A Program in Miracles is a couple of self-study resources published by the Foundation for Inner Peace. The book's material is metaphysical, and explains forgiveness as put on day-to-day life. Curiously, nowhere does the guide have an author (and it is so stated lacking any author's name by the U.S. Library of Congress). However, the text was compiled by Helen Schucman (deceased) and William Thetford; Schucman has related that the book's substance is founded on communications to her from an "inner voice" she said was Jesus. The first version of the guide was published in 1976, with a changed edition printed in 1996. Part of the content is a teaching guide, and a student workbook. Because the initial release, the guide has sold many million copies, with translations into nearly two-dozen languages.

The book's origins can be tracked back once again to the early 1970s; Helen Schucman first experiences with the "internal voice" led to her a course in miracles supervisor, William Thetford, to get hold of Hugh Cayce at the Association for Study and Enlightenment. Consequently, an introduction to Kenneth Wapnick (later the book's editor) occurred. During the time of the release, Wapnick was medical psychologist. After conference, Schucman and Wapnik used around per year modifying and revising the material.

Yet another introduction, this time around of Schucman, Wapnik, and Thetford to Robert Skutch and Judith Skutch Whitson, of the Foundation for Internal Peace. The first printings of the book for distribution were in 1975. Since that time, trademark litigation by the Basis for Inner Peace, and Penguin Publications, has established that the information of the initial edition is in people domain.

A Program in Miracles is a training product; the program has 3 publications, a 622-page text, a 478-page scholar book, and an 88-page teachers manual. The components can be studied in the order chosen by readers. The information of A Program in Miracles handles the theoretical and the realistic, even though program of the book's substance is emphasized. The writing is mostly theoretical, and is a basis for the workbook's instructions, which are realistic applications.

The book has 365 instructions, one for every day of the season, though they don't have to be performed at a pace of 1 session per day. Perhaps most like the workbooks which are familiar to the typical audience from previous experience, you're asked to utilize the substance as directed. Nevertheless, in a departure from the "normal", the audience is not required to trust what's in the book, or even take it. Neither the book nor the Course in Miracles is designed to complete the reader's learning; only, the materials really are a start.

A Program in Wonders distinguishes between information and perception; truth is unalterable and endless, while notion is the entire world of time, modify, and interpretation. The planet of notion supports the dominant ideas in our heads, and keeps us separate from the facts, and separate from God. Perception is restricted by the body's limitations in the physical earth, thus limiting awareness. A lot of the ability of the planet reinforces the confidence, and the individual's separation from God. But, by acknowledging the vision of Christ, and the style of the Sacred Heart, one discovers forgiveness, equally for oneself and others.