A Course in Miracles

I’m taking a course in miracles.

No shit.

A Course In Miracles, the book

I found the book called “A Course In Miracles“ because I asked for a miracle and got one. And another. And finally, The Course. I wrote about it here.

The Course is in a book that was written by—well, that’s the thing. We don’t exactly know who wrote it.

We know who was the “scribe” for the course. It was Dr. Helen Schuchman, who describes herself as:

Psychologist, educator, conservative in theory and atheistic in belief.

She started to write

the “highly symbolic dreams and descriptions of the strange images that were coming to me.”

And then, one day, she wrote (to her surprise):

“This is a course in miracles. Take notes.”

So she took notes.

I mean, what would you do if a voice in your head told you to take notes?

For seven years, she took notes. Her collaborator William Thetford, also a psychologist, transcribed the notes. Eventually, the content for The Course appeared—all 1300 pages of it.

That’s the story according to the Foundation for Inner Peace: Publisher of A Course in Miracles (ACIM), the organization that they, “the Scribes,” chose to publish the Course.

The Course came to Helen and William and then ACIM, and then it came to me.

And now a rumor of it has come to you.

You can find the course on the Foundation website, or get a copy from Amazon like I did.

I’ve been doing the day-by-day exercises in the course, and I’ve found it more than slightly interesting.

But that’s also another story for another time.

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