JZ Knight, who claims to channel a 35,000-year-old warrior named Ramtha, is coming to Santa Barbara this weekend A former housewife from Washington state, JZ Knight, is coming to Santa Barbara this weekend to lecture about spirituality, but no one is much interested in what she has to say. Instead, people are coming to absorb the teachings of Ramtha, a 35,000-year-old warrior for whom Ms. Knight claims to be the channeler. Channelers, like mediums, say they have contact with beings in the spirit world. It’s a strange story, to be sure, and skeptics abound. But a widely respected scholar of