about eliz c prophet rob butera asks about a book called the lost years of jesus by elizabeth clare prophet i do not know the book however miss prophet is the leader of a group the church universal and triumphant derived from the i am group founded by a mr ballard who began his mission in the s i am writing this from memory and may not have all the details straight for an old account check your library for a bnook by marcus bach after an eighteenth century frenchman appeared tapped him on the shoulder and offered him a cup of cosmic essence a major tenet of the movement is that there is a monastery in the mountains of tibet from which a monk descends to the lower altitudes every few centuries to preach and that all major religions have been founded by monks from this monastery typically the ballard family and their successors the prophet family related by marriage if i remember aright base almost all their teachings on messages they have allegedly received by telepathy from tibet i should be surprised if the book you mention has any scholarly basis yours james kiefer
