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https://www.ramtha.com/content/aboutus.aspx:
Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment, created by Ramtha the Enlightened One, is an academy of the mind that offers retreats and workshops to people of all ages and cultures.
Using ancient wisdom and the latest discoveries in neuroscience and quantum physics, RSE offers retreats and workshops and teaches students of all ages and cultures how to access the extraordinary abilities of the brain to “Become a Remarkable Life®.”
https://www.instagram.com/ramthas_school/?hl=en
Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment is an academy of the mind that offers retreats and workshops to people of all ages and cultures.
https://www.facebook.com/RamthasSchool
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramtha%27s_School_of_Enlightenment:
Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment (RSE) is an American spiritual sect near the rural town of Yelm, Washington, U.S. The school was established in 1988 by J. Z. Knight, who claims to channel a 35,000-year-old being called Ramtha the Enlightened One. The school’s teachings are based on these channeling sessions.
Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment has been called a cult by various people, including her former husband Jeff Knight,[17] former personal bodyguard Glen Cunningham,[10] former students of the school (such as David McCarthy[5] or Joe Szimhart[11]), and skeptic Michael Shermer.[18] Melton’s book, which denies the school’s status as a cult,[13] has been criticized for siding with the school and not providing a neutral description of what is going on within the school. He has also been called a “cult apologist” by various opposers of cults. His position was further criticized when he took the stand as a witness in the case of Knight v. Knight (1992–1995) against Jeff Knight (JZ Knight’s husband at the time), by further supporting that the school is not a cult.[11]
https://www.ramtha.com/prophecies/
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ramtha:
Ramtha is presented as a Lemurian warrior who fought the Atlantians over 35,000 years ago and who is appearing today as a spiritual teacher channeled by an American woman, JZ Knight, leading the Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment.
https://artvoice.com/2019/06/25/woman-claims-she-was-sexually-abused-as-child-after-ramtha-wine-ceremonies/:
What Is Ramtha?
J. Z. Knight, 73, leads a group of followers who believe she channels a 35,000 year old ghost [or spirit] who is named Ramtha.
https://culteducation.com/oldserverbackups/www/web/group/1113-ramtha-school-of-enlightenment/17846-disillusioned-former-students-target-ramtha-.html:
Among the controversies:
Attacks and criticism by former students. In a year-old Web site, http://www.enlightenmefree.com, some former students say they are disillusioned with the school, which they assert did not deliver on its promises. Some of the students who still live in Thurston County formed a group, Life After Ramtha School of Enlightenment, or LARSE, and held public meetings to address what they charge were fear- generating teachings and wild predictions, designed to foster obedience at the school.
They also have alleged that the school practiced “brainwashing” and cult-like activities. School officials deny the accusations.
http://souththurstonjournal.com/2016/04/jz-knights-rules-of-murder-hate-and-fear/2/:
Thurston County Assessor Steven Drew stated in 2013 that he would send his employees to enter and inspect the underground bunkers of JZ Knight’s RSE sovereignist followers in the Yelm area.
http://skepdic.com/ramtha.html
According to Knight, the four cornerstones of Ramtha’s philosophy are:
the statement, ‘You are god’;
the mandate to make known the unknown;
the concept that consciousness and energy creates [sic] the nature of reality;
the challenge to conquer yourself.
The first statement is ubiquitous in the New Age literature and owes its origin to the mystical notion that all is one. The second and fourth are banal commonplaces, and the third is the basis of the New Thought movement of the 19th century that has been resurrected many times in various positive-thinking movements such as The Secret.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LPOTL/comments/7zim4g/has_anyone_heard_of_ramthas_school_of/
yes she(?) was behind the extremely popular “documentary” called “What the $@#$ do we know?” in the early 00s starring marlee matlin. it purported to be a documentary on quantum physics but was basically just about woo and nonsense funded by the ramtha cult.
I remember that shit. Used to be on tv all he time and I’m pretty sure you can still find it on netflix.
I could never get more than 10 minutes into it. I usually love batshit crazy things, but that one was just flat out stupid
I bring your attention to Elizabeth Claire Prophet
Oh yeah! Used to live in Olympia, we drove by that place all the time to go see family. Kind of cool, all the fence posts are capped with what looks like copper for some reason. Dad used to say that she thought she was possessed by the spirit of a ten thousand year old samurai, which raised a bunch of questions for me.
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2014/ramtha-riled
Knight vehemently objects to her school being labeled as a cult, which she considers another four-letter word. She says she’s tired after 38 years of channeling Ramtha, and plans to retire from the business side of things and write books.
By all appearances, that doesn’t mean she’s planning to go easy on Coverdale and McCarthy. “Those tapes were illegal from the get-go, and that they were distributed, edited and chopped to make us look like bigots and hateful people when nothing could be further from the truth, nothing!” she charges. “I will not let other people rewrite our history!”
Coverdale, for her part, is not backing down. “Although admittedly, as a rule, the cult does not have as one of its ideologies hating Mexicans or Jewish people or gay people or Catholics, J.Z. Knight herself is proving she does as her [drinking] increases and she is unable to keep up the love act she had going in the ’80s. It is beyond hate speech,” Coverdale says.
“In America, there are many First Amendment rights I agree with, even if I disagree with what is being said. Where I get concerned is when you have a large group of people that believe they are hearing from a powerful enlightened entity, creating an ‘us versus them’ situation.”
https://artvoice.com/2019/07/16/is-j-z-knight-an-alcoholic/:
A former member of the Ramtha School of Enlightenment [RSE], who uses the moniker, “Sumbuddy,” has contributed a little more to our discussion on JZ Knight, the leader of the RSE.
As readers know, Knight says she is often possessed by the ghost of someone named Ramtha, who lived on earth 35,000 years ago.
Ramtha, it seems, loves wine and oftentimes Knight, when purportedly possessed by Ramtha, drinks a significant quantity of it.
Certainly, if Knight were to drive an automobile right after one of her Ramtha wine ceremonies, and was stopped by police, presupposing she couldn’t successfully explain that it was Ramtha, not her, that had consumed the wine, she would be arrested and thrown in the drunk tank. And probably lose her license.
While some people [and perhaps ghosts too] who drink too much wine dance on a table, or put a lampshade on their head, when Knight [as Ramtha] gets stinko, her ghost makes predictions.
https://frankreport.com/2019/06/26/j-z-knight-has-become-a-plastic-faced-drunk-in-her-seventies/
J. Z. Knight has become a plastic-faced drunk in her seventies, who has to be babysat by her inner circle of dumbasses, so that she doesn’t embarrass everyone in Washington State.
https://frankreport.com/2019/06/26/j-z-knight-has-become-a-plastic-faced-drunk-in-her-seventies/
After enough alcohol had permeated her system, JZ Ramaboozy started unleashing her rage against Mexican people, Jewish people, etc. Do not forget the non-heterosexuals. She got her claws into people of all kinds, come hell or high water. Her remarks were incredibly cruel, bitter, sarcastic and dissolute. Unaccountably, she also offered her hatred organic farmers.
https://www.alternet.org/2014/06/ramtha-new-age-cult-leader-unleashes-drunken-racist-homophobic-rants-large-following/
During the 16 or so hours the students spend in a spiritual drinking game (students must drink every time Ramtha/Knight does), Knight will disparage Catholics, gay people, Mexicans, organic farmers, and Jews.
“Fuck God’s chosen people! I think they have earned enough cash to have paid their way out of the goddamned gas chambers by now,” she says as members of the audience snicker. There are also titters when she declares Mexicans “breed like rabbits” and are “poison,” that all gay men were once Catholic priests, and that organic farmers have questionable hygiene.
These are not the kind of cosmic revelations that have drawn students to Knight for 38 years. For the most part, RSE students are thoughtful and well-educated, not apt to embrace a bigoted guru. For decades, the message had been more about finding the god within than disparaging minorities, and the blend of science and New Age Gnosticism made J.Z. Knight millions well before the drunken homophobic, anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic racist rants began to make their way into her preachings.
https://artvoice.com/2019/06/11/guest-view-ramtha-cult-is-bullshit-its-followers-potentially-dangerous/:
According to ex-Knight followers, rape was not that unusual at RSE—particularly after wine ceremonies.
https://q13fox.com/2014/04/18/shocking-allegations-from-jz-knight-follower/:
A spokesperson for JZ Knight denies she had followers drink lye and characterized the allegations as innuendo and hearsay. The group says Keay’s letter should never have become public.
http://www.enlightenmefree.com/:
WHAT IS ‘ENLIGHTEN ME FREE’ FOR? THE PURPOSE
Our primary purpose with this website is to provide an online support community. Within it we will provide space for educational information, opinion sharing, asking questions, and sharing of facts.
We welcome participation from people who have also been affected with doubts and possible harm from experiences connected to RSE.
EMF is independent and has no affiliations with JZK,Inc. or RSE.
To contact EMF email: enlightenmefree@gmail.com
19.57: neutral point of view = NPOV
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