Premium Episode 64: Ramtha and the School of Enlightenment
Added 2020-02-27 01:50:39 +0000 UTCA young white woman channels a 35'000-year-old Indian God on the Merv Griffin Show. Her cult is called the Ramtha School of Enlightenment, and somehow they have thrived over recent decades. Just a few months ago, they even formed an alliance with Qanon influencers. Cool!
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Sources
https://web.archive.org/web/20090206072711/http://ramtha.com/html/pdf/introduction.pdf
https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-teams-up-with-alleged-cult-leader
https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article25225543.html
http://www.kelebekler.com/cesnur/txt/ram2.htm
https://kuow.org/stories/democrats-take-50k-gift-warrior-spirit-ramtha-despite-anti-mexican-slurs
Comments
One of the directors of What the Bleep Do We Know went on to make that HBO series The Vow about the Keith Raniere bullshit. Guy likes cults.
Hanna
2023-02-10 05:40:37 +0000 UTCSimpler times.
Nima Dinyari
2022-03-21 19:30:01 +0000 UTCRamtha's movie is (indirectly) what led me to listen to you guys. When I was in high school in the early 00s in Seattle a friend's mom tried to get me to buy some weird MLM miracle-cure fruit juice (I think it was MonaVie, which doesn't exist any more) she was selling and told me it would cure my ADHD, and tried to get me into her down line at the same time. In this same conversation she told me I was an Indigo Child and should watch What The Bleep Do We Know?! (side note: which is it lady, does my adhd make me a special alien-soul mystical being sent to heal the world or should i cure my adhd with your fruit juice) I've always been open-minded with a hippie streak, and I'm good at talking to people, so I kind of went along with the conversation out of curiosity and didn't really challenge any of the things she told me. I declined the juice (and the "job") but watched the movie, realized it was probably bullshit so I decided to do some reading about it. Then I truly went down the rabbit hole reading about the Ramtha cult, all the ridiculous bullshit claims in WTBDWK?!, cults in general, MLM scams and dubious health claims of "herbal supplements," new-age bullshit around Indigo Children + ADHD + autism (this lady was an early version of an Autism Mom for sure, her son is autistic.) This led to a life-long fascination with how people fall into those like internally-consistent cult-thought, cognitive dissonance, and how people justify weird conspiracy shit to themselves. Eventually, that led me here! I'm glad y'all cover this shit both with the gravity it deserves, and the light-heartedness we need to not get completely overwhelmed with the horror of how influential it is.
Courtney Witcher
2021-11-21 22:27:46 +0000 UTC
