The Complete and Annotated Edition (CE) of A Course in Miracles, restoring material from Helen Schucman’s notes and presenting the Course with its original wording retained as far as possible.
2000 pages · Hardcover · Printed in 2025
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Overview
A Course in Miracles has become a contemporary spiritual classic. Since it was originally published in 1976, readers have recognized in its words truths that they had never heard before, yet somewhere inside seemed to have always known. However, in the process of editing for publication, roughly forty-five thousand words were edited out, mostly from the first seven chapters of the Text, and the wording of the first four chapters was edited to the point where only about a fifth of their sentences retained their original wording.
The Complete and Annotated Edition (CE) aims to restore the material that was lost. It was created by going back to Course scribe Helen Schucman’s shorthand Notes and editing afresh, retaining the original words to the maximum degree possible. By going back to the words Helen heard in her mind and wrote down in her notebooks, the CE brings you into a more direct encounter with the power of those words. It includes, either in its main body or in appendices, those approximately forty-five thousand words that had been removed in the original published edition.
The teaching in this edition does not contradict teaching found in other editions of A Course in Miracles. However, we believe this edition will allow the Course’s true meaning and character to shine through more clearly and enable you to better see the Course for what it is, relate to it as it is, and apply its profound truths to your life.
Features of the Complete and Annotated Edition (CE)
- Expanded early chapters — First four chapters of the Text are roughly twice as long as they are in the familiar Foundation for Inner Peace edition.
- Restored wording — Material whose meaning had been changed by editing is now presented in its original form.
- Original order retained — Material that had been rearranged and placed in a different order by editing has, in almost all cases, been restored to its original order.
- Extensive footnotes — Extensive footnotes have been included to clarify difficult passages, identify unclear pronouns, define psychological terms, point out allusions to things in the general culture, and list Course references and Bible references.
- Cameo essays — Thirty-three cameo essays are included. These essays comment on personal guidance given by the source of the material to the scribes (Helen Schucman and William Thetford).
- Previously unpublished material — Material that never made it out of Helen’s notebooks is included.
- Original emphasis retained — All original emphasis of words is retained (either as italics or as gray underlines), as this helps illuminate the meaning.
- New section titles and divisions — Most of the Text section titles and many of the Text section divisions are new.
- Documentation of changes — Documentation (and often explanation) of editing changes.
About the Revised Hardcover
This 2025 printing of the hardcover includes:
- Revised cameo essays - Cameo 21 has been completely rewritten. Cameos 8 and 16 have also been revised.
- High quality hard cover - Due to popular demand, this printing as a hard cover and slightly brighter paper for easier reading.
- Revised footnotes - Almost 100 footnotes have been updated or rewritten entirely.
Note on this printing: This edition was printed in November 2025 but displays a copyright date of 2021 on the title page, as the revisions were not sufficient to warrant a new copyright date.
