A Course in Miracles

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A Course in Miracles

A Course in Miracles, Combined Volume, Third Edition as published by the Foundation for Inner Peace.
Editor	Helen Schucman, Bill Thetford, Ken Wapnick
Author	Helen Schucman
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Forgiveness
Genre	Spirituality
Published	1976 (New York: Viking: The Foundation for Inner Peace) 2007 (The Foundation for Inner Peace, 3rd ed.)
Media type	Softcover, hardcover, paperback MME, and Kindle, Sony and Mobipocket ebooks
Pages	1333
ISBN	978-1-883360-24-5
OCLC	190860865

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A Course in Miracles (also referred to as ACIM or the Course) is a book written and edited by Helen Schucman, with portions transcribed and edited byWilliam Thetford, containing a self-study curriculum to bring about what it calls a "spiritual transformation". The book consists of three sections entitled "Text", "Workbook" and "Manual for Teachers". Written from 1965 to 1972, some distribution occurred via photocopies before a hardcover edition was published in 1976 by the Foundation for Inner Peace.^[1] The copyright and trademarks, which had been held by two foundations, were revoked in 2004^[1] after lengthy litigation because the earliest versions had been circulated without a copyright notice.^[2][3]

Schucman believed that an "inner voice", which she identified as Jesus, guided her writing.^[4][5]

Throughout the 1980s annual sales of the book steadily increased each year; however the largest growth in sales occurred in 1992 after Marianne Williamsondiscussed the book on The Oprah Winfrey Show,^[1] with more than two million volumes sold.^[1] The book has been called everything from "New Age psychobabble",^[6] "a Satanic seduction",^[1] to "The New Age Bible".^[7]

Contents

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• 1Origins
• 2Contents
• 3Foundation for Inner Peace editions
• 4Reception
• 5See also
• 6References
• 7Further reading
• 8External links
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  by Linda Hudson (Aminat)