Keely Griffin on Twin Flames & Other Dumpster Fires

A Little Bit Culty

Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames

True Crime, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

A Little Bit Culty – Speaking of soul-crushing scams that exploit the basic human need for love and belonging, we’ve got a doozy of a Valentine’s Day episode for you. We’re not labeling the organization at the heart of this episode a cult, but we are asking our guest Keely Griffin if loving and leaving Twin Flames Universe was the bad trip that reports published by Vanity Fair, Vice, and Daily Mail make it sound. Once a devotee of TFU, Keely shares what made the YouTubey, Facebooky spiritual community sound promising at first, just how quickly it went to the Upside Down, and how she’s coming back from the whole shitshow now that she’s out of its grips. Oh and just FYI, the list of what TFU officially disputes about its bad press practically writes our show notes for us: They dispute that they promote harassment and stalking. They dispute that they engage in exploitative and cult-like practices. They dispute that they coerce members into changing their gender. A Little Bit Culty, on the other hand, does not dispute that the whole TFU vibe makes us want to throw up in our mouths a little bit. Happy Freakin’ Valentine’s Day. ~ The views and opinions expressed on A Little Bit Culty do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, business individual, anyone or anything. ~ A Little Bit Culty is proud to support the #IGOTOUT project, which empowers survivors of cultic abuse to share their stories online as a catalyst for education, prevention, and healing. Learn more at igotout.org ~ For more information on A Little Bit Culty and co-hosts Sarah Edmondson and Nippy “Anthony” Ames, visit our official website at alittlebitculty.com. Follow us on Instagram & Twitter @alittlebitculty ~ CREDITS: Executive Producers: Sarah Edmondson & Anthony Ames. Production Partner: Citizens of Sound. Producer: Will Retherford Associate Producer: Jess Tardy Theme Song: “Cultivated” by Jon Bryant co-written with Nygel Asselin Additional Music Score by Will Retherford Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The views and opinions expressed by a little bit culty are those of the hosts
0:04.1	and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast.
0:08.1	Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors
0:12.1	are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion,
0:15.8	group, club, organization, business individual, anyone or anything.
0:19.8	Hey everybody, I'm Sarah Edminton.
0:31.7	And I'm Anthony Ames aka Nippy.
0:34.0	And we just want to welcome you to season three of a little bit culty.
0:38.6	Once upon a time we were in a cult called Nexium.
0:41.9	We didn't know it was a cult when we joined because as a wise man what said,
0:46.2	nobody joins a cult. They joined a good thing.
0:48.7	For a minute it was a good thing. That's where we met, fell in love, got married,
0:52.6	started a family. The stuff of story books.
0:55.6	Even the part where we woke up escaped, became whistleblowers and helped bring it all down.
0:59.7	You call that shitcho a story book? Seeing the mastermind of Nexium gets sentenced to 120 years in prison,
1:05.2	that's a story book ending if you ask me. The whole thing was captured on HBO's Hit Docu
1:10.0	series The Val. A new season is coming out any moment if it isn't now already by the time you
1:14.9	hear this. And I published a memoir called Scarred, which is available anywhere books are sold.
1:19.6	And now we have a podcast. Every week on a little bit culty we call on experts, advocates,
1:24.5	fellow survivors and whistleblowers to help us unpack what's going on in the cult of us.
1:29.3	And now we're turning our story into wisdom for other people.
1:32.0	Like I wish I'd known that calling yourself Vanguard was a bit of a red flag.
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