Butler-Bowdon, Tom
Tom Butler-Bowdon, author.
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50 Spiritual Classics captures the diversity of life journeys that span centuries, continents, spiritual traditions and secular beliefs. Author Tom Butler-Bowdon includes "A Course in Miracles" as one of his 50 spiritual classics. Butler-Bowdon's discussion of the Course provides a fascinating look at the overall spiritual context in which it plays such an important part.
Author: Tom Butler-Bowdon
Published 2005
300 pages
[excerpt from book] A landmark modern spiritual text, A Course in Miracles has unusual origins. In 1965, Dr Helen Schucman was a research psychologist at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. Her workplace was not different to millions of others in that politics and status-seeking among staff had created a strained atmosphere. One day, the head of her department, Dr William Thetford, announced he was tired of what was going on, and that there must be another, better way. Schucman agreed to help him find it, and soon after began having strange dreams, then hearing a voice which seemed to want her to write down what it was saying. The first sentence she recorded in her shorthand notebook was "This is a course in miracles."
