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Administration
Faculty
Curriculum
Lyn Corona, director
Chris Dixon, assistant director
Susan Dugan, communication
Deb Shelly, events/publicity
“A Course in Miracles gave me a purpose for being here. I finally knew my profession and a deeper meaning for relationships. Prior to that I felt like I was wandering about aimlessly, searching for something but I knew not what."
In 1986 Lyn began offering workshops, classes and retreats for those who were interested in the Course’s teachings. She is founder and current president of the Ark of Peace and co-founder, director, and faculty member of the School of Reason. Lyn began her study of A Course in Miracles in 1976 and has been teaching its message of peace through forgiveness for more than 20 years. Lyn shares her journey in undoing and miracles on her blog You can also email her.
As one of the co-founders of the School of Reason, Christine co-mentored students in the school’s first Teacher Program, which concluded in June 2009. Chris was first introduced to A Course in Miracles in 1986. She read and studied it with a group for three years but only when she began studying Ken Wapnick’s material did she come to understand the Course’s metaphysics as non-dualistic, thereby coming to accept God as non-dualistic. Chris has been an A Course in Miracles teacher at the Rocky Mountain Miracle Center since 1999 and is currently a faculty member of the School of Reason. As a dedicated life student of the Course, she continues her learning through leading a discussion group intended to help students become comfortable with its non-dualistic metaphysics and the two thought systems it presents. You can reach Chris at kevlene@q.com.
Chris Dixon
Co-founder, graduate, and faculty member of the School of Reason, Susan Dugan is a writer, student, and teacher of A Course in Miracles. Susan spent decades studying and pursuing a variety of spiritual paths before finding the Course and recognizing it as her way home. For Susan, the Course's unique power lies in its practical application, particularly in our relationships. She teaches and writes to learn, receiving what she gives. Teaching and writing help her become more vigilant in practicing forgiveness; learning to smile at the ego’s antics while allowing the healing of our one mind and the dissolution of the dream of separate interests. A book of her personal essays about practicing forgiveness in daily life—Extraordinary Ordinary Forgiveness—is being published by O-Books in March 2011.
To find out more about Susan's approach to teaching and practicing the Course’s extraordinary forgiveness in an ordinary life, visit her blog, Forays in Forgiveness or email her.
All her life, Maggie McMahon has been searching for a way to connect to the divine. As a youngster she longed for a universal religion, so people could stop fighting wars, live together in peace, and love one another. As an adult she became a seeker and tried many different practices, including yoga, psychotherapy, extensive reading of spiritual and psychological works, and living in spiritual community. When she finally discovered A Course in Miracles she knew immediately she had found her path. The great beauty of the Course’s language and its uncompromising radical solution to the perceived problem of separation from spirit inspires her to study and learn how to practice the way of forgiveness.
Maggie McMahon
After decades of spiritual searching Deb Shelly found her path to truth with A Course in Miracles. A graduate of the School of Reason and former psychotherapist, she was drawn to the Course by its unique blend of psychology and spirituality, which lends itself to practical application in the world. She has found A Course in Miracles to be a powerful tool in learning to look at the world differently and see the truth of who we are. Deb is committed to joining with others to study and practice the principles of the Course, recognizing our shared interest in returning home; a journey we can only make together.
Deb Shelly
Upon finding her traditional upbringing in Christianity inadequate in her search for truth and after years of exploring many of the world’s spiritual disciplines, in 2005 Marcella Skogen discovered A Course in Miracles to be the spiritual path to peace she had given up looking for. “I am especially drawn to A Course in Miracles’ message, because it provides a correction of errors in Christianity as we know it, and is a patient, compassionate approach to enlightenment.”
Now grounded in the practice set forth in ACIM, Marcella enjoys sharing the peace of God with others through her private psychotherapy practice, writing, singing, and formal and informal teaching. You can reach Marcella at MarcellaSkogen@earthlink.net
Jane’s spiritual journey began when she was in grade school and attended an Episcopal school. She went to chapel almost every day and truly loved it. Even though the dogmas of her religious foundation do not resonate with her today, the memory of the love of God does. In her late twenties, she read the writings of the Unity practitioners and joined the Unity church. There she discovered Joel Goldsmith's--The Infinite Way and A Course of Miracles. She later attended the seminary and obtained her Masters of Divinity while focusing on comparative religions and pastoral counseling. She considers the Course and The Infinite Way her spiritual rocks. The Course, most of all, has taught her the true meaning of forgiveness and that joining is not of bodies but of the mind. For that she is truly grateful.
Jane Walling
Initially, the curriculum of The School of Reason focuses on the Course’s fundamental metaphysical principles. The Course presents two mutually exclusive thought systems; one points to reality, the other to conflict, suffering, and death. We stress the difference in making a choice between truth and illusion, love and fear, life and death apparent so that the student learns to make the choice leading to the peace promised by the Course.
As the curriculum progresses we require our students to formally teach the principles they are learning to increase their own understanding and acceptance of the challenging ideas presented in the Course. We emphasize the sections on The Laws of Chaos and The Obstacles to Peace as well as important sections from the early chapters of the text and selected workbook lessons.
We regard Dr. Kenneth Wapnick as the foremost scholar on the teachings of A Course in Miracles. Our teachers rely upon his wisdom and the educational materials he has produced to supplement and support their ongoing education.
The purpose of the school curriculum is to uncover the natural state of mind that spontaneously forgives through the use of the Course’s definition of forgiveness. As the Course states “forgiveness is still and quietly does nothing. It merely looks, and waits, and judges not.” Through our curriculum we learn, teach, and strive to apply these principles and experience inner peace. Our School of Reason graduates share their experience of practicing forgiveness and demonstrate the mind healing benefits it brings.
