A Program in Wonders is a couple of self-study products printed by the Base for Inner Peace. The book's material is metaphysical, and explains forgiveness as applied to day-to-day life. Curiously, nowhere does the guide have an author (and it is so listed without an author's name by the U.S. Library of Congress). However, the writing was compiled by Helen Schucman (deceased) and William Thetford; Schucman has related that the book's material is founded on communications to her from an "internal voice" she stated was Jesus. The initial edition of the book was printed in 1976, with a revised release published in 1996. Part of the material is a teaching information, and students workbook. Since the very first model, the guide has bought many million copies, with translations in to nearly two-dozen languages.
The book's beginnings can be followed back again to the early 1970s; Helen Schucman first experiences with the "inner voice" led to her then supervisor, Bill Thetford, to contact Hugh Cayce at the Association for Study and Enlightenment. Subsequently, an introduction to Kenneth Wapnick (later the book's editor) occurred. At the time of the introduction, Wapnick was clinical psychologist. After conference, Schucman and Wapnik spent over a year modifying and revising the material a course in miracles workbook lesson.
Another release, now of Schucman, Wapnik, and Thetford to Robert Skutch and Judith Skutch Whitson, of the Foundation for Inner Peace. The first printings of the book for distribution were in 1975. Since that time, trademark litigation by the Foundation for Inner Peace, and Penguin Books, has established that this content of the initial release is in the public domain.
A Class in Wonders is a teaching device; the course has 3 books, a 622-page text, a 478-page scholar workbook, and an 88-page educators manual. The components can be studied in the purchase opted for by readers. The information of A Class in Wonders addresses the theoretical and the useful, though request of the book's product is emphasized. The text is mostly theoretical, and is a basis for the workbook's lessons, which are realistic applications.
The workbook has 365 lessons, one for every time of the year, though they don't have to be done at a speed of one session per day. Probably most such as the workbooks which are familiar to the typical reader from past experience, you are asked to use the material as directed. However, in a departure from the "normal", the reader isn't needed to trust what is in the book, or even take it. Neither the book nor the Program in Wonders is intended to complete the reader's learning; merely, the products are a start.