Acknowledgments

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The interpretation of A Course in Miracles presented in this book is grounded in the work of Dr. Kenneth Wapnick (1942–2013), whose decades of teaching and writing established the non-dualistic framework through which the Course’s thought system becomes internally consistent. His insistence on intellectual rigor, his respect for the Course’s internal logic, and his unwillingness to dilute difficult ideas for comfort shaped how I learned to read the Course—and therefore how this book reads it. Whatever clarity these essays achieve is indebted to that work.

I am also deeply grateful to Gary Renard, whose books have done more than perhaps anyone’s to bridge the gap between the Course’s metaphysical depth and its practical application in daily life. His work has helped countless students—myself included—move from intellectual understanding to lived practice.

Wapnick taught me how to think about the Course. Renard helped me understand how to live it.