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A Course in Miracles Survivor
by Susan Dugan
At times it felt like a reality TV program entitled A Course in Miracles Survivor. There were nine of us students on the island to start, plus two facilitators, long-time Course teachers Lyn Corona and Chris Dixon. We joked that the 12th member was Jesus/Holy Spirit/our right mind, and in truth could feel that presence strengthening in us as we did the hard work of looking at the ingenious hurdles our belief in the ego thought system threw our way, fortified by the lifelong work of Ken Wapnick, founder of the Foundation for A Course in Miracles.
The Quiet Center:
An interview with Ken Wapnick
by Susan Dugan
During a recent visit to The Foundation for A Course in Miracles in Temecula, California to attend a workshop with friend and fellow Course student Deb Shelly, I interviewed premier Course scholar Ken Wapnick, PhD, about his journey with the Course.
The Quiet Center: An interview with Ken Wapnick continued…
I’m still fairly new to the Course and very new to teaching. I feel very joyful and present writing, teaching, or just spending a lot of time with the material. Then something just seems to come up out of nowhere and I feel unloved and unloving. My self-worth plummets and I’m just a mess. Can you speak about what’s going on with the ego’s backlash?
A conversation with Ken Wapnick:
The Course really works, if you work at it.
by Susan Dugan
NOTE: Clinical Psychologist, Teacher and Author Kenneth Wapnick, PhD, has been studying A Course in Miracles since 1973, and worked closely with Course Scribe Helen Schucman and Collaborator Bill Thetford in preparing its final manuscript. With his wife, Gloria, he is president and co-founder of The Foundation for A Course in Miracles (http://facim.org) in Temecula, California.
In the following conversation, Ken Wapnick generously answers my questions about the daily practice of forgiveness, the fear and resistance that arises on our journey home, and how to keep our faith and focus on being kind, gentle, and patient with ourselves and other Course students while learning to with our inner teacher at all we still use to push love away.
