A Course in Miracles: CE 4+

Great resource for the serious course student

Well designed app and easy to navigate. I really like being able to access this version of the course on my phone. The annotations are less intrusive on the app. The physical version of the book is nice too but it’s big and bulky so not always practical to have on hand.

Biased notes distort the ACIM teaching

The “annotation” is someone’s opinions of the course, which I disagree with. These notes may skew the understanding of the book for those who have not studied it before. An example is one note that says sex is for creating children and another note disparages homosexuality. I have studied ACIM from several teachers and have never seen these opinions expressed in the actual text. To me those opinions contradict some of the basic tenets of ACIM so I am baffled why anyone would think they belong in an app.

Developer Response ,

Hi Wendy, the whole concept of this edition is that we went back to the original handwritten notes that Helen Schucman took down from the inner voice that dictated A Course in Miracles to her. We transcribed those notes over many years and then edited a new edition of the Course from them, doing our best to preserve the original wording. The teachings you are referring to are from those notes—from the author of the Course. This “new” information can be startling, but it most assuredly was not made up by us. The footnotes don’t introduce new teaching, but just attempt to help readers with various passages. In fact, the reason we undertook this edition was to get the editors as much as possible out of the process. We believe the more familiar edition of the Course was too heavily edited, and thus had too much human influence in it. So as you read our edition, realize you are reading something with less change introduced by the editors rather than more.