What Is A COURSE IN MIRACLES?

In 1965, Columbia University psychology professor, Helen Schucman experienced a distinct and clear dictation from an inner voice that identified itself to her as Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Her scribing of the Course began with the words: "This is A Course In Miracles, please take notes."

A Course In Miracles is a direct message to you from Out of Time lovingly expressed by the Whole Resurrected Mind of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. It is an experiential guide to help bring about the Illumination of your Mind and Body through the process of the practical application of Love, Healing, and Forgiveness. Through the Reason of the Text, the direct application of the ideas in the Workbook, and the instructions in the Manual for Teachers you are led directly into an experience of Union with God.

From the introduction to A Course In Miracles:

This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time. The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.
This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:

Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.

Herein lies the peace of God.