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Ramtha is an entity that JZ Knight, an American self-described spiritual medium, claims to channel. According to Knight, Ramtha was a Lemurian warrior who fought the Atlantians over 35,000 years ago.[1] Ramtha is said to have led an army of over 2.5 million across the continents, conquering two thirds of the known world, which was going through cataclysmic geological changes. According to Knight, Ramtha led the army for ten years until he was betrayed and almost killed. Ramtha (Arabic: الرمثا) is a town in northwestern Jordan, near the border with Syria. ...
Judy Z. Knight (born Judith Darlene Hampton on March 16, 1946, in Roswell, New Mexico) is a self-proclaimed spiritual medium as well as the CEO of JZK, Inc. ...
In spirituality, a medium or spirit medium (plural mediums) is an individual who possesses the ability to receive messages from spirits (discorporate entities), or claims that he or she can channel such entities — that is, write or speak in the voice of these entities rather than in the mediums...
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Knight further claims that Ramtha spent the next seven years in isolation recovering and observing nature, among other things. He later mastered many skills, including foresight and out-of-body experiences, until he led his army to the Indus River while in his late seventies. Ramtha taught them everything he knew for 120 days, until he ascended before them. He made a promise to his army that he would come back to teach them again, and so he appeared to JZ Knight in 1977 to re-educate the "forgotten gods", those who had forgotten themselves and their divinity. An out-of-body experience (OBE or sometimes OOBE), is an experience that typically involves a sensation of floating outside of ones body and, in some cases, perceiving ones physical body from a place outside ones body (autoscopy). ...
The Indus River (Urdu: Sindh; Sindhi: Sindhu; Sanskrit and Hindi: सिनà¥à¤§à¥ ; Persian: Øندو ; Pashto: ّآباسنFather of Rivers; Tibetan: Lion River; Chinese: Yìndù; Greek: Ινδός Indos) is the longest and most important river in Pakistan and one of the most important rivers on the Indian subcontinent and has given the country India its...
Ramtha's Teachings
Ramtha is the central figure (the "master teacher") of Ramtha's School of Enlightenment (RSE), a school started by JZ Knight in 1987 in Yelm, Washington. Classes (or "dialogues") had been held around the world for the previous ten years. A central theme of Ramtha's teachings involve the internalization of divinity (God is in Us, You are God, Behold God, etc.). Ramtha is described as having brought his knowledge to many ancient civilizations in the world such as the Ancient Egyptians. The website also suggests that traces of the lineage of the original teachings and philosophies he taught 35,000 years ago have appeared throughout history in the schools of philosophers like Socrates and Duke Logan, religions like Hinduism, and the works of great minds such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. The organization known as Ramthas School of Enlightenment [[1]] is based in a small rural town called Yelm, in Washington state in the United States. ...
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In Ramtha's system of thought, the material world — the densest plane of existence — and the physical body are never regarded as evil, undesirable, or intrinsically bad. A dualistic interpretation of reality typically found in the gnostic traditions — emphasizing the struggle between good and evil, light and darkness, sin and righteousness — is excluded in Ramtha's system of thought. What becomes an undesirable condition is to remain in a state of ignorance or denial as to our true nature and destiny. Gnosticism is a blanket term for various religions and sects most prominent in the first few centuries A.D. General characteristics The word gnosticism comes from the Greek word for knowledge, gnosis (γνῶσις), referring to the idea that there is special, hidden mysticism (esoteric knowledge...
The four cornerstones of Ramtha's philosophy are:
1. The statement 'You are God'
2. The directive to make known the unknown
3. The concept that consciousness and energy create the nature of reality
4. The challenge to conquer yourself
Ramtha's Nature When Knight claims she is channelling Ramtha, she speaks only English, although in an accented and sometimes simplistic way and has expressed confusion about modern items ("What is a carrot?") while also professing intimate knowledge of worldly affairs and conspiracies. [1]
Controversy
Court cases JZ Knight has been involved in several court disputes, some personal (her divorce from Jeff Knight) and others business-related, for example, one involving the dissemination of material containing the copyrighted Ramtha. [2] In Knight vs. Knight, 1992-1995, Jeff Knight alleges that he lost years of his life by postponing modern medical treatment for his HIV infection, due to advice from his wife that Ramtha could heal him — he died before he could appeal the court's decision against him.[3] Another case, in Austria, involved a Berlin woman who also claimed to channel Ramtha. The Austrian Supreme court decided that JZ Knight was the only person with the sole trademark and copyright license for the name Ramtha and its associated teachings.[4]
Skeptics There are many skeptics of Ramtha and JZ Knight's channeling abilities.
Most books regarding Ramtha and RSE come from JZK Publishing, one of the several companies started by JZ Knight. Other books somewhat sympathetic to Ramtha like Finding Enlightenment: Ramtha's School of Ancient Wisdom (See Literature section) have ties to RSE in other ways. J. Gordon Melton, the author of Finding Enlightenment, testified for JZ Knight in a 1992 court case against her former husband Jeffrey Knight. Dr. John Gordon Melton is the founding director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and is a research specialist with the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. ...
James Randi, a famous skeptic, criticised JZ Knight for charging people $700 to attend a retreat on how to become rich and, tongue-in-cheek, suggested that the advice was likely on how to fake channelling [5]. James Randi (born August 7, 1928), stage name The Amazing Randi, is a stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. ...
Film The movie What the Bleep Do We Know!? is also a source of controversy involving Ramtha. Critics of the film describe it as pseudoscientific fiction and not the documentary it claims to be. JZ Knight appears to be "channelling" Ramtha in the film as an example of alleged connections between ancient spiritual beliefs and new discoveries in quantum physics. Two of the three directors of the film are admitted students of RSE. What the Bleep Do We Know!? (also written What tнe⃗ #$*! D⃗ө ωΣ (k)πow!? and What the #$*! Do We Know!?) is a controversial 2004 film that combines documentary interviews and a fictional narrative to posit a connection between science and spirituality based upon the Ramthas School of Enlightenment of...
JZ Rose JZ Knight's online store has been criticized for selling products not connected with JZK's spiritual teaching. The store sells kitchen utensils, women's apparel, cosmetic products and pet supplies, among other products. The "About Us" section of the online store mentions that: JZ Knight is the President and owner of JZ ROSE, formerly The Outback Boutique, a treasure chest in the countryside of Washington State that offers vintage style gifts and collectibles, home furnishings, fine antiques and everything beautiful.
Literature Ramtha was one of the more popular channelled entities during the New Age explosion of the '80s in America and was figured in Shirley MacLaine's book Dancing in the Light, amongst others. The book Finding Enlightenment: Ramtha's School of Ancient Wisdom (J. Gordon Melton, 1998, ISBN 1-885223-61-7) describes Ramtha's Teachings and RSE. The book was written after several years' study of the school, its environs, and the school's body of teachings. It was presented as balanced and accurate research by a religious scholar, but this claim has come under attack by others as biased and incomplete.[6] There have been over 120 books and 40 DVDs released by RSE, JZK Inc. or independently in the past twenty-five years [7]. Shirley MacLaine (born April 24, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning American film and theatre actress, well-known not only for her acting, but for her devotion to her belief in reincarnation and aliens. ...
Spoofs In the comic strip Doonesbury the Californian airhead character Boopsie forms a Ramtha-like cult in Malibu centered on her supposed "channeling" of an Atlantean warlord spirit named Lord Hunk-Ra. Doonesbury is a comic strip by Garry Trudeau, popular in the United States and other parts of the world. ...
Boopsie (aka Barbara Ann Boopstein) is a character in the comic strip Doonesbury. ...
Location of Malibu in Los Angeles County, California Coordinates: , Country State County Los Angeles Incorporated (city) 1991-03-28 [2] Government - Mayor Jeff Jennings [1] Area - Total 100. ...
The 1992 video game Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis features a JZ Knight-style charlatan "psychic" character named Sophia Hapgood. She claims to channel an Atlantean named Nur-Ab-Sal, "who guides my thoughts." Her stage presentations about Atlantis conclude with lighting effects and a prop ghost on a rope rig. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is a graphical adventure game, originally released in 1992 and published by LucasArts. ...
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Edgar Cayce (1877 – 1945) was one of the best-known American psychics of the 20th century and made many highly publicized predictions. ...
Sophia Hapgood as seen in Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine Sophia Hapgood is a fictional character in the game Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. ...
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References - ^ Colin Groves in Skeptical - a Handbook of Pseudoscience and the Paranormal, ed Donald Laycock, David Vernon, Colin Groves, Simon Brown, Imagecraft, Canberra, 1989, ISBN 0731657942, p16
Dr Donald Don Laycock, was a graduate of Newcastle University, NSW, Australia and later worked as a researcher at Adelaide University in Anthropology. ...
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Dr Colin Groves is a Professor of Biological Anthropology at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. ...
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