The great classic work, A Course in Miracles, is devoted to teachings about who we are, our relationships to God and with each other, and the actually mental nature of our bodies and the world. There are three constituent parts to the Course: The Text, a Workbook for Students, and the Manual for Teachers. The Text lays out the theoretical foundation for the metaphysical system of the Course. The Workbook contains a series of 365 Lessons to be practiced daily for the purpose of retraining the mind and healing our perception. Finally, the Manual contains information for and about advanced teachers of God. The Course is also about miracles, which students understand to be, in part, a shift in perception to healed vision. But miracles are more than a shift in perception because the shift has consequences in the world as we see it. The Course is a self-study educational program for retraining the mind that is spiritual, rather than religious, in its perspective. Although the a course in miracles online uses Christian terminology, it expresses a universal experience, and its underlying ontology is reminiscent of ancient refrains, echoing the world’s most hallowed traditions.

About the Author

The story of the Course began when Columbia University research psychologist Dr. William Thetford decided he had had enough of the intensely competitive and negative climate he was experiencing and declared to his colleague, Dr. Helen Schucman, “There must be another way, and I am determined to find it. She agreed to help. What ensued was a dramatic progression of waking dreams for Schucman, which culminated in October of 1965 with her experience of a voice which spoke clearly in her mind, saying, “This is a course in miracles. Please take notes.”

About the Publishers

Course in Miracles Society was founded in 2000 to publish and distribute Jesus’ Course in Miracles, a precursor of ACIM Original Edition. When the Course was found to be in the public domain, the Original Edition was born. A Course in Miracles-Original Edition is the unabridged volume of the Course as it was completed by Schucman and Thetford in 1972, before substantial editing by others.

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A Course in Miracles by Michael Braunstein 1983 seems long ago. And it would be — if there were such a thing as time. Though it’s common in metaphysical circles to dismiss the notion of “time” as a construct of human egocentricity, I’ll indulge my less metaphysical side and pretend 1983 is a long time ago. That year, I introduced a friend to sushi for her first time. She returned the favor by introducing me to A Course in Miracles.

I learned more about A Course in Miracles with weekly gatherings at Carolyn and Harvey Fuqua’s home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Nichols Canyon. At the time, A Course in Miracles was a relatively new publication, first officially printed in 1975. The Course has no listed author— only a publisher: Foundation for Inner Peace. The Course made sense to me right away.

Courses for horses. My interest in the esoteric view of reality started at an early age when I learned that what we see with our eyes is merely physical illusion. Oh,to sight and touch the world may seem to be solid matter but when you stop and think, you know better.

Basic science confirms that everything we see, touch, smell or hear is explained by the tiny world of nuclear physics. The more we admit to the science, we find our universe is made of nothing but energy. Let me be clear about that. There is no solid matter. There is only energy. It’s science.

That was clear after reading a book about atomic energy at the old Omaha Public Library at the ripe old age of 10. But don’t misunderstand. I didn’t spend the rest of my childhood wondering about it. I played with toy trucks, rode my bicycle, played sports. I tolerated Catholic grade school, high school and university and grew grateful for that introduction to a spiritual view of the world.

But religion still led with too much emphasis on the physical. I was interested in energy. Eventually I recognized that thought itself is a form of energy. We just have not learned to measure it fully. Western science doesn’t recognize anything it can’t quantize and measure. As far as Western science was concerned, cosmic rays, electricity, radiation, light and even sound didn’t exist until we learned to measure them. Western science is barely beginning to understand that thought is energy.

Putting that energy to work. With a basic tenet that “thought is creative,” the Course was a natural for me. And with its stated goal of peace of mind, who wouldn’t want to pursue that? The Course then looks at the only real law of the Universe: the Law of Cause and Effect. And if thought exists as a non-physical entity, then what caused physical ones? It’s easy to see that any and all physical things are always preceded by a thought. Therefore the flow of cause and effect goes from thought to form, not the other way around. That may require a slightly lengthier explanation and that’s available if one wants it. That’s part of what the Course explores.

The Books. The Course acim online was published in three volumes as a Text, a Workbook for Students and a Manual for Teachers. The words contained in each were received by a woman named Helen Schucman, a psychology professor at Columbia School of Medicine. An inner voice dictated the writing to her and responded with “Jesus” when she asked his name. Regardless of the provenance, even skeptics acknowledge that the Course unquestionably follows a solid line of logic and is based firmly on psychology and physics, not to mention spirituality.

The Text provides an academic underpinning. The Workbook provides a series of 365 lessons that serve as a tutorial designed to reverse the false belief that cause is outside us and that we are the effect of the world. Following the lessons, one learns that thought is cause and therefore our mind is the best tool we have to achieve peace. The Course then proceeds to teach how to use the mind. Finally, the Manual for Teachers elucidates the goals of the Course, basic interpretations of roles and suggestions for application.