A Program in Miracles is a couple of self-study materials published by the Base for Inner Peace. The book's material is metaphysical, and describes forgiveness as placed on everyday life. Curiously, nowhere does the book have an writer (and it's therefore listed with no author's name by the U.S. Selection of Congress). Nevertheless, the writing was written by Helen Schucman (deceased) and William Thetford; Schucman has related that the book's product is founded on communications to her from an "inner voice" she claimed was Jesus. The original edition of the guide was published in 1976, with a changed model published in 1996. Part of the material is a teaching guide, and students workbook. Because the very first edition, the guide has distributed several million copies, with translations in to nearly two-dozen languages.

The book's origins can be followed back to the first 1970s; Helen Schucman first activities with the "internal voice" led to her then supervisor, William Thetford a course in miracles, to make contact with Hugh Cayce at the Association for Research and Enlightenment. Subsequently, an introduction to Kenneth Wapnick (later the book's editor) occurred. During the time of the introduction, Wapnick was medical psychologist. After meeting, Schucman and Wapnik used over per year modifying and revising the material.

Another introduction, this time of Schucman, Wapnik, and Thetford to Robert Skutch and Judith Skutch Whitson, of the Base for Internal Peace. The very first printings of the guide for circulation were in 1975. Since that time, copyright litigation by the Foundation for Inner Peace, and Penguin Publications, has established that the content of the initial model is in people domain.

A Program in Wonders is a teaching unit; the course has 3 books, a 622-page text, a 478-page student workbook, and an 88-page teachers manual. The products could be studied in the purchase selected by readers. This content of A Program in Miracles addresses the theoretical and the realistic, though application of the book's product is emphasized. The writing is mainly theoretical, and is a basis for the workbook's classes, which are useful applications.

The workbook has 365 lessons, one for every day of the season, nevertheless they don't have to be done at a pace of one lesson per day. Possibly most like the workbooks which can be common to the average audience from prior experience, you're requested to utilize the material as directed. But, in a departure from the "normal", the reader is not needed to trust what's in the workbook, as well as take it. Neither the book nor the Program in Miracles is designed to total the reader's learning; simply, the resources are a start.