A Class in Miracles is a set of self-study resources published by the Basis for Inner Peace. The book's material is metaphysical, and describes forgiveness as put on daily life. Curiously, nowhere does the book have an writer (and it is so listed without an author's name by the U.S. Selection of Congress). However, the writing was written by Helen Schucman (deceased) and William Thetford; Schucman has connected that the book's material is based on communications to her from an "inner voice" she stated was Jesus. The original variation of the book was printed in 1976, with a changed edition printed in 1996. Area of the material is a training handbook, and students workbook. Because the first release, the book has bought many million copies, with translations into nearly two-dozen languages.

The book's origins can be tracked back again to early 1970s; Helen Schucman first activities with the "inner voice" resulted in her then supervisor, William Thetford, to contact Hugh Cayce at the Association for Research and Enlightenment. Consequently, an introduction to Kenneth Wapnick (later the book's editor) occurred. At the time of  release, Wapnick was scientific psychologist. Following conference, Schucman and Wapnik used over per year editing and revising the material.

Another introduction, this time around 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 then, trademark litigation by the Base for Internal Peace, and Penguin Publications, has recognized that the content of the initial version is in the public domain.

A Course in Miracles is a training system; the course has 3 publications, a 622-page text, a 478-page student book, and an 88-page teachers manual. The resources could be learned in the buy picked by readers. The information of A Class in Wonders handles both the theoretical and the useful, while request of the book's substance is emphasized. The writing is mainly theoretical, and is a cause for the workbook's instructions, which are useful applications.

The book has 365 classes, one for each time of the year, nevertheless they don't need to be done at a pace of 1 session per day. Perhaps many just like the workbooks which can be common to the typical reader from past experience, you're requested to use the product as directed. However, in a departure from the "normal", the reader isn't required to trust what is in the book, as well as take it. Neither the book nor the Program in Wonders is designed to complete the reader's understanding; just, the resources are a start.

A Class in Wonders distinguishes between knowledge and belief; the fact is unalterable and timeless, while understanding is the entire world of time, modify, and interpretation. The planet of perception reinforces the dominant a few ideas within our brains, and keeps us split from the truth, and split from God. Notion is bound by the body's limits in the bodily earth, ergo limiting awareness. Much of the ability of the entire world supports the ego, and the individual's divorce from God. But, by accepting the vision of Christ, and the voice of the Sacred Heart, one learns forgiveness, equally for oneself and others.