Thetford Transcript Manuscript
Bill Thetford is on tape describing how he typed up Helen Schucman’s Notes as she read them to him, and then read back what he’d typed to ensure accuracy. Later Wapnick and FIP were to report that this original Thetford Transcript was the “urtext”. Well, an urtext is not necessarily an original transcript. The word usually refers to a document pieced together from available primary sources where there are more than one, and the Urtext to A Course in Miracles really is an urtext, in that sense, not an original transcript, at least for the Text volume.
Only the Song of Prayer and Psychotherapy volumes of the so-called urtext material show any evidence of possibly being the original Thetford Transcript. Otherwise, we have no access to any of the original transcript, we don’t know anyone who does, and we are not even sure it still exists.
Due to the uncertainty regarding the two volumes which we suspect might be the original transcript, they are included both in this section and in the Urtext section.