In this video, Susan Dugan and Bruce Rawles converse about special love, special hate and ego’s insane strategy of trying to find an ineffective substitute for the real, eternal Love we all share and can never lose, referring to section 4 of chapter 16 in ACIM‘s Text entitled: “The Illusion and the Reality of Love” (T-16.IV). They share some related insights from Kenneth Wapnick’s Journey Through the Text of ACIM. Here is an excerpt:
“Be not afraid to look upon the special hate relationship, for freedom lies in looking at it. It would be impossible not to know the meaning of love, except for this. For the special love relationship, in which the meaning of love is hidden, is undertaken solely to offset the hate, but not to let it go. Your salvation will rise clearly before your open eyes as you look on this. You cannot limit hate. The special love relationship will not offset it, but will merely drive it underground and out of sight. It is essential to bring it into sight, and to make no attempt to hide it. For it is the attempt to balance hate with love that makes love meaningless to you. The extent of the split that lies in this you do not realize. And until you do the split will remain unrecognized, and therefore unhealed.”
– T-16.IV.1
Susan writes frequently and eloquently about A Course in Miracles in her very engaging blog, ForaysInForgiveness
(This video was recorded on February 15, 2018.)