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About Helen Schucman
Helen Schucman, Ph.D. (14 July 1909 β 9 February 1981) was a research psychologist from New York City, most famous for her work in producing A Course in Miracles. From 1958 through 1976 she was a professor of medical psychology at Columbia University in New York.
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βYour task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.β
βThe purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively. It is thus a teaching device and a means to an end. Time will cease when it is no longer useful in facilitating learning.β
βThe 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 loveβs Presence, Which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all encompassing can have no opposite.β
βI am a very careless person in some ways, I lose everything. But I never lost anything of this Course. People would would stop me in the subway and say, βMiss, you forgot your something or other, and hand it back to me.β Taxis would honk their horns, you know and say, βYou left something in the back seat.β My secretary would say, βAre you sure this belongs in this case report, it doesn't sound right?β It was impossible to lose this Course, and I tried. But it...followed me around in an odd kind of way. People would send it back to me, anything. And I always got it back. We never lost anything, which is incredible.β
βThereβs nothing that I would call ordinary audition about this at all. It doesnβt really.. Itβs a curious thing that will be very difficult to explain. Somebody asked me, βWas it as though your hand was moving?β No. I wrote perfectly voluntarily in response toβ¦I call it a voice, but βa voiceβ has sounds...or sounds as though it has something to do with hearing. And I didnβt hear anything. I think itβs the sort of hearing that you canβt really describe. It doesnβt have anything to do with ears, or waves hitting a drum or anything on that order. I donβt really know, I think maybe Iβm using the wrong word when I say βhear.β I sort of recognized it, it was very rapid, I could even....if I didnβt catch a phrase, I could sort of say, βWould you mind doing that again?ββ
β"I saw myself entering a cave in a rock formation on a bleak, windswept seacoast. The entrance to the cave was low, and the cave was quite deep. All I found in it was a very old and large parchmentΒ scroll. Its ends were rolled around heavy, gold-tipped poles, the twoΒ sides touching at the scroll's center and tied together by a strip ofΒ parchment that fell away as my fingers touched it. I untied the endsΒ and opened the scroll just enough to expose the center panel, onΒ which only two words were written; 'God is', and nothing else. β¦"
As with the subway experience several years earlier, an aspect of the cave experience likewise found its way into the Course. The workbook states:Β "We say 'God is', and then we cease to speak, for in that knowledge wordsΒ are meaningless" (W-pi. 169.5:4).β
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Helen Schucman on Love 7 quotes
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βChildren do confuse fantasy and reality, and they are frightened because they do not know the difference. p. 132β
Helen Schucman on Ego 5 quotes
βThe ego believes that to accomplish its goal is happiness... Recognize only that the egoβs goal, which you have pursued quite diligently, has merely brought you fear, and it becomes difficult to maintain that fear is happiness. Upheld by fear, this is what the ego would have you believe. p. 10β
Helen Schucman on Reality 4 quotes
βChildren do confuse fantasy and reality, and they are frightened because they do not know the difference. p. 132β
Helen Schucman on Fear 4 quotes
βThis 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.β
Helen Schucman on Higher self 3 quotes
βThoughts can represent lower-order or higher-order reality. This is the basic distinction between intellectualizing and thinking. One makes the physical and the other creates the spiritual, and we believe in what we make or create. p. 2β
Helen Schucman on Second Coming 3 quotes
βThe Second Coming is the awareness of reality, not its return. Behold, my children, reality is here. It belongs to you and me and God, and is perfectly satisfying to all of us. Only this awareness heals, because it is the awareness of truth. p. 9β
Helen Schucman on Last Judgment 3 quotes
βThe term βLast Judgementβ is frightening not only because it has been falsely projected onto God, but also because of the association of βlastβ with death. This is an outstanding example of upside-down perception. Actually, if the meaning of the Last Judgement is objectively examined, it is quite apparent that it is really the doorway to life.No-one who lives in fear is really alive. His own last judgement cannot be directed toward himself because he is not his own creation. He can, however, apply it meaningfully and at any time to everything he has created, and retain in his memory only what is good. This is what his right-mindedness cannot but dictate. The purpose of time is solely to βgive him timeβ to achieve this judgement. It is his own perfect judgement of his own creations. When everything he retains is loveable, there IS no reason for fear to remain with him. This is his part in the Atonement. p 44β
Helen Schucman on Consciousness 2 quotes
βSleep is no more a form of death than death is a form of unconsciousness. Complete unconsciousness is impossible. You can rest in peace only because you are awake. p. 56β
Helen Schucman on Illusion 2 quotes
βIllusions will not last. Their death is sure, and this alone is certain in their world. It is the egoβs world because of this. What is the ego? But a dream of what you really are. A thought you are apart from your Creator and a wish to be what He created not. It is a thing of madness, not reality at all. A name for namelessness is all it is. A symbol of impossibility; a choice for options that do not exist.β
Helen Schucman on Time
βThe purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively. It is thus a teaching device and a means to an end. Time will cease when it is no longer useful in facilitating learning.β
Helen Schucman on Anger
βThe relationship of anger to attack is obvious, but the relationship of anger to fear is not always so apparent. Anger always involves projection of separation, which must ultimately be accepted as one's own responsibility, rather than being blamed on others. Anger cannot occur unless you believe that you have been attacked, that your attack is justified in return, and that you are in no way responsible for it.β
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Helen Schucman on Rumi
βYour task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.β
About Helen Schucman
Helen Schucman, Ph.D. (14 July 1909 β 9 February 1981) was a research psychologist from New York City, most famous for her work in producing A Course in Miracles. From 1958 through 1976 she was a professor of medical psychology at Columbia University in New York.