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Helen Cohn Schucman, Ph.D. was born in New York City in the early 1900s. During the Depression years, she was brought up in a family that enjoyed all the accoutrements of wealth: maid, cook, and fulltime governess. Dr. Schucman spent most of her early years with her governess, well insulated from the rest of the family, consisting of her parents and a brother 14 years her senior. Although her parents were Jewish, she was encouraged to sample many faiths and to select for herself her own belief system. And she did, trying Catholicism, Judaism, Southern Baptist teachings, atheism and agnosticism before she was an adult, the latter of which she adhered to in her adult years.

After high school, Dr. Schucman attended New York University studying literature, music, and language. It was there that she met Louis Schucman, a compatible fellow student, who later became her husband. Louis owned a bookstore and during the early years of their marriage, Helen worked in it with him but grew increasingly restless about her own life. Something seemed to be missing from it, and in her early forties she decided to return to NYU to study psychology. In 1958 she earned a Ph.D.

Their joining together served as the trigger for Helen to hear an inner Voice dictate to her. As the reluctant scribe of A Course in Miracles, Dr. Schucman's role as its writer was not revealed – as she had requested– until after her death in February, 1981. Following her death, a collection of her poems, The Gifts of God, was published by the Foundation for Inner Peace.

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