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istory tells us that the decade of the in 1975. Schucman was not interested in any peace. “It seems,” he said, “ that all of you 1960s was one of the most turbulent credit for the content and no person’s name have misinterpreted that part. Carry on.” Hand trying of times. Locked in a war was listed as author. The copyright was held In that story, it was ironic that the instru- that seemingly could not be won, caught in by the Foundation for Inner Peace. That was ment for peace was being trifled over as a the crucible of change that marked expand- a fitting name for the foundation since the source of conflict. In our cover story, we find ing social freedoms and still collectively stated goal of the self-study text is to gently that conflict, just like peace, can be found mourning the grave loss that this country guide the student toward the shift in per- wherever we look for it. It is the seeker who endured with President Kennedy’s assassi- ception that leads to peace. must decide what he or she is looking for. Is nation, fear dominated the headlines. A tale widely told by followers of the it peace I seek or is it conflict? For what I Uncivilized civil conflict raged in our own Course is the story of a group of students seek, I shall truly find. land as friendships and relationships were who were reading the Text one day. A ques- The decade of the 1960s was a time not tested by opposing views of how to right the tion arose as to the meaning of a particular unlike our own. We once again find our- ship. It culminated in the shocking deaths of passage. The dialogue among the students selves in armed conflict far from our shores. four college students at the hands of their became quite energetic, if not heated. Into We once again have a focal tragedy that we fellow countrymen in Ohio in 1970. the room walked one of the senior members share; only the date is not November 22 but During that tempestuous decade of the of the group, one known for having a very rather September 11. We once again are 1960s, two doctors of psychology working clear and practical handle on what the deeply divided on how to deal with fear. It together at recognized Course teaches. As a senior teacher, he appears we are a country in conflict on how their own issues of conflict within the asked what the problem was. The students to move forward. It appears there is great administration of their daily duties. Finally, clamored, each for their position of interpre- social and political turmoil. It appears that one of the doctors threw up her hands and tation. It was obvious conflict. The leader we are separate from one another. The ques- begged for a way of seeing things more asked to be shown the section of text that tion is whether we have learned from that peacefully. She declared, “There has to be a could be so inciting. Handed the book, open vital and dynamic decade 40 years ago. better way.” to that page, he looked casually at it, Have we forgotten so quickly? We must Soon, as if in answer to that very prayer, grasped the corner and gently removed the declare, “There has to be a better way.” Dr. began to scribe the text offending page from the book. of . The three books Softly, he spoke to the students and — Michael Braunstein comprising that work were finally printed reminded them of the goal of the Course, Producer / Editor

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HEARTLAND HEALING MAGAZINE 5 How Jesus Got His Copyright Back

The intriguing story of how an old notes and he would duti- CH T audiocassette, some Xerox copies fully transcribe into U and a few miracles led to a hugely typewritten text. That

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popular book losing its copyright the world would know as Y B S E and entering public domain A Course in Miracles. T The result of Helen OUR

by Michael Braunstein Schucman’s experience C was a three-volume set of hardcover books titled n October of 1965, Helen Schucman A Course in Miracles thought she was going crazy. It didn’t I (ACIM), a spiritually- make sense to her that she was sitting BILL AND HELEN. based, psychologically- up nights with a steno pad taking notes oriented self-study from an internal voice. In fact, she found course intended to gently guide the stu- were given to more people, including it pretty upsetting. Here she was, a Ph.D. dent toward a shift in perception and the Hugh Lynn Casey, the son of the late psy- in clinical psychology, a tenured experience of inner peace. Neither Helen chic, . Others who received Associate Professor at Columbia nor Bill claimed authorship and it was copies included a co-worker, a fellow University Medical Center and she was generally acknowledged that the content psychologist named Kenneth Wapnick, a hearing inner dictation? That wasn’t the was directly channeled to Helen from the Catholic priest and another friend. All of worst of it. She was Jewish by descent source who called himself Jesus. them were similarly impressed with the and atheist by decision and the voice, A U.S. copyright was granted to the work. In 1975 A Course in Miracles was when queried, told her that she could call Foundation for Inner Peace, which pub- published in three hardcover volumes: a him “Jesus.” All this did not sit well with lished the set in 1975. But that wasn’t the 622 page Text, a 478-page Workbook for the 56-year-old researcher. Plus, it was first copy of ACIM to see print. Copies of Students and an 88-page Manual for costing her sleep. ACIM had been previously disseminated Teachers. Her boss, Dr. , and in April of 2004, that caused a feder- The original publishers were two noticed Helen’s apparent preoccupations al court to void the 1975 copyright, put- friends of Helen and Bill named Judith after a few weeks. When prodded, she ting ACIM into public domain. How the and Robert Skutch. They published the told her colleague about the nightly scrib- court came to see that evidence is part of Course through the Foundation for Inner ing. He asked to see the manuscripts. our story. Peace and there was no author credited. Thetford was mightily impressed with Helen and Bill were reluctant to be iden- what he read. There was a clarity and con- How it came to be tified with the Course because of concern sistency of content that convinced him After nearly seven years of laborious tran- over what some of their colleagues in the that something important was happening. scription, Helen and Bill had a finished scientific community might think. Over the next seven years, Helen and manuscript that up till then had been seen The Course became known as a self- Bill compiled the product of her scribing. by only a few acquaintances. study curriculum that could help the stu- She would dictate from her handwritten In 1973, copies of that manuscript dent shift or change perception of the

HEARTLAND HEALING MAGAZINE 6 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2004 S world. Teaching that cause was within Y rather than without and that a connec-

tion with the energy of the universe, ON HA S love, would manifest miracle-minded- A ness, ACIM flourished and propagated Y J around the world. By 1999 there were ON B I T

about 1.5 million copies in print and A R thousands of study groups. T US

ACIM cannot accurately be L L described as a movement or a cult or I religion: there was and is no titular head or organization, though many of its better-known students wrote books and became closely associated with it. Oprah mentioned it often and author and others wrote about it freely in best-selling books. Ministers and clerics quoted it in ser- mons while others, notably fundamen- talists, criticized it as “.” Its proliferation and recognition led to its increased stature. Willis Harman, a scholar and Regent of the University of California, professor at Stanford and major player at the highly respected Stanford Research Institute said of it, “A Course in Miracles comprises per- haps the most important writing in the English language since the translation of the Bible.” That feeling was shared by many scholars and students of the Course. In the early years, the Foundation for Inner Peace, the original copyright holders, had a very laissez-faire atti- tude toward reprinting or citing pas- sages from the Course. That suited stu- dents and groups using it in their mate- rials. In 1999, nearly 25 years after ini- tial publication, the copyright changed hands and became owned by Kenneth Wapnick and his Foundation for A Course in Miracles (FACIM). Things changed. In 1999, Wapnick sent letters refus- ing permission for a number of ACIM study groups to publish excerpts from the work. This had been unheard of in

CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 HEARTLAND HEALING MAGAZINE 7 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 the past and what followed was as American as apple pie: lawsuits. The Omaha Angles The stated motivation for studying the Course is peace. To find peace, forgive- ness or changing our perception of the values we place on things of the material world is necessary. It was ironic then, that in 1999 the new owners of the ACIM copyright, FACIM, Wapnick and his wife Gloria, became embroiled in a con- tentious lawsuit with a community in Wisconsin known as the Endeavor Academy, comprised of longtime students of ACIM. Here were two proponents of a course of study that teaches peace and is believed to be channeled from the Prince of Peace Himself and they were acting anything but peaceful. What transpired was that in April of 2004, a Federal judge set aside the copy- right that had been granted to Foundation for Inner Peace back in 1975. A Course in Miracles entered the public domain. TOM WHITMORE. Omaha attorney Tom Whitmore was a major energy leading to that historic rul- “The book was wrapped in plastic like “The story put out to the world was ing. He and the group he formed to further a Penthouse or something and I bought it. that Judy and Robert Skutch were getting the free use of ACIM have also been I brought it home and I opened it to the on in years and it was time to pass the involved in litigation with the Wapnicks introduction and I read that first para- torch to the next generation. At least, that and FACIM. graph and it just seized me.” was the way they spun it,” Whitmore A Creighton graduate and a practicing recounted. “But I believe there was some Shift happens attorney in Omaha since the mid-70s, infighting going on. Gloria and Ken Whitmore began studying the Course in Whitmore recognized the importance of Wapnick were agitating for tighter control 1992. access to the material contained in ACIM. of the Course and tighter enforcement of “It was the bookstore angels that did Groups had used parts of it in teaching for copyright. I’ve heard from insiders that it. I was in Pegasus Bookstore one day, years. Skutch basically just threw her hands up browsing,” said Whitmore. “I was in the “When the Course first came out, [the and said, ‘You guys do it. I’m not going to section and the thing basically original publishers] were allowing people have any part of this.’ That is what I fell off the shelf and landed on my foot. I to publish excerpts from it and artists to understand. don’t recall if that’s literally true but I’ve use phrases and so on,” Whitmore added. “And that resulted in commercializa- told the story so many times now that it Things changed when the copyright tion of the Course. As soon as Wapnicks seems like it is. I didn’t know anything shifted from the Skutch’s Foundation for got control of the copyright, they entered about the Course nor had I ever even Inner Peace. It’s a murky story why that this multimillion-dollar contract with heard of it. happened in the first place. Penguin Books for publishing and

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Penguin began a campaign to proselytize Part 2: Course that was a cornerstone of Judge the Course in the world. The ghost of Rosemary Woods or the Sweet’s opinion that the material had “Gradually [FACIM and Wapnicks] Case of the Lost Tapes already gotten into the public domain was began to tighten the process until even Part of the contention of the Endeavor a complete copy of the Course, all three what we consider fundamental fair use Academy legal team was that A Course in volumes, that Bill Thetford had sent to was restricted,” Whitmore said. Miracles is the word and teaching of Hugh Lynn Cayce at the Cayce Institute Contention escalated into the Jesus and therefore, as channeled infor- in Virginia Beach, Va. in 1973. That three- inevitable lawsuit. A fateful demonstra- mation, is public domain. Although some volume set ended up in the library at the tion of pride started the ball rolling. case law supports that contention, it Cayce Institute where the public could view it. Oops! turned out not to be the strongest argu- ment. “In 1999, a person, or persons, “It’s a series of lawsuits, really,” The word of Jesus wasn’t enough but unknown went to that library and with- explained Whitmore. “One was brought divine intervention may have played a drew the only remaining volume, the Text [against] the New Christian Church of part. portion; took it to a Kinko’s, copied it and Full Endeavor in Wisconsin Dells, Wis., To challenge the copyright, Endeavor brought it back,” Whitmore revealed. also known as the Endeavor Academy. Academy eventually chose to assert that “Some say it was done without the “Endeavor is a Course-based commu- the copyright should be voided since so approval or knowledge of the librarian on nity. They have residential facilities and many copies of the Course had been dis- duty; some say otherwise. Nevertheless, a what I would call graduates of that resi- seminated in various forms prior to copy- copy of the Hugh Lynn Cayce text got dential program who are out in the com- right filing. At least four versions existed into the hands of some people who tran- munity and have jobs but are still centered and were distributed without restriction scribed it and put it on the internet.” around the Academy. before the first 1975 copyrighted edition. “Endeavor printed materials from To recap the madcap path of miracle One of the reasons Endeavor chose that texts ACIM to help with teaching programs. defense was because of the discovery of For example, they took lessons from the some compelling evidence. “The first version, of course, was the Workbook and printed them in booklets “That [it was channeled] was the handwritten steno books that Helen wrote with places for notes. They have done thrust of Endeavor’s defense in the begin- down herself [publication 1],” Whitmore teaching videos, audiotapes and printed ning,” Whitmore said. “They thought that related. “From her dictation of those, material. was a pretty good argument. I don’t want Thetford typed a triplicate carbon set. “They had done a printing that con- to claim credit for putting the winning That transcription of 2000 pages is called tained extensive ACIM quotations and argument in their hands because I think the Urtext [publication 2]. That was sub- teachings around that material. They they had it before. I do suppose I would jected to some editing by Bill and Helen weren’t selling it or anything. They were claim that I had influence on them focus- correcting grammar and such. That Urtext giving it away to their students. ing more energy on that prior publication is now lodged in the Copyright Office and “One day, they proudly sent a copy off issue than they had previously. When they Dr. Wapnick claims, I believe, personal to Wapnick at FACIM. It was ironic in a had the summary judgment hearing in copyright on that material as ‘Schucman’s way, because they really just wanted to 2002, the judge threw out all claims other unpublished notes.’ show him the kind of work they were than the premature publication claim and “From that Urtext, Thetford added doing. That was apparently the wrong left that one issue for trial.” headings and chapter breaks and edited thing to do because when Wapnick That turned out to be the key legal out a lot of the personal material. He received it, he turned around and sued point and it wouldn’t have worked but for bound that in what are often called ‘thesis them for copyright infringement. That is two crucial pieces of evidence. One was bindings’ and he sent a copy like that to the beginning of the litigations.” the prior copy given to Hugh Lynn Cayce, Hugh Lynn Cayce. That is known as the now called the HLC text, two years before Hugh Lynn Cayce (HLC) version [publi- the 1975 copyright. cation 3]. I think there were about six peo- “Without naming names,” Whitmore demurred, “one of the publications of the CONTINUED ON PAGE 22

HEARTLAND HEALING MAGAZINE 9 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 ple, including two at Columbia, who got “The Course is a spiritual text it. and it’s the primary spiritual text “The copy retrieved from the Cayce for a growing component of our library and submitted for evidence was one of those typewritten versions. I have a society. I foresee the day when it photocopy of that original version. That is will be of the same stature in the the version posted on the internet in world as the Koran or the Bible or December of 1999. any religious text of that sort. “When Wapnick got his copy of the You ought to be able to quote it, HLC version back in 1973, he said to translate it into as many Schucman that it seemed rough and she agreed. So they did some editing on that languages as wanted and people one. That edited version became the so- ought to be able to use it and called “Nun’s Version” [publication 4] benefit from it.” because it was retyped by Maryknoll nuns. That was the version that was photo-reduced and published as the Criswell edition [publication 5]. It was named such after the woman who helped get it printed. That version was the first one that had a notation of copyright on it.” Endeavor Academy on their legal case,” ed hundreds of copies of that thing. That’s The copyright Wapnick eventually recounted Whitmore. “An interesting why we had to print the Criswell because acquired in 1999 was based on the 1975 story that involves an important piece of the demand was so strong for it we could- copyright application submitted by the evidence involves Joy Steadman from n’t keep up with it at the Xerox machine. Skutch’s and the Foundation for Inner Omaha. She was a member of our group, Can you imagine a nickel a page?’ The Peace for that Criswell printing. In the A Course in Miracles Society, and she court hearing her own voice saying that lawsuit, Wapnick, with supporting testi- was traveling to visit her sister in Arizona. was a pretty persuasive piece of evidence mony from Judith Skutch, maintained that She stopped at a friend’s house, a fellow for Judge Sweet that there had been prior the earlier versions prior to the 1975 Course student, in Santa Fe. unrestricted distribution. printing were working manuscripts that “She learned that one of the people “Lee, the man from Arizona, traveled existed only in a small number. there, a fellow named Lee, had recorded a to New York to authenticate it and that Judged Judy and the smoking tapes Judy Skutch presentation about the was important. In court depositions, Course in Miracles back in the middle Skutch claimed that it was just ‘sales Establishing that there were previously 1970s, when the ink was still wet. Lee talk,’ hyperbole. distributed copies of ACIM floating recalled that in that presentation Skutch “You know, the story of this legal around long before the 1975 version was had talked about all the enthusiastic copy- action is full of miracles. Finding that a crucial part of the Endeavor Academy’s ing and distribution of the Course prior to tape was one of them,” Whitmore smiled. defense. The copy of that HLC text was the time the Criswell text had been print- important for that. But an even more com- ed. Now, realize, that is an important The Omaha beef pelling piece of evidence seemed to seal point about prior distribution. Whitmore received a copy of the early the deal. An audiotape was discovered “Lee thought he had a copy of that HLC text. that held the voice of Judith Skutch from tape. Well, after a few days, he went look- “I didn’t know what it was when I got a lecture she delivered sometime in the ing and found it. it. I eventually opened it and saw how dif- 1970s. “On that tape, you hear Judy Skutch “We had already begun to assist the around 1977 saying, ‘Oh, yeah! We print- CONTINUED ON PAGE 24

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 22 distributing pending this litigation. individuals involved in them. So I think nd Eventually they got the Nebraska case they have a pretty impossible task of try- ferent it was from the popular 2 edition transferred to Louisville. ing to show secondary meaning.” that is in bookstores that I had been study- “Our case is still pending but we’re on Students of the Course believe its con- ing for 10 years or so,” Whitmore said. the cusp of settlement. We have a settle- tent should be free to reprint. Whitmore “In the first four chapters [the HLC ment agreement in our hands that has explained the importance of this landmark text] contained 25% more material than been verbally agreed upon between the copyright decision. the [bookstore] editions. Some of it was two sides. It hasn’t been executed yet. The “People like to quote the Bible and pretty significant to me. Some was subtle terms will have to remain confidential they like to quote extensively from it,” and some changes in emphasis and under the agreement itself but it will Whitmore pointed out. “The Course is a nuance and some of it was absolute allow us to resume publication. spiritual text and it’s the primary spiritual change in meaning. “The outcome of our case has been text for a growing component of our soci- “I thought, ‘We need to get this out.’ dictated by the setting aside of the copy- ety. I foresee the day when it will be of the So we created a non-profit corporation. right. And because [the Endeavor] case same stature in the world as the Koran or There were a lot of collaborators in this was further along than ours, we kind of the Bible or any religious text of that sort. process. We had people on four continents put the brakes on our case and focused You ought to be able to quote it, translate in the group, called Course in Miracles our energy on assisting with their case, it into as many languages as wanted and Society. providing them with the witnesses we had people ought to be able to use it and ben- “By spring of 2000, we took the inter- and the information that we had.” efit from it.” net version of the HLC text and had it And the Omaha version of the reproduced in print form, easier to deal Judged Wapnick Course? with than an electronic file and we pub- After FACIM gained control of the “They’re here in Omaha, under lock lished it as the Jesus’ Course in Miracles Course copyright, it seemed to become and key. When the court dismisses the (JCIM). It was bound and contained the like any other book. Course students case we’ll release them,” Whitmore entire HLC 31 chapters plus an appendix don’t think of ACIM like that. asserted. “We’ve got people wanting that compared the HLC version to the nd “It’s the commercialization of it. them.” published [bookstore] 2 edition.” [FACIM] treat it like a bag of Fritos™ Of course, publishing that version and then they try to put a copyright on the “All things work together for good.” opened Whitmore and his group to legal material and then put a trademark on the – Text, Chapter 4 interaction with Wapnick and FACIM. name, of all things,” continued Whitmore. If Wapnick’s lawsuits and restrictions on “We printed 1500 and within a couple “They are trying to trademark the title of the use of the words in A Course in weeks had mailed about 500 to people the book. That’s the last part of the Miracles had not happened now, the sta- who wanted it and then were hit by an Endeavor Academy suit that still has to be tus quo (i.e., somewhat limited and injunction and had to stop. decided, the validity of that trademark. I allowed use of ACIM content, done with “Two things happened. When we pub- think that will be thrown out, too. a wink and a nod but no officially granted lished, we filed a lawsuit in Federal court “It’s the proper name of a book and freedom) may have continued for years. in Omaha seeking a declaratory judgment case says you cannot copyright a proper Who knows? Years down the road, if that the copyright was invalid and unen- name like that unless it has gained sec- restrictions and lawsuits materialized forceable, which would permit us to con- ondary meaning for the works of the then, perhaps no copies of previously tinue our publication. Four days later, author. Nobody associates A Course in published versions of the text or dusty FACIM, Dr. Wapnick’s organization, filed Miracles with FACIM, the seekers of the audiocassettes may have existed. a lawsuit against us in Louisville, Ky., trademark. Ask the man on street who Defendants in any lawsuit then may have where one of the directors resided, claim- Ken Wapnick is and they won’t know. claimed prior publication, but without ing an infringement on their copyright. So And if you ask them to name a person evidence, it would have been hard to we had these Federal court cases pending. they associate with A Course in Miracles prove. Now it’s done. Jesus got his copy- They prevailed on the judge in Louisville they’ll probably say Oprah or Marianne right back. to issue an injunction prohibiting us from Williamson rather than the foundations or

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