Experience the Course
Guided reading, reflection, and practice—whether you have 30 minutes or one instant.
Draw a practice card →Explore by Motif
Trace one idea across the whole Text: where it begins, where it shifts, and where it reaches full intensity.
View all motif pathways → 31 chapters · 257 sectionsExplore the Text
See what each chapter covers, then dive into any section for motif analysis and convergence.
Browse chapters and sections →The Text of A Course in Miracles doesn't present its ideas in a straight line. It returns to its central themes again and again—each time from a different angle, at a different elevation. Dr. Kenneth Wapnick described this as "symphonic"—and as a "spiral staircase" where each revolution brings the reader back to familiar ground, but higher.
ACIM Atlas makes that spiral visible—and practical. The site tracks the recurring motifs across all 31 chapters of the Text, mapping where each theme appears, how it develops, and where it reaches its fullest expression. Then it turns that analysis into focused practice: guided reading, reflection, and prompts grounded in the Text and linked directly to the web edition at acim.org/acim/en. It's a free companion resource for students—designed to be used alongside the published Text, not as a substitute for it.
The analysis behind ACIM Atlas was built through a combination of twenty years of Course study, carefully designed rubrics, and AI-assisted annotation at a scale that would not be possible manually. The methodology is documented openly—including the pipeline, the scoring rubrics, the editorial rules, and the design decisions behind every score and label on the site.
Take ACIM Atlas with you. Download the motif definitions, Journey essays, and detailed commentary as PDF and EPUB editions for reading offline, or as audiobooks for listening. The corpus dataset is also available for further exploration.
Books & downloads → Corpus-wide findings → About the project → Read the documentation →
ACIM Atlas is an independent study companion and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) or the Foundation for A Course in Miracles (FACIM). This site contains original ACIM Atlas content and refers to A Course in Miracles and the teaching of Dr. Kenneth Wapnick. Third-party works, names, and marks remain the property of their respective rights holders. ACIM is a registered trademark of the Foundation for Inner Peace.
A Course in Miracles, 3rd Edition © 2007 published by the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd., #306, Novato, CA 94949, https://acim.org, quotes used with permission.
The commentary on ACIM Atlas reflects the author’s understanding and interpretation of what A Course in Miracles teaches.
All narration on this site uses AI-generated voices.