A Program in Miracles is a couple of self-study materials printed by the Foundation for Internal Peace. The book's content is metaphysical, and describes forgiveness as applied to day-to-day life. Curiously, nowhere does the book have an author (and it is so stated without an author's name by the U.S. Library of Congress). Nevertheless, the writing was published by Helen Schucman (deceased) and Bill Thetford; Schucman has connected that the book's product is dependant on communications to her from an "inner voice" she claimed was Jesus. The first edition of the guide was printed in 1976, with a revised edition published in 1996. Part of the material is a training handbook, and a student workbook. Because the initial variation, the guide has bought several million copies, with translations in to nearly two-dozen languages.

The book's origins can be traced back once again to the early 1970s; Helen Schucman first activities with the "internal voice" generated her then supervisor, William Thetford, to make acim  with Hugh Cayce at the Association for Study and Enlightenment. In turn, an release to Kenneth Wapnick (later the book's editor) occurred. During the time of the introduction, Wapnick was scientific psychologist. Following meeting, Schucman and Wapnik spent over a year modifying and revising the material.

Another introduction, this time 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 circulation were in 1975. Ever since then, trademark litigation by the Basis for Internal Peace, and Penguin Publications, has established that this content of the first version is in the general public domain.

A Class in Wonders is a training device; the program has 3 publications, a 622-page text, a 478-page student book, and an 88-page teachers manual. The materials may be studied in the buy chosen by readers. This content of A Course in Miracles handles both theoretical and the practical, while application of the book's product is emphasized. The text is mostly theoretical, and is a cause for the workbook's lessons, which are realistic applications.

The book has 365 instructions, one for each time of the entire year, though they don't need to be done at a pace of 1 lesson per day. Probably most like the workbooks which can be common to the common audience from past experience, you're asked to use the product as directed. Nevertheless, in a departure from the "normal", the reader isn't expected to think what's in the book, or even accept it. Neither the book nor the Program in Wonders is designed to complete the reader's understanding; simply, the resources are a start.

A Course in Miracles distinguishes between information and belief; truth is unalterable and timeless, while notion is the planet of time, change, and interpretation. The entire world of perception supports the dominant a few ideas in our brains, and keeps people split from the facts, and separate from God. Belief is limited by the body's limitations in the physical world, thus limiting awareness. A lot of the knowledge of the planet supports the vanity, and the individual's divorce from God. But, by acknowledging the vision of Christ, and the voice of the Sacred Spirit, one understands forgiveness, equally for oneself and others.