Ramtha (JZ Knight)

Judy Z. Knight (Judith Darlene Hampton), 1946 USA

JZ Knight

Associated Organizations

• Ramtha's School of Enlightenment (RSE)
• Ramtha's Gnostic School
• The American Gnostic School
• JZK Inc
• JZK Publishing

Associated Terms

• Ramtha
• 35,000-year old ascended warrior
• Atlantean warrior king
• out-of-body
• Lemuria
• Ascended Master
• Chanelling
• What the #$*! Do We Know!?
• What the Bleep Do We Know!?

Doctrines:

Where does Ramtha come from?

Ramtha has been commonly referred to in the media as a 35,000 year-old warrior from the lost continent of Atlantis. Some have referred to him as a Neanderthal or Cro-Magnon man due to the time period. This is not entirely the case. In Ramtha's cosmology, he very boldly states that mankind has been in existence a lot longer than the current conventional view held by science and that in fact mankind is millions of years old and that very advanced civilizations coexisted with lesser ones.

-Source: RSE FAQ

What is an ascended master?

An ascended master is one who learns to become one with the godhead. Through their experiences and/or study, they overcome the limitations of the human experience. Their bodies actually begin to vibrate at a high rate of speed, a vibrational frequency that is one of universal and unconditional love.  When a great being "ascends," he or she actually takes their body into a frequency and dimension that vibrates more rapidly than the human eye can see. They literally take their bodies with them.

-Source: RSE FAQ

The Great Work

The Great Work of Ramtha's teachings is literally manifesting dreams and desires. In essence, the Great Work requires reaching maximum potential of the mind. The key to manifestations lies in the cerebrum, which, according to Ramtha, has the power to make dreams a reality. In the past, humans would hold a dream or desire in their mind, and it would manifest. Today, humans play a passive role to manifestations. They absorb the world around them in their mind, and this then becomes reality. In a sense, they are trapped in the present reality. Ramtha desires to teach students the power to manifest any desire and make known the unknown.

-Source: New Religions Web Site

Self Claims

"No religion wants to acknowledge my time because it was the time of the Gods, before Jehovah. If Jehovah would have lived in my time, he wouldn't have stood a chance."

"So you love something and you are listening to something that is older than Moses and older than Abraham. You are listening to the first God who understood how to ascend, a human being that was never a cross with that which is termed the Atlatians but a pure stalk of an Atlatian group that used us as slaves, the true heritage being Lemurian. Those who came from beyond the North Star are the giants that are buried in myth, that one day they will rise up again. Don't you know that the giants who come out of the Earth are part of me? I am a giant rising up from the grave of antiquity to deliver truth that will bring the world into chaos and to help create a new paradigm to which all people can celebrate not their heritage but their spiritual history."

-Source: "Rising up from the grave of antiquity to deliver truth" Pamphlet

JZ Knight has also successfully enforced her copyright on Ramtha in the Austrian Supreme court in 1997, preventing a woman from making claims of channeling Ramtha.

-Source: The Guardian (6/1997)

Fees:

RSE charges thousands for a few days of group activities and a Ramtha apearance on stage.

Reportedly, Knight also charges undisclosed  large amounts for individual consultations.

Conclusion:

In general, the doctrine of RSE is a part of the New Age milieu, containing such standard elements as, you create your own reality and physical immortality. The elements that have been described as "Gnostic" seem to be involved with the complex cosmology and mythology of Ramtha, and do not seem to have any real influence on the nature of RSE's doctrine.

Ramtha asserts that hell and the devil were "created through religious dogma for the purpose of intimidating the masses into a controllable organization." And yet within the same world-view needing to believe in a channeled 35000 year old Lemurian warrior king turned "ascended master" is not dogma, doesn't require faith, but is "Gnosis." Another attempt to cloak authoritarian dogma behind a word most people are not familiar with.

The possible use of the term "Gnosticism" as a description of some of RSE's doctrines is likely from an article by J. Gordon Melton in Gnosis magazine. This resulted in a late (and from our view, unfortunate) addition of the word "Gnostic" to the Ramtha/Knight teachings.

Even approached from a standpoint that accepts Knight's claims about her experiences with Ramtha, there is no reason to believe any of the Ramtha claims and many reasons not to do so.

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