Ramtha's School of Enlightenment

Ramtha's School of Enlightenment

centre, Washington, U.S.
      centre in rural Washington state for the study of the teachings of Ramtha, a spiritual being who is purportedly “channeled” by—i.e., speaks through the mediumship of—the school's leader, JZ Knight. Ramtha's school draws more than 3,000 students from more than 20 countries.

      Knight, originally known as Judith Hampton, was born in 1946. She dropped out of business school and worked in the cable television industry before she began her career as a channeler. According to Knight, Ramtha first appeared to her in 1977 and shortly thereafter began to speak through her. During the early 1980s, she emerged as the most successful channeler within the burgeoning New Age movement. In 1988 she founded Ramtha's School of Enlightenment at rural Yelm, Wash., where Ramtha's most serious students could gather to learn the spiritual exercises that he suggested would lead to their enlightenment.

      According to Knight, Ramtha is a 35,000-year-old conqueror-warrior from the lost continent of “Lemuria” who found enlightenment during a period of forced rest following an assassination attempt. After his enlightenment, he ascended to a new level of existence, and he has returned to share his wisdom. Ramtha's teachings follow the Western esoteric, or gnostic (Gnosticism), tradition, which views humans as divine entities who came from the spiritual realm but have become trapped in this world. Enamoured of this world, they have forgotten who they are. The practices of the school are designed to awaken individuals to the fact of their divine origin.

      During the late 1980s, Knight and the school were embroiled in controversy. Critics accused her of manipulating her students with images of a fearful future, a reference to Ramtha's insistence that his followers prepare themselves for imminent natural and economic calamities. More crucial were charges that Knight was a fraud who faked Ramtha's appearances. These charges were largely laid to rest in 1997 after Knight submitted to a series of psychological tests that indicated that her trance state was genuine and that her channeling activity was not symptomatic of mental or emotional illness.

Additional Reading
Ramtha (JZ Knight), A Beginner's Guide to Creating Reality: An Introduction to Ramtha and His Teachings (1997), is an introduction to the school by its founder. Stanley Krippner, Ian Wickramasekera, Judy Wickramasekera, and Charles W. Winnstead III, “The Ramtha Phenomenon: Psychological, Phenomenological, and Geomagnetic Data,” The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 92, 1, pp. 1–24 (January 1998), is a study of students of the school. J. Gordon Melton, Finding Enlightenment: Ramtha's School of Ancient Wisdom (1998), is a valuable discussion.

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