Joseph outlines the relationship involving the Course and Gnostic thinking.[17] Daren Kemp also considers ACIM neo-Gnostic and agrees with Hammer that it is a channeled text.[14] The course has become seen as a means that "integrates a psychological environment perspective with a universal spiritual perspective" and linked to transpersonal psychology.[31] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeFqbAORPUg