A signed Contemporary American Religion entry by J. Gordon Melton, republished on Encyclopedia.com, on the school founded in 1987 by Judith Darlene J.Z. Knight (b. 1946) near Yelm, Washington, following her 1977 claimed contact with the entity Ramtha. Details the core consciousness-and-energy kundalini-style practice, membership of roughly 3,000 students by the late 1990s skewing female and college-educated, and a 1996 psychological evaluation of Knight's trance states that found no evidence of fabrication or pathology.
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AuthorJ. Gordon Melton
PublisherEncyclopedia.com (Contemporary American Religion)
URLhttps://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/legal-and-political-magazines/ramthas-school-enlightenment
Source Typeencyclopedia
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Tier 2: a signed entry by J. Gordon Melton, a leading scholar of new religious movements, in a standard reference work; not a primary organizational or doctrinal source. Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Washington directly: "1946) near Yelm, Washington, following her 1977 claimed contact with the entity Ramtha."
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