Ruth Montgomery

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Ruth Shick Montgomery (born June 11, 1912 , † June 10, 2001 ) was an American journalist and what she describes as a Christian medium in the tradition of Jeane Dixon and Edgar Cayce . She was a protégé of Arthur Ford who claimed that he (like Cayce) could access the Akashic Records (or database) of the universe.

Montgomery initially believed that their mission on earth was to educate the public of their belief in the afterlife that is common among spiritualists. However, she also studied reincarnation and came to the view that mental and physical illnesses often originated in former lives.

With other like-minded mystics, Montgomery founded the "Association for the Study and Therapy of Past Lives". Her many books (which she says were channeled through automatic writing by her spirit guides) brought spiritualistic ideas to the public mind in the 1980s and 1990s, paving the way for what is now known as the New Age religion. Montgomery is best known for popularizing the “walk-in” theory that a person's soul can leave an injured or painful body and be replaced with a new soul to take over.

In her book A World Beyond, Montgomery stated that she lived in a former incarnation during the time of Christ and was known as Lazarus' third sister, Ruth, who is not mentioned in the Bible.

Montgomery claimed that the ancient advanced civilizations of Mu and Atlantis had destroyed each other thousands of years in the prehistory of modern man. She said we would see remnants of the lost continent of Atlantis rise from the sea after a "polar shift".

Montgomery predicted in the 1970s (ostensibly with the help of their spirit guides) that World War III would begin in the mid-1980s when a localized war instigated by the Ethiopian "strong man" Mengistu Haile Mariam first began in the Middle East and then Europe would spread. Montgomery's leaders made it clear that people have free will and can make their own decisions about their fate, and that in the late 1970s and early 1980s they actually changed the future and thereby prevented this war.

Montgomery continued to forecast in the 1970s and 1980s that America would have a "walk-in" as president in the 1990s ("not sure which period, 1992 or 1996)" - before the polar shift that "lasted Months of the century, "it seemed to the leaders.

At the end of the 1990s, the spirit guides predicted in their new book (1999), "The Coming World", that the "Walk-in" President would come in 2008 at the earliest and that the postponement would therefore be delayed until at least 2010–2012. The potential disaster of displacement has also been reduced by human free will. Aside from Florida and the California coast, most of America will survive, the guides believed.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ruth Montgomery in the catalog of the German National Library