Two extraordinary discoveries about ACIM

 While working with the material last night, I discovered two extremely interesting and suggestive facts about the scribing of A Course in Miracles.

You will see miracles -

The publicity materials issuing forth from the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) and the Foundation for A Course in Miracles (FACIM) over the years has consistently presented the story of the Course's scribing as beginning with the sentence, "This is a course in miracles, please take notes."

In fact, however, this is not true.

The Helen Schucman's steno notebook page for October 21, 1965 actually begins with the sentence, "You will see miracles through your hands, through mine."  This sentence , "You will see miracles . . . . ", was edited out of all subsequent versions of the Course past the urtext typescript.

The scribes and editors of the Course in the early years were personally disturbed by the entire concept of miracles, and there is plausible evidence that they each, in their own way, deprecated the concept as much as possible.  Miracles are living visible proof that everything you believe about yourself and the world is simply not true.

Miracles are very disturbing things to ponder.

Great comet of 1965 - Ikeya-Seki - Wikipedia

Comet Ikeya-Seki was unknown until it was first seen in the night sky on September 18, 1965.  The comet raced toward the sun in its elliptical orbit until reaching its closest point on October 21, 1965.  It proved to be one of the brightest comets seen in the last thousand years, and is sometimes known as the Great Comet of 1965.  It was so bright that it was clearly visible in the daytime sky next to the Sun. The comet was seen to break into three pieces just before its passage of the sun. The three pieces continued together in almost identical orbits.

October 21, 1965 was the day that Helen Schucman first begin scribing A Course in Miracles.

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Tom Fox
Louisville, Kentucky

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