At its primary, A Program in Miracles is just a channeled work, and their origins are shrouded in mystery. Helen Schucman, a medical psychiatrist, and William Thetford, a research psychologist, collaborated in the 1960s to transcribe the inner dictations that Schucman said to receive from an internal voice she discovered as Jesus Christ. The method of obtaining and saving these messages spanned seven decades and resulted in the three-volume book called A Course in Miracles.