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A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume

1333 pages

The Combined Volume, Third Edition of A Course in Miracles is the only edition that contains in one place all of the writings that Dr. Helen Schucman, its Scribe, authorized to be printed.  It is published soley by The Foundation for Inner Peace, the organization chosen by Dr. Schucman in 1975 for this purpose.

The Combined Volume includes:
Preface
Text
Workbook for Students
Manual for Teachers
Clarification of Terms
Supplements:
  - Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process and Practice
  - The Song of Prayer
  (These sections are extensions of the Course principles, which were dictated

A Course in Miracles is a complete self-study spiritual thought system. As a three-volume curriculum of a Text, Workbook for Students, and Manual for Teachers, it teaches that the way to universal love and peace—or remembering God—is by undoing guilt through forgiving others. The Course thus focuses on the healing of relationships and making them holy. A Course in Miracles also emphasizes that it is but one version of the universal curriculum, of which there are "many thousands." Consequently, even though the language of the Course is that of traditional Christianity, it expresses a non-sectarian, non-denominational spirituality. A Course in Miracles therefore is a universal spiritual teaching, not a religion.

A Course in Miracles was "scribed" by Dr. Helen Schucman through a process of inner dictation she identified as coming from Jesus. A clinical and research psychologist and tenured Associate Professor of Medical Psychology, she was assisted by Dr. William Thetford, her department head, who was also a tenured Professor of Medical Psychology at the Medical Center where they both worked.

A Course in Miracles was first published in 1975, the year Dr. Schucman assigned copyright of the Course to the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP). Since the beginning and as designated, this Foundation has been its publisher, disseminator, and copyright/trademark holder, although in 1999 it assigned the copyright and trademark to the Foundation for A Course in Miracles (FACIM). There are currently about one and a half million copies of the Course in circulation worldwide. Translations in Chinese, Dutch, German, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish are also available, with twelve other translations now in progress.

What exactly, then, is A Course in Miracles? The summary introduction, which appears in its Text, is quite succinct and brief. It reads:

"This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time. The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.

This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:

Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.

Herein lies the peace of God."

The "Text" presents the theory of the Course and has built into its study the development of the experience of forgiveness that is the Course's goal for the student. In this regard, A Course in Miracles states that "its goal for you is happiness and peace." (Text, p. 241) (T-13.II.7:1) The Text also explains the basis for fear and guilt, and how they can be overcome through miracles, which are defined as maximal "expressions of love." Miracles are also defined as the shift in perception from fear to love.

The "Workbook for Students" consists of 365 lessons, an exercise for each day of the year. This one-year training program begins the process of changing the student's mind and perception, though it is not intended to bring one's learning to completion. As stated in the Preface to the Course, "At the end, the reader is left in the hands of his or her own Internal Teacher, Who will direct all subsequent learning as He sees fit." (Preface: ix)

The "Manual for Teachers" is written in question-and-answer form and provides answers to some of the more likely questions a student might ask. It also includes clarification of a number of terms the Course uses, explaining them within the theoretical framework of the Text and for their practical application through the Workbook.

Table of Contents:
Introduction    
Ch. 1    The Meaning of Miracles    
Ch. 2    The Separation and the Atonement    
Ch. 3    The Innocent Perception    
Ch. 4    The Illusions of the Ego    
Ch. 5    Healing and Wholeness    
Ch. 6    The Lessons of Love    
Ch. 7    The Gifts of the Kingdom    
Ch. 8    The Journey Back    
Ch. 9    The Acceptance of the Atonement    
Ch. 10    The Idols of Sickness    
Ch. 11    God or the Ego    
Ch. 12    The Holy Spirit's Curriculum    
Ch. 13    The Guiltless World    
Ch. 14    Teaching for Truth    
Ch. 15    The Holy Instant    
Ch. 16    The Forgiveness of Illusions    
Ch. 17    Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship    
Ch. 18    The Passing of the Dream    
Ch. 19    The Attainment of Peace    
Ch. 20    The Vision of Holiness    
Ch. 21    Reason and Perception    
Ch. 22    Salvation and the Holy Relationship    
Ch. 23    The War Against Yourself    
Ch. 24    The Goal of Specialness    
Ch. 25    The Justice of God    
Ch. 26    The Transition    
Ch. 27    The Healing of the Dream    
Ch. 28    The Undoing of Fear    
Ch. 29    The Awakening    
Ch. 30    The New Beginning    
Ch. 31    The Final Vision

About Helen Schucman,the reluctant author of ACIM
Helen Schucman was an intelligent, quick-witted and distinguished psychologist.  There’s no doubt that Helen was also a headstrong character.  Born in 1909 to half Jewish parents, Helen was left to find her own spiritual pathway as neither parent was particularly religious.   She was baptised and experienced a miracle at Lourdes, however none of this satisfied her search for God and she eventually declared herself an atheist.  After she married in 1933, Helen’s restless search for answers eventually led her to study for a doctorate of Clinical Psychology. Her, husband, the bookish Louis Schucman supported her in the hope that studying would satisfy his agitated, unhappy wife.     After graduating she spent fruitless time and energy in chasing grants and eventually landed up, rather reluctantly, at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Centre. It wasn’t her first choice, but it was a job opportunity and it was here she met Bill Thetford, the man who would go on to co-scribe ACIM with her.   Prior to writing ACIM Helen went through a visionary phase of waking dreams and psychic experiences.    She started to scribe A Course in Miracles after one particularly poignant dream where she was in a cave and came across a scroll which had on it the words “God is”.     In the dream she was tempted to look at the rest of the scroll which would show her the past and future, but she resisted. That was when she heard a voice say, “Well done you made it that time.”     Bill Thetford was fascinated with Helen’s ‘magic period’. He was the only person she trusted enough to confide in. She knew how damaging it would be to her reputation if she admitted, as a psychologist, to hearing voices.  Helen became used to hearing the Voice when suddenly on 21st October 1965 it gave her the instruction, “This is a course in miracles, please take notes.”   This unsettled Helen so much, she panicked and called Bill. He quietly reassured her to write down what it said and to bring it in to him the next day.    This was the start of the seven year process of Helen Schucman and Bill scribing A Course in Miracles.   Helen and Bill, who constantly bickered, would daily join together to write down the dictation from the Voice. They might have had their differences, but when it came to A Course in Miracles they were in complete harmony.  

For the complete story of Helen Schucman, read Absence from Felicity:  The Story of Helen Schucman, by Kenneth Wapnick

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