[sebosp]

Laugh all you want, when I was like 12 years old my family was into this weird techno-pseudoscience-cult of "Ramtha's school of enlightenment" and they have the biggest trance/shamanistic playlists, we had these long ceremonies of hours of dancing while listening to music like this and drinking red wine and smoking tobacco on pipes. I guess if it wasn't for the alcohol I would have remembered all these amazing songs but well... I think that sect is still alive and I wish they had a playlist somewhere outside their website coz I can't stand the website much due to the religious content bringing back drunk memories. If you know of such a playlist please share

[jmts]

Ramtha's School of Enlightenment used to come to a university I used to work at between sessions while the students were away. They would have a section of paddock fenced off and would wander around it blindfolded making "PSSHHTT" noises to stop running into each other (I assume). They definitely seemed like a peculiar bunch.

[sebosp]

Even seated you would make these psssshhht sounds of pushing air out, you would end up sweating from a meditation session because your muscles would also be contracted as you focus on the hand position in your chest... In your mind you have to visualize words backwards and breath them out letter by letter... I still laugh at the "so be it" that has to be said with absolute certainty for your wishes to come true

[wahnfrieden]

Can you elaborate on your experience at Ramtha, and what lasting effect it had on your psyche/moral compass?

[sebosp]

The bad: I was an alcoholic and smoked from age 12 to age 30. The community builds a level of arrogance that they have access to special knowledge because they are in a specific stage in the evolutionary "destiny". Breaking bonds with other family/friends is almost needed because you don't hear their points anymore, just like scientology or other closed sects, not sure their proper name. You think you have a guardian angel too that your destiny is to survive and become enlightened and you shouldn't have fear, I had a couple of near death experiences because of this false sense of security, plus the constant wine drinking... The good: they pack a lot of trigonometry and algebra but then they teach you "sacred geometry"... They also teach basic quantum mechanics basics, but then teach you that the observer effect is controlled by our minds, or that you can transform a carrot into gold... So somethings are useful... I'm still recovering from these cults, it's crazy how much our minds can change, therapy takes a while to take and forgetting/re-learning also takes its time, as it should...