Ruth Montgomery

Ruth Shick Montgomery (June 11, 1912 – June 10, 2001) was an American journalist and self-described Christian psychic in the tradition of Jeane Dixon and Edgar Cayce. She was a protégée of Arthur Ford who claimed he (like Cayce) could access the Akashic Records (or database) of the Universe.

Montgomery initially believed her mission on Earth was to educate the public on her belief in life after death, which is common among spiritualists. However, she also studied reincarnation and came to believe that mental and physical illnesses often have their origins in past lives.

With other like-minded mystics, Montgomery founded the Association for Past Life Research and Therapy. Her many books (which she says were channelled via Automatic writing from her spirit guides) popularised spiritualist notions in public consciousness in the 1980s and 1990s, and paved the way for what is now known as New Age religion. Montgomery is particularly noted for her popularization of walk-in theory whereby a person's soul can depart a hurt or anguished body and be replaced with a new soul to take over the body.

In her book "A World Beyond", Montgomery revealed that in a past incarnation she had been alive during the time of Christ and known as Lazarus' third sister Ruth, who is not mentioned in the Bible.

Montgomery claimed that ancient advanced civilizations of "Mu" and "Atlantis" had destroyed themselves thousands of years in the pre-history 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 (allegedly with the help of her spirit guides) that World War III would begin in the mid-1980s when a brush-fire war, started by Ethiopian strongman Mengistu Haile Mariam, would spread first to the middle-east, and then Europe. Montgomery's guides allegedly stated quite clearly that humans have free will and can make their own decisions regarding their destiny, and during the late 1970s and early 1980s, in fact changed the future, preventing the war.

Montgomery also predicted in the 1970s and 1980s, that America would have a "walk-in" as president in the 1990s, ("unsure which term, 1992 or 1996") before the Polar Shift, which was to happen "in the last months of the century" as it seemed to the Guides.

In the late 1990s, the Guides predicted in her new (1999) book, "The World To Come", that the walk-in president would not come until 2008 at the earliest, and therefore the Shift would be delayed until 2010-2012 at least. The potential catastrophe of the shift was also reduced by human free will. Except for Florida and the coast of California, the Guides reported, most of America will survive.

References

* "Ruth Montgomery: Herald of the New Age". ISBN 5-551-12065-1
* "The World to Come: The Guides' Long-Awaited Predictions for the Dawning Age." ISBN 0609604791; ISBN-13: 978-0609604793