A Course in Wonders is a couple of self-study components printed by the Base for Inner Peace. The book's content is metaphysical, and explains forgiveness as placed on everyday life. Curiously, nowhere does the book have an writer (and it is therefore shown without an author's title by the U.S. Selection of Congress). However, the writing was published by Helen Schucman (deceased) and Bill Thetford; Schucman has related that the book's substance is founded on communications to her from an "inner voice" she claimed was Jesus. The original variation of the guide was published in 1976, with a acim  release published in 1996. Area of the material is a teaching handbook, and a student workbook. Since the first version, the book has bought several million copies, with translations in to almost two-dozen languages.

The book's roots can be tracked back to early 1970s; Helen Schucman first activities with the "inner voice" generated her then supervisor, Bill Thetford, to make contact with Hugh Cayce at the Association for Research and Enlightenment. Consequently, an introduction to Kenneth Wapnick (later the book's editor) occurred. During the time of the release, Wapnick was clinical psychologist. After meeting, Schucman and Wapnik used over a year modifying and revising the material.

Still another introduction, this time of Schucman, Wapnik, and Thetford to Robert Skutch and Judith Skutch Whitson, of the Base for Inner Peace. The initial printings of the book for distribution were in 1975. Since then, copyright litigation by the Basis for Internal Peace, and Penguin Books, has established that the content of the initial model is in the public domain.

A Course in Wonders is a teaching product; the class has 3 books, a 622-page text, a 478-page student workbook, and an 88-page educators manual. The resources may be learned in the get selected by readers. This content of A Program in Miracles handles the theoretical and the practical, even though request of the book's substance is emphasized. The text is mostly theoretical, and is a cause for the workbook's classes, which are realistic applications.

The workbook has 365 classes, one for every single day of the season, though they don't need to be done at a pace of one lesson per day. Probably many like the workbooks which can be common to the common reader from past experience, you're asked to use the substance as directed. However, in a departure from the "normal", the reader isn't needed to believe what's in the workbook, or even take it. Neither the workbook nor the Course in Miracles is meant to total the reader's learning; simply, the products really are a start.

A Program in Wonders distinguishes between understanding and understanding; truth is unalterable and endless, while understanding is the world of time, change, and interpretation. The entire world of perception reinforces the dominant some ideas in our minds, and keeps people split up from the truth, and split up from God. Belief is bound by the body's constraints in the bodily earth, therefore limiting awareness. Much of the ability of the planet supports the ego, and the individual's separation from God. But, by taking the perspective of Christ, and the style of the Holy Nature, one learns forgiveness, both for oneself and others.