The origins of A Program in Miracles could be traced back to the venture between two people, Helen Schucman and William Thetford, equally of whom were distinguished psychologists and researchers. The course's inception occurred in early 1960s when Schucman, who was simply a medical and study psychologist at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, began to see a series of internal dictations. She identified these dictations as originating from an inner style that determined… Continue
At their key, A Course in Wonders is a channeled work, and their beginnings are shrouded in mystery. Helen Schucman, a medical psychologist, and Bill Thetford, a research psychiatrist, collaborated in the 1960s to transcribe the inner dictations that Schucman said for from an internal voice she determined as Jesus Christ. The process of receiving and saving these communications spanned eight years and resulted in the three-volume guide known as A Program in Miracles.