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A Course in Miracles: a CIA exercise

in mindcontrol?
Monday, 25 June 2007
A Course in Miracles, published in 1975, is a book
considered by its students to be their spiritual path
some have labelled it the New Age Bible. It has sold
millions of copies. But could it have been part of a CIA
mind control experiment? One of its authors, was a key
MKULTRA scientist.

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Its promoters describe it as A Course in Miracles is a complete selfstudy spiritual thought system. As a three-volume curriculum consisting

healing of relationships and making them holy. A Course in Miracles

also emphasizes that it is but one version of the universal curriculum, of
which there are many thousands. Consequently, even though the
language of the Course is that of traditional Christianity, it expresses a
non-sectarian, non-denominational spirituality. A Course in Miracles

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therefore is a universal spiritual teaching, not a religion. According to

Dr. Helen Schucman and the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP), she and
Dr. William Thetford scribed the book by means of a process coming
from a divine source through a form of channelling, which Schucman
referred to as inner dictation. Schucman described the divine source of
her channelling as none other than the person of Jesus Christ thus
making one think that the notion that this is just a spiritual teaching
not a religion, somewhat suspect.

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Channellers of Jesus
Christ would
perhaps should be
treated with
suspicion. But
amongst the usual
list of possible
explanations for
mounting a hoax, A
Course in Miracles
has an unusual

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candidate: CIA
sponsored mind
control. Dr. William
Thetford, co-scribe of the book, co-headed the CIAs Mind Control

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MK-ULTRA SubProject 130: Personality Theory, while at Columbia

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University, between 1971 and 1978. His colleague on this project was

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David Saunders. Thetfords Professional Bio, also available on the A

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Course in Miracles web site, makes reference to his involvement in a

Personality Theory Research Project while Professor of Medical
Psychology at Columbia University, but the information does not
specifically cite this as a CIA MK-ULTRA SubProject an omission we
would expect to find. When we check dates, it is clear that A Course in
Miracles was written in the middle of this projects existence. The next
question should therefore be whether it was part of this project. After all,
the project addresses personality theory and the Course tackles how
heal the personality.

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Some might argue that though the book was published in 1975, the

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sessions predated Thetfords involvement with the CIA in 1971. But can

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we be sure? The story goes that in late 1965, Schucman began to

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channel this voice in her head. From 1965 to 1972, Thetford directly

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assisted Schucman with the transcription of the first three sections of

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the work, which was in fact the great bulk of the material. But one year

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into his involvement with the CIA, in 1972, Thetford and Schucman were
introduced to Dr. Kenneth Wapnick, whom they invited to assist with
the editing that was required to render the rough draft of the ACIM
manuscript into a publishable format. So though it is possible the actual
sessions fell outside of Thetfords MKULTRA employment, the
promotion and publication fell squarely within it. Furthermore, it has
been alleged that among the subjects deleted from the original versions
were remarks concerning the CIA. When some of these original
versions were first published on the Internet in the late 1990s, they were
almost as quickly removed by a court injunction brought by none other

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than Wapnick himself.

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The publisher of the Course was the Foundation for the Investigation of

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Para Sensory Phenomena. Some observers wonder whether this may

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have been funded by members involved with or employed by the

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Stanford Research Institute (SRI), Menlo Park, California, which at the

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time was home to the Remote Viewing project itself sponsored by the
CIA. One of the people with connections to SRI was Judith Skutch, the
president and founder of the foundation. In 1973, Skutch was one of Uri
Gellers first supporters. According to Andrew Tobias, most of Gellers
private demonstrations were done in Skutchs apartment and it was this
foundation that put up $60,000 to pay for SRIs further study of Geller.
As it is now known that funding for such experiments also came from
the CIA, we can of course wonder whether the Foundation was a front
for the CIA which would mean that it was the CIA itself who published
A Course in Miracles in 1975. That would mean that the Course was

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from beginning to end a CIA affair.

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Could this couple have faked everything?

Thetford

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Father Benedict Groeschel, a Catholic

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priest, knew Schucman both as a teacher

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and friend. He described William Thetford

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as a mysterious character, and probably

the most sinister person I ever met. That
is an interesting assessment. Only after he
retired from teaching did Thetfords
Columbia colleagues (who knew him best as a rare-books expert)
discover that during the years they worked with him, he had been
employed as an agent of the CIA one who was, among other things,
present at the first fission experiment conducted by physicists assigned
to the Manhattan Project. Thetford also was the most religious atheist I
have ever known, Groeschel recalled. Equally, Groeschel uncovered that

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Schucman, though outwardly an atheist, had been an admirer of the

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apparition of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes quite an uncommon

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fascination for a Jew. She was also embarrassed and feared, Groeschel

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remembered, that the book would create a cult, or a cult following,

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which of course it did. In her eyes, it was that damned book.

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Was Schucman the unknown victim, or active participant, in a

government-sponsored experiment? As an associate professor, she
definitely had the intelligence to figure whether or not she was abused.
Furthermore, J.W. Gittinger was the primary personality assessor for
MKULTRA. He pioneered scientific methods to enable him to identify
the most susceptible types of personalities for Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, one of
the leading scientists on the MKULTRA project. Gittingers work
eventually surfaced as his Personality Assessment System (PAS). Two
years after Schucman went to work for Thetford, they co-authored a
paper on Gittingers PAS, suggesting they at least knew of him or may

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even have written this paper within the framework of the MKULTRA

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project.

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So could the book be part of some mind control experiment? Author and

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Yogi Joel Kramer states that the Course could be considered a classic

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authoritarian example of programming thought to change beliefs. Long

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time teacher of the Course, Hugh Prather, notes that the Course students
often become, far more separate and egocentric, with many ultimately,
[losing] the ability to carry on a simple conversation. He admits that
he and his wife Gayle, had ended up less flexible, less forgiving, and less
generous than we were when we first started our path! Furthermore,
the book starts off as a psychic channelling session and this is an area
that the CIA was involved with in the 1970s. So not only was Thetford an
MK-ULTRA employee, the book itself, and the method in which it is said
to have come about, also fits a CIA area of interest.
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While occult phenomenon has long been

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ridiculed by the scientific establishment,

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the CIA seriously entertained the notion

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that such phenomena might be highly

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significant for the spy trade. The Agency

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speculated that if a number of people in the

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US were found to have high ESP capacity,

their talent could be assigned to specific
intelligence problems. In 1952, the CIA initiated an extensive program
involving the search for, and development of, exceptionally gifted
individuals who could approximate perfect success in ESP performance.
The Office of Security, which ran the ARTICHOKE project, was urged to
follow all leads on individuals reported to have true clairvoyant powers
so as to be able to subject their claims to rigorous scientific investigation.

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The CIA began infiltrating sances and occult gatherings during the
1950s, which may explain why they were interested in a bizarre

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UFO/medium case in Maine in 1959. A memo dated April 9, 1953, refers

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to a domestic and therefore illegal operation that required the

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planting of a very specialized observer at a sance in order to obtain a

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broad surveillance of all individuals attending the meetings. During the

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late 1960s, the CIA experimented with mediums in an attempt to contact

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and possibly debrief dead CIA agents. These attempts, according to

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Victor Marchetti, a former high-ranking CIA official, were part of a

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larger effort to harness psychic powers for various intelligence-related

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missions (PROJECT SCANATE) that included utilizing clairvoyants to

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divine the intentions of the Kremlin leadership. Early in 1981, a well-

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known syndicated columnist Jack Anderson said, my associate and I

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revealed a Pentagon secret that raised eyebrows from coast-to-coast. To

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the sceptics who wrote in, no, we dont take hallucinogens. The Pentagon
and the Kremlin are, indeed dabbling in the black arts, they are seriously
trying to develop weapons based upon extrasensory perception. A
Course in Miracles seems to have been a part of this psychic warfare
the question is: what was its intended purpose?
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Cheri Lundstrom

June 22, 2015 at 11:16 pm

I take exception to the referring of Helen as a Jew. Both her parents

were half Jewish and non observant. Her mother read from the
writings of the Christian Scientists. In order for this to be a CIA
creation they would have had to do something to Helen as she did the
writing. Im not a follower of any of these so dont have a dog in the
fight. Chances are that Helen was having a spiritual emergency which
is essentially psychotic. Any savvy person knows that CIA spooks are
nuttier than a good fruitcake. They wasted multi millions probably
billions of dollars on such absurd things as distant viewing. None of
the expenditures yielded anything worthwhile. I think this is just
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another witch hunt.

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October 8, 2015 at 10:12 am

I dont understand how something promoting forgiveness and love

can be labeled demonic (by the religious) and some sort of evil CIA
mind control scheme by the uber paranoid?
While Im disinclined to jump on any bandwagon (including this one),
the fear factor of anything new or unknown ever had at work
never ceases to amaze me.
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