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This photo is from JZ Knight's autobiography.  During her senior year of high school, s he created a dance where she was 'the Spirit of Light.'  As a teenager, there was one occasion when she observed a UFO.  In her 1987 autobiography  A State of Mind, My Story , two UFO sightings are described by JZ Knight.  The first sighting occurred during her teenage years while her family was residing in Artesia, New Mexico.  She was at a slumber party at her friend Janet's house at the time of the incident. Janet had been standing next to the window when "the whole side of her face lit up with an eerie red glow."  Janet turned and looked out the window.  She said, "God, that's weird !" We all jumped up and ran to the window.  I got there first.  I could not believe what I saw. "That thang gives me the heebie-jeebies.  What is that?" Janet asked. It was about one-thirty in the morning, and the crescent moon was sitting low...

A friend wrote to me recently asking in Tamil: பகவான் அருளியபடி ஆத்ம விசாரம் செய்ய நாம் ‘நான்’ என்னும் எண்ணத்தின் மீது கவனம் செலுத்த வேண்டும் என பல புத்தகங்களில் கூறப்படுகிறது. ஆனால் ‘நான் யார்?’ என்ற கட்டுரையிலோ, மனம் எப்போதும் ஓர் ஸ்தூலத்தையே பற்றி இருக்கும் எனவும், மனமென்பது ‘நான்’ என்னும் எண்ணமே எனவும் குறிப்பிடப்பட்டிருக்கிறது. இது உண்மை எனில், அந்த எண்ணத்தை ஸ்தூலத்திலிருந்து எவ்வாறு தனியே பிரித்து அதன் மீது கவனம் செலுத்துதல் ஸாத்தியம் ஆகும்? இது அஸாத்தியம் என்பதால் ‘எண்ணங்கள் தோன்றும் இடம் எது?’ என கூர்ந்து கவனித்தலே விசார வழி என நான் நினைக்கிறேன்; பின்பற்றியும் வருகிறேன். இது சரியா? which means: In many books it is said that to do self-investigation ( ātma-vicāra ) as taught by Bhagavan we must direct our attention on the thought called ‘I’. But in the essay Nāṉ Yār? it is said that the mind exists by always clinging to a sthūlam [something gross], and that what is called mind is only the thought called ‘I’. If this is true, is it possible to separate that thought in any way f...

JZ Knight began 'channeling' Ramtha more than 35 years ago.  A Master’s Reflection on the History of Humanity is a two-volume anthology of transcripts of Ramtha lectures.  Published in 2001,  Part I i s subtitled Human Civilization  — Origins and Evolution; and published in 2002,  Part II is subtitled Rediscovering the Pearl of Ancient Wisdom .  This article presents a selection of excerpts from these two books.  There are instances of Ramtha's "verbiage contradiction" and "I will manifest all your fears" philosophizing in the book.  One example in Part I comes after Ramtha is quoted as saying: I am not any sexual being.  I never had it in my own life, and I had a hundred and ten children.  Imagine that.  All the sexual people gave me their children. Ramtha later said — Is there a war of valued life?  Yes, it is called AIDS.  Are crossovers susceptible to this?  Yes.  Why?  Becaus...

The friend who had asked the questions that I answered in What do we actually experience in sleep? wrote another email to me in which he asked whether timelessness is also one of the ‘features’ of our featureless experience in sleep, and which he concluded by asking: ‘Do you have a favorite practice that makes sense to share? (I’m still angling for a goodie ;-))’. The following is adapted from my reply to him: Time and duration are features that we experience in waking and dream, but not in the featureless state of sleep. However, even to say that we experience time and duration in waking and dream requires some clarification: what we actually experience is change, both in our mind and in our body and the physical world around us, and this constant flow of change creates the illusion that we call ‘time’. Therefore since no change occurs in our experience during sleep, the illusion of time is absent there. Since we do not experience any time in sleep, we do not think either ‘I was’ or ...

 An Inner world is one of the esoteric subjects found in the Ramtha book A Master's Reflection on the History of Humanity Part II Rediscovering the Pearl of Ancient Wisdom (2002).  The source for Chapter II is identified as Ramtha Dialogues Tape 013. Ramtha's teachings in this chapter includes commentary about other worlds and dimensions.  I have omitted some of Ramtha's colloquialisms ("as it were indeed") from the following excerpts from Chapter II "Life in the Center of the Earth."  Upon being asked about the 'people who live within the Earth' and their sociology, manner of governing themselves, spiritual level and religious beliefs, Ramtha said: Their sociology, as you are speaking of indeed of these peoples as they are known and termed, is this: They have learned . . . greater than those that live outside of their sphere, to transcend that which is termed indeed the matter in force.  To transcend the matter in force, master, is to be...

In my previous article, We must experience what is, not what merely seems to be , I wrote: ‘I’ definitely does exist, because ‘I’ is what experiences both itself and all other things, so even if all other things merely seem to exist, their seeming existence could not be experienced if ‘I’ did not actually exist to experience it. The existence of ‘I’ is therefore necessarily true, whereas the existence of anything else is not necessarily true, because nothing else experiences either its own existence or the existence of anything else, so though things other than ‘I’ do seem to exist, it is possible that they do not exist except in the experience of ‘I’. Referring to this paragraph, a friend called Sanjay asked in a comment : You say here: ‘The existence of ‘I’ is therefore necessarily true…’, but you have also said earlier that: ‘…because ‘I’ is what experiences both itself and all other things…’. Therefore if ‘I’ experiences both itself and all other things then it is our mind, our lim...