"A Course in Miracles"

jsstudio34
Nov 3, 2022
3 min read

Updated: May 25, 2023

"This course is a beginning, not an end. Your Friend (Jesus) goes with you. You are not alone. No one who calls on Him can call in vain. Whatever troubles you, be certain that He has the answer, and will gladly give it to you, if you simply turn to Him and ask it of Him.

He will not withhold all answers that you need for anything that seems to trouble you.

He knows the way to solve all problems, and resolve all doubts. His certainty is yours. You need but ask it of Him, and it will be given you." (E-1)

Shortly after my Husband's death, I set out on a mission of discovering what this insane world was all about, how we got into this reality and how we can get out of it.

A book, accidentally on purpose, literally fell onto my lap, a book called, "A Course in Miracles". This happening was the beginning of a massive transition of my thought system, firmly placing me on the path Home. The circumstances and timing of my husband's death was his greatest gift of love to me. This book was divinely gifted, with the purpose of awakening my mind.

The following is a short introduction, a background of the book's creation and contents:

A sudden decision was made between two people to join in on a common goal. One of which was to unite a strained professional relationship between Helen Schuman and William Thetford, Professors of Medical Psychology at Columbia University, in New York city.

Both were anything but spiritual.

"The head of the department announced that he was tired of the angry and aggressive feelings and attitudes reflected and concluded that there must be another way."

As if on cue, Helen, agreed to help him find it. Apparently this course was the other way. This intention was the "little willingness" required by Spirit to enable Him to use any situation for His purposes and provide it with His power.

Helen began to write in a diary, she recorded highly symbolic dreams and images that were coming to her. One day, she was surprised to find the words written: "This is a Course in Miracles." This was the introduction to the "Voice".

Without any sound, a kind of rapid, inner dictation was written down in a shorthand notebook. The writing was never automatic. "It could be interrupted at any time and later picked up again." It seemed to be a special assignment which she agreed to complete.

Bill supported and encouraged the recording of this Voice. She would take down what the Voice "said" and read it to him the next day, and he typed it from her dictation.

The whole process took about seven years.

Thus a book was created, 669-page Text, a 488 page Workbook for Students, and a 92-page Manual for Teachers.

At the beginning of the dictation Helen was given an explanation for what was happening. She was told that there was a "celestial speed-up.'

'The world was in pretty bad shape,' Jesus told her, which is obvious to anybody who looks around. This was in the mid-1960's and the world seems to be in even worse shape now.

The purpose of all this is to aid in changing people's minds about the nature of the world.

This book was divinely orchestrated, dictated, and transcribed word for word, for a world badly in need of Divine Intervention.

What the Book says:

Nothing real can be threatened.

Nothing unreal exists.

Herein lies the peace of God.

This is one quote regarding fear.

"Perfect love casts out fear. If fear exists,

Then there is not perfect love.

But:

Only perfect love exists.

If there is fear,