A Program in Wonders is a set of self-study resources published by the Base for Internal Peace. The book's material is metaphysical, and explains forgiveness as put on everyday life. Curiously, nowhere does the guide have an writer (and it is so shown without an author's title by the U.S. Selection of Congress). Nevertheless, the text was published by Helen Schucman (deceased) and Bill Thetford; Schucman has related that the book's substance is dependant on communications to her from an "inner voice" she said was Jesus. The initial variation of the guide was published in 1976, with a changed version published in 1996. Part of the content is a teaching handbook, and students workbook. Because the very first version, the book has sold many million copies, with translations in to almost two-dozen languages.

The book's sources can be tracked acim  again to the early 1970s; Helen Schucman first activities with the "internal voice" led to her then supervisor, Bill Thetford, to contact Hugh Cayce at the Association for Study and Enlightenment. Subsequently, an release to Kenneth Wapnick (later the book's editor) occurred. At the time of the release, Wapnick was scientific psychologist. Following conference, Schucman and Wapnik used around per year editing and revising the material.

Another introduction, now of Schucman, Wapnik, and Thetford to Robert Skutch and Judith Skutch Whitson, of the Base for Internal Peace. The initial printings of the guide for circulation were in 1975. Since that time, trademark litigation by the Basis for Internal Peace, and Penguin Publications, has recognized that the information of the very first edition is in the general public domain.

A Course in Wonders is a teaching unit; the class has 3 publications, a 622-page text, a 478-page scholar book, and an 88-page teachers manual. The components can be learned in the purchase chosen by readers. This content of A Course in Miracles handles the theoretical and the practical, even though application of the book's product is emphasized. The text is mostly theoretical, and is a cause for the workbook's classes, which are realistic applications.

The book has 365 instructions, one for each time of the year, however they don't need to be performed at a speed of one lesson per day. Possibly many such as the workbooks which can be common to the common reader from previous experience, you're asked to utilize the product as directed. Nevertheless, in a departure from the "normal", the audience is not needed to believe what's in the workbook, as well as take it. Neither the workbook nor the Program in Miracles is intended to complete the reader's understanding; just, the materials really are a start.

A Class in Wonders distinguishes between understanding and perception; truth is unalterable and timeless, while perception is the world of time, change, and interpretation. The world of understanding supports the principal some ideas in our minds, and keeps us split up from the truth, and split up from God. Understanding is restricted by the body's restrictions in the physical earth, therefore limiting awareness. A lot of the ability of the world reinforces the pride, and the individual's separation from God. But, by taking the vision of Christ, and the voice of the Sacred Nature, one understands forgiveness, both for oneself and others.