Twin Flames & Love Has Won: A Culty Double Feature
Be There in Five
Kate Kennedy
4.8 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2023
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Summary
This week, we have a classic BTI5 deep dive about two cult documentaries Kate watched this week, Escaping Twin Flames and Love Has Won. She feels confusion and rage galore as she explores each organization’s core values, quirks, tactics, scandals, and leaders to try and understand what it means to be a believer in someone who, despite having objectively zero charisma or appeal, manages to gain control of your entire existence. She also examines details she felt were left out of Love Has Won, such as the contents of their curriculum, untold stories of people left out in the desert to die, and why she feels like it makes no sense that Miguel/Michael put the money in the bag and he stole the keys, and no one’s asking questions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody welcome back to the Be Therein Five Podcast. I'm Kate Kennedy, your |
| 0:16.7 | host another day another pop culture hyper fixation. You know I love a cult documentary and this week I |
| 0:28.2 | watched two three-part series that I think a lot of you have watched. |
| 0:33.4 | Sash, I'd recommend you probably watch them before listening to this, |
| 0:36.4 | but I'll try to give enough background to refresh your memory |
| 0:41.2 | or enough context if you haven't seen them but paired with commentary |
| 0:44.3 | and ancillary research so it's not too redundant. One is called Love Has |
| 0:49.3 | One on HBO Max and the other is called escaping Twin Flames on Netflix and that |
| 0:57.1 | called has another doc on Prime that came out recently a la the Firefest |
| 1:02.2 | rubric of dueling documentaries. |
| 1:04.7 | And speaking of Firefest, I mean, that documentary was like textbook, |
| 1:10.1 | shot in Freida, where other people's misfortune or poor decision-making is kind of a comedic spectacle. |
| 1:16.6 | And I think with cults, it's a bit tricky because some of their beliefs are so |
| 1:24.4 | incomprehensible ridiculous. It's fun to joke about and I will. But on the other hand, it's |
| 1:30.9 | legitimately sad why people pursue these gurus and predatory |
| 1:36.8 | organizations that end up controlling and then ruining their life. |
| 1:41.4 | But I love talking about them because I think they get it |
| 1:45.3 | something deeper about our society. I think there's something really scary |
| 1:51.9 | about how easily these things are |
| 1:54.8 | platformed and how you can find them or they can find you in a vulnerable state. |
| 1:59.8 | Actually recently I was doing one of my quarterly rituals which is watching all the |
| 2:07.2 | clips of the hot priest from Fleabag on YouTube and I came across this famous monologue that Fleet Bag does and I was like, |
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