#ramtha school of enlightenment

[spurgie-cousin]

scientology is such a good example of how being rich doesn't mean you're smart, like i think it's so important to remember how many wildly rich idiots there are out there.

someone really looked these people in the eyes, told them an elementary school level sci fi story, and they were like sounds good, here is my entire life and millions of dollars forever!!!

it's one thing if they were born into it but John Travolta? Idiot. Tom Cruise?? Such a moron that he found a way to weaponize that stupidity

#and no I'm not saying all people who join a cult are idiots bc it could truly happen to any of us #but these people have all the money and resources in the world and it just can be very hard to sympathize sometimes ya know #also my aunts cult which is arguably stupider yet attracting more and more celebs lately it's just like........are you serious #which if you're new here and wondering what I'm talking about look up Ramtha School of Enlightenment #and tell me that's not objectively the stupidest thing you have maybe ever heard #cults #scientology

[kosher-martian]

From a marketers' perspective, YouTube's advertisement system is completely busted.

If Bob is watching sports related videos, maybe show ads for sportswear, a sports bar chain, television / streaming packages, energy drinks, sports betting, or something of that variety.

If Susan is watching a cooking video, maybe show ads for cooking gadgets, a subscription service for healthy meals, or maybe a commercial for a baking competition show.

So what does YouTube show ol' Kosher Marty when I watch a video ranking Dunkin Donuts donut varieties? A Dunkin Donuts ad, right? It's a slam dunk! No? What about ads for Starbucks, or breakfast food restaurants (Denny's, IHOP, Waffle House), or just regular coffee brands (Folger's, Maxwell House, et al)? Nope.

... An advertisement for a New Age cult. Does the cult have any connection to Dunkin Donuts whatsoever? Not that I can tell and frankly if they do, I would be very concerned.

EDIT: The GIFS below this "keep reading" line might induce migraines or epileptic issues or just annoy your eyes. I'll tag accordingly. EDIT 2: Adjusting the tags to reflect helpful guidance from @photosensitive-despair. Removed the tags "cw epilepsy” & “tw epilepsy”, added "flashing lights", changed "cw eyestrain" and "tw eyestrain" to just "eyestrain", and removed all migraine tags following the suggestions outlined in Photosensitive Despair's outreach post. Thank you mod Kiko and Photosensitive Despair!

#dunkin donuts #Ramtha's School of Enlightenment #just in case you were wondering #america runs on ramtha #eyestrain #flashing lights

[spec-squared]

I just got a youtube ad for fucking "Ramtha's School of Enlightenment" talking about how "the select few" people who don't get diseases are because they CHOOSE not to get sick. the fact that people are still peddling these scams in 2023 is fucking disgusting.

#the wellness industry is a scam

[emma-what-son]

I think that some people are misunderstanding this JZ Knight stuff as some kind of cult under lock and key etc. YES, JZ Knight does run this Ramtha School of Enlightenment. I’m not sure how that works, in terms of living on the grounds etc.

BUT besides that, Knight is a very popular author of New Age books. She’s been in every mainstream bookstore in the US. She’s been interviewed on Larry King and other talk shows/news programs about being a medium etc. You can buy her books on Amazon right now. She’s got loads of recommendations for her books on GoodReads. She is not some clandestine secret.

I say this not to necessarily defend Emma, but just to give people perspective. Tons and tons of people have read JZ Knight’s books. Lots of people who have an interest in mediums and New Age practices have read her stuff or know about her at least. All these people are NOT part of a cult.

Having said that, JZ Knight may be an absolute garbage person in her personal life and to her inner circle and closest followers and family. She has a lot of shitty allegations against her, and usually that means there’s something not right there.

But lots of celebrities and public figures and politicians are terrible people in their personal lives, behind the scene, but they still sell products and fill seats in movie theaters, etc etc (woody Allen, Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson…)

I don’t know how involved Emma is with JZ Knight’s books and teachings, but it’s most likely she is not part of a cult in the way people are imagining. Emma likely has not done any background checking on Knight and just is intrigued by her books and teachings. I imagine that when you are a celebrity yourself, you might give others the benefit of the doubt when it comes to accusations, because you face them yourself. Plus, I think Emma just wouldn’t bother to research someone.

There's a difference though with reading her books and participating in a zoom call with her and her group. And you just know that, when people will hear about it, they will focus on the bad. Emma's haters will not need much to use this as a way to make her look bad.

[ramunitedkingdom]

'If we are Gods, it is up to no one to make us happy but ourself. If we are Gods, it is up to no one to give us love but ourself. When we do love that which we are, then the God reigns in us because God is a giver and not a taker. Then you can love unconditionally all people because you can love without the condition that they reciprocate. Why would you need reciprocation if it is already in you? This is ultimate freedom and this is ultimately how a master loves.'

'You have nothing to lose by loving yourself, only the past.'

- RAMTHA

From Ramtha, Who Are We Really? (Fireside Series Vol. 2, No. 5), JZK Publishing

#Ramtha #Ramtha's School of Enlightenment #Ramtha UK #jz knight #the meaning of Christmas #ancient wisdom #loveyourself

[batz]

do you have any games from your childhood you still rly like? mine is yoshi story, i was too young to play it myself at the time but i would watch my brother play it. yoshi is still one of my favourite characters to this day :')

OHHHH yoshi story good... cute game..

i LOVE american mcgees alice (the first one for pc, shitty graphics and all) the soundtrack is gorgeous and itd the first and ONLY time the whole 'what if alice in wonderland was EDGY' thing was done right. mostly bc theres at least a story to it, like its whimsical spooky gothic aesthetic but its also got substance. the sequel is good too but the topics are a bit too dark for me to REALLY get into it. the first game tho... i remember playing it when i was about 7 years old? my mom knew i was rlly big into horror so she pirated the game and let me play it. its got HUGE nostalgia value fr me. also the shitty graphics are SO GOOD and the set design and enemy designs SO GOOD and again the SOUNDTRACK is GORGEOUS. i luv it...

another one is mario forever which is a bootleg/fanmadr mario game iirc, and i specifically remember it for the 'secret' level that you could access thru the menu screen. the enemies there were SPOOKY they just looked rlly weird... they wrre like... people? instead of goombas? hard 2 explain. it was super crappy game but i was Obsessed with it hehe

ANOTHER one is peace city, but its more spooky (tw for mentions of c-lts). it was an online game, like second life, where u could chat with 'innovators and creatives and world changers'. my mom made me play it as a kid bc it was super well regulated and i got to talk online with physicists n shit!!! i was REALLY into space at the time so i loved it. i got to ask science questions and these real life ppl w phds n shit would teach me (dumbing it down ofc bc i WAS like. 8). sadly this game is completely lost. the whole c-lt thing comes in later when i was trying to find out more info about it and it was heavily tied to 'ramthas school of enlightenment', which explains some of the. weirder psuedo science stuff i was being taught. the website for peace city is creepy as hell too. just seems off. i miss the game tho i loved it so much. HFJDDHD

#frank.txt #SORRY I RAMBLED FHSJDHDDJ #but YEAH some of my fav games from my childhood!!!! #cult m

[cleverwordsandotherstuffilike]

Less conventional sources have offered their own explanations of creativity. In the film What the bleep do we know!?, Joe Dispenza, author, chiropractor and member of ‘Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment’, says, “The brain is made of tiny nerve cells called neurons. These neurons have tiny branches that reach out and connect to other neurons to form a neuro-net.” During a thought, electric impulses spark between the branches and the neuron receptor sites, like thunderbolts. Ideas and feelings are all constructed and interconnected in this neuro-net. Now although we rewire and re-integrate our neuro-nets on a daily basis, the way we do it becomes enormously habitual. As Dispenza says, “Nerve cells that fire together wire together.” Ideas and associations become so ingrained that we don’t even realize they are there. He suggests that by intense observation and conscious, consistent choice it is possible to interrupt and alter this habitual re-wiring process. “The brain,” he says, “Processes 400 billion bits of information per second but we’re only aware of 2000 of these.” So once the brain breaks free of its habitual patterns of thinking, once we begin to question basic assumptions, there is a whole new world to experience - our creative potential is unleashed.

[delunesnumberonefan]

As far as ascended beings in daosa, are they similar to/inspired by Ramtha’s school of enlightenment? In that belief system, there are ascended masters (Ramtha, aristotle, jesus, to name a few) who you can “channel” for guidance about how to reach an enlightened state and ascend to a higher plane of existence

oh domini, i think you vastly overestimate things in regards to the daosa universe

...gosh i actually feel a little embarrassed now. maybe i should change the name?? who knows.

anyway, ascended beings...they’re basically really big monsters who used to once be people?? it’s complicated

basically the magic system has this blip in it where people’s magic is working overtime to keep them alive, and their magic adapts them to the environment around them when the environment is especially harsh. well, ascended beings are when that magic adapts people to magic itself.

those people are called dormant ascended, they absorb any magic they come into contact with, but that magic has no way of being released, so it mutates them and eventually when their own innate magic can’t keep the foreign magic in check any longer it’s released in one painful, violent burst that is referred to as the “ascension process” and it basically turns people into really big really dangerous monsters

(old art, forgive me)

this is the first ascended i ever conceptualized and she’s high on my list of “ascended i would never like to meet”

so yeah!! that’s the ascended beings

#roselyn talks #asks #daosa #roselyn's art #gosh i feel....mmmm #body horror #faaavor-right

[wars-of-the-roses]

Bach Couple Update: Chris and Krystal just returned from a quick trip to Portland so they could attend an event by Dr. Joe Dispenza. Now, this guy claims, among other things, that he can train you to heal major diseases with your mind. I fell into a deep rabbit hole looking into this guy and his philosophy, and I am definitely not convinced (if you are looking for said rabbit hole, start with ‘ramtha school of enlightenment’, the new-age ‘spiritual sect’ where Joe Dispenza was ‘trained’). Now I’m not saying it’s a cult.... but Chris and Krystal would be the most likely of our bachelor couples to join a cult. 

You’re in a cult, call your dad. SSDGM.

#bachelor in paradise #bachelor nation #krystal nielson #chris randone #ssdgm

[spurgie-cousin]

So @gothkrispies​ and @totallyrobophobic​ reminded me of some female cult leaders that I’d forgotten existed, and I thought a good way to kill time would be to make a post about some of the most insane ones. Mostly just because I want too, but also because they’re often overlooked in the cult world. There’s a few I want to cover and I have a short attention span, so this is part 1 of maybe 3? Or two. We’ll see how it goes...here’s Cult Ladies! Part 1:

Gwen Shamblin Lara - The Remnant Fellowship

So, it’s been awhile since I’ve checked in on the bouffant prophet of Tennessee Gwen Shamblin, now known as Gwen Shamblin Lara after her 2018 marriage ‘90s tv Tarzan Joe Lara. If you are unfamiliar with her, she’s a former nutritional specialist turned church cult leader that began her ministry with a weird combination of diets and Jesus, or her preferred term, ‘faith based weight-loss’. Her teachings have often been criticized for being too focused on weight loss at the expense of health, to the point of encouraging eating disorders.

The Remnant Fellowship has also been criticized by families of current members, who say that they use ‘cult-like’ tactics to manipulate their congregation, and that they are told Gwen Shamblin Lara is a prophet of God who they can be punished for contradicting. In 2007 the church also came under fire for their rules regarding child discipline, when the child of a couple who professed to be Remnant members died due to what medical examiners referred to as "acute and chronic" abuse. Gwen Shamblin has denied all claims and taken media outlets to court over this accusation on the ground of slander. Allegations could never be definitively proven by the court, so all charges were dropped.

J.Z. Knight - Ramtha School Of Enlightenment

This one has a personal twist for me, because 5 of my family members have been balls deep in this bullshit for over a decade. In fact one of them, my great-aunt Linda Evans (by marriage, who is pictured in the 2nd photo) is not only the one who introduced my other family to it, but is responsible for converting hundreds of people at the very least.

J.Z. Knight (born Judith Darlene Hampton) was working in TV in Washington state when she claims to have had a revelation given to her by a 40,000 year old spirit named Ramtha, who she claims is one of the first human spirits to have ever experienced enlightenment. According to her, this spirit told her that it came back to tell her that her calling was to spread the message of enlightenment through the (obviously bullshit) method of ‘channeling’, which supposedly involves Ramtha inhabiting her for temporary periods of time and then providing the secrets to the universe. Kind of like a seance, where the channeler is doing a really bad ‘Apu’ impression, spitting out frothy new age nonsense and charging thousands of dollars a year in tuition. 

The Ramtha School puts huge importance on the apocalypse, and their followers are in constant preparation for the end times, leading many people to label them a doomsday cult. I can attest to this, as all of my family members in the cult all have under ground bunkers and nonperishable food supplies to last them for years. 

Also I think it’s worth noting that of 2019 J.Z Knight was (and as far as I know, still is) a big supporter and funder of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

Anne Hamilton-Byrne - The Family

So we wrap up part 1 with Anne Hamilton-Byrne (born Evelyn Grace Victoria Edwards), a narcissistic ex-yoga teacher from Australia. Anne mixed traditional Christian teachings with just the right amount of Hinduism to make it appealing to ‘60s religious defectors looking for a new way to worship. Like many similar religious experiments around that time, the group began to form a cult mentality, with Hamilton-Byrne asserting more and more control over the growing number of followers.

Hamilton-Byrne eventually acquired a remote property called Kai Lama where she housed 14 children, who were either birthed by members of the church or acquired by illegal adoption. In an effort to create better people more pliant church members, she did weird things, like dye all of their hair platinum blonde and give them her surname, and straight up sadistic things like punishing them with starvation diets and giving them hallucinogenic drugs, while isolating them from the outside world and indoctrinating them with The Family’s strict doctrine.

Other completely insane shit associated with her cult included the incidents at Newhaven Hospital, which was a psychiatric hospital run by one of the cult members in the ‘60s-’70s (the cult was then known as Santiniketan Park Association). Many employees were also members. After a 1992 investigation it was found that patients were treated with excessive hallucinogenic drugs, lobotomies, and electro-shock therapy. 

The Kai Lama compound was eventually raided in 1987, after one of Hamilton-Byrne’s adopted children was expelled for behavior and later contacted a private investigator, as well as the Victoria police. Hamilton-Byrne and her husband fled to New York state, where they were eventually arrested in 1993. Victims of her cult have since received compensation for their experiences. Oh, and she’s dead now unlike the others, which is good. 

#cult ladies #part 1 #tw: eating disorders #tw: eating #tw: child abuse #tw: murder #is trump a trigger warning? #cults #ramtha school of enlightenment #j.z. knight #the family #Santiniketan Park Association #anne hamilton-byrne #the remnant fellowship #gwen shamblin #gwen shamblin lara #linda eastman #cult ladies part 1

[weirdopolitics]

Started reading one of my many collected books yesterday, "UFOs and the Nature of Reality".

It was kind of pompous, holier-than-thou. "I have all the answers, you are ignorant to the truth," New Age gibberish about beings of light from Andromeda and so on and so forth.

Interestingly, there is no author listed, only an editor (one Judi Pope Koteen). So, I did some research into it.

The author is a woman named Judy Zebra Knight, whom supposedly channels the spirit of a 35,000-year-old warrior named Ramtha who fought the Atlanteans at the end of the Ice Age. And she runs a cult-like New Age school of enlightenment. And she lives in Yelm, Washington. And I've driven by her gated estate before, without realizing it.

I was certainly not expecting to learn any of that.

#L posts #my library #ufos and the nature of reality

[biologyweeps]

my mum kept going on about indigo children too! i was diagnosed with autism when i was 4 but she decided to never tell any of my schools, despite my teachers picking up on it, she never helped me with or accommodated any of my symptoms, and she lost the paperwork so i can't even prove it. after being "self diagnosed" for years, when i was 18 she admitted i was actually officially diagnosed. she would also punish me for showing less favourable symptoms that didn't fit with the indigo nonsense

oh yeah, indigo autism anon again, my mum also loved all that quantum woo bullshit and followed the “teachings” of the What the Bleep Do We Know!? “documentary” religiously. reading up on that dvd later on in life, i discovered it was Literally MADE BY A CULT (“Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment”). when i started actually reading up on physics (i used to wanna become a physicist), particularly quantum physics, and pointed out how wrong it all was, she lost her shit.

Oh nony I’m so sorry that happened to you. You deserve(d) so much better than this! 

#Anonymous #Anon #asks #indigo bullshit

[emma-what-son]

I know a little about the “cult” Emma is supposed to have joined (according to Deuxmoi).

So, JZ Knight, who runs the Ramtha School of Enlightenment in Washington State, is a pretty prolific best-selling author. Knight claims that she can channel a warrior named Ramtha, who is over 3,000 yrs old or something. She essentially is a new age medium of sorts and claims to be clairvoyant and have ESP and a whole hist of psychic abilities. She has been around since the 1970s I think and has been on many talk shows over the years etc. She has a lot of followers who seem to be interested in her new age, spiritual practices and mediumship. People looking to get answers to “higher” questions and closer to “enlightenment.” The Ramtha School of Enlightenment is supposed to help students learn how to channel their past selves and learn what their true purpose is and how to focus their lives in that direction. Knight talks about learning the “tools to unlock the mind.” Supposedly.

Now, take all of this with a grain of salt! This is info I’ve gained from some pretty basic research I did on JZ Knight a few years back and glancing through some of her books. To me, she reads very much like other authors you’d find in the New Age section of most book stores. Well, except for the channeling of Ramtha…. That is her big claim to fame.

However, she has been successful in turning heads of the right sort of people with her teachings…meaning people with money and influence, like celebrities. I’ve also heard people say she appeals to “baby boomer soccer moms.” Knight herself comes across as someone who likes the spotlight and celebrity. She’s made rounds on many talk shows over the years and turns up in the news from time to time, usually not for anything positive though.

About a decade ago, I remember some scandal over former students claiming they were abused at Ramtha School, physically and with gaslighting. And there was a case with an ex-husband in court, where he claimed that all her teachings were lies etc. and she kept him from getting medical treatment for his HIV I think it was?

This is all just public knowledge that has been reported…I don’t know what is true or lies and haven’t looked into it enough to say much more.

After the last US presidential election, Knight did cause some uproar. According to newspapers, she was posting on social media that Trump was the rightful winner and the election was unfair and calling for a coup of the government! (Similar to the Jan 6 rioters in opinion. Basically trying to incite rioting…)

Previously though, Knight had supported Democratic candidates (she’s quite wealthy). But she seemed to be VERY publicly supportive of Trump most recently.

I’ve taken an interest in this in the past because I had a friend who grew up nearby in Washington and I spent time in the area. I got the impression from my friend that locally, they considered Knight to be a rich self-help lady that would give talks and donate money to things.

Basically, I think that there are different levels of involvement with JZ Knight and the Ramtha School of Enlightenment. I think she’s kind of a “brand” that some people dabble in. Others seem to be more devotees and attend the school.

Regardless of if her spiritual claims are true or it’s all a racket, JZ has had some very serious accusations surrounding her and her treatment of people and her judgement, so I’d personally tread carefully if I were in the public eye. Even if you just have curiosity towards her mediumship, as many do, it might not do your career/image any favors associating with her.

Thanks for the info. Imo it's usually better to stay away from people like JZ Knight. There are people who might want to give her the benefit of the doubt, but these people usually do the things they do to help themselves. And as far as the accusations go, there's usually no smoke without fire. I wouldn't trust her at all.

[ramunitedkingdom]

#Ramtha #Ramtha's School of Enlightenment #Ramtha UK #JZ Knight #inspiration #ancient wisdom

[barbosaasouza]

This Woman Claims To Channel The Spirit Of An Ancient Warrior And Uses His Teachings To Lead A Cult

Judith Zebra Knight, known as J.Z. Knight, claims a 35,000-year-old Lemurian soldier appeared to her in 1977. Calling himself Ramtha, the spirit allegedly chose to share his knowledge and experiences with the world by allowing Knight to channel him. What followed was decades of making millions from audiences ecstatic to hear from an ancient being, during a wave of weird cults that purported to teach people to shape their future through thoughts. Knight founded Ramtha's School of Enlightenment (RSE) in 1988, drawing thousands of believers to her 80-acre compound in Washington state to hear the words of the supposed guru. Knight and Ramtha continue to make money and pull in followers from their website with their promise to change lives through quantum physics, change reality through mindfulness, and convince people they are God. While Knight denies RSE is a cult, many former students disagree, detailing forced compliance from Knight and Ramtha. One of Knight's ex-husbands even claimed Ramtha forced him to take a woefully unfair divorce settlement and avoid using doctors to control his HIV-positive status. Knight pulled herself out of a life selling cable television and into earning millions per year with books, videos, live teachings, and media appearances to spread the word of Ramtha. She says RSE is no cult, but litigation to silence former members and propaganda claiming alien technology is being hidden by the American government paint a different picture. This Woman Claims To Channel The Spirit Of An Ancient Warrior And Uses His Teachings To Lead A Cult published first on https://superworldrom.tumblr.com/

[logicalmystic]

Happy 2017

It has been a while since I am here. I don’t know if there are still people here that follow my post. I hope you guys are well, if there are. 

So what I have been up to lately? In the area of self development/ spiritual world, I have picked up a new technique that I use to manage my anxiety from youtube. It is called the Havening technqiue. Below is the video that got me into it. 

It is very quick and simple, yet very efficient and powerful for me. I like to have skin on skin contact, but I don’t think it is necessary. As you see in the video, he rubs his arms with clothes on. 

It works so much faster than EFT (a technique that I employed for the majority of 2016). They both work. But for me this Havening technique works almost immediately, while EFT, you have to stay with the process a bit longer. 

Recently, I am obsessed with the contents of Dr Joe Dispenza’s work. Here is one that I play quite often these days. 

His philosophy is based from the Ramtha School of Enlightenment but what I find to be more interesting is the scientific evidences (brain imaging) that he uses to illustrates what happens when we change our minds. We get to see a glimpse of what happens physically inside our brain when we choose to let go of old ideas and commit to a new one. In a way, I find the explanations fits my language programming. It is basically explaining what or how the law of attraction works, but from the perspective of the changes in our physical brains.

I haven’t really bought any of his meditation cds, nor have I gone to any of his workshop. In his word, his job is to demystify meditation and the process of creation. I find that to be effective (for now anyway).

There are little nuggets that help me connect with all the materials I have learned so far. For example, like I have been introduced to Alpha & Theta music, binaural beats for more than a decade now, and I also had a little bit interaction with the Theta Healing method a while back. However in Joe’s teaching, one thing that he mentioned that helped me put this theta healing from a concept (i.e. of I don’t know why this works, but I am going to try it anyway) to a practical thing. Theta as Joe explains is when the mind is awake but the body is asleep. This is the state to which you can change the programming of your mind, as you are changing it so that the body follows suit as well. Of course what I like about the teaching is because it is done through meditation (I assume), the changes are not promoted with just one time process, it is a daily practice. And I think, that is very do-able and realistic. 

Its a daily practice. Miracles happen, but not because one person does one thing at one time to you. But because you choose what you want and how you want to live everyday you are awake. 

So far, I find his teaching to be very practical and realistic. It is changes over time, by creating a meditation practice, based on scientific processes. Something that combines all logical mystic spidey senses. 

Anyway that’s it for now peeps. Let me know how you have been doing. 

#spirituality #heaving technqiue #anxiety #anxiety disorder #calming #soothing #joe dispenza #stillness #mindfulness #self help #l