The sources of A Class in Miracles can be traced back to the venture between two individuals, Helen Schucman and Bill Thetford, equally of whom were prominent psychologists and researchers. The course's inception happened in the first 1960s when Schucman, who was a scientific and study psychologist at Columbia University's School of Physicians and Surgeons, began to see some inner dictations. She described these dictations as via an interior voice that identified itself as Jesus Christ. Schucman originally resisted these experiences, but with Thetford's encouragement, she started transcribing the messages she received.
Around a period of eight decades, Schucman transcribed what would become A Course in Miracles, amounting to three volumes: the Text, the Workbook for Pupils, and the Manual for Teachers. The Text lies out the theoretical acim podcast of the class, elaborating on the key methods and principles. The Book for Students contains 365 classes, one for each day of the entire year, designed to guide the audience by way of a day-to-day training of using the course's teachings. The Handbook for Educators offers more advice on the best way to understand and teach the axioms of A Program in Miracles to others.
Among the central subjects of A Course in Wonders is the thought of forgiveness. The class teaches that true forgiveness is the main element to inner peace and awareness to one's heavenly nature. Based on their teachings, forgiveness isn't simply a moral or moral training but a essential shift in perception. It requires letting get of judgments, grievances, and the perception of sin, and as an alternative, viewing the planet and oneself through the lens of enjoy and acceptance. A Class in Wonders stresses that true forgiveness results in the recognition that people are interconnected and that divorce from each other can be an illusion.