Manual for Teachers and Extension Articles

Most of the following principles apply to any interaction in which you are attempting to be helpful. You don't see your patient as mistreated by the world and needing to uncover just how mistreated she has been. Instead, you see that what has hurt her is her angry...

The Psychotherapy supplement says that “everyone is both patient and therapist in every relationship in which he enters” (P-3.II.1:3). This means that the process of psychotherapy is going on all the time. People are asking us for help all the time and much of the...

This is something that will come up in many teacher-pupil relationships. The pupil will want to find his or her special function (whatever terminology they use), and the teacher will then ideally play a role in helping that come about. As Greg pointed out in the...

I. The Teaching Objective The teaching objective is the basis for the entire act of teaching. The first step, then, is to formulate that objective. “The clarification of the goal belongs at the beginning, for it is this that will determine the outcome” (T-17.VI.2:3)....

A vital feature of a Course in Miracles class is a Course-like exercise, which takes the material you, as the teacher, have been teaching and applies it on a personal level. If you are teaching the Course to a group, you will want to make this a regular feature of...

We will now cover the other form of being a teacher of God outlined by the Manual. As discussed in Part 1 of this "Manual/Extension" section, the Manual focuses on two forms that our function may take. Several sections discuss the healing of patients, a topic covered...

As discussed in Part 1 of this "Manual/Extension" section, the Manual assumes that mature students of the Course will often step into the role of Course-based spiritual healer. The Manual paints a picture in which Course healers will presumably exist in large numbers,...

Let's recap what we have seen thus far of the program of A Course in Miracles. The Course wants to effect a complete reversal of our thinking and thereby achieve a complete redemption of our condition. It wants to replace our thought system with its thought system....

The function of everyone on earth is to be a healer and psychotherapist. “Accept only the function of healing in time, because that is what time is for” [CE T-9.III.9:1]. “Your function on earth is healing” [CE T-12.X.5:2]. “How could a separate profession [the...

In these articles on the Course's program, especially in Part 3 of the Manual/Extension section and Part 1 of the Teachers of This Course section, I present a largely unfamiliar concept for Course students: that the Course teaches that experienced students of A Course...

The Song of Prayer is a supplement to the Course scribed by Helen Schucman in 1977 (and now published with Psychotherapy, another supplement, by Viking in Supplements to A Course in Miracles). Its first chapter presents a model of the spiritual journey as a “ladder of...

I have wondered for years exactly what Course-based therapy actually is. Even after doing a class on Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process and Practice last year I still did not have an overall picture. Instead, I felt like I had a pile of pieces, and I didn't know how they...