Helen Schucman
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Helen Schucman (July 14, 1909 - February 9, 1981) was an American professor of clinical psychology at Columbia University who received the spiritual work, A Course In Miracles, or ACIM, by a channeling-like process of taking dictation from an "inner voice" which originally instructed her, "this is a course in miracles. Please take notes." The main transcription took seven years, from 1965 through 1972, during which time she would take down the notes in shorthand, then each day read back the shorthand notes to William Thetford, a colleague at Columbia, who would type them up.
After all the ACIM material had been transcribed and originally edited by Thetford, Schucman along with Kenneth Wapnick further edited it. Schucman also received from her inner voice two pamphlets supplemental to ACIM, and some additional material. Following the transcription and editing, Schucman began to move away from the center of the effort, and never became heavily involved with teaching or popularizing the material, as did Bill Thetford and Kenneth Wapnick.
Schucman died in 1981 of pancreatic cancer.
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- Skutch, Robert (1996). Journey Without Distance: The Story Behind A Course in Miracles. Mill Valley: Foundation for Inner Peace. ISBN 1-883360-02-1. Discusses the pre-publication history of ACIM.
- Wapnick, Kenneth (1999). Absence from Felicity: The Story of Helen Schucman and Her Scribing of A Course in Miracles (2d ed.). New York: Foundation for A Course in Miracles. ISBN 0-933291-08-6. Discusses Helen Schucman and the pre-publication history of ACIM.