Schucman's Handwriting

2006-9-12 14:46:00

Thanks Larry for the sample of Helen Schucman's (Author of Course in Miracles) handwriting. It never occurred to me to search it out.

It's odd when you think of it as to how many innovative female teachers of the new age are called Helen. There's H. P. Blavatsky, Helena Roerich and Helen Schucman.

It matters little whether the writing is shorthand, or even in English. Most of the analysis is determined by the strokes.

The most interesting thing at first glance is Schucman's handwriting show's high intelligence, comparable with Madame Blavastky's. With a little help from inspiration or a well developed thoughtform she could have written A Course in Miracles. The same goes for H. P. Blavatsky. It would have been possible for a woman of her high intelligence to have come up with all her writings without the help of masters.

Alice A. Bailey is another story. She was more intelligent than average but not as sharp as the two Helens. She definitely could not have written the DK books without help.

In addition to high intelligence Schucman's handwriting shows basic honesty, simplicity, directness and not much desire to come up with a fabrication to draw attention to herself. She does show a desire to initiate though. It also shows a large range of emotions with some inner conflict as if two emotional selves are fighting for dominance. One suppresses and is subject to guilt and denial. The other is expressive, uninhibited and free.

I can see why she expressed a desire for knowledge as exists in A Course in Miracles before the messages came to her.

There's much more I could say about her handwriting but these are the pertinent things.

That said here is my best guess as to how A Course in Miracles came to be.

We know that Helen was contemplating the need for a course something like A Course in Miracles before it was written. I believe her thinking on this was much more than a passing thing but nearly consumed her because of her own inner conflicts and struggles with residual, possibly unrecognized, guilt.

As she contemplated solutions to her own conflicts as well as that of others the answers began to come. The problem was the answers were somewhat of a religious nature and she was not a religious person, but a trained professional.

She thus restrained herself from writing the answers that were formulating in her mind. Energy follows thought and the energy of her suppressed thought created a powerful thoughtform. The thoughtform grew in strength until one day it came to life and began speaking to her as if it were the greatest authority in spiritual matters, even Jesus.

She did not realize she was receiving from her own thoughtform but did sincerely believe she was receiving a revelation from God. The fact that this seemed to come from outside herself made it acceptable to her and she paid attention to it and began writing that which beforehand was too uncomfortable to write.

Was then A Course in Miracles a product entirely of Schucman's inner mind and outer thoughtform?

Possibly not. It is quite possible that one of the Masters, or even Christ himself, was aware of her thoughtform and saw the great influence the course would have on the world. If this were the case then such a master could have added some of his own thoughts to the thoughtform and thus enhanced the amount of truth that Schucman would present. It is also possible that one of the Dark Brothers could have done the same thing.

Whatever the case A Course in Miracles needs to be approached in the same manner as all other teachings, including my own. That is, the seeker must run all things by his own soul. He then should go with that which registers and reject, or put on the shelf, those things that do not.

Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
--"A Course in Miracles"