At its core, A Course in Miracles is really a channeled perform, and their roots are shrouded in mystery. Helen Schucman, a scientific psychologist, and William Thetford, a research psychiatrist, collaborated in the 1960s to transcribe the inner dictations that Schucman said to get from an internal style she identified as Jesus Christ. The method of obtaining and taking these communications spanned eight years and led to the three-volume book referred to as A Program in Miracles.