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[[Image:Wapnick-blue-frame.jpg|thumb|104px|right|Dr. Kenneth Wapnick, one of the three primary transcriber-editors of [[A Course In Miracles]], director of the [[Foundation for A Course In Miracles]].]]

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introduction betweengathering of Wapnick, Schucman and Thetford also had a profound impact on Wapnick.  Even though the initial introduction between these three yielded no immediate changes in Wapnick’s life-plans, apparently on a subconscious level the introduction did indeed have a far greater impact on Wapnick than what he was consciously aware of during those first introductions.

During these initial introductory meetings between the three psychologists, Thetford and Schucman offered on more than one occasion to show Wapnick a manuscript which they referred to as Schucman’s ‘"new book on spiritual development’".  Wapnick turned down these various initial offers, yet during the months that followed, certain images of this same manuscript appeared to Wapnick in recurring dreams.  These recurring dreams ultimately led Wapnick to return to Thetford and Schucman and to ask in a rather straightforward manner (according to Schucman) if he might now be permitted to finally review this manuscript.

== Initial impression of the ACIM manuscript ==
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== Footnote references ==
{{fnb|1}} FACIM is the copyright holder for approximately 2% of the materials included in the popular 2nd edition of ACIM.  The remaining 98% of these materials are in the public domain.  For more information about the status of the copyrights to ACIM, see the second paragraph of: [[A_Course_In_Miracles#Some_concerns_expressed_regarding_Charles_Anderson.27s_study_group| ACIM copyright litigation, ca. 1995 - 2003]]

[[Category:Spirituality|Wapnick, Kenneth]]