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 everyday 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. Component of the content material is a teaching manual, and a student workbook. Because the initial edition, the book has sold several million copies, with translations into almost 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 speak to Hugh Cayce at the Association for Research and Enlightenment. In turn, an introduction to Kenneth Wapnick (later the book's editor) occurred. At acim authors of the introduction, Wapnick was clinical psychologist. Following meeting, Schucman and Wapnik spent more than 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 very first printings of the book for distribution were in 1975. Considering that then, copyright litigation by the Foundation for Inner Peace, and Penguin Books, has established that the content material of the 1st 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-page student workbook, and an 88-web page teachers manual. The components can be studied in the order selected by readers. The content material of A Course in Miracles addresses each 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, one particular for each day of the year, though they don't have to be carried out at a pace of a single lesson per day. Maybe most like the workbooks that are familiar to the average reader from previous encounter, you are asked to use the material as directed. Even so, in a departure from the "standard", the reader is not needed 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 studying simply, the materials are a start.
A Course in Miracles distinguishes among knowledge and perception truth is unalterable and eternal, even though perception is the world of time, change, and interpretation. The world 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, therefore limiting awareness. Significantly of the encounter of the globe 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, both for oneself and other folks.