Finding Enlightenment: Ramtha's School of Ancient Wisdom [Paperback]

InFinding Enlightenment, J. Gordon Melton, a respected scholar of traditional modern religions, chronicles the life of JZ Knight, her extraordinary experiences as the channel for the ancient warrior teacher Ramtha, and the school whose teachings are based on the ancient wisdom of Gnosticism.
     Located in Yelm, Washington, this esoteric mystery school was founded by Knight in 1988. Melton presents the Gnostic teachings of Ramtha and shows how the inner path of wisdom and knowledge is accessible to students today.J. Gordon Melton is the director for the Institute for the Study of American Religion in Santa Barbara, California, and is a research specialist with the department of religions studies at the University of California. He is the author of more than twenty-six books, including several encyclopedias, handbooks, and almanacs on American religion, new religious movements, and directories of churches, synagogues, and other houses of worship. He is also an ordained elder in the United Methodist church and a member of the American Academy of Religion, the Society for the American Study of Religion, the American Society of Church History, the Communal Studies Association, and the Society for the Study of Metaphysical Religion. In this pioneering study of JZ Knight's teachings, J. Gordon Melton brings to bear his deep knowledge of new religious movements and his willingness to listen carefully to those whose spiritual quest takes them beyond the bounds of conventional thought.
—Michael F. Brown, author ofThe Channeling Zone: American Spirituality in an Anxious Age Almost single-handedly, J. Gordon Melton has salvaged an enormous literature published by small sects, and he alone brought the immense and transient occult world within the purview of conventional religious history. To do so, he had to convince hundreds of groups and individuals that, unlike the news media, he would be objective—that he would listen, rl³5