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A Course in Miracles (also referred to as ACIM or "the Course"), is a book considered by its students to be their "spiritual path". According to Helen Schucman[1] and the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP), Schucman and William Thetford[2] "scribed" the book by means of a process coming from a divine source through a form of channeling[3] which Schucman referred to as "inner dictation". Schucman described the divine source of her channeling as none other than the person of Jesus Christ[4].

The teachings of the Course have been compared to the fundamental premises of Eastern religion, it utilizes, however, a traditional Christian terminology. J. Gordon Melton[5] notes that it has been most popular among those who have been disillusioned by organized Christianity. Melton and Wouter Hanegraaff[6] have called it the most obvious choice for the single text that is "sacred scripture" in the New Age[7] movement.[5][6] Since it first became available for sale in 1976, over 1.5 million copies have sold worldwide in sixteen different languages.[8]