A Course in Miracles is a set of self-study components published by the Basis for Inner Peace. The book's material is metaphysical, and describes forgiveness as applied to daily life. Curiously, nowhere does the guide have an author (and it's so stated lacking any author's name by the U.S. Selection of Congress). But, the writing was published by Helen Schucman (deceased) and William Thetford; Schucman has connected that the book's material is based on communications to her from an "internal voice" she claimed was Jesus. The initial version of the book was printed in 1976, with a changed edition published in 1996. Area of the material is a teaching manual, and students workbook. Because the very first version, the guide has bought several million copies, with translations in to almost two-dozen languages.

The book's beginnings can be tracked back to the early 1970s; Helen Schucman first activities with the "inner voice" generated her then supervisor, Bill Thetford, to contact Hugh Cayce at the Association for Study and Enlightenment. Consequently, an introduction to Kenneth Wapnick (later the book's editor) occurred. At the time of the release, Wapnick was scientific psychologist. Following meeting, Schucman and Wapnik used around a year editing and revising the material a course in miracles.

Still another release, this time around of Schucman, Wapnik, and Thetford to Robert Skutch and Judith Skutch Whitson, of the Foundation for Internal Peace. The very first printings of the book for distribution were in 1975. Ever since then, trademark litigation by the Base for Internal Peace, and Penguin Publications, has recognized that the information of the initial variation is in the public domain.

A Program in Miracles is a teaching unit; the class has 3 publications, a 622-page text, a 478-page student workbook, and an 88-page educators manual. The products may be studied in the order plumped for by readers. The information of A Course in Miracles addresses both theoretical and the practical, even though program of the book's material is emphasized. The writing is mostly theoretical, and is a cause for the workbook's lessons, which are practical applications.