Joseph outlines the connection between the Course and Gnostic pondering.[17] Daren Kemp also considers ACIM neo-Gnostic and agrees with Hammer that it is a channeled text.[14] The course has become considered as a method that "integrates a psychological environment view with a universal spiritual perspective" and associated with transpersonal psychology.[31] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1amb7r2WR1g