A Teacher
Jon Mundy
Forgiveness as the release of illusion
The transmission
Jon Mundy is an American minister, lecturer, and author who became one of the earliest and most public teachers of A Course in Miracles. Raised on a farm in Missouri, he entered ministry young, serving three rural Missouri churches and being licensed by the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in 1961.
He went on to teach philosophy and religion from 1967 to 2008 at institutions including the New School and the State University of New York, specializing in the history of mysticism. In 1973 he was introduced to A Course in Miracles by its scribe, Dr.
Helen Schucman, and her colleague Dr. William Thetford; Schucman served as his counselor and guide until her illness around 1980, and Mundy is often cited as a personal acquaintance who encouraged her work.
Mundy founded and publishes Miracles magazine, and he co-founded The New Seminary for Interfaith Ministers in New York City in 1981 and the Interfaith Fellowship in 1989. As director of the Course studies program at All Faiths Seminary International, he has spent decades presenting the Course’s teaching from a conventional pulpit, making him one of the first mainstream ministers to do so.
His books, including Living A Course in Miracles and A Course in Mysticism and Miracles, frame the Course within a broader lineage of Christian and perennial mysticism, emphasizing forgiveness as the practical mechanism by which the mind releases its self-made illusions.
What they gave
Mainstreaming the Course: Among the first ordained ministers to teach A Course in Miracles publicly, bridging it to conventional religious audiences.
- Forgiveness as mental practice: Presents forgiveness not as moral pardon but as the cognitive release of false perception, restoring awareness of a deeper Self.
- Mysticism as continuity: Situates the Course within the historical stream of Christian and perennial mysticism rather than treating it as an isolated revelation.
- Institution-building: Through Miracles magazine, the interfaith seminary, and the Interfaith Fellowship, created durable channels for transmitting Course teaching.
In their words
The Course is not about the world. It’s not about the body. It’s not about time. It’s about the Mind.
We hear when we give up trying to figure life out and in desperation cry out for help.
It is best, however, not to wait for crisis in order to be in communication.
The line they stand in
Influenced by: Helen Schucman and William Thetford and the scribed text of A Course in Miracles, alongside the Christian-mystical tradition he taught academically.
- Influenced: generations of Course students and interfaith ministers, and the wider readership reached through his magazine, seminary, and books.