A Class in Wonders is a couple of self-study resources published by the Base for Inner Peace. The book's material is metaphysical, and describes forgiveness as put on everyday life. Curiously, nowhere does the guide have an writer (and it's therefore stated with no author's name by the U.S. Library of Congress). However, the writing was compiled by Helen Schucman (deceased) and Bill Thetford; Schucman has connected that the book's product is based on communications to her from an "inner voice" she said was Jesus. The original edition of the guide was printed in 1976, with a revised release printed in 1996. Area of the material is a training information, and a student workbook. Since the initial model, the book has bought several million copies, with translations in to nearly two-dozen languages.

The book's origins can be tracked back again to the early 1970s; Helen Schucman first activities with the "inner voice" resulted in her then supervisor, Bill Thetford, to contact Hugh Cayce at the Association for Study and Enlightenment. Subsequently, an introduction to Kenneth Source  (later the book's editor) occurred. During the time of the introduction, Wapnick was clinical psychologist. Following conference, Schucman and Wapnik spent over annually editing and revising the material.

Still another release, this time around of Schucman, Wapnik, and Thetford to Robert Skutch and Judith Skutch Whitson, of the Base for Inner Peace. The initial printings of the guide for circulation were in 1975. Ever since then, trademark litigation by the Base for Inner Peace, and Penguin Books, has established that the information of the first release is in the general public domain.

A Class in Wonders is a training unit; the course has 3 publications, a 622-page text, a 478-page student workbook, and an 88-page educators manual. The resources can be studied in the purchase opted for by readers. The information of A Course in Miracles handles the theoretical and the practical, while program of the book's product is emphasized. The text is mostly theoretical, and is a cause for the workbook's instructions, which are useful applications.

The workbook has 365 instructions, one for every time of the entire year, nevertheless they don't have to be done at a pace of just one session per day. Possibly most such as the workbooks that are common to the typical reader from prior knowledge, you're asked to use the substance as directed. However, in a departure from the "normal", the reader is not expected to trust what is in the book, as well as accept it. Neither the workbook or the Class in Miracles is meant to complete the reader's learning; only, the components certainly are a start.

A Course in Wonders distinguishes between understanding and understanding; the fact is unalterable and timeless, while perception is the world of time, change, and interpretation. The entire world of notion reinforces the dominant ideas in our thoughts, and maintains us separate from the facts, and separate from God. Belief is limited by the body's limitations in the physical earth, hence restraining awareness. Much of the experience of the planet reinforces the ego, and the individual's divorce from God. But, by taking the perspective of Christ, and the style of the Sacred Soul, one discovers forgiveness, equally for oneself and others.