*Introduction to A Course in Miracles (Compound)
A Course in Miracles, which has been called the Bible of the new millennium, is, as the title suggests, entirely a learning textbook. This textbook consists of a 705-page textbook, a 507-page student workbook, a 94-page teacher's guide, and appendices including a glossary of terms, psychotherapy, and prayer songs.
A Course in Miracles explains step-by-step a carefully designed curriculum from two aspects: theory and practice. A Course in Miracles emphasizes application rather than theory, and universal experience rather than theology. A Course in Miracles helps us accomplish the inner work of removing obstacles to this very universal experience through the specific method of forgiveness.
Although A Course in Miracles is written in a Christian style, it deals with universal spiritual themes. There are countless ways to reach the truth, and A Course in Miracles is just another path with a different form. All paths ultimately lead to God.
The combined version of A Course in Miracles is the final manuscript that Helen, the transcriber of A Course in Miracles, was the only one allowed to publish, and is being translated by official translators in each country selected by the Inner Peace Foundation and distributed around the world.
*A Course in Miracles transcribed by: Dr. Helen Schuckman (1909-1981)
Helen Schukman is a clinical and research psychologist who received her doctorate in psychology from New York University and served as a tenured associate professor of medical psychology at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center School of Medicine in New York. Helen listened to the contents of A Course in Miracles within herself for about seven years from 1965 to 1972 and “wrote them down” verbatim. This inner voice identified himself as Jesus before dictating the Course.
*Translator: Koo Jeong-hee
Translator Koo Jeong-hee is the official Korean translator of A Course in Miracles selected by the Inner Peace Foundation. She graduated from the College of Pharmacy at Ewha Womans University in 1985, and is a student of A Course in Miracles like other official translators selected by the Inner Peace Foundation. The translator first encountered the Course in Miracles in 1996 and was greatly moved. In 2001, he formed the in the Freechal community and opened Korea's first Miracle Course online community to promote the Course in Korea. In July 2010, was opened to meet readers directly. The translator, who is also the founder of the book publishing company A Course in Miracles, translates and publishes books related to the Course in Miracles and Dr. Wapnick's commentary, helping Korean students understand the Course accurately and without distortion.
*Publisher book review
A Course in Miracles, even considered the “Bible for the new millennium,” is praised as the best book combining spirituality and psychology. A Course in Miracles is a shorthand transcription of an inner voice identifying itself as Jesus by psychologist Dr. Helen Schuckman over the course of seven years.
A Course in Miracles can be considered a Christian book in that it uses Christian terminology to broadly discuss what salvation is, what it means to be a child of God, and true forgiveness and atonement. However, A Course in Miracles is in line with psychology in that it reveals in detail how we distort the truth from the perspective of Freud's defense mechanism, and is also in line with Buddhism in that it views the world of perception based on time and space as an illusion. In fact, this is a natural conclusion because truth is not many but one.
Truth is known only through experience. Therefore, A Course in Miracles emphasizes experience. A Course in Miracles explains the theoretical system through textbooks, trains students to apply it in their daily lives through practice books, and explains the areas students are curious about through guidelines. Additionally, the appendix, Psychotherapy and Prayer Songs, presents what psychotherapy and prayer should truly pursue.
A Course in Miracles may appear to be a fairly difficult book due to its massive volume of 1,440 pages and the unique writing style of Helen, the scribe, but this is only because the thought system of A Course in Miracles is so different from the thought system that we accept without doubt as reality. . The truth is simple. Separation did not occur. You and I are part of God, connected as one. Our perception through the body whispers to us at every moment that separation is real, that we are pitiful victims of this great world, and that God cannot be love, but the Course provides a concrete method of forgiveness, that we are sons of God, that we are free from sin. It helps us remove obstacles that prevent us from recognizing the divine presence that does not exist.
A Course in Miracles, a book publishing company, translated and published the combined edition of the Inner Peace Foundation, to which Helen approved the final manuscript and handed over the copyright. Translator Koo Jeong-hee is the official Korean translator of the Inner Peace Foundation, selected through a rigorous review process, and completed the Korean translation of A Course in Miracles over eight years under the guidance of Dr. Kenneth Wapnick. The Inner Peace Foundation focuses on disseminating The Course in Miracles around the world by selecting official translators in each country, and has currently translated and published it in 23 languages.
