A Course in Miracles - A CIA Manipulation Device?

A COURSE IN MIRACLES - A CIA MANIPULATION DEVICE?
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from Tal Levesque's Research Services: June 11, 2007

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‘Creating a mythos’ to control people.

Program of psychological warfare (PSYOP) or ‘Mind War’.

* Using FALSE information to manipulate and control people.

A Course in Miracles (also referred to as ACIM or "the Course"),[originally published in 1975] is a book considered by its students to be their "spiritual path".

According to Dr. Helen Schucman and the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP), Dr. Helen Schucman and

Dr. William Thetford "scribed" the book by means of a process coming from a divine source through a form of channeling which Schucman referred to as "inner dictation". Schucman described the divine source of her channeling as none other than the person of Jesus Christ.

Well.... Dr. William Thetford, headed the CIA's "Mind Control" MK-ULTRA SubProject 130: Personality Theory, while at Columbia University between 1971-1978.

Dr. Thetford’s Professional Bio, also available on the A 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.

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There is a connection between Unity Church, "A Course In Miracles", MK-ULTRA Artichoke Subproject 130 ; Scientology ; the UFO Myth and the Stanford Research Institute.

"A Course in Miracles" was a CIA manipulation device.

It was an experiment orchestrated by the CIA/US government.

Many were DAMAGED by it.

It was implemented Bill Thetford (an agent of the CIA) at Columbia University.

Search for info on Thetford and MKUltra (the government's well-documented mind-control program) to find more.

The agenda, according to those interested in this sphere of investigation, is to inflitrate and dilute the American left with New Age ideas and inward-focussed, anti-rational religious movements.
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The Making of 'A Course in Miracles'



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William Thetford, also a Columbia professor, was a mysterious character, and "probably the most sinister person I ever met," the priest recalled. Only after he retired from teaching did Thetford's Columbia colleagues (who knew him best as a rare-books expert) discover that all during the years they worked with him, the man 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, and conceived a great enthusiasm for A Course in Miracles, personally arranging for its publication. Schucman was embarrassed, Groeschel remembered, and confided to the priest her fear that the book would create a cult, which of course it did.

Groeschel initially read the Course as "religious poetry," but grew steadily more negative in his assessment of it as the years passed and sales of the three volumes passed into the millions of copies. From his point of view, A Course in Miracles served to undermine authentic Christianity more effectively than just about any other work he could recall, and while he was inclined to reject the position of St. John of the Cross that "these things are diabolical unless proven otherwise," doubts had crept in over the years. Most troubling to him by far was the "black hole of rage and depression that Schucman fell into during the last two years of her life," the priest explained. She had become frightening to be with, Groeschel recalled, spewing psychotic hatred not only for A Course in Miracles but "for all things spiritual." When he sat at Schucman's bedside as she lay dying, "she cursed, in the coarsest barroom language you could imagine, `that book, that goddamn book.' She said it was the worst thing that ever happened to her. I mean, she raised the hair on the back of my neck. It was truly terrible to witness."

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I came across that book years ago... ha ha so it was the Unity Church was it ?

I own a library of spiritual books but I always intuitively strayed away from THAT book. Happy to found out my intuition might have been right. VERY interesting post.

Before reading up too heavily on the sources provided, I'd like to state that while much of the MKULTRA project was an utter failure and deterimental to the minds of many, much was also learned.

If the mythos is healthy and helps create a happier, productive, and self resiliant individual with postive community involement - I see no harm in it, myself.

Thanks for the links - I'll check back in when I am more informed on the information presented within for deconstruction and evalutation.

Great thread!

[edit on 1-9-2007 by GENERAL EYES]

I study many religions and spiritual scriptures, and ACIM is nothing more than a TAOIST perspective incorporating Jesus.

Ive read a course in miracles extensively, and If you are going to call it a CIA OP, then so is Taoism Hinduism Jainism and Buddhism.

If anything its a very blunt psychological approach at understanding the nature of how your mind works, or what Jesus was teaching.

Dont knock it till you try it right?

It is nothing like Scientology.

And the only DAMAGE the course in miracles produces is the fundamentalist christians idea of what Jesus was teaching. Which is biased anyways. Not saying its wrong, just that I think if you spoke Hebrew or Aramaic the bible would not contradict ACIM, thus causing no damage.

The only other damage ACIM could cause is the same damage caused by a student who falters in their determination to stay on the middle path.

its all about perception, alter your perception, change your reality.

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This thread is a victim of disinformation if it is not itself disinformation IMHO.

The truth is that the universe we see around us is manifest from potentials, by our observation. This is Quantum mechanics.

The character of reality is defined by the consensus of those participating in it, their proximity to an event, and the sum of their belief or disbelief.
This is metaphysics.

Convince enough people to believe, and that belief will become the reality.
Not to agree, but to truly believe.

This has far more potential as a weapon than any "Mind Control" experiment. But you do see how this could be an off shoot of large scale mind control.

Suppose you run large scale Psy Ops successfully and come to realize that what you were inducing as false belief systems manifestd repeatedly as realitys?

There would be denial and accusations of poor control, where you stupidly tried to implant false beliefs, which were actually truths. You would even doubt your own competence at first. You would have "How could I have overlooked that" moments.

Someone sufficiently objective might walk away from the failed experiments in mind control, with something even better. Something they need to develop further without being found out by the original masters.
They might hide the experiments as religion which already uses the methods, just not in a formal scientific way.

[edit on 5-5-2008 by Cyberbian]