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Study Materials - ArticlesMiracles CompanionA Course in Miracles Abstract
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A Course in Miracles is a book in three parts: Text, Workbook for Students, and Manual for Teachers. The parts sometimes have been published as three separate volumes and sometimes published in one combined volume.That's about all that can be said upon which practically everyone would agree.
A Course in Miracles roughly falls within the category of spirit channeled works, but making that classification hardly paints an accurate picture of how the nearly five hundred thousand words of the Course came to be in writing, or of the quality and significance of the material itself.
Perhaps the most unusual aspect of A Course in Miracles is the identity of the two individuals through whom the material was delivered, and the fact that they worked on the project over a seven-year period as a team. The two were each PhD professors of psychology working full-time in the academically rarefied, and highly competitive, Ivy League world of Columbia University in New York City during the 1960's. Their names were William Thetford and Helen Schucman.
Beginning in the decade of the Cuban missile crisis, political assassinations, the Vietnam war, the cold war, Middle East wars, race riots, and student riots; and being completed in the year of the Watergate break-in during Richard Nixon's reelection campaign of 1972, A Course in Miracles was delivered to and through this unlikely pair of spirit channels when Bill Thetford announced with some exasperation, "There has got to be another way!"
Although A Course in Miracles came into this world with the backdrop of civil, cultural, political and global turmoil of the 1960's, Bill Thetford asking for a different way was not motivated by those larger issues, as the story has been told. Thetford's problems were a lot closer to home. Dr. Thetford and his assistant Dr. Schucman simply couldn't get along with each other.
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