I'd like to start out this article with the definition of psychosis, which will come in handy as we proceed through the narrative.

The word psychosis describes conditions that affect the mind, where there has been some loss of contact with reality. During a period of psychosis, a person’s thoughts and perceptions are disturbed, and the individual may have difficulty understanding what is real and what is not. Symptoms of psychosis include delusions (false beliefs) and hallucinations.

If you are someone who has dabbled in the New Age movement, there's a good chance you've come across A Course in Miracles. In fact, out of all the channeled scriptures, there's probably no other source that has influenced the New Age business more.

Early on in my spiritual quest, the course strongly influenced how I perceived reality. It was a mysterious book with a Christian slant that helped ease my way out of Christianity. The way it was written gave me the impression that it held cryptic messages reserved for those pure souls who could meditate upon its words and unlock its secrets.

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

I am upset because I see something that is not there.

Nothing I See Means Anything.

I do not understand anything I see.

These thoughts do not mean anything.

I am never upset for the reason I think.

— A Course in Miracles

At the time, I thought I needed to dig deeper into this magical prose as my mind entered an alternate reality where the physical universe was reduced to an illusion. I remember the sense of disconnection from the world around me and a mystical feeling reserved only for those daring enough to walk through the gates of immortality. People, places, and things were nothing more than perceptions that existed in my head. I had entered a world of Solipsism without even knowing the term existed.

Solipsism is the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist. The external world and other minds cannot be known and do not exist outside the mind.

But as the years passed, I bumped into the walls of reality and concluded that this book was complete nonsense. And upon further research, I realized it was a brainwashing manual.

I experienced disorientation about life, making it impossible to engage in normal activities and conversations. I found the lessons were designed to program my thinking into an alternate reality that was eerily familiar to the faith healing of Christian evangelists, where sin was the cause of all suffering (including physical ailments) and faith in God, free from the evil thinking of the Ego, could heal and restore us back to sanity.

All channeled material preaches the same doctrine . . . that everything is an illusion and consciousness is the only thing that exists. It is repackaged Christianity with a mystical Jesus, ascension, rapture (up to the alien mothership), a message of world peace, and some form of Armageddon such as a pole shift, alien invasion, or Gaia's environmental punishments, etc. The Course is no different. Its very foundation is built on terms such as The Holy Spirit, The Son of God, miracles, and God is everything.

And like all the New Age teachers and conduits of invisible people, the author of the Course died like everybody else from a common human condition, which, in this case, was pancreatic cancer accompanied by a severe depression described as "an incredible darkness" by those who knew her in the last years of her life.

Helen Cohn Schucman was a clinical research psychologist and a professor of medical psychology at Columbia University in New York from 1958 until her retirement in 1976. With the help of her colleague William Thetford, she published A Course in Miracles in 1975. She claimed it was dictated to her by Jesus via an inner voice. The main transcription process took seven years (1965 through 1972). She would take down the notes in shorthand and then read them back to Thetford, who would type them out while she read them.

The Course consists of 3 volumes. There's the main text, a Workbook for Students (consisting of 365 meditation exercises), and a Manual for Teachers. Its main narrative is based on a dualistic view of reality. It is a garbled word salad of Good and Evil so deeply entrenched in Christian thought that it's any wonder it made it to New Age bookstores. The one exception is that its underlying current is Eastern thought, i.e. Buddhism and Hinduism, which is the exact formula for New Age teachings.

Basically, there are two worlds: God and the ego. One is the truth, and the other is an illusion. God, aka "Holy Spirit," is Love and the Ego-mind is Fear. The Holy Spirit reminds us of the true reality of the universe, that being Love and the Ego-mind (based on fear) is an illusion. God is oneness, and the Ego is separation. When we experience fear, we have joined the evil "thought" system ('thinking' is bad - obey the cult leader). When we experience Love, we have aligned ourselves with God. "Gee, where have I heard THIS before? Ah, obey Jesus and get into heaven, or sin and go to hell".

The Course believes that only love is real and that everything negative is merely an illusion of one's mind, including the world. Our world is made up of our own ideas, and this becomes the truth as we know it. The world we see is simply a figment of one’s imagination, and realizing this leads to Heaven's ultimate truth. The Course teaches that ego (not God) created the world. The world we see is an illusion, and God does not know it exists.

The idea that we are separate from God is an age-old meme that served priesthoods and clergy quite well. It is based on substance dualism which "separates" the divine soul from the fallen body. Love and light are the domains of "spirit," and 'fear and suffering' are the realms of Ego. The results of this thinking create a phenomenon called Dissociation and Cognitive dissonance. Let me clarify:

I am my body but I'm not my body.

I am in this world but not of this world.

Everything is an illusion but my senses tell me everything is real.

I am a soul and not a body even though I am a body.

I was born and have a life but my life is an illusion.

There's no better way to control a human being than to confuse them about the nature of reality and themselves. This disorientation is created by the teachings and offers a way out of it. It is lock and key gas-lighting for gullible minds.

In the world of psychology (not new-age laced psychology), delusional fears are a common psychosis and are clearly defined by measuring them with the natural world. For example, Bob thinks his dog is aunt Emma, and through touch therapy, he discovers he hallucinates. This is a far cry from the belief that the physical world is an illusion and the "subjective" world is reality.

The Course in Miracles is inverted psychology. The invisible is reality, and the visible is an illusion. One can only conclude that Helen's Christian belief distorted her education in psychology to an astonishing degree. Educated people believe weird things, further demonstrating the believing brain's profound effect.

The Course in Miracles prides itself on being the ultimate deliverer of suffering and separation.

1. The ultimate goal is to lead us to the release of all pain and suffering by our awakening from the dream of separation.

2. The mind's decision to be separate and identify with a body is a painful distortion of the truth, a lie that can only cause pain. Therein lies the source of all suffering, including the disquiet seemingly caused by perceiving pain in someone else.

3. Suffering is not really out there because nothing is really out there. Whatever is perceived in the dream of separation reflects the mind's choice to listen to the ego or the Holy Spirit. All suffering is caused by the belief that the oneness God shares with His Son can be shattered by the dream of separation.

The outstanding hypocrisy of it all, is that the very thing the Course claims to heal (separation and suffering) is the very thing it creates.

This is a common theme across all New Age teachings and why gullible seekers, who taste this poison, are doomed to an endless treadmill of searching, which keeps them buying more products to obtain their false enlightenment.

And here's the clincher, although the Course is about obtaining inner peace through the end of psychological suffering and eternal world peace through forgiveness, it should (and I say should) come as a shock to its followers that Helen "suffered" from severe depression and resented writing the Course.

Author Benedict Groeschel, in his book "A Still Small Voice," states that he was a student of Helen Schucman and William Thetford at Columbia University. He said they told him about Helen's encounter with Jesus in 1969 and the channeled message that resulted in A Course in Miracles. He says Helen was quite confused about whether she was an atheist or a Christian and mentioned in one instance, in a show of frustration and contempt for her own work, that she "hated that damn book."

"This woman who had written so eloquently that suffering did not exist spent the last two years of her life in the blackest psychotic depression I have ever witnessed. Her husband cared for her with incredible devotion, and her friends did the best they could. But it was almost frightening to be with her. I clearly observed that the denial of the reality of suffering could have catastrophic consequences."

Apparently, Helen wasn't as big a fan of her work as her partner William Thetford. Now, this is where it gets really interesting. According to Groeschel, William Thetford, who was Helen's scribe, had some mysterious aspects about his life.

First, he exercised great control over Helen and the editing of her dictations. Second, Groeschel said he felt that William was faking his Christianity and lacked the sense of honesty necessary for a friendship. Third, it was revealed after his retirement from Columbia that for years he had been an agent of the CIA. He claimed to have been at the first fission experiment at the University of Chicago, called the Manhattan Project. The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. 

I think it should be noted here that assisting a psychologist in creating 3 volumes of channeled material, with the intention of mass marketing (which was rigorously done by Thetford and the editors), was a clever move. Helen was a professor of psychology and knew the human psyche very well. She knew how to script her dictations so they would profoundly affect the psyche. And considering that over one and a half million copies of The Course have been sold worldwide, with over 2,200 study groups, the effectiveness the brainwashing took effect.

As I've stated in numerous articles and videos, my research on the New Age phenomenon leads to a manmade agenda with an Alien narrative designed to herd the population into a one-world government AND to conduct psychological experiments on the public at large. The evidence leads to a cover-up for advanced government technologies by using Aliens and channeled messages to astray the public. This is not to say that aliens may or may not be here or won't arrive at some point in the future, but it does shed a wealth of doubt on the narratives peddled by the New Age industry.

Channeled messages and UFOs have always been two sides of the same coin. The New Age movement is built on the foundation of invisible people (Jesus, Ascended Masters, and Aliens) talking through human heads and hands (automatic writing). Psychology has often been used to mask the poisonous dualism inherent in metaphysical junk.

A Course in Miracles is just that, a mix of psychology, religion, and New Ageism all wrapped up in a Light and Love package that offers quite the opposite. Helen Cohn Schucman's last years of her life demonstrated that her writings were nothing more than delusional thinking based on her religious upbringing. The natural world she convinced herself was an illusion became her ultimate truth. The fantasy of ultimate love came crashing down, exposing her underlying depression.

The Course in Miracles she abandoned to the editors, and expressed regret and embarrassment for, to the degree that she wanted to remain an anonymous author, became a window into her chronic depression and another brick in the foundation of delusion that the New Age teachings are built on.

— Zzenn