Carmen Funes
Inducted in 2026
Why it is in the collection
There is a virtue almost never rewarded: finishing. Working through the Course's lessons one at a time, skipping neither the arid ones nor lingering only on the rewarding ones, means hundreds of recordings that no one will celebrate individually and that make sense only as a whole. That constancy is the first thing we recognise here.
She is in the collection for her sobriety. In a territory prone to emphasis and easy promises, Funes keeps her register low, without drama and without offers of immediate transformation. She explains what the lesson asks, then steps aside; the practice belongs to the student, not the teacher.
And she is here for the quality of service in the work. This is not a channel designed to grow but to accompany someone through a slow and often solitary process. That the material stands complete, ordered and freely available for whoever begins five years from now is exactly the kind of enduring work we look for.
About this channel
Carmen Funes is a transpersonal therapist and a teacher of A Course in Miracles, and her channel is built around one concrete task: to accompany the Course's workbook, lesson by lesson. That workbook sets out a daily practice spanning a full year, and therein lies the problem this work solves: many people begin the Course and abandon it within the first weeks, not for lack of interest but for lack of company and context.
The series proceeds in order, from a general introduction to the lessons and then through them one by one, in short videos devoted to each exercise. The structure matters as much as the content: a newcomer can keep the pace the Course itself prescribes ( one lesson a day ) or return to a particular lesson that proved difficult. The channel also includes an interview in which Funes explains her own path and her understanding of teaching, giving the whole a personal frame without turning it into biography.
The tone is one of calm accompaniment. There is no staging and no production apparatus: there is a voice explaining what the day's lesson asks, where it usually meets resistance, and what it means within the larger work. Anyone looking for theological debate or academic analysis of the text will not find it here; what is here is sustained practice, addressed to someone who has decided to walk the Course and needs a companion who has walked it before. She is also the author of several books on belief, acceptance and inner life. The videos are in Spanish.