ACIM History and Issues Articles

After Helen and Bill’s joining in a better way in June of 1965, Helen began, as most Course students know, to have a series of heightened mental imagery, both in dreams and in her waking state. She had always seen very clear mental pictures, even during the day while...

One of Helen's most important experiences was her scroll cave vision. This ended what she called her "magic phase" and represented her acceptance of her role as scribe of A Course in Miracles. Her magic phase (as we saw in an earlier class) was one in which she...

I came across a fascinating passage in Helen Schucman's shorthand notebooks recently: "The Atonement can only be accepted within you. You have perceived it largely as external thus far, and that is why your experience of it has been minimal. You have been shown the...

Over the course of the last several years, we at the Circle have taken public stands in relation to two other teachers of A Course in Miracles. In 2003 we wrote One Course, Two Visions about our differences with the teachings of Ken Wapnick. And in 2006 Greg Mackie...

As the controversy over the Course's copyright has heated up, students all over are looking for an enlightened response. One of the most common responses I have heard is that we should dispense with the book and its words. The words are what the mess is over. If we...

Life for students of A Course in Miracles used to be simpler than it is today. We had one version of our revered book, and we knew that this version was almost exactly as its scribe, Helen Schucman, heard it, straight from Jesus. She herself gave this impression in...

Last year I was talking to a fellow Course teacher, and he mentioned how iron-clad my views sound in print. He said that what I write—and I think he was also including writings from other teachers at the Circle—sounds so well-researched and well-argued that there...

In the July/August 2007 edition of Miracle Worker, the newsletter of the UK Miracle Network, Ian Patrick interviews Judith Skutch-Whitson. Judy communicates a wealth of information about the early history of the Course. She also shares that she and Ken Wapnick...

For many years now I have heard both sides of this debate. One side says that there should not be Course churches, or at the very least that the Course itself should not become a church. This position seems to have come down to us from some of the earliest people...

In my first editorial, “From Infancy to a Helper of the World,” I examined a piece of guidance that Helen Schucman received about the Course’s life in the world. This guidance spoke of the establishment of “the home of the course,” a particular “place where it will...

Fifty years ago today, on October 21, 1965, the scribing of A Course in Miracles began. Students of the Course know the familiar story. One evening, while Helen Schucman was recording some of her thoughts in a notebook, the voice that she had been hearing sporadically...

We are all creatures of culture, at least on the human level. We float in a sea of cultural attitudes and perspectives, and we naturally tend to move right along with its currents. Those attitudes and perspectives seem to soak right into our skin, usually without our...