However, the Course is a spiritual teaching rather than a religion. The language of A Course in Miracles is extraordinarily rich and profound. The thought system of the Course is intellectually sophisticated, and combines spiritual inspiration with deep psychological understanding of such phenomena as belief and defense systems, perception and identity.
However, A Course in Miracles is also very practical. The daily Workbook lessons provide a systematic, step-by-step approach by which one can apply the principles of the Course. The lessons do not require a lot of time nor long practice periods, but they do require a willingness to question every value one holds as to what the world is all about, and the willingness to see things differently—through the eyes of God.
A Course in Miracles teaches that there are only two basic thought systems, one of perception and the other of knowledge. The thought system of perception is inherently illusory because it is based upon interpretation, not on fact.
It is founded on our belief in our separation from God and from one another. From this flows a belief in evil, sin, guilt, fear, and scarcity.
It is a world of appearances, of birth and death, of time and constant change. This thought system of perception is what the Course calls the ego, which is actually a set of beliefs that center around the body as our reality and the limit of our being. The world of knowledge, on the other hand, is truth.
The world of knowledge is one of unity, love, sinlessness and abundance. Evil, sin and guilt are regarded as misperceptions. Sin is regarded as lack of love, or as a mistake calling for correction and love, rather than for guilt and punishment. In order to awaken to reality, it is necessary to reverse our thinking and correct our mistakes. We need help to awaken from the dream because our physical senses accept only that information which reinforces our belief in the reality of the dream.
There is extensive material relating to Freud. There are 53 Miracles Principles instead of It's teaching on the world seems different. The distinction between "make" and "create" is not so pronounced and consistent. There is more mention of "the soul. The Editing of the Original Edition. It seems clear that in pursuing a publisher, Schucman and Thetford originally intended the manuscript to be A Course in Miracles, which is known today as A Course in Miracles - Original Edition.
However, in Ken Wapnick, a clinical psychologist who had joined their small circle and had only recently received a copy of the manuscript, expressed his belief that additional editing was needed. In the fall of Helen Schucman and Ken Wapnick began to edit the entire manuscript, line by line, word by word which took about one year. Thetford, who did not wish to be a part of this project, withdrew and moved to California.
Along with changes in paragraphing, punctuation, capitalization, and section titles, there was a great deal of line-by-line editing. In addition, about one-fifth of the material in the first five chapters was removed.
Finally, a new section, the Clarification of Terms, was added. The resulting edition, published in by the Foundation for Inner Peace [FIP], became the only edition of A Course in Miracles that world would become familiar with for 24 years. The existence of this manuscript was only discovered 24 years later, after the initial publication of the edited manuscript by FIP. The discovery of this earlier manuscript came to light inadvertently due to a copyright infringement court case brought by Foundation for Inner Peace, the copyright holder and Penguin Books, against a spiritual community.
One of the litigants in the court case mentioned having seen this manuscript in the A. The manuscript was located, copied, digitized and placed by anonymous parties onto the internet. This digitized document of the manuscript found in the A.
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