Ramtha Part 3: Or is Ramtha's School of Enlightenment a Death Cult?

If you haven't read Part 1 or Part 2, you can find them here.

Ramtha Part 1: Who is JZ Knight?

Ramtha Part 2: Is Ramtha's School of Enlightenment the Next Bohemian Grove?

Things are about to become very strange from here on out. I no longer believe in coincidences once a pattern starts to emerge. I don't think we can afford to ignore this.

Channeling Jesus

Ramtha isn't the only person JZ Knight has claimed to channel.

A prominent New Age spiritualist has testified that she once 'channeled' Jesus.

J.Z. Knight of Yelm, who claims to be regularly in touch with a 35,000-year-old warrior named Ramtha, yesterday was asked by lawyers for her ex-husband, Jeff Knight, whether she ever 'channeled' Jesus Christ.

'Yes,' she replied, adding that she did so at a 'Christmas function' in New York in 1983.

The Seattle Times: Woman Tells Of `Channeling' Jesus Christ

Keep in mind that Ramtha doesn't view Jesus as the Son of God. Instead, he is viewed as being an ascended being.

Instead of dying, he ascended beyond the mortal plane to join a collection of A-list masters that includes Jesus, Mohammed, and Buddha; the religion of Knight’s youth has its place in Ramtha’s model of the world.

Seattle Met: The Ancient Spirit That Settled in Small-Town Washington

You Are Special

From one former member:

McCarthy says that he was lured by promises that if he were obedient, he would become god-like.

'The biggest threat was when they told you you were special, that 'You're my people, and nothing bad will happen to you,' ' Winter-Cobbs said. 'Special is a miracle word; we all want to be special to someone.'

Cult Education Institute: Disillusioned Former Students Target Ramtha

Mind Control Made Easy

Why would someone claim that the biggest threat is being told you are special? Doesn't everyone want to feel special?

Quantum Reality Healing

One of the things taught at Ramtha's School of Enlightenment is that you create your own reality. That you have the capability to heal yourself and become immortal.

From the Ramtha Talks On Immortality video:

JZ Knight as Ramtha: Is it possible to have mind over matter? Baby, the brain is king. The body is the kingdom. Yes.

How long will that take to happen? Long enough for it to be the mainstay of your personality.

To our very brain, those great thunderstorms. You have tap yet let a third of its ability. If we lived entirely, the wholeness of our brain, which would require the wholeness of our DNA be activated, we will become the legends of old. The Immortals.

Lady: I really believe that the body wants to heal itself. The limits are in our own minds of what we believe is possible. I think so much more is possible then we appreciate.

JZ Knight as Ramtha: Everyone's DNA they use less than a third of the DNA. Did you know that there are immortal genes? Did you know that you have immortal DNA's? Did you know that you have the DNA to grow any part of your body? To change it any way you want to? Did you know you have the DNA of humanity? Did you know that you can turn a predisposition of genetics of blindness into a predisposition of sight? Did you know that you can tap your DNA to not only make you immortal but reverse your aging?

Your genes have that? Yes they do. It's what gene fingerprinting is all about in its infantile stages. But it's embarrassing when we really know it. Because the great question is 'Well, if I have an immortal gene, how come I'm not immortal? Why in the *bleep* is it still there.

You can edit that *bleep* out if you wish. Or you can leave it in, according to the maturity of the audience. I'm certain I have said nothing new under the sun Horratio.

You know why? Because you focus only on your emotional means to an end. So your DNA holds what is replicant in you to an experience. you have never gone outside of yourself to create the experience of yourself.

If we know the thoughts of a person, we will best know them by their addiction. Their continuous, over 24 hours in a continuum, of what emotions they display in their body. We shall know their thoughts.

We never ever reincarnate to be 'I love you so much' people. We always reincarnate to the situations of why we hate ourselves.

The Protection of Ramtha

Have there been deaths at Ramtha's School of Enlightenment?

Glen Cunningham, in an interview with David McCarthy, describes how, one evening, Knight suggested that all students should stay there overnight because she said it would be 'good for the energy'. That was before the Great Arena (formerly used as horse stables) had been floored, and as a result there would be a lot of dust in the air.

Cunningham says that there was a very old woman among the students, who begged him that she did not want to do this and she wanted to go home, but Ramtha said that she could stay under the protection of Ramtha and her bodyguard. Leaving the arena the following day, the old woman died of pneumonia (due to the dust in the air and humidity).

Wikipedia: Ramtha's School of Enlightenment

Too Many Dead People

And what happens when people believe they can create a reality of perfect health?

"I think people have been disenchanted with things," Cunningham said. "There are too many dead people who came here to get cured."

He recalls when a woman suffering from cancer arrived at the school hoping to be cured. In front of everyone, Ramtha hugged her and told her she was free of the disease.

"The whole school is a lie and she's dead," he said. "I saw a lot of them that thought this was going to be their answer, but it wasn't."

Cult Education Institute: One-Time Insider Tells RSE Experience

Philosophy on Murder

Excerpts from the video:

Announcer: To grasp what Knight says, it helps to look at what some of her followers think of as their Bible, the Ramtha White Book. It outlines a philosophy where reality is whatever you want it to be. Where there's no right. No wrong. Even murder is not wrong or evil. But jay-z says it helps to believe in reincarnation.

JZ Knight: If you only believe that you only are going to... That you are born and you die. There's no afterlife. Murder is definitely wrong. If you believe in a continuation of life, that's a different story. In a divinity, if we're immortal and we're going to live again, then how could murder be wrong?

Sherrill MacNaughton: The person who commits a murder, for instance, doesn't need to be punished by being put into prison. He's going to be punished because he's going to hate himself for eons of years. And he's going to live with that guilt and that remorse. And it was that his process of evolvement back for ages and ages.

Sandy Hook School Shooting Connections to Ramtha

If you are unfamiliar with the Sandy Hook School Shooting, here is a glossed over description of what happened. There are numerous news articles and threads regarding this topic. What I am focused on here is Adam Lanza, his mother Nancy Lanza, and their possible ties to Ramtha's School of Enlightenment.

Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, also called Newtown shootings of 2012, mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012, that left 28 people dead and 2 injured. After murdering his mother at their home, Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and 6 adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School before taking his own life.

The attack began when 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, in the home that the two shared in Newtown.

Britannica: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Nancy planned on taking her son Adam Lanza to the Ramtha's School of Enlightenment. The person who reported this had a conversation with Nancy about this.

Excerpts from the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection's files on the Sandy Hook School Shooting investigation (taken from page 293):

DATE AND TIME: This phone interview took place on January 22,2013 between 1200 hours and 1215 hours.

ACTION TAKEN:

On 01/22/13, | was assigned to contact LA regarding information he may have about Nancy and/or Adam Lanza. At approximately 1200 hours, spoke to via phone. indicated that he has been reading about the Sandy Hook Elementary Shootings and wanted to relay some information which he believed could answer questions about the Lanzas. stated that he had heard that Nancy was going to bring Adam to Washington state to attend a 'special' school. believed that Nancy may have been planning to attend the Ramtha School of Enlightenment in Yelm, WA. stated that Ramtha is a survivalist group that was established іп 1985. indicated that his daughter was a member for approximately 10 years. stated that Nancy Lanza fit the profile of many of the members in that she was a divorces between 40 and 70 years old. stated that the belief of the Ramtha is that 'Everyone creates their own reality'.

Ultimately, and in the full interest of disclosure, they stopped looking into this connection between the Adam Lanza, Nancy Lanza, and the Ramtha's School of Enlightenment. The Investigator dropped the ball in my humble opinion. But then I don't think they were fully aware of what else was going on at the time.

Excerpts from the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection's files on the Sandy Hook School Shooting investigation (taken from page 467):

On 03/04/13 at approximately 1234 hours, І was assigned by Sgt. Davison to contact Robert Menna. | had spoken to Menna previously regarding the Ramtha School of Enlightenment and his daughter's affiliation to the group. Menna had described the Ramtha School as a "cult" but indicated that there was no religious connection to the group. Menna had recently contacted Sgt. Davison claiming to have additional information regarding the Ramtha School.

On 03/05/13 at approximately 1155 hours, | contacted Menna via phone to ascertain what information that he may have. Menna indicated that he has a restricted video that he was able to upload from the internet as a result of his daughter's involvement in the Ramtha School. He stated that the video was produced in February 2012. Не stated that the video is no longer available on the internet and couldn't be uploaded by this detective. | asked Menna if he was able to send the video via email and he indicated that he was not able to do so. Menna volunteered to travel from New York to Connecticut to bring the video. Menna advised that the video is a 22 minute clip extracted from approximately 11 hours of video of the Ramtha preaching at an event. Menna was unable to identify where the event was being held. Thus far in the investigation, there is no evidence that Nancy Lanza had any contact or affiliation to the Ramtha School in the State of Washington. With that, | didn't see any need for Menna to travel to Connecticut to bring the video. | asked that Menna keep the video and if we should need it, | would contact him and arrange to get the video.

CASE STATUS: This case is ACTIVE pending further investigation.

Manhunt For Murder

The following story happened in South Africa.

A French couple being evicted from a Sutherland farm allegedly shot dead a policeman, wounded another, then chased a third policeman and the farmer's sons in a bakkie through the bush for four kilometres.

The couple, heavily armed, slender, and believed to be wearing khaki or camouflage, have fled on foot into the hills.

Two helicopters, police trackers and a large police ground crew are searching for them.

Philippe and Agnis Neniere are said to belong to the Ramtha School of Enlightenment.

The couple - he in his 60s and she in her 50s - had lived on the farm Hardie about 35km from Sutherland for 12 years but were being evicted by owner Gerhardus du Plessis because of their bizarre behaviour.

'In the beginning we were friends. We'd go and have supper with them and they would come and have supper with us.'

But in the past two years the couple had become reclusive.

'Philippe said they wanted to drop off the grid and study quantum physics. They were involved with the Ramtha School of Enlightenment.'

Du Plessis said the couple had been quite paranoid about the end of the world. 'They also believed that they would have to fend for themselves and survive in the bush.'

Du Plessis said that last year communication between their family and the Nenieres had ended.

'They wouldn't open the door and even closed their windows when we were on the farm. I suggested to my dad it would be best if they left. We were happy to help them out financially.'

In August his father gave the couple verbal notice to leave by December, but they ignored this.

'On Thursday night they became threatening to my father's wife Margie over the phone. We were concerned they had weapons in the house because they had previously asked if they could use the safe. This is why we asked the police for help.'

He said when he returned to the farmhouse after the shooting, police told him they had found medical supplies, emergency packs, survival field guides and notes on the Ramtha School of Enlightenment.

In the end, they were found and cornered by police. The couple ended up killing themselves.

Here are the links to the articles which tell this harrowing story.

Cult Education Institute: Manhunt For Cult Couple (Published January 16, 2011)

Cult Education Institute: End of the World for French Cult Couple (January 22, 2011)

Cult Education Institute: Cult Couple: It Was Suicide (Published February 7, 2011)

Romanian Tax Fraud and Money Laundering

Even though this one involved a Romanian couple, it took place in Yelm, Washington.

The Nemes, who arrived in the U.S. in 2012 after reportedly fleeing their native Romania following charges of tax evasion, settled in the quiet town, far out west. It is then that they became members of the school of enlightenment.

Radu Nemes allegedly worked as part of a criminal gang to illegally import 1million tons of diesel fuel and sell it in Romania through shell companies between 2011 and 2012.

The shell companies were set up in names of homeless people to distance the Nemes from the fraud.

The massive tax dodge came by importing the fuel for manufacturing purposes then selling it directly to consumers.

Diana Nemes allegedly helped her husband by laundering money from the fuel scheme through Dubai accounts and then bringing it into the U.S.

At least 20 others have been charged in the massive tax dodge.

Daily Mail: $73 Million Tax Evasion, Middle East Money-Laundering And A 35,000-Year-Old Mystic Warrior: How A Romanian Couple 'Brought A Local Winery To The Brink Of Collapse After Joining An Alleged Cult' (Published March 14, 2014)

Ramtha Forcing Members To Drink Poison?

Drunken revelries at wine celebrations aren't the only allegation made regarding Ramtha's School of Enlightenment.

JZ Knight has thousands of followers, including many celebrities. Now, one claims the school's founder made members drink lye, and that people got sick.

But the Ramtha School of Enlightenment is denying the allegations and threatening to take the letter-writer to the medical board.

The gated school on Highway 510 in Yelm has been here since 1988. One local doctor was so concerned about what was going on inside that he wrote a letter to the county health department, asking them to look into the health and safety of followers there.

'I've been in this community for a long time. Originally, I thought this cult, or whatever you want to call it, it was an interesting thing because it brought in a lot of interesting people,' Dr. Brian Keay said in an interview Friday.

The physician said he met many of the followers through his practice and was so concerned that he wrote a letter to the Thurston County Health Department warning that followers were getting sick and, Keay claimed, even dying.

'Concerning Keay's letter,' the Knight spokesperson said, 'there will be a complaint filed with the Washington State Medical Board.  Keay's medical opinions in the letter may constitute a breach of HIPAA and the standards of professional conduct of the Washington Department of Health Medical Quality Assurance Commission.'

'I would like to believe that nothing that horrible, Jonestown'ish could happen, but when people are willing to drink poison for five years, it tells you that it's possible,' Virginia Coverdale (a former student) said.

Fox 13 Seattle: Shocking Allegations From Former JZ Knight Follower (Published April 18, 2014)

Virginia Coverdale Trail and Contract Murder

For background information, Virginia Coverdale was once a member of Ramtha's School of Enlightenment. She eventually left the school and started posting about her experience there online and on social media. She also started posting videos of JZ Knight that were not publicly available.

JZ Knight ended up taking Virginia Coverdale to court in an endless string of lawsuits for breach of a confidentiality agreement. (I will explain this in Part 4.)

During the trial over copyright infringement, a murder investigation came to light -- not only through the detectives who were investigating that murder but also through Virginia's own testimony. Apparently her own witness statement to police came under the scrutiny of that confidentiality agreement.

JZ Knight's attorney's tried to use it as an attack against her credibility.

Coverdale allegedly posted on a Facebook group that she had spoken to a woman who claimed her husband murdered someone in Tenino, allegedly at the request of JZ Knight.

Lawyers for JZK, Inc. asked Coverdale to name the alleged witness during a deposition interview and she refused, according to court documents.

According to a court transcript, Judge Gary Tabor said on Friday that he was contacted by two Thurston County Sheriff's Office detectives the day before, and told them he 'didn't believe it was appropriate for me to receive any information from them' about the alleged contract murder witness.

'I then posed a hypothetical, and I said hypothetically speaking, if you were involved in an investigation, would it be your opinion that that matter would remain confidential until such time as you were ready to make decisions? And they indicated yes.'

He said the detectives indicated if they were contacted by an attorney, they would tell them if they were involved in an investigation.

JZK, Inc. Lawyer Jeffrey Grant proposed deferring the motion 'in light of ... (the judge's) comments that there are detectives willing to speak with the lawyers in the civil action. Let us follow that step first.'

Grant said on Monday that he was still waiting to hear back from the detectives.

'Even if the detectives tell us, we may need to still make sure we're talking about the same thing,' he said.

Grant said the issue was brought up during Coverdale's deposition because it related to her credibility.

'If Ms. Coverdale is making ... statements about somebody else that are hurtful or alarming and turn out not to be true, that's alarming,' he said. 'It kind of undermines the credibility of people on other issues if they're willing to make outlandish statements that are just not true. To accuse anybody or to tell others that somebody allegedly arranged for a contract murder, that's kind of a strong statement and if it turns out not to be true, I mean, that's what we're trying to find out.

'It's probably safe to say that we're pretty skeptical that any ... (investigation) is focusing on the school or JZ Knight, but we'll find out,' he added. 'That's what we're trying to do.'

Breckan Scott, Coverdale's lawyer, asserted on Tuesday that the detectives' conversation with Tabor lent credibility to her client. She questioned the relevance of the allegation to the lawsuit.

'To now raise this tangential issue in this proceeding completely conflicts with their claim throughout that this is a simple breach of contract case and for those reasons we believe it's completely irrelevant and inappropriate to insert the alleged contract murder allegation into this case,' she said.

'We are confident that Ms. Coverdale accurately reported the facts and circumstances of which she was informed. So, assuming that she did accurately report the facts and circumstances, and the detectives accurately convey that to plaintiff's counsel, we do not believe that there will be any need for any further motions to compel regarding disclosure of the witness.'

Tabor also ruled Knight's deposition could be videotaped. He placed limitations on how the video could be used.

Grant argued in court that 'there is substantial evidence that justifies the concern that our client has about the likelihood of harm that will or could occur if her deposition is videotaped.'

Cult Education Institute: Alleged Murder Highlights JZ Knight Case

Lizard People and Spaceships

What does paranoia look like when you are under the control of another person?

Yelm resident David McCarthy, who calls Knight a 'spiritual predator,' claims he was ensnared in a web of intimidation and mind control at the school while a student there from 1989 to 1996.

'At one point I was running around scared I was going to get eaten by the lizard people,' he said.

He said that in the early 1990s, he was 'brainwashed' by the school’s teachings into believing that the ancient figure Jehovah would return to earth in a spaceship, accompanied by a reptilian entourage.

The 'lizard people' were said to feast on human prey who did not fall under Ramtha’s protection, he said.

'A lot of people deny that these things happened,' McCarthy said, noting that the most esoteric Ramtha pronouncements were only revealed to a small inner circle.

'They say these are sacred teachings and that you (outsiders) wouldn’t understand.'

Religion News Blog: Disillusioned Former Students Target Ramtha; Critics Claim They Were Brainwashed

Suicide Pacts

The following is translated from an Italian article:

It is a moment of mourning in Spinello di Santa Sofia, located in the Forlì Apennines, where two Roman spouses Paolo Neri and Stefania Platania were found dead on Saturday evening. On their death the picture is currently ascertained: the couple committed suicide with a gunshot to the face and there are no third parties involved. On the participation of the couple in the school 'of enlightenment' of Ramtha, the same Italian community clarifies, 'the last contacts with Paolo and Stefania date back to 2012, but the teachings of the master 'celebrate life', not death or apocalyptic prophecies.

'The couple attended courses at RSE, Ramtha's School of Enlightenment, between 2003 and 2012,' said a statement from the sect's spokesman, Mike Wright, 'The RSE has had no contact with them since they last attended a seminar ten years ago.' Then a clarification on the 'doctrine'. 'The teachings of RSE celebrate Life'. With a note addressed to the mayor of Santa Sofia, the founder of the movement, JZ Knight, who says she is the medium through whom the master Ramtha communicates, expresses her pain 'the choice made by the couple is tragic and does not reflect the philosophy of the school at all', she specifies. Rumors about prophecies about the end of the world are unfounded, Spokesman Wright said, and show a misunderstanding of the school's recommendations.

Teleromagna: FORLI’: Suicidi Spinello, Lutto In Città, Ramtha, “Noi Celebriamo Vita”

Even though the Ramtha School of Enlightenment denied that the couple were still members of the school, the couple lived in a village built and populated by Ramtha followers.

Translated from an Italian article:

Spinello, a tiny hamlet of Santa Sofia, on the Romagna Apennines. This village of 200 souls, in the province of Forlì-Cesena, is for the followers of Ramtha, convinced of the arrival of the apocalypse, a blessed place. A place that has found itself, in spite of itself, the promised land and pilgrimage destination of the sect born in America in the late 70s. For this reason, the Roman spouses Neri-Platania, members of the group and found dead on Saturday 21 May, had also bought a house there.

In Italy According to the first information collected by the investigators, the Roman spouses Neri-Platania found lifeless in the house of Spinello (Forlì-Cesena) would have belonged to this sect. Even in Italy, in fact, a branch of the School of Enlightenment is active. It presents itself as 'an academy of the mind that offers retreats and workshops to people of all ages and cultures', and its disciples organize meetings, informative evenings and gatherings. Paolo Neri himself, in an online forum (in a post dating back to 2005), offered himself as a reference on Rome for people interested in getting to know the group more closely.

But why Spinello? According to the beliefs of the followers of the sect, the village would have been spared from the end of the world announced by the Maya on December 21, 2012. A place considered safer than others. So much so that right near Santa Sofia they decided to organize the Italian school of enlightenment and ancient wisdom, in 2001. To escape the catastrophe, some of Ramtha's Italian followers even moved to the hamlet of Spinello (in 2009 there would have been about twenty). In these years, the community in the country would have exceeded 70 members. They built villas, wells, stockpiled wood and food. Some families would even have underground bunkers built. Among them also the Roman spouses.

Carriere Di Bologna: La Setta Ramtha: Che Cos’è Il Gruppo A Cui Aderivano I Coniugi Morti A Spinello

To be continued...

Ramtha Part 4: Ramtha, Lawsuits, and Lawfare