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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 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 associated 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. Element of the content material is a teaching manual, and a student workbook. Since the initial edition, the book has sold many million copies, with translations into almost 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 make contact with Hugh Cayce at the Association for Study 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 very first printings of the book for distribution had been in 1975. Since then, copyright litigation by the Foundation for Inner Peace, and Penguin Books, has established that the content of the first edition is in the public domain.

A Course in Miracles is a teaching device the course has 3 books, a 622-web page text, a 478-web page student workbook, and an 88-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 sensible, even 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 practical applications. The workbook has 365 lessons, one for every single day of the year, though they do not have to be completed at a pace of one lesson per day. Maybe most like the workbooks that are familiar to the average reader from preceding expertise, you are asked to use the material as directed. Nevertheless, in a departure from the "typical", the reader is not required to believe what is in the workbook, or even accept it. Neither christian mysticism nor the Course in Miracles is intended to full the reader's understanding simply, the components are a begin.

A Course in Miracles distinguishes among understanding and perception truth is unalterable and eternal, although perception is the world of time, alter, and interpretation. The planet 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 world, therefore limiting awareness. A lot 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, one particular learns forgiveness, each for oneself and other individuals.
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