The main channeler (or ‘scribe’) and founder of A Course in Miracles were Dr. Helen Schucman and Dr. William Thetford, two professors of medical psychology at Columbia University. Beginning in 1965, Dr. Schucman claimed to hear an inner voice, which she identified as Jesus, and she transcribed the material that would become A Course in Miracles. Below is from the Manual in Chapter 10, “How Is Judgment Relinquished?” (ACIM, M-10)
“The aim of our curriculum, unlike the goal of the world’s learning, is the recognition that judgment in the usual sense is impossible. ²This is not an opinion but a fact. ³In order to judge anything rightly, one would have to be fully aware of an inconceivably wide range of things; past, present and to come. ⁴One would have to recognize in advance all the effects of his judgments on everyone and everything involved in them in any way. ⁵And one would have to be certain there is no distortion in his perception, so that his judgment would be wholly fair to everyone on whom it rests now and in the future. ⁶Who is in a position to do this? ⁷Who except in grandiose fantasies would claim this for himself?
Remember how many times you thought you knew all the ‘fact
s’ you needed for judgment, and how wrong you were! ²Is there anyone who has not had this experience? ³Would you know how many times you merely thought you were right, without ever realizing you were wrong? ⁴Why would you choose such an arbitrary basis for decision making? ⁵Wisdom is not judgment; it is the relinquishment of judgment.”
A Course In Miracles, (ACIM, M-10.3:1–4:5)