Helen Schucman quotes
There's nothing that I would call ordinary audition about this at all. It doesn't really.. It's a curious thing that will be very difficult to explain. Somebody asked me, "Was it as though your hand was moving?” No. I wrote perfectly voluntarily in response to...I call it a voice, but "a voice” has sounds...or sounds as though it has something to do with hearing. And I didn't hear anything. I think it's the sort of hearing that you can't really describe. It doesn't have anything to do with ears, or waves hitting a drum or anything on that order. I don't really know, I think maybe I'm using the wrong word when I say "hear.” I sort of recognized it, it was very rapid, I could even....if I didn't catch a phrase, I could sort of say, "Would you mind doing that again?”.
Helen Schucman
I am a very careless person in some ways, I lose everything. But I never lost anything of this Course. People would would stop me in the subway and say, "Miss, you forgot your something or other, and hand it back to me.” Taxis would honk their horns, you know and say, "You left something in the back seat.” My secretary would say, "Are you sure this belongs in this case report, it doesn't sound right?” It was impossible to lose this Course, and I tried. But it...followed me around in an odd kind of way. People would send it back to me, anything. And I always got it back. We never lost anything, which is incredible.
Helen Schucman
I saw myself entering a cave in a rock formation on a bleak, windswept seacoast. The entrance to the cave was low, and the cave was quite deep. All I found in it was a very old and large parchment scroll. Its ends were rolled around heavy, gold-tipped poles, the two sides touching at the scroll's center and tied together by a strip of parchment that fell away as my fingers touched it. I untied the ends and opened the scroll just enough to expose the center panel, on which only two words were written; 'God is', and nothing else. ...
Helen Schucman
