In 1977, a Tacoma housewife picked up a paper pyramid as a joke and somehow channeled a 35,000-year-old warrior spirit in her kitchen. That spirit, Ramtha, would go on to turn Knight into a multimillionaire guru and the founder of a controversial "school" on an 80-acre compound in Yelm, Washington that still operates today. 

In part 1 we dive into the wild origin story of one of the New Age movement's biggest names. From that first strange encounter through Ramtha's explosion into pop culture, including celebrity followers, appearances in mainstream media, and the birth of the channeling movement that would influence decades of New Age spirituality. We dig into who JZ Knight really is, how "Ramtha" first spoke, and how a paper pyramid turned into an empire.

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Intro music by Don Edwards