A State of Mind, My Story Ramtha: The Adventure Begins

by J.Z. Knight

The "Channel" for Ramtha, a thirty-five-thousand-year-old warrior spirit from Atlantis, recounts her determined rise from her impoverished childhood to become a popular spiritual guide

480 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1987

About the author

American mystic teacher and author, and is known for claiming to be channel of a spiritual entity named Ramtha.

Knight claims to bridge ancient wisdom and the power of consciousness together with the latest discoveries in science.

Reviews

[Vickey Kall]

If you've ever been curious about JZ Knight, the controversial channeler of Ramtha, this book is an entertaining read. I enjoyed it, but of course it only tells a part of the story. Knight has married 3 or 4 times and suffered countless jibes since penning this in 1987, so there's a lot more to be told. Not that she's planning a sequel.
Ultimately, the book is self-serving and I don't know how much of it I think is true. All autobiographies are self-serving, though--I can think of only one or two in which the author didn't present him/herself in the best possible light. (Those two are by Peter Abelard and Jonathan Franzen, btw. Just in case you wondered.) So perhaps "self-serving" isn't a fair criticism.
I can't put my finger on why I doubt much of her story. I have no bias against channeling--in fact, a member of my own family did that briefly and stopped because it drained and sickened him. But I just didn't feel I was getting the truth--more a mixture of dressed-up truth and fiction, with a few extra poodle skirts tossed in.