In 1976 A Course in Miracles is published in New York: a thick blue workbook scribed between 1965 and 1972 by the psychologist Helen Schucman, who held that its author was Jesus. The Course, a curriculum of forgiveness that treats the world as a dream of separation, becomes the movement's most demanding text and the center of a worldwide study-group network.
Tagged: New Age
The Event
- Date
- 1976 (exact)
- Era
- The Countercultural Bloom; Standard periodization of New Age history
- Location
- New York; today New York, New York
- Traditions
- New Age Spirituality
- Streams
- New Age
- Key figures
- Helen Schucman, William Thetford
- Key texts
- A Course in Miracles
Primary Sources
- Schucman, Helen, scribe. A Course in Miracles. New York: Foundation for Inner Peace, 1976.
Secondary Sources
- Hanegraaff, Wouter J. New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought. Leiden: Brill, 1996.
- Heelas, Paul. The New Age Movement. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
- York, Michael. The Emerging Network: A Sociology of the New Age and Neo-Pagan Movements. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 1995.
Provenance: HIST-1477; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-30.
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