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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 an author's name by the U.S. Library of Congress). Even so, the text was written by Helen Schucman (deceased) and William Thetford Schucman has related that the book's material is primarily based on communications to her from an "inner voice" she claimed was Jesus. acim 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 very first edition, the book has sold numerous million copies, with translations into practically two-dozen languages.

The book's origins can be traced back to the early 1970s Helen Schucman initial 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. Right 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 had been in 1975. Given that then, copyright litigation by the Foundation for Inner Peace, and Penguin Books, has established that the content of the initial edition is in the public domain.

A Course in Miracles is a teaching device the course has three books, a 622-web page text, a 478-web page student workbook, and an 88-page teachers manual. The components can be studied in the order selected by readers. The content of A Course in Miracles addresses both the theoretical and the sensible, although 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 each day of the year, even though they do not have to be completed at a pace of one lesson per day. Perhaps most like the workbooks that are familiar to the typical reader from earlier expertise, you are asked to use the material as directed. Even so, in a departure from the "typical", the reader is not essential to believe what is in the workbook, or even accept it. Neither the workbook nor the Course in Miracles is intended to total the reader's learning simply, the materials are a start.

A Course in Miracles distinguishes amongst understanding and perception truth is unalterable and eternal, while perception is the world of time, adjust, 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 planet, hence limiting awareness. Considerably 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, a single learns forgiveness, each for oneself and other folks.
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