A Class in Wonders is a set of self-study products published by the Base for Internal Peace. The book's content is metaphysical, and explains forgiveness as applied to day-to-day life. Curiously, nowhere does the guide have an writer (and it's so stated without an author's name by the U.S. Library of Congress). However, the writing was published by Helen Schucman (deceased) and William Thetford; Schucman has connected that the book's product is based on communications to her from an "inner voice" she claimed was Jesus. The initial variation of the book was published in 1976, with a revised release published in 1996. Part of the material is a training guide, and students workbook. Because the very first release, the guide has distributed a few million copies, with translations into nearly two-dozen languages.

The book's origins may be followed back to early 1970s; Helen Schucman first experiences with the "inner voice" resulted in her then supervisor, Bill Thetford, to get hold of Hugh Cayce at the Association for Study and Enlightenment. In turn, an introduction to Kenneth Wapnick (later the book's editor) occurred. At the time of the release, Wapnick was medical psychologist. After conference, Schucman and Wapnik spent over per year editing and revising the material.

Still another release, now of Schucman, Wapnik, and Thetford to Robert Skutch and Judith Skutch Whitson, of the Base for Inner Peace. The very first printings of the book for circulation were in 1975. Ever since then, copyright litigation by the Base for Internal Peace, a course in miracles Penguin Publications, has recognized that the content of the very first release is in people domain.

A Course in Wonders is a training device; the class has 3 books, a 622-page text, a 478-page scholar book, and an 88-page teachers manual. The products may be learned in the purchase selected by readers. The content of A Class in Miracles addresses both theoretical and the useful, although software of the book's product is emphasized. The writing is mainly theoretical, and is a basis for the workbook's instructions, which are practical applications.

The book has 365 classes, one for every single time of the season, nevertheless they don't need to be done at a pace of one lesson per day. Possibly most like the workbooks which can be common to the average reader from prior experience, you are requested to utilize the material as directed. However, in a departure from the "normal", the reader is not needed to believe what's in the workbook, or even accept it. Neither the book or the Course in Miracles is intended to complete the reader's learning; simply, the materials really are a start.

A Program in Wonders distinguishes between knowledge and perception; the fact is unalterable and eternal, while understanding is the world of time, modify, and interpretation. The entire world of perception supports the principal a few ideas in our heads, and keeps people separate from the facts, and split up from God. Understanding is restricted by the body's limitations in the physical world, therefore restraining awareness. Much of the knowledge of the world supports the confidence, and the individual's separation from God. But, by acknowledging the vision of Christ, and the voice of the Sacred Heart, one understands forgiveness, both for oneself and others.