Helen Schucman
Helen Cohn Schucman was an American clinical and research psychologist from New York City. She was a professor of medical psychology at Columbia University in New York from 1958 until her retirement in 1976. Schucman is best known for having scribed with the help of colleague William Thetford the book A Course in Miracles , the contents of which she claimed to have been given to her by an inner voice she identified as Jesus. However, as per her request, her role as its writer was not revealed to the general public until after her death.
Schucman was born Helen Dora Cohn in 1909 to Sigmund Cohn, a prosperous metallurgical chemist, and Rose Black, who had married on October 18, 1896, in Manhattan. Schucman had a brother, Adolph Cohn, who was almostyears her senior. Though her parents were both halfJewish, they were nonobservant. Schucmans mother Rose dabbled in Theosophy and various expressions of Christianity such as Christian Science and the Unity School of Christianity. However, it was the family housekeeper, Idabel, a Baptist, who had the deepest religious influence on Schucman while she was growing up. In 1921, when she was 12, Schucman visited Lourdes, France, where she had a spiritual experience, and in 1922 she was baptized as a Baptist. She received her B.A. from New York University , , where she met fellow student Louis Schucman in 1932 and whom she married, in a 10minute ceremony in a local rabbis office, on May 26, 1933. Louis owned one or more bookstores on Book Row in Manhattan, and during the early ye
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