Jeff told her that only she could fix herself. She felt afraid to receive Jeff’s guidance, she explained, because most of her past experiences of love were followed by pain. He sounded far away, and there was occasionally a lag and crackle, but he scrutinized her through the screen. “How do you feel?” Jeff asked over Google Hangouts. If it was, why was she still alone? Jeff didn’t answer that question, at least directly. She wanted to know if any of the love she experienced was real. The following spring, Katie paid Jeff for a private coaching session.
The appeal of Twin Flames Universe was that you could have what Jeff and Shaleia apparently had, what Shaleia called “a deeper level of oneness,” a Harmonious Twin Flame Union. Subscriptions to the full run of this therapeutic reality show, and its offshoots, currently cost $4,444. Students shared their relationship problems while Jeff and Shaleia extracted sublime truths about their hopes and traumas. They also had a private Facebook group, which currently has more than 14,000 members, and classes on Google Hangouts four times a week. Their videos attracted tens of thousands of views-occasionally more than 150,000.
