COMING SOON
BIRTH OF A MIRACLE
The Definitive History of
A Course in Miracles
BOOK
This book offers the most thoroughly researched historical account of A Course in Miracles to date. It traces the Course’s evolution from its inception with co-scribes Dr. Helen Schucman and Dr. Bill Thetford, through its complex editing and publishing journey, to its global impact today.
We honor the Course’s eloquence and illuminate its profound power as a psychological and spiritual path to inner peace.
For the first time, this work provides a clear and complete account of how the Course was scribed, edited, published, protected, altered, and disseminated. It addresses both well-known and little-known controversies with honesty and balance—grounded in interviews, documents, historical manuscripts, and first-person accounts.
The books goal is simple: to deepen understanding, clear confusion, and return the Course to its original purpose—unity, true forgiveness, and miracle working.
This historical work offers a renewed vision of the Course and affirms its capacity to inspire both personal and collective transformation.
The Many Edition of A Course in Miracles
Why do we have so many editions? Are they all the same?
HELEN’S SCRIBED NOTES
The First Eight Chapters
THE UR TEXT
(Ur = Original) + 3 Supplements
HUGH LYN CAYCE VERSION
Thetford or “Sparkly” Edition
COURSE IN MIRACLES SOCIETY
(Pearls) Edition
FOUNDATION FOR INNER PEACE
(FIP) Edition
CIRCLE OF ATONEMENT
(CE) Edition
The Founding Team:
Dr. Bill Thetford. Co-Scribe of A Course in Miracles and appointed editor of the HLC Original Edition
Dr. Helen Schucman Scribe of A Course in Miracles
Judy Skutch, First Appointed Publisher and Distributor of the Inner Peace A Course in Miracles
Dr. Kenneth Wapnick, Editor of Foundation for Inner Peace A Course in Miracles
Interviews with:
Tam Morgan – President of Foundation for Inner Peace (Judy Skutch’s daughter)
Dr. Lee Jampolsky – renowned psychologist and son of Dr. Jerry Jampolsky.
Lee also contributed a forward to my book.
Carol Howe – Long time Course Teacher and friend of Bill Thetford
Ted Poppe – Publisher of the Sparkly Thetford ACIM Edition
Reja Joy – Original Edition ACIM | Miracles Society
Robert Perry: Founder and Teacher of the Circle of Atonement version of A Course in Miracles.
**I have also interviewed Doug Thompson editor of UR Text, Christopher Sommers Lawyer for and contributor to Sparkly Edition and endless students of the Course who made contributions to the birthing of A Course in Miracles during these foundational and historical early years.
About the Producer:
Hello! I’m Britney Shawley—a spiritual therapist and A Course in Miracles teacher for the past 16 years. Fourteen of those years have been spent captivated by the story behind the Course: how it came to be, why its editions differ, and what was lost or preserved along the way.
I was the odd one out in the community.
Everyone had the blue book.
I had the Sparkly.
And I needed to know why.
The more I learned, the more people turned to me as a resource. And the more I was trusted, the more access I was granted to materials, stories, and perspectives I never could have reached on my own. What began as curiosity became a calling.
I call myself the producer, but the truth is simpler: I’m just taking the next right step that has been placed in front of me—bringing the full, honest story of A Course in Miracles to the world through a book that shares the hidden details.
My passion is to demonstrate the joy, clarity, and peace that come from living a life dedicated to A Course in Miracles and to Christ. This project is an expression of that dedication, grounded in the guiding principle:
“Miracles undo the past in the present, and thus release the future.”
It’s my joy to offer this work to those who feel called to understand the Course more deeply. May it open the door to greater forgiveness, truer vision, and the miracle-mindedness that sets us free.
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