn’t good looking, and she’s not exactly a “model.” He tells her he doesn’t like her as a person. All the while, he praises himself as being extremely intelligent, capable and gifted. There’s the really lame “signs to look for” in your Twin Flame, and nine signs of a false flame (one of which is simply “they are not who you are looking for.”) Perhaps the worst part of the book is the testimony written by Colby and Keely, a couple that Jeff claims are proof of his success. I guess if he writes a sequel to this book, Jeff might want to mention that Colby and Keely divorced, and Keely is now the Twin Flames biggest critic, publicizing the worst actions of the group widely.
And the hurt Jeff and Shaleia caused is very real. They target vulnerable, lonely people (mostly women) and siphon tens of thousands of dollars from them. They have given themselves the ability to determine someone’s “divine” gender, and have pressured people into transitioning who might not have wanted to. People who have joined their groups have been drained of their savings, forced to sever ties with family, and some even sadly lost their lives to loneliness and depression.
And through all this, Jeff is smug and unpleasant. His videos on YouTube brag about how much money he makes, showing off his new cars or his large house in rural Michigan. He has to be one of the most detestable people the PSBC has come across.
Review by Beau Dashington
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