Ramtha is the name of an entity that JZ Knight claims to channel. JZ Knight (and Ramtha) claim that Ramtha is a being who lived on Earth 35,000 years ago and was a Lemurian warrior who raised an army and fought against the tyrants of the times, the Atlatians, and led an army of over 2.5 million across the continents, conquering 2/3's of the known world, which were going through cataclysmic earth changes at that time. According to his teachings, he led the army for ten years until he was betrayed and almost killed. He spent the next seven years in isolation recovering, observing nature, amongst many other things. He later mastered many skills, including foresight and out-of-body experiences, until he led his army to the Indus river, when now in his late seventies, he taught them everything he knew for 120 days, before 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

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 although classes (or "dialogues") had been held around the country and 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 Socrates and Plato, religions like Hinduism, and the works of great minds such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.

Controversy

Court cases

J.Z. Knight and Ramtha has been involved in several court disputes, some personal (her divorce from Jeff Knight) and others business, for example, one involving the dissemination of material containing the copyrighted Ramtha. Another in

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 J.Z. Knight in a 1992 court case against her former husband Jeffery Knight.

Other skeptics point to Ramtha's story as proof that he does not exist. Ramtha claims to come from the continent of Lemuria and to have conquered Atlantis (what he terms as "Atlatia", which was only one of several major civilizations at his time he claims). The existence of either location is unproven.

Film

The movie What the #$*! Do We Know!? is also a major source of controversy involving Ramtha and many other scientists. Critics of the film describe it as a pseudoscientific fiction and not the documentary and scientifically based film it projects. JZ Knight appears briefly "channelling" Ramtha in the film to reinforce the apparent connections between ancient spiritual beliefs and new discoveries in quantum physics. The three directors of the film are admitted students of RSE.

Literature

Ramtha, one of the more popular channelled entities during the New Age explosion of the 80's in America 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 a several years study of the school, it's environs and the school's body of teachings. It was presented as a balanced and accurate research by a religious scholar, but this claim has come under attack by others as biased and incomplete. There have been over 120 books and 40 DVDs released by RSE, JZK Inc. or independently in the past twenty-five years .

References

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