A Course in Miracles by The Foundation for Inner Peace
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 every day 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). Nevertheless, 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. Portion of the content material is a teaching manual, and a student workbook. Given that the very first edition, the book has sold a number of million copies, with translations into nearly 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 contact 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 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. Because then, copyright litigation by the Foundation for Inner Peace, and Penguin Books, has established that the content of the very first 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-page teachers manual. The supplies can be studied in the order selected by readers. The content of A Course in Miracles addresses both the theoretical and the sensible, though application of the book's material is emphasized. The text is mainly theoretical, and is a basis for the workbook's lessons, which are sensible applications. The workbook has 365 lessons, a single for each and every day of the year, even though they do not have to be completed at a pace of one particular lesson per day. Maybe most like the workbooks that are familiar to the typical reader from preceding knowledge, you are asked to use the material as directed. However, in a departure from the "standard", the reader is not required 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 studying simply, the components are a start off.
A Course in Miracles distinguishes amongst understanding and perception truth is unalterable and eternal, although perception is the planet of time, change, and interpretation. acim of perception reinforces the dominant suggestions 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, as a result limiting awareness. Significantly of the encounter 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, a single learns forgiveness, each for oneself and other individuals.