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Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn
Maybe it is a good time to say a little about ACIM....to help understand it better.
For those people here that understand this place , this world you see, is not real...not really...ACIM will be easier.
I mean, it appears very real! If it didn't, it wouldn't deserve the name an Illusion. 
Maybe: 'a bad attempt at an illusion'! LOL...but, no, it fools us all! |
As Miss Hepburn indicated, the entire ACIM was dictated to Helen Schucman, a psychologist in NYC who "heard" a voice dictating the material to her. Miss Schucman was Jewish, which makes the book even more remarkable since the material was not part of her cultural/religious heritage. Moreover, she didn't even read the materials initially but, since she couldn't go to sleep until she had transcribed the dictation, she merely wrote it down and put it away so that she could go to sleep.
At one point, she showed it to one of her psychology colleagues who called it brilliant, which it is. On another occasion, she met with a friend, Judith Skutch, who asked her if she had been hearing a "voice". Helen was stunned by the question and then revealed that she had indeed been hearing a voice but that she hadn't really read the channeled materials. When Judith asked for a copy, Helen complied after which the ACIM spread through California and the rest is history.
There is an excellent book, "Journey Without Distance" (Author is Robert Skutch, ISBN: 0-89087-431-X Publisher is Celestial Arts), which is the story behind "A Course In Miracles". It is well worth reading.