A Course in Miracles Hardcover

A Course in Miracles (ACIM) is an acclaimed spiritual guide that teaches the way to universal love and peace a course in miracles by undoing guilt through forgiveness. Its three-volume curriculum consists of an explanation of theory, a workbook for students, and a manual in question-and-answer format.

It was scribed by Helen Schucman, a clinical and research psychologist and tenured Associate Professor of Medical Psychology at Columbia University, through inner dictation she identified as coming from Jesus.
The Text

In 1965, Helen Schucman heard an inner voice that would spark the writing of a modern spiritual classic: A Course in Miracles (also known as ACIM). Since its first publication in 1976, this three-volume curriculum of self-study spiritual thought has touched millions of lives, transforming fear and anger into love and forgiveness. This new edition includes the full text of the Workbook for Students and Manual for Teachers, plus 33 cameo essays guiding readers through the Course's principles.

This journey through the Course's thirty-one chapters is arranged symphonically by theme, with excerpts chosen to illustrate each one. Extensive footnotes clarify challenging passages, identify unclear pronouns, define psychological terms, point out allusions to things in the general culture, and more. Thirty-three cameo essays offer personal guidance given by the Course's source to its scribes, which were too personal to appear in the original published edition.

A Course in Miracles is a universal spiritual teaching that draws from ancient wisdom traditions. Its underlying ontology, however, is essentially Christian in origin, expressing the universal experience of God's love. The Course teaches that the way to God is through undoing guilt by forgiving others. Its pedagogy emphasizes that this is a process, not a leap to some other spiritual paradise.

The Original Edition was a groundbreaking book that introduced many readers to truths they had never before encountered, but somehow seemed to have always known. Yet, in the course of editing for publication, approximately forty-five thousand words were removed from its pages. This Complete and Annotated Edition (CE) restores the lost material, allowing you to encounter the power of the Course's words exactly as Helen heard them in her mind and recorded them on paper.

The Combined Volume contains the full text of A Course in Miracles as its Scribe, Helen Schucman, authorized it to be printed. The Combined Volume also contains the Supplements to A Course in Miracles, "Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process and Practice" and "The Song of Prayer." As the only edition that combines the unified Text, Workbook, and Manual, this edition offers a single volume that makes it easy for new and experienced students alike to find the guidance they need to apply the principles of the Course in their daily lives.
The Workbook

Since 1976, A Course in Miracles--also known as ACIM, the Text, and the Workbook for Students--has transformed thousands of lives by helping them to release fear and experience peace. It is a self-study spiritual thought system that teaches that the way to universal love and peace lies in undoing guilt through forgiveness of others. Its teaching is expressed in terms of traditional Christianity, but its underlying ontology is non-sectarian and universal.

A Course in Miracles has been republished many times. This Combined Volume, the third edition of the book, includes the original text and the Workbook for Students in one volume as well as a revised and expanded version of the Manual for Teachers, which has been expanded to include questions and answers to help you use the teachings in your daily life. It also contains two Supplements to A Course in Miracles: Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process and Practice and The Song of Prayer.

This unified edition is unique among the available versions of A Course in Miracles because it does not present a line-by-line commentary or exposition of the text. Instead, it guides you through the text as if listening to a symphony: its themes are presented and developed in a sequence that is natural to the music. This Journey provides a more meaningful reading experience and enables you to better understand the Course, relate to it, and apply its teachings in your life.

Extensive footnotes are included to clarify difficult passages, identify unclear pronouns, define psychological terms, point out allusions in the general culture, and list Course references and Bible references. Thirty-three cameo essays comment on personal guidance given by the source of the material to the scribes (Helen Schucman and William Thetford). This guidance, too personal for the Course proper but essential to its practical application, is clarified and made accessible to all students in this volume.

As you read the Text, this volume will enable you to better understand its teachings by allowing you to see them in their original order. The first four chapters of the Text are roughly twice as long as in the Foundation for Inner Peace edition and the wording has been restored in most cases to its original form.
The Manual for Teachers

All students of A Course in Miracles know that the book consists of three volumes: the Text, the Workbook for Students and the Manual for Teachers. And they also know that each volume serves a different purpose. The textbook is meant to be read and studied, the workbook is meant to be practiced and its lessons performed, and the manual for teachers is meant to teach them how to teach the course to others. But beyond that, most of us have only a vague idea why the Manual for Teachers exists at all.

The answer to this question is actually spelled out quite clearly in the Manual itself. In seven sections the Course depicts the teacher of God as essentially a faith healer (or forgiveness healer in this case). These healings are done with patients, who are portrayed as having projected their own mind’s illness into their bodies, thereby creating physical illness. The healer, therefore, must offer them verbal teaching, and the teaching should reflect Course principles.

These teachings are not given to the patient directly, but rather to a teacher of God, who in turn passes it on to his pupil. The course thus assumes that the teacher will ideally be able to accept pupils, and that his or her role in life is to teach another way of being by his own example.

It goes on to say that this is the only real function of the teacher, and that “if he has any other function it is to serve as a witness to the truth by his teaching” (Manual, p. 3; M-1.4:1). So, as it turns out, the Manual is a manual for a curriculum, intended to be taught to students who have made a special choice not to follow the world’s way but rather to follow the Course’s way of seeing.

It is, in other words, a manual for a specific form of the universal spiritual course. The questions posed in the Manual, written in question and answer format, provide answers to many of the more likely ones a student might ask. The Manual also clarifies a number of terms used in the Course, and offers a brief summary of its principles in question and answer form.
The Combined Volume

A Course in Miracles is a comprehensive self-study spiritual thought system that teaches forgiveness as the way to universal love and peace. The acclaimed guide reveals that shifting one's perception from fear to love is the way to healing and making all relationships holy. While expressed in the language of traditional Christianity, it is nonsectarian and universal in its teachings.

This Combined Volume presents all three parts of the Course, its Text, Workbook for Students, and Manual for Teachers in one convenient volume. The Text explains the Course's theory, and the Workbook offers 365 lessons -- one for each day of the year -- intended to change students' perceptions. The Manual for Teachers, written in question-and-answer format, provides answers to many of the more likely questions that will arise, and clarifies a number of important Course terms. Also included are two valuable Supplements to the Course, Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process and Practice, and The Song of Prayer.

The "Original Edition" of A Course in Miracles was completed by Helen Schucman, a clinical and research psychologist and tenured Associate Professor of Medical Psychology at Columbia University, with the help of her colleague William Thetford, during the years 1965-1972. The resulting book, published in 1975, has sold millions of copies worldwide and is used by thousands of Course study groups.

ACIM Society founder and longtime student of the Course, Alan Cohen, combines his deep understanding of the material with his ability to convey its significance in a clear and accessible manner. He takes the sometimes difficult-to-understand teachings of this life-changing text and demonstrates how they can be applied to daily living.

A Journey through the Text of A Course in Miracles is a unique book designed to help readers experience this great spiritual teaching as it was originally presented to its listeners. Unlike other books that offer line-by-line interpretations of the text, this book is arranged symphonicly by theme, and leads readers through the chapters of the Text as if they were listening to a piece of music, following its themes as they develop and interconnect with each other.