Meet JZ Knight

An In-Depth Exclusive Interview

By Michelene K. Bell
Publisher, In Light Times

JZ Knight is the unique channel of Ramtha and author of the best-selling autobiography, A State of Mind, My Story. Historians and religious experts who have studied her life’s work call JZ the Great American Channel and recognize her as one of the most charismatic and compelling spiritual leaders of the modern age. JZ Knight was born March 16, 1946 in Roswell, New Mexico; one of eight children.

Who is Ramtha? He is believed to be a 35,000 year old ancient spirit-warrior, conqueror and Ascended Master of L.emurian descent. Ramtha learned in his lifetime the unlimited potential of our minds for creating reality and the extraordinary in our lives. His powerful message of hope for humanity has already changed countless lives — none more powerfully and dramatically than JZ’s own life.

JZ Knight and Ramtha have captivated and inspired audiences worldwide for the last three decades, bridging ancient wisdom and the power of consciousness together with the latest discoveries in science.

ILT: JZ, what was it like growing up and how did you react to Ramtha’s introduction?

JZ: My great grandfather was a Baptist minister who gave sermons out of the back of his old pick-up. We were brought up with spare the rod, spoil the child, and forced to work the fields…going without an education. I was the 8th child and Helen, my Mother, was the only support for her family. Then she moved us to Rockwall, Texas where she was a farm laborer, hoeing, and picking cotton. We lived in a shack with no running water, no electricity, just a picnic style table with a kerosene lamp for light. My first introduction to any sort of religion was with the beautiful African American field workers who picked cotton with my Mother. I loved them! They sang glorious songs while working and prayed at meal times. We moved again, after the birth of my brother, Loy, to Artesia, New Mexico. Mom worked two jobs; one at a drug store lunch counter, the other after work at a hamburger stand owned by an elderly Christian couple. We lived in an old army barracks, only two small rooms across from the hamburger stand. Loy and I played around the stand while my mother worked until 10:00 p.m. We didn’t have baby sitters in those days. The Christian couple convinced my Mother to let us go to church. She relented and off we went to the Assembly of God Church with a shinny dime to give to God’s Son, Jesus. At the time, I was five years old and it seemed mighty strange to me that ‘He’ needed my mom’s tip. I was baptized in the church and stayed until I was thirteen years old, then quit and never returned. I could not reconcile how God could send my sister-in-law to hell for wearing a very pale pink lipstick or that because my Mother didn’t go to church; she was going to hell as well. I couldn’t wear pants, I couldn’t go to the movie theater, couldn’t read any book other than the Bible, if I or anyone else did, we were going to hell and burn forever. I particularly didn’t like that we couldn’t listen to music and couldn’t even watch Elvis Presley because he was wicked and his music was the devils…really! My poor sister-in-law went water skiing in a dress because she didn’t want to offend God by wearing a swim suit. I just knew that God was not the way my preacher and fellow Christians portrayed Him. That God created everyone and loved them all including me and my Mother. I always loved God, and I always prayed and they were answered.

When Ramtha appeared on a Sunday in February, 1977, his most startling revelation to me was that God was not ‘up there in the sky’ but lived inside me! and in everyone else, too! Oh, My Stars!

Ramtha reasoned with me that if God created all things, then what did God create them out of — considering all things could have come from only One Source, which would have been the Creator Himself! So, we are God Stuff! I loved the message! It made sense to me.

ILT: What was Ramtha’s mission?

JZ: Ramtha’s purpose was to teach humanity that they are Divine and God is within them. Each person is so powerful they create reality as we know it and in doing so, each person is responsible for the evolution of not only their individual reality but of the Earth as well. We are the greatest mystery we search for! But Ramtha will tell you that this is not just philosophy for philosophy rarely makes reality beyond the doubt barrier in our brain. It remains, just a philosophical belief system without any utility in making real events occur. Ramtha teaches and then instructs each student how to manifest a reality. Only with creating a thing from thought do we now have TRUTH. We learn that consciousness and energy within our brain creates the thoughts which manifest as our daily life.