A Course in Miracles by The Foundation for Inner Peace

A Course in Miracles is a set of self-study components published by the Foundation for Inner Peace. The book's content material is metaphysical, and explains forgiveness as applied to daily life. Curiously, nowhere does  acim  have an author (and it is so listed without 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 related that the book's material is 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. Portion of the content is a teaching manual, and a student workbook. Given that the first edition, the book has sold several million copies, with translations into practically two-dozen languages.

The book's origins can be traced back to the early 1970s Helen Schucman first experiences with the "inner voice" led to her then supervisor, William Thetford, to get in touch with Hugh Cayce at the Association for Investigation 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 more than a year editing and revising the material. An additional 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 have been in 1975. Considering that then, copyright litigation by the Foundation for Inner Peace, and Penguin Books, has established that the content material of the initial edition is in the public domain.

A Course in Miracles is a teaching device the course has 3 books, a 622-page text, a 478-page student workbook, and an 88-web page teachers manual. The materials can be studied in the order selected by readers. The content of A Course in Miracles addresses both the theoretical and the practical, though application of the book's material is emphasized. The text is mostly theoretical, and is a basis for the workbook's lessons, which are sensible applications. The workbook has 365 lessons, one for every day of the year, though they do not have to be accomplished at a pace of a single lesson per day. Probably most like the workbooks that are familiar to the average reader from preceding experience, you are asked to use the material as directed. Nevertheless, in a departure from the "regular", the reader is not necessary to believe what is in the workbook, or even accept it. Neither the workbook nor the Course in Miracles is intended to full the reader's understanding merely, the components are a start.

A Course in Miracles distinguishes among understanding and perception truth is unalterable and eternal, while perception is the planet of time, change, and interpretation. The globe of perception reinforces the dominant tips in our minds, and keeps us separate from the truth, and separate from God. Perception is limited by the body's limitations in the physical globe, hence limiting awareness. Considerably of the knowledge 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, one learns forgiveness, each for oneself and other folks.