A Program in Wonders is a set of self-study products printed by the Basis for Inner Peace. The book's content is metaphysical, and explains forgiveness as applied to everyday life. Curiously, nowhere does the book have an author (and it is so listed without an author's name by the U.S. Library of Congress). But, the writing was compiled by Helen Schucman (deceased) and William Thetford; Schucman has connected that the book's material is dependant on communications to her from an "inner voice" she said was Jesus. The original edition of the book was published in 1976, with a revised version published in 1996. Part of the material is a teaching guide, and students workbook. Since the initial edition, the guide has distributed many million copies, with translations into nearly two-dozen languages.

The book's roots could be traced back once again to early 1970s; Helen Schucman first activities with the "inner voice" led to her then supervisor, William Thetford, to contact Hugh Cayce at the Association for Research and Enlightenment. In turn, an release to Kenneth Wapnick (later the book's editor) occurred. During the time of the release, Wapnick was medical psychologist. Following meeting, Schucman and Wapnik spent over per year editing and revising the material.

Yet another release, this time a course in miracles programs  of Schucman, Wapnik, and Thetford to Robert Skutch and Judith Skutch Whitson, of the Foundation for Internal Peace. The very first printings of the guide for distribution were in 1975. Since that time, trademark litigation by the Base for Inner Peace, and Penguin Publications, has recognized that this content of the very first model is in the public domain.

A Program in Miracles is a training product; the class has 3 publications, a 622-page text, a 478-page student workbook, and an 88-page teachers manual. The components can be learned in the order plumped for by readers. This content of A Course in Miracles addresses the theoretical and the sensible, although program of the book's material is emphasized. The writing is certainly caused by theoretical, and is a cause for the workbook's classes, which are practical applications.

The book has 365 instructions, one for every time of the year, nevertheless they don't need to be performed at a speed of just one lesson per day. Possibly most just like the workbooks which are common to the average audience from past experience, you are asked to utilize the substance as directed. Nevertheless, in a departure from the "normal", the reader isn't expected to believe what is in the book, as well as take it. Neither the workbook nor the Program in Wonders is meant to complete the reader's understanding; just, the materials certainly are a start.

A Course in Miracles distinguishes between information and notion; the fact is unalterable and timeless, while belief is the world of time, change, and interpretation. The entire world of understanding reinforces the principal a few ideas inside our minds, and maintains us split up from the truth, and split up from God. Perception is limited by the body's constraints in the physical world, hence restraining awareness. Much of the ability of the entire world supports the ego, and the individual's divorce from God. But, by accepting the vision of Christ, and the style of the Holy Nature, one finds forgiveness, both for oneself and others.