It is with sadness that I learn of the passing of my friend Gene Smith last month in Southern California. I first met Gene online in 1999 during the height of the ACIM copyright wars. Gene became involved in the struggle as a founding member and President of the Course In Miracles Society, which was the first publisher of A Course In Miracles Original Edition. For those who do not know about it, the Original Edition is the first version of ACIM to see the light of day in 1972 after Bill Thetford edited the raw ACIM transcript.
Gene was perhaps the most well educated person I ever encountered, with multiple PhDs in mathematics and the philosophy of science. Gene was definitely the most sophisticated and well trained intellect of any I know to have taken ACIM seriously. Gene took ACIM very seriously, and he knew it well.
I will miss Gene, but I will not forget him
- oOo -
Tom Fox
Somerset, Kentucky
