A Course in Miracles is some self-study materials published by the Foundation for Inner Peace. The book's content is metaphysical, and explains forgiveness as applied to daily life. Strangely enough, no place does the book have an author (and it is so listed without an author's name by the You. S. Library of Congress). However, the written text was (deceased) and William Thetford; has related 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. The main content is a teaching manual, and a student workbook. Since the first edition, the book has sold several million copies, with translations into nearly two-dozen dialects.
The book's beginning can be tracked back to the early 1970s; Sally Schucman first experiences with the "inner voice" led to her then manager, William Thetford, to make contact with Hugh Cayce at the Association for Research and Enlightenment acim. In turn, an introduction to Kenneth Wapnick (later the book's editor) occurred. At the time of the introduction, Wapnick was clinical psycho therapist. After meeting, Schucman and Wapnik spent over a year editing and revising the material. Another introduction, this time of Schucman, Wapnik, and Thetford to Robert Skutch and Judith Skutch Whitson, of the Foundation for Inner Peace. The first printings of the book for distribution were in 1975. Subsequently, copyright litigation by the Foundation for Inner Peace, and Penguin Books, has built 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-page text, a 478-page student workbook, and an 88-page teachers manual. The materials can be studied in the order chosen by readers. The content of a Course in Miracles addresses the theoretical and the practical, although application of the book's material is highlighted. The written text is mostly theoretical, and is a basis for the workbook's lessons, which are practical applications. The workbook has 365 lessons, one for each day of the year, though they need not be achieved at a pace of one lesson per day. Perhaps possib the workbooks that are familiar to the average reader from previous experience, you are asked to use the material as directed. However, in a starting from the "normal", the reader is not required to believe what is in the workbook, or even accept it. Neither the workbook nor the Course in Miracles is intended to complete the reader's learning; simply, the materials are a start.
An application in Miracles differentiates between knowledge and perception; truth is unalterable and endless, while perception is the world of time, change, and model. The world of perception reinforces the principal ideas in our minds, and keeps us separate from the truth, and separate from God. Perception is bound by the anatomy's limitations in the physical world, thus constraining awareness. A lot of the experience of the world reinforces the ego, and the persons splitting up from God. But, by accepting the vision of Christ, and the voice of the Holy Spirit, one finds forgiveness, both for yourself yet others.
