Inner Dictation

The process by which the text known as A Course in Miracles was initially transcribed between 1965 and 1978 by Helen Schucman. Schucman consistently preferred to distinguish ‘Inner Dictation’ from Channeling, probably in order to highlight the fact that she never entered into any types of trances or altered states of awareness in order to perform Inner Dictation. During the process, she claimed that she would simply hear an ‘inner voice’, that she could ‘turn off’ at will, if it seemed inconvenient at the time. At the time that Schucman transcribed this text, the process of ‘Inner Dictation’ was unheard of elsewhere.

Setting Schucman’s preferences aside, admittedly the process of Inner Dictation would logically appear to be a new variant form of the process normally referred to as Channeling.