Interviews – Others

Gloria Wapnick died peacefully at home on October 5, 2022. Her family will hold a private service. Gloria was an extraordinary woman and spirit. I am forever grateful that I got to know her a little bit and for all she did to found and support the Foundation for A Course in Miracles and share Kenneth’s mind-healing work with us. In loving memory of Gloria I am sharing an interview I did with her posted on this site in 2013.  Husband and fellow Co-founder of the Foundation for A Course in Miracles in Temecula, California, Kenneth Wapnick, PhD, calls her the foundation’s “inspiration and guiding light.” In this first of a series of articles based on interviews with Gloria Wapnick she speaks candidly about her Catholic childhood, involvement in international affairs, living in Iran, finding A Course in Miracles, meeting and later marrying Ken, and creating the foundation. As always, I am ...

Jeffrey Seibert worked closely with Kenneth and Gloria Wapnick at the Foundation for A Course in Miracles for decades. Jeff moved with the Foundation to its current location in Henderson, Nevada where he teaches streamed classes available through the Foundation’s website Foundation for A Course in Miracles. He continues to present Ken’s mind-healing message of A Course in Miracles forgiveness through the lens of his own forgiveness classrooms. The Foundation has a new website with updated functionality as well as changes in content. Can you explain what led to those changes and what they will mean for students? It’s a reflection of the Foundation’s updated mission statement that recognizes how really helpful Ken’s teachings are for anyone who genuinely wants to understand what this challenging spiritual document is telling us. We wanted to make it very clear that we are committed to continuing the work that Ken began and want to make ...

Jeffrey Seibert worked closely with Kenneth and Gloria Wapnick at the Foundation for A Course in Miracles for decades. Jeff moved with the Foundation to its new location in Henderson, Nevada where he continues to teach seminar and weekly classes, also available through the Foundation’s website https://facim.org/ and https://members.facim.org/. Jeff continues to present Ken’s mind-healing message of A Course in Miracles forgiveness through the lens of his own forgiveness classrooms. Here in the United States, we’re transitioning from the acute phase of having dealt with this pandemic since early 2020 and it’s been a lot to handle. Sometimes in the collective dream, for example in the United States and parts of Europe in World War II, people seemed to pull together in response to a perceived external threat but that has not been the case with this virus. We were already very polarized politically and the pandemic and its ramifications seemed ...

Rosemarie LoSasso worked closely with Kenneth and Gloria Wapnick for decades, editing his books and audios and teaching at the Foundation for A Course in Miracles  from its earliest days in the 1980s until her retirement from the Foundation in 2018. I talked with her again recently about practicing A Course in Miracles in the classroom of our lives. I hope you will find our conversation and her gentle, practical wisdom as helpful to your practice as I have!    The pandemic has been such a challenging classroom for everyone. I felt like I had made some real progress over the years using my special relationship with my husband as a forgiveness classroom and gradually seeing our shared interest in finding our way home beyond our personal differences.  But COVID made me sometimes question whether I’ve made progress at all. I have preexisting health conditions, was very frightened by the virus and ...

Jeffrey Seibert worked closely with Kenneth and Gloria Wapnick at the Foundation for A Course in Miracles for decades. Jeff moved with the Foundation to its new location in Henderson, Nevada and has resumed teaching seminars as well as weekly classes there, also available through the Foundation’s streaming option found at https://members.facim.org/. In these classes, Jeff continues to present Ken’s mind-healing message of A Course in Miracles forgiveness through the lens of his own forgiveness classrooms. I talked with Jeff a few weeks ago about recent forgiveness classrooms in my personal life and the collective classroom of the worsening coronavirus. The week after this interview the COVID 19 situation worsened and U.S. cities and states began announcing closures of schools, businesses, restaurants, etc.; advocating social distancing and enacting stay-at-home orders for most of us for the foreseeable future. Nonetheless our prior conversation related to the fear we’re all experiencing and the ...

Rosemarie LoSasso worked closely with Kenneth and Gloria Wapnick for decades, editing his books and audios and teaching at the Foundation for A Course in Miracles (www.facim.org) from its earliest days in the 1980s. She retired from the Foundation in the fall of 2018 when the Foundation relocated to Henderson, Nevada, but generously agreed to talk with me again recently about practicing the Course’s unique forgiveness in the classroom of our lives, a topic with which she is intimately acquainted. I hope you will find our conversation and her gentle, practical wisdom as helpful in your journey as I continue to.  I thought it might be valuable to review the basic process of forgiveness that we, as Course students, are supposed to be practicing every day, every minute, really. Much of the time for me it’s become an automatic sense of looking with Jesus (our inner Teacher) at my reactions, unkind ...

Jeffrey Seibert worked closely with Kenneth and Gloria Wapnick at the Foundation for A Course in Miracles for decades. Jeff moved with the Foundation to its new location in Henderson, Nevada, last year and has recently resumed teaching monthly seminars as well as weekly classes there, also available as recordings through the Foundation’s new streaming option found at https://members.facim.org/. In these classes, Jeff continues to present Ken’s mind-healing message of A Course in Miracles forgiveness through the lens of his own forgiveness classrooms. I know the Foundation has recently provided new material available for streaming including newly available past staff classes offered after Ken’s death, right? Yes, all of Ken’s audios and videos, as well as the staff classes offered in Temecula starting in 2015 when we began archiving them. That in itself is a wealth of material for Ken’s students. And then you’ve started teaching seminars beginning with this one offered in ...

Jeffrey Seibert (along with colleague and fellow teacher Rosemarie LoSasso) worked closely with Kenneth and Gloria Wapnick at the Foundation for A Course in Miracles www.facim.org for decades. Jeff and Rosemarie continue to present Ken’s mind-healing message of forgiveness through the lens of their own forgiveness classrooms in their Foundation classes (live and streamed) http://www.facim.org/temecula-schedule.aspx, truly teaching, to paraphrase the Course; that he did not die by demonstrating that he lives in them, and every one of us. Jeff has also worked in various office roles since joining the Foundation for A Course in Miracles staff in November 1992. In addition to teaching, he currently oversees the Foundation’s order department and performs a variety of other duties. You can read more about Jeff’s journey with A Course in Miracles here: https://www.foraysinforgiveness.com/a-conversation-with-jeffrey-seibert-foundation-for-a-course-in-miracles.   The seminar you and Rosemarie presented recently revisiting the topic you also covered last year called “Life as a ...

Rosemarie LoSasso worked closely with Kenneth and Gloria Wapnick for decades, editing his books and audios and teaching at the Foundation for A Course in Miracles (www.facim.org) from its earliest days in the 1980s. (You can read more about Rosemarie’s journey here: https://www.foraysinforgiveness.com/a-conversation-with-rosemarie-losasso-foundation-for-a-course-in-miracles.) She continues to share Ken’s mind-healing work and Jesus’ loving message through the regular classes (also streamed online) she teaches at the Foundation http://www.facim.org/temecula-schedule.aspx, drawing on her own forgiveness process. Rosemarie generously agreed to talk with me again recently about practicing the Course in the classroom of our lives, a topic with which she is intimately acquainted. I hope you will find our conversation and her gentle, practical wisdom as helpful in your journey as I have!  You recently recommended that I revisit A Course in Miracles workbook lesson 70, in which Jesus talks about our need to ask for his help and instructs us to imagine taking ...

Welcome to the third of my individual interviews with the three staff members that teach the academy classes http://www.facim.org/temecula-schedule.aspx at the Foundation for A Course in Miracles in Temecula, California http://www.facim.org/. Rosemarie LoSasso, Loral Reeves, and Jeffrey Seibert have all worked closely with Kenneth and Gloria Wapnick for decades. Their devotion to Ken and Gloria’s work and commitment to living A Course in Miracles’ mind-healing message of forgiveness shines in their teaching. They continue to present Ken’s material through the lens of their own forgiveness classrooms, truly teaching, to paraphrase the Course; that he did not die by demonstrating that he lives in them, and every one of us. I hope you’ll find their stories as inspiring as I have, and consider attending their transforming classes!  (Rosemarie LoSasso has worked in various roles at the Foundation for A Course in Miracles since its earliest days. In addition to teaching, she continues ...

Welcome to the second of my individual interviews with the staff that teaches the academy classes http://www.facim.org/temecula-schedule.aspx at the Foundation for A Course in Miracles in Temecula, California http://www.facim.org/. Rosemarie LoSasso, Loral Reeves, and Jeffrey Seibert have all worked closely with Kenneth and Gloria Wapnick for decades. Their devotion to Ken and Gloria’s work and commitment to living A Course in Miracles’mind-healing message of forgiveness shines in their teaching. They continue to present Ken’s material through the lens of their own forgiveness classrooms, truly teaching, to paraphrase the Course; that he did not die by demonstrating that he lives in them, and every one of us. I hope you’ll find their stories as inspiring as I have, and consider attending their transforming classes! (Jeffrey Seibert has worked in various office roles since joining the Foundation for A Course in Miracles staff in November 1992. He currently oversees the foundation’s order department ...

Welcome to the first of my individual interviews with the staff that teaches the academy classes http://www.facim.org/temecula-schedule.aspx at the Foundation for A Course in Miracles in Temecula, California http://www.facim.org/. Rosemarie LoSasso, Loral Reeves, and Jeffrey Seibert have all worked closely with Kenneth and Gloria Wapnick for decades. Their devotion to Ken and Gloria’s work and commitment to living A Course in Miracles’ mind-healing message of forgiveness shines in their teaching. They continue to present Ken’s material through the lens of their own forgiveness classrooms, truly teaching, to paraphrase the Course; that he did not die by demonstrating that he lives in them, and every one of us. I hope you’ll find their stories as inspiring as I have, and consider attending their transforming classes! (Loral Reeves has worked as an accountant at the Foundation for A Course in Miracles since March 1989, and took over editing the audios of Ken Wapnick’s ...

In The Disappearance of the Universe, bestselling author Gary Renard chronicles his extraordinary conversations with Arten and Pursah, two “ascended masters” who introduced him to the profound spiritual psychology A Course in Miracles. Eight years later, the book (along with his second book Your Immortal Reality) remains a portal to the Course for ever increasing numbers of spiritual seekers throughout the world, and a pivotal work in its own right. I recently talked with Gary about how his understanding and practice of A Course in Miracles’ central teaching of unique forgiveness has evolved since the publication of Disappearance. As always he was entertaining, forthright, and incredibly clear in his ability to articulate the Course’s uncompromising truth and transformative message. (I’m excited to be attending Gary’s upcoming workshop in Colorado Springs September 24. Go to Miracle Promotions for information and reservations.) You’ve been under siege a couple times by others in the ...