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Between 1965 and 1972, Schucman filled nearly thirty stenographic notebooks with words she received from the Voice. The collaborative venture between [[Helen Schucman]] and [[William Thetford]] would ultimately evolve into the ''the Course''. Eventually the manuscript totaled 1,500 pages and was placed into black thesis binders. Schucman and Thetford did not want their co-workers, professors in the psychology department at [[Columbia University Medical Center]], to know about the existence of the Course. They were embarrassed and considered it their "guilty secret." This process was a collaborative venture between Schucman and  William Thetford, a psychology faculty member at [[Columbia University]] who was her superior and colleague.  Schucman and Thetford worked together in private offices in "an air of secrecy," as they both believed that their professional reputations at Columbia would be adversely affected if their professional peers found out about the ''Course''. Thetford was encouraging, and in their spare time at work, Thetford typed as Schucman dictated aloud from her notes as well as directly. Revisions were made including, for example, the omission of various references to their personal lives. The manuscript went through two additional drafts, one edited by Schucman alone {{fact}}, and the subsequent one edited by both of them. In the third draft, the manuscript was split into chapters and sections, to which they added titles and headings. This material eventually became the ''Text''.

Between 1965 and 1972, Schucman filled nearly thirty stenographic notebooks with words she received from the Voice. The collaborative venture between [[Helen Schucman]] and [[William Thetford]] would ultimately evolve into the ''the Course''. Eventually the manuscript totaled 1,500 pages and was placed into black thesis binders. Schucman and Thetford did not want their co-workers, professors in the psychology department at [[Columbia University Medical Center]], to know about the existence of the Course. They were embarrassed and considered it their "guilty secret." This process was a collaborative venture between Schucman and  William Thetford, a psychology faculty member at [[Columbia University]] who was her superior and colleague.  Schucman and Thetford worked together in private offices in "an air of secrecy," as they both believed that their professional reputations at Columbia would be adversely affected if their professional peers found out about the ''Course''. Thetford was encouraging, and in their spare time at work, Thetford typed as Schucman dictated aloud from her notes as well as directly. Revisions were made including, for example, the omission of various references to their personal lives. The manuscript went through two additional drafts, one edited by Schucman alone {{fact}}, and the subsequent one edited by both of them. In the third draft, the manuscript was split into chapters and sections, to which they added titles and headings. This material eventually became the ''Text''.

=== Editors ==

=== Editors ===

When Schucman experienced some personal difficulties and hesitance after hearing the "inner voice," Thetford, her work supervisor and friend, contacted [[Hugh Lynn Cayce]] at his [[Association for Research and Enlightenment]] in [[Virginia Beach, Virginia]], to seek his advice and counsel, and Schucman met with Cayce before she began to record the Course.  

When Schucman experienced some personal difficulties and hesitance after hearing the "inner voice," Thetford, her work supervisor and friend, contacted [[Hugh Lynn Cayce]] at his [[Association for Research and Enlightenment]] in [[Virginia Beach, Virginia]], to seek his advice and counsel, and Schucman met with Cayce before she began to record the Course.