  The general formulation of a technically advantageous method to find the
ground state solution of the Schrodinger equation in configuration space for
systems with a number of particles A greater than 4 is presented. The wave
function is expanded in pair correlated hyperspherical harmonics beyond the
lowest order approximation and then calculated in the Faddeev approach. A
recent efficient recursive method to construct antisymmetric A-particle
hyperspherical harmonics is used. The accuracy is tested for the bound state
energies of nuclei with A = 6,8,12. The high quality of the obtained results
becomes evident from a comparison with other approaches.
