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     david_mccarthy Intermediate Member Username: david_mccarthy Post Number: 153 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 216.227.114.41 |
Some insightful comments on the RSE teachings from Joe Szimhart. Is it blasphemy, or what? Behind the bizarre orthopraxy* of the Ramtha School of Enlightenment (RSE) lies one key goal:gnosis through blasphemy. Yes, from the beginning in her Ramtha role JZ Knight has emphasized a path that leads to self-realization as a “Christ” or living deity, and from the beginning JZ and her followers have believed that this goal somehow constitutes a “blasphemy” against the teaching of the Christian churches and their orthodoxy. Following are examples of “Ramtha’s” teaching from a female ex-member’s notes and transcribed tapes prior to1995: The object of this school is to create blasphemy – to create a CHRIST. So that everyone on the face of the earth will understand that God did not just have one son. When the school produces, out of common seed, the extraordinary, then I will have accomplished what I came here to do. To show them that everyone has this. (February 1994) Of course, the RSE’s idea of what constitutes a “Christ” is not what it means in Christian orthodoxy. RSE’s idea can best be illustrated by its own claims. One of RSE’s standard event rituals is called Paradise Beach during which students sit out in the elements for several days to increase occult power and awareness: Would you rather sit for 4 days to pay for your house or work for 30 years? (November 1991) Powers of transmutation also occupy the RSE student’s mind: A butterfly can transmute into a dog, a dog into a bird, a bird into a fire. The greatest change comes when the body is in NO TIME and it is motionless. (March 1992) As to mind control or mental function, “doubt” in the RSE student’s mind operates like a cosmic eraser of occult power: Don’t doubt because you won’t see. Your doubt slams the door of opportunity. (November 1992) The brain to RSE operates more like a radio receiver-transmitter with paranoid undertones than an utterly complex neurological organ: Continued... | ||
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Some insightful comments on the RSE teachings from Joe Szimhart. Part 2. The brain can pick up microwaves, television and radio waves. The brain receives these signals and makes images, and then you think they are your thoughts, but they are not. (March 1993) The paranoia increases at deeper levels of RSE metaphysics: To get rid of demons you have to go to the next level. (March 1993) And the group expects the leader to attract both social and metaphysical attacks: JZ will be attacked ruthlessly. (April-May 1993) RSE posits that the evolved student will be in his or her “Blue Body” and analogical mind” whenever the student experiences “unconditional love.” JZ as Ramtha called this state a “trance.” She said: Now analogical mind on the divine cannot possibly possess any human emotion; it can’t. The subconscious mind has no emotion. It is so powerful that it doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong and it’s not supposed to be the judge of reality! It is supposed to do…..The subconscious mind puts you in a trance, and like a trance you will be. (September 4, 1994) The statement above may be out of context but it nevertheless reflects the essence of RSE teachings that tend to be rambling, repetitious, and hopelessly undisciplined in logic. I’ve listened to dozens of taped lectures and read hundreds of pages of RSE printed material and notes. One has to suspend judgment and imagine that there is meaning in the words. Thus to read and pretend to follow the words one must engage in trance-like attention and not think. In RSE’s own teaching is this new age school’s attitude toward reason and careful examination of evidence: Continued.... | ||
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Some insightful comments on the RSE teachings from Joe Szimhart. Part 3. Man’s meddlesome attitudes are called Science. (March 1993) RSE’s goal to create Christs is not blasphemy if by that RSE means to violate Christian doctrine. JZ Knight attacks only a fundamentalist version of Christian religion with her equally fundamentalist New Age teaching. Both religious subcultures believe in magical powers granted by “God” as long as the believer employs the proper rituals, prayers (affirmations) and thoughts. Both reflect irrational approaches to science and scripture. Fundamentalist Christians believe in a God that literally spoke the universe into being in “seven days” or very rapidly. Positive Confession Christians (Robert Tilton, for example) believe that God ordains man to “speak things into existence.” The RSE likewise teaches that as “gods” each student or “master” will think and speak things into being instantaneously or in short order after gaining occult powers from the pricey RSE events. The New Age sect that I followed for a while was Church Universal and Triumphant. It taught that same idea, that “decrees” were the “most powerful force in the universe,” and that this power was Biblically ordained in Isaiah 45:11 (Old King James). The OKJ verse is a mistranslation, however, and only heretical sects in Christianity use it to authorize “name it and claim it” doctrine. RSE teaches not blasphemy; it teaches ignorance. *Orthopraxy means correctness of practice or body of practices; religious practice; ritual. In RSE the C&E breathing, cheering when Ramtha appears on stage, smoking tobacco in a pipe, wearing blindfolds during ritual exercises all comprise aspects of orthopraxy in the group. Joe Szimhart 9/30/2006 jszimhart@dejazzd.com | ||
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke in a letter to William Smith, Jan. 9, 1796 |
