Susan Dugan and Bruce Rawles read and shared from the Introduction to Part II to of the Workbook (ACIM, W-pII.in.4:1–7:8). More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on August 16, 2024.)
Susan Dugan and Bruce Rawles read and talk about ACIM’s Workbook Lesson 156: “I walk with God in Perfect Holiness” from A Course In Miracles. More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on June 8, 2024.)
Susan Dugan and Bruce Rawles read and share “eclipse-related” thoughts about “Light in the Dream” (ACIM, T-18.III). More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on April 6, 2024.)
Susan and Bruce Rawles read and share a conversation about ACIM’s Workbook Lesson 12: I am upset because I see a meaningless world. (ACIM, W-12) from A Course In Miracles. More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on January 15, 2024.)
Susan and Bruce Rawles read and muse about the essay “What is Salvation?” from part II of the Workbook of A Course In Miracles. More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on October 29, 2023.)
Susan and Bruce Rawles read and discuss “I Need Do Nothing” (ACIM, T-18.VII) from A Course In Miracles. More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on September 23, 2023.)
Susan and Bruce Rawles read and share thoughts about ACIM’s Workbook Lesson 34: I could see peace instead of this. (ACIM, W-34) from A Course In Miracles. More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on August 26, 2023.)
Susan and Bruce Rawles read and share ideas related to ACIM’s Workbook Lesson 185: “I want the peace of God.” (ACIM, W-185) from A Course In Miracles. More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on July 9, 2023.)
Susan and Bruce Rawles read and share thoughts about Workbook Lesson 49: God’s Voice speaks to me all through the day. (ACIM, W-49) More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on March 24, 2023.)
Here are Susan’s opening remarks about Lesson 49:
“God’s Voice … is really that memory of Wholeness, that loving Presence that remains in every mind despite the fact that we think we departed from that memory of what we are as a seamless undifferentiated Union with God. It remains with us at all times. So this is a metaphor – that voice is always speaking to us because it couldn’t be extinguished. We have this Light in our mind that is always shining. … Just because that Voice is always speaking doesn’t mean that we always listen. The voice that’s speaking most of the time in our minds and speaks in specifics is the ego’s voice and it never shuts up! We’re very aware of that voice. Our secret unconscious agenda is to block the reality of what we are, to reinforce this mistaken belief that we are something else – these personal selves. We’re constantly shutting out that awareness of the light within us and turning instead constantly to ego’s shrieks of me: ‘What about me?!’ We’re always trying in some way to position ourselves and generate a dream in which we are victimized and need a ‘god’ to rescue us from our nightmare. So ego’s ‘god’ is in agreement with the ‘fact’ that there is sin; that we have left (our Union). We feel – this whole game we’re insisting that we’re powerless helpless bodies stranded in this nonsensical dream of persecution and we need (ego’s) ‘god’ to somehow intervene on our behalf. Before we even come to a lesson like this, it’s so helpful to review the Course’s metaphysics which is never really talking about specific help (to change our personal dreams.) The problems are really imaginary problems. The real (solution to the) problem that we need help with and we have help with all the time – the awareness of which is always flowing but we’re just blocking it – is that we are still perfectly safe, loved, loving, whole and guiltless; and we’re ALL part of that. We’re all decision-making minds. We HAVE the power. We’re not helpless victims, we’re not powerless; we have the power. We’re wrong (about being different, unloved, and unloving); we’re the same. … At any moment we can join the awareness that we’re (happily) wrong; we’re the same. We’re having a really bad dream. We want to find our way home. We’re too frightened to do that all at once, but I can join with that part of the mind that can lead me out of the darkness, that can lead me back. Along the way, I have these revelations of our sameness – that I’m not a victim of the world I see. Everyone here is suffering from the same mistaken belief even though we’re acting out (that belief) in these wildly different forms. We all share the interest of finding our way home. (Finding the Voice) is really about learning to distinguish (between Holy Spirit and ego and) get very very acutely aware of the voice of my ego. The pain of that will finally get me motivated to turn to that Quiet Center (Voice) – the stately calm within the Course talks about that’s always waiting for us to take its hand. We want to find that Voice – the part of the mind that can lead us home.”
Susan and Bruce Rawles read and share ACIM’s helpful “The Ladder of Prayer” (ACIM, S-1.II) from A Course In Miracles. More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on January 8, 2023.)
Susan and Bruce Rawles read and share thoughts about “The Only Real Relationship” (ACIM, T-15.VIII) More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on December 4, 2022.)
Susan and Bruce Rawles read and share ideas and practices they have found helpful in ACIM’s Workbook Lesson 155: “I will step back and let Him lead the way.” (ACIM, W-155) from A Course In Miracles. More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on October 6, 2022.)
Susan and Bruce Rawles read and share thoughts about “The Christ in You” (ACIM, T-24.V.) More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on August 12, 2022.)
Bruce Rawles and Susan read and muse on the essay “What Is the Peace of God?” (M-20.) More details at ACIMblog.com. (This video was recorded on June 22, 2022.)
Susan and Bruce Rawles read and share ideas and practices they have found helpful in ACIM’s Workbook Lesson 138: “Heaven is the decision I must make.” (ACIM, W-138) from A Course In Miracles. More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on May 27, 2022.)
Bruce Rawles and Susan read and muse on several paragraphs from The Message of the Crucifixion (ACIM, T-6.I) contemplating the Course’s very different views about crucifixion and resurrection. More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on April 8, 2022.)
Susan and Bruce Rawles read and share thoughts about ACIM’s Workbook Lesson 47: “God is the strength in which I trust.” (ACIM, W-47) from A Course In Miracles. More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on February 24, 2022.)
Bruce Rawles and Susan read and talk about the Final Workbook Lessons Introduction and Lesson 361-365. More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on December 29, 2021.)
Bruce Rawles and Susan read and talk about Lesson 195: Love is the way I walk in gratitude. (W-195)”. More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on November 24, 2021.)
Susan and Bruce Rawles read and discuss the Epilogue from the Manual for Teachers. More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on September 16, 2021.)
Bruce Rawles and Susan read 3 paragraphs from and talk about Lesson 192: I have a function God would have me fill. (W-192)”. More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on July 15, 2021.)
Susan and Bruce Rawles discuss and read Lesson 192 “I have a function God would have me fill.” (ACIM, W-192) from A Course In Miracles. More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on May 21, 2021.)
Bruce Rawles and Susan read excerpts from and talk about “Holy Week” T-20.I – the first section from Chapter 20 (The Vision of Holiness) in the Text of ACIM. More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on November 20, 2020.)
Susan and Bruce Rawles discuss and read The Ladder of Prayer (S-1.II) from the Song of Prayer supplement to A Course In Miracles. More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on January 15, 2021.)
Bruce Rawles and Susan read and talk about ACIM Workbook Lesson 195 – “Love is the way I walk in gratitude.” More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on November 20, 2020.)
Bruce Rawles and Susan read and talk about The Ego – The Miracle– C-2 More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on October 2, 2020.)
Susan and Bruce Rawles read and talk about What is the Peace of God? – M-20 More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on August 14, 2020.)
Susan and Bruce Rawles read and talk about What is the real meaning of sacrifice? – M-13 More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on July 2, 2020.)
Susan and Bruce Rawles read and talk about How is judgment relinquished? – M-10 More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on June 12, 2020.)
Bruce Rawles and Susan read and reflect on How is healing accomplished? – M-5 More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on May 21, 2020.)
Bruce Rawles and Susan read and reflect on the six stages of the Development of Trust – M-4 “Salvation comes from my one Self.” More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on May 7, 2020.)
Susan and Bruce Rawles read and talk about ACIM Workbook Lesson 96 “Salvation comes from my one Self.” More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on April 8, 2020.)
Susan and Bruce Rawles read and elaborate on ACIM Workbook Lesson 240 “Fear is not justified in any form”, ACIM Workbook Lesson 244 “I am in danger nowhere in the world” and the related “What is the World?” More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on March 27, 2020.)
Bruce Rawles and Susan discuss defenselessness and vulnerability, referencing ACIM Workbook Lesson 153 “In my defenselessness my safety lies” (W-pI.153). More details at ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on February 19, 2020.)
Susan and Bruce Rawles read and talk about ACIM Workbook Lesson 21 “I am determined to see things differently.” (W-pI.21). More details on ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on January 22, 2020.)
Susan and Bruce Rawles talk about two sections from ACIM’s Chapter 15 including “The Only Real Relationship” and “The Time of Rebirth” – the eighth and tenth sections in Chapter 15 in the text of A Course In Miracles entitled “The Holy Instant” which was scribed during the holidays. More details on ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on December 20, 2019.)
Susan and Bruce Rawles converse about “The Greater Joining” – the fourth section in Chapter 28 in the text of A Course In Miracles entitled “The Undoing of Fear.” More details on ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on November 13, 2019.)
Susan and Bruce Rawles read and discuss an essay about why ACIM is not New Age on the FACIM website. More details on ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on July 31, 2019.)
Bruce Rawles and Susan Dugan read and talk about ACIM Workbook Lesson 166 “I am entrusted with the gifts of God.” (W-pI.166). More details on ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on June 19, 2019.)
Bruce Rawles and Susan Dugan converse about “Sin versus Error” from Chapter 19 in ACIM’s text. More details on ACIMblog.com here. (This video was recorded on May 17, 2019.)
Bruce Rawles and Susan Dugan talk The “Sacrifice” of Oneness from Chpater 26 in ACIM’s text. More details on ACIMblog.com here. (This video was published on March 6, 2019.)
Bruce Rawles and Susan Dugan talk about ego’s special love/hate strategy in the context of Chpater 16 in ACIM’s text. More details on ACIMblog.com here. (This video was published on February 15, 2019.)
Bruce Rawles and Susan Dugan talk about A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 194. More details on ACIMblog.com here. (This video was published on January 17, 2019.)
Susan Dugan and Bruce Rawles talk about Joy from the perspective of A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 355. More details on ACIMblog.com here. (This video was published on December 6, 2018.)
Danielle Scruton and Susan discuss applying the idea “The World Provides No Safety” from A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 153 “In my defenselessness my safety lies.” (This video was published on November 5, 2018.)
Susan Dugan and Bruce Rawles talk about True Appreciation in this video. More details on ACIMblog.com here. (This video was published on October 12, 2018.)
In this video, Susan Dugan and Bruce Rawles converse about Section 27 in ACIM’s Manual for Teachers: “What is Death?” More details on ACIMblog.com here. (This video was published on August 22, 2018.)
In this video, Susan Dugan and Bruce Rawles converse about ACIM’s Workbook Lesson 167: “There is one life, and that I share with God.” More details on ACIMblog.com here. (This video was published on July 13, 2018.)
In this video, Susan Dugan and Bruce Rawles converse about ACIM’s Workbook Lesson 126 and “What is Forgiveness?” More details on ACIMblog.com here. (This video was published on May 11, 2018.)
Danielle Scruton and Susan talk about A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 190 “I choose the joy of God instead of pain.” (This video was published on March 8, 2018.)
In this video, Susan Dugan and Bruce Rawles converse about special love, special hate and the related section in ACIM‘s Text (T-16.IV) entitled: “The Illusion and the Reality of Love.” More details on ACIMblog.com here.
In this video, Susan Dugan and Bruce Rawles read and talk about the section in ACIM‘s Manual for Teachers entitled: “How Should the Teacher of God Spend His Day?” More details on ACIMblog.com here.
Danielle Scruton and Susan converse about A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 131 “No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth.” (This video was published on November 11, 2017.)
Susan and Danielle Scruton talk about parent-child relationships (what Ken Wapnick calls “our most difficult classroom”) and this quote from the text of A Course in Miracles: Chapter 23, Section 1, Paragraph 2, Sentence 7 “And God Thinks Otherwise.” (This video was published on October 20, 2017.)
Susan and Bruce Rawles talk about ACIM’s Workbook Lesson 109: “I rest in God.” in this video conversation. More details on ACIMblog.com here.
Susan and Bruce Rawles talk about ACIM’s Workbook Lesson 194: “I place the future in the Hands of God” in this video conversation. More details on ACIMblog.com here.
Susan and Bruce Rawles talk about the important theme: “Beware of the temptation to perceive yourself unfairly treated.” from A Course in Miracles in this video conversation. More details on ACIMblog.com here.
Susan and Danielle Scruton discuss how to weather the ego’s “backlash.” (This video was published on Jun 14, 2017.)
Susan and Danielle Scruton discuss changing the purpose of romantic partnerships/marriage from specialness bargains to classrooms for learning to accept the atonement for ourselves. (This video was published on May 31, 2017.)
Susan and Danielle Scruton discuss how looking at our neediness in our relationships can help us remember our only real need. (This video was published on May 18, 2017.)
Susan and Bruce Rawles discuss the quote “What does it mean to accept the Atonement for myself? ” from A Course in Miracles in this video conversation. More details on ACIMblog.com here.
Susan and Bruce Rawles talk about A Course in Miracles, Chapter 15, Section VII: “The Needless Sacrifice” in this video conversation. More details on ACIMblog.com here.
Susan and Bruce Rawles talk about ACIM‘s Workbook Lesson 330: “I will not hurt myself again today” in this video conversation. More details on ACIMblog.com here.
Susan and Bruce Rawles talk about ACIM‘s Text, Chapter 14, Section VII, “Sharing Perception with the Holy Spirit” in this video conversation. More details on ACIMblog.com here.
Susan and Bruce Rawles talk about ACIM‘s Text, Chapter 18, Section VII, “I Need Do Nothing” in this video conversation. More details on ACIMblog.com here.
In this video, Susan and Bruce Rawles talk about ACIM Manual #16 – How Should the Teacher of God Spend his day? More details on Bruce’s blog here.
In this video, Susan and Bruce Rawles talk about Lesson 190 “I choose the joy of God instead of pain” from the Workbook of A Course in Miracles. More details on Bruce’s blog here.
In this video, Susan and Bruce Rawles talk about “Grandeur vs. Grandiosity” – the last section (VIII) of Chapter 9 from the text of A Course in Miracles (T-9:VIII).
In this video, Susan and Bruce Rawles talk about workbook lesson 303: ‘The Holy Christ is born in me today’ and other ACIM Christmas themes
In this video, Susan and Bruce Rawles talk about “The Problem and The Answer” which is Section VIII in Chapter 11 of ACIM’s text. Details here.
Bruce Rawles and Susan converse in this video about “The Little Willingness” which is Section IV in Chapter 18 of ACIM’s text.
Susan and Bruce Rawles converse on this video about Workbook Lesson 134, “Let me perceive forgiveness as it is” and “What Is Forgiveness”
“Forgiveness: The Key to Happiness”
A video conversation with Susan Dugan and Bruce Rawles about Susan’s new book: Forgiveness: The Key to Happiness
“I loose the world from all I thought it was.”
A conversation with Susan Dugan and Bruce Rawles about the (Mar 2015) FACIM academy class entitled “The World: A maladaptive solution to the non-existent problem” (a phrase coined by Kenneth Wapnick) and ACIM workbook lesson 132.
Election Projection: ACIM conversation with Susan Dugan and Bruce Rawles
A fun conversation with Susan Dugan and Bruce Rawles about how we can use Halloween, elections and other frightening seasonal events to forgive our mind’s projections.
ACIM: ego backlash and not taking ourselves too seriously
ACIM: ego backlash and not taking ourselves too seriously – a conversation with Susan Dugan and Bruce Rawles. Here is the related interview of Ken Wapnick by Susan Dugan that we talked about.
FACIM July 2014 academy class, “Training for Goodness.”
A conversation with Susan Dugan and Bruce Rawles about the Foundation for A Course in Miracles July 2014 academy class, “Training for Goodness.”
Kenneth Wapnick enthusiasts: Clues to when we’re valuing what is valueless.
Another conversation with enthusiasts of the teachings of Kenneth Wapnick: Susan Dugan and Bruce Rawles about A Course In Miracles Workbook lesson 133 “I will not value what is valueless.” and other topics inspired by a recent trip to FACIM in Temecula, Calif. The acronym talked about was GIST: Guilt Individuality Space Time; the first item; Guilt is a key element of the ego’s inner shield of oblivion of mindlessness; the other three – Individuality, Space, and Time are aspects of ego’s outer shield of oblivion of (even more) mindlessness – allowing ego’s agenda of perpetual ‘fire-fighting’ in the world to dominate our thinking … and our identity, rather than gently turning the interpretation over to our Inner Kindness Teacher and remember to laugh at the tiny, mad idea of separation.
The importance of vigilance
In this video, Susan shares her appreciation of the current staff at FACIM, and a few of the insights they shared in Temecula at the most recent academy class there. Susan and Bruce Rawles talk about the importance of (gentle) vigilance in watching our mind for ego incursions and why this is crucial to replacing our maladaptive thought system with one that will truly work for us. (Please excuse the reference to technical audio difficulties that turned out to be experienced only on our end.)
Love for our teacher Ken Wapnick
A conversation with Susan and Bruce Rawles talking about our love for our teacher Ken Wapnick, a demonstration of kindness to one and all, and how we can honor his life and heal our minds by living all he has taught us!
Forgiveness Offers Everything I Want: A conversation with Susan Dugan and Bruce Rawles about ACIM
This conversation with Susan Dugan and Bruce Rawles centers on the themes and ideas in Forgiveness Offers Everything I Want.
ACIM – Ken Wapnick enthusiasts – Our forgiveness classroom
A conversation with Susan Dugan and Bruce Rawles about using everything in our lives as our forgiveness classroom, shifting our approach from dissociation to association … bringing our projected dreams back inside where we can forgive them.
Forgiving Ourselves – A conversation with Susan Dugan, Lyn Corona and Bruce Rawles
Susan Dugan, Lyn Corona and Bruce Rawles talk about looking at the resistance to forgiving ourselves without judgment, and a variety of metaphors and ideas that might be helpful, inspired by studies in A Course In Miracles.
ACIM and Our Resistance to Forgiveness
A conversation with Susan Dugan and Bruce Rawles, including Susan’s comments about Kenneth Wapnick’s recent audio CD. The title of the CD set is “FORGIVENESS NOW” and the subtitle is “Those you do not forgive you fear.” The focus of the seminar is on “The Lifting of the Veil”, the final subsection of the final obstacle to peace—The fear of God–in Chapter 19.
Susan Dugan Talk ACIM with Dan Rosey
Enthusiasts of Kenneth Wapnick & FACIM 1Mar2013
A conversation with Susan Dugan ( Forays In Forgiveness ) and Lyn Corona ( School of Reason
and Becoming Learners Together ) and moderator Bruce ( ACIMblog
) about our shared interest in, and appreciation of, the brilliant and prodigious work of Dr. Kenneth Wapnick (Foundation for A Course In Miracles)
Susan’s recent interview with Kenneth Bok of ACIMExplained.com
An example video with Kenneth Wapnick of the Foundation for A Course In Miracles (FACIM)
As of Sep. 10, 2014, there are 205 FACIM videos available via the FACIM YouTube channel.
FACIM YouTube playlist: 153 videos of talks and excerpts from Ken’s workshops by Rusty Truesdale