Talk:A Course in Miracles/Archive 8: Difference between revisions

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:::: I am a self-confessed student of ACIM, and therefore admittedly probably biased. That having been said, you may find that the thought system taught in ACIM is so diametrically opposed to most forms of conventional wisdom, that it may become somewhat difficult for most reviewers to remain fully neutral about the subject. Most reviewers seem to either support or oppose, but very few seem to be merely neutral. [[User:Scottperry|Scott P.]] ([[User talk:Scottperry|talk]]) 02:07, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

== Implying that Schucman "never" wanted ACIM to be published by a company like Penguin not well documented ==

In "Absence from Felicity" Wapnick explained that the reason that ACIM was first published by the non-profit FIP foundation was to assure that no interference from a large commercial publisher might attempt to alter the message. Once the book had already established its "marketability" beyond a doubt in its original format, after 20 years of publication, I think it is quite reasonable to assume that the danger of commercial publisher interference had passed, thus if following the logic, probably Schucman would not have been opposed to this, so long as the integrity of the message was still safe. By implying that Schucman "never" wanted ACIM to be published by a commercial publisher seems to me to be a somewhat inaccurate and insufficiently documented implication. [[User:Scottperry|Scott P.]] ([[User talk:Scottperry|talk]]) 01:19, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

:: Nothing on these legal matters should be sourced to assumption, speculation, or inference. Anything that is so sourced should be removed at once. BTW that's an inconveniently long section heading![[User:Chiswick Chap|Chiswick Chap]] ([[User talk:Chiswick Chap|talk]]) 13:33, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

:::CC, thanks for your rolling up your sleeves here with this article and helping out. Obviously, you are a far more neutral party here than am I. I'm not sure exactly what you meant by the above. Did you mean that the implication they made that Schucman "never" wanted ACIM to be published by a for-profit-corporation was "too much of a reach" there or not? (That is, should I remove the portion that makes the implication or not?) BTW, sorry about the overly long section title.... [[User:Scottperry|Scott P.]] ([[User talk:Scottperry|talk]]) 01:47, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

:::: I think I'm lost in double negatives. The rule is that if a reliable source says "X wanted Y" we may publish it with that source as a reference. If on the other hand the source says "X considered Y" and your judgement of X's character is that this means X must have wanted Y, that's WP:OR. If a reliable source is speculating that "X probably wanted Y" we may publish it by saying 'Source S suggested that X probably wanted Y', again with a reference; this is not WP:OR as the probably is in the written evidence. Hope this helps. [[User:Chiswick Chap|Chiswick Chap]] ([[User talk:Chiswick Chap|talk]]) 08:20, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

::::: Thank you CC. I apologize for the myriad of double negatives. I've found that objectivity has not as easy for me, when I've been working on something that for me is at "nose length" away from my face (being a student of ACIM myself). Your objectivity here has been very helpful. [[User:Scottperry|Scott P.]] ([[User talk:Scottperry|talk]]) 07:23, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

== Copyright section was redundant ==

I have removed the copyright section due to the fact that all of the facts were already present in the Non-FIP section, and the two supporting links had several inaccuracies in the "supporting material" e.g. 2nd edition published in 1985? [[User:Scottperry|Scott P.]] ([[User talk:Scottperry|talk]]) 02:23, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

== The creation of the "List of works based on ACIM" ==

In order to try to keep the length of the main article as short as possible, not getting cluttered with various links to related works, I have created a page called a [[List of works based on "A Course in Miracles"]], and attempted to move and condense links to these various works there. This page is now linked to in the article's "See also" section. I have no doubt that this list will grow over time. Thanks, [[User:Scottperry|Scott P.]] ([[User talk:Scottperry|talk]]) 00:45, 27 June 2014 (UTC)