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A Course in Miracles is a set of self-study materials published by the Foundation for Inner Peace. The book’s content is metaphysical, and explains forgiveness as applied to daily life. Curiously, nowhere does the book have an author (and it is so listed without having an author’s name by the U.S. Library of Congress). However, the text was written by Helen Schucman (deceased) and William Thetford Schucman has associated that the book’s material is primarily based on communications to her from an “inner voice” she claimed was Jesus. The original version of the book was published in 1976, with a revised edition published in 1996. Component of the content is a teaching manual, and a student workbook. Since the initial edition, the book has sold a number of million copies, with translations into almost two-dozen languages.

The book’s origins can be traced back to the early 1970s Helen Schucman 1st experiences with the “inner voice” led to her then supervisor, William Thetford, to speak to Hugh Cayce at the Association for Analysis and Enlightenment. In turn, an introduction to Kenneth Wapnick (later the book’s editor) occurred. At the time of the introduction, Wapnick was clinical psychologist. After meeting, Schucman and Wapnik spent over a year editing and revising the material. One more introduction, this time of Schucman, Wapnik, and Thetford to Robert Skutch and Judith Skutch Whitson, of the Foundation for Inner Peace. The first printings of the book for distribution were in 1975. Because then, copyright litigation by the Foundation for Inner Peace, and Penguin Books, has established that the content of the 1st edition is in the public domain.

A Course in Miracles is a teaching device the course has three books, a 622-page text, a 478-web page student workbook, and an 88-page teachers manual. The components can be studied in the order chosen by readers. The content material of A Course in Miracles addresses each the theoretical and the practical, despite the fact that application of the book’s material is emphasized. The text is mainly theoretical, and is a basis for the workbook’s lessons, which are practical applications. The workbook has 365 lessons, one for every single day of the year, although they do not have to be done at a pace of a single lesson per day. Possibly most like the workbooks that are familiar to the typical reader from previous experience, you are asked to use the material as directed. However, in a departure from the “typical”, the reader is not required to think what is in the workbook, or even accept it. Neither the workbook nor the Course in Miracles is intended to comprehensive the reader’s understanding just, the components are a commence.

A Course in Miracles distinguishes in between knowledge and perception truth is unalterable and eternal, even though perception is the world of time, modify, and interpretation. The world of perception reinforces the dominant concepts in our minds, and keeps us separate from the truth, and separate from God. Perception is restricted by the body’s limitations in the physical planet, hence limiting awareness. Significantly of the experience of the planet reinforces the ego, and the individual’s separation from God. But, by accepting the vision of Christ, and the voice of the Holy Spirit, 1 learns forgiveness, both for oneself and other individuals.

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