The book's beginnings could be tracked back once again to early 1970s; Helen Schucman first activities with the "inner voice" led to her then supervisor, Bill Thetford, to get hold of Hugh Cayce at the Association for Research and Enlightenment. Subsequently, an a course in miracles programs to Kenneth Wapnick (later the book's editor) occurred. At the time of the release, Wapnick was scientific psychologist. After meeting, Schucman and Wapnik used around per year modifying and revising the material.

Yet another release, now of Schucman, Wapnik, and Thetford to Robert Skutch and Judith Skutch Whitson, of the Basis for Inner Peace. The initial printings of the guide for circulation were in 1975. Since that time, trademark litigation by the Base for Internal Peace, and Penguin Books, has recognized that the information of the first version is in the general public domain.

A Class in Wonders is a teaching unit; the course has 3 books, a 622-page text, a 478-page scholar workbook, and an 88-page teachers manual. The products could be studied in the purchase chosen by readers. This content of A Course in Wonders addresses the theoretical and the sensible, even though request of the book's material is emphasized. The text is mainly theoretical, and is a cause for the workbook's classes, which are practical applications.

The workbook has 365 classes, one for each day of the entire year, though they don't have to be done at a rate of 1 training per day. Probably most such as the workbooks that are familiar to the average reader from past knowledge, you are requested to use the substance as directed. However, in a departure from the "normal", the audience is not required to think what's in the book, or even take it. Neither the book nor the Course in Miracles is intended to total the reader's understanding; only, the components really are a start.