Return to the Bartholomew Material

Happy spring!

Spring is upon us. Time to emerge from the winter slumber and resume our delving into some of the treasures contained in the many tapes left to us and to posterity by Mary-Margaret Moore and her mentor Bartholomew.

What’s new?

1. Some re-organization on the web site

Sometimes sanity prevails over madness. This truism is illustrated in the fact that after toiling too many hours trying to divide some of the tapes into self-contained segments (a.k.a. “Topics”), it became evident that this would require several lifetimes to achieve.

Mercifully, A.I. is here today to help us lighten the burden: instead of a list of Topics, we now offer a short Summary of each tape, courtesy of an A.I. program far smarter and faster than anyone could be.

The result? In the three pages listing the tapes (“Audiofiles & Transcripts”, “Workshops” and “Tours & Trips”), you will now find summaries listed right after the title of each tape (with many more to be added), followed in turn by the “Audio” file itself. That way, visitors can quickly click on the Summary and decide on that basis if they want to listen to the full Audio or not. Note the color coding, slightly modified from the previous version, which now looks like this:

Note also that when tapes have been recently added to the site, the “Audio” box is set against a white background instead of a golden one, and if the quality of the audio has not been checked yet, it is marked as “Not.Ev.Yet” (Not Evaluated Yet) against a pink background, like this:

2. Ghost Ranch tapes uploaded

When my wife and I met Mary-Margaret in Albuquerque years ago, as we parted she recommended we listen to the tapes of the Ghost Ranch workshop (Feb. 1995), which was the last big workshop with Bartholomew present. At the time, neither she nor I had a copy of the set, but over time a couple of people (present in this current Substack group of 135 people to date) had one that they were kind enough to lend me so that I could copy them. A few years passed before I was finally able to upload them on the site, where they are now.

The Ghost Ranch set includes 8 tapes, no less, reflecting the fact that the workshop lasted 5 days and that more than 100 people attended. They contain a rich summary of everything Bartolomew taught during the 18 previous years.

One word of warning if you choose to listen to them: the audio quality is uneven from one tape to the next, due in particular to the fact that while Mary-Margaret’s voice can be heard loud and clear, the questions asked from the audience are not always as distinct. There is a partial remedy to this problem: you will notice that on the Workshop page, at the very bottom where the tapes are listed, there is a green box facing the Ghost Ranch tapes that says “PDF”.

This has been mentioned before, but it bears repeating: that PDF document, titled “Where Would I Go?”, is the verbatim transcription of all 8 tapes, including many of the questions asked by audience members. This is the work of our friend Qris (a.k.a. Ann Claassen), who at a time when there were no transcription apps of any sort, did the monumental work of listening carefully to each segment before transcribing everything. This work is nothing short of extraordinary and Qris deserves both the recognition and gratefulness of the Bartholomew community today and tomorrow for having generously made it available to all here. Once again, thank you Qris!

3. Commercial tapes

While the audio file of each one of the four commercial tapes were already on the site, they were not presented following the same format as the other tapes (at the bottom of the “Audiofiles & Transcripts” page). Now that has been corrected. You can read a brief abstract of each one by clicking on the corresponding “Summary” link.

4. Additional Workshop tapes

The following workshop sets have been added to the site:

1. The 1990 Los Gatos 2-Day Workshop (6 tapes)

2. The 1991 Taos Winter 2-Day Workshop (4 tapes)

3. The 1991 Chicago 2-Day Workshop (4 tapes)

4. The 1991 Detroit 2-Day Workshop (5 tapes)

5. The 1991 Tasmania 2-Day Workshop (5 tapes)

6. The 1994 New York City 1-Day Workshop (3 tapes)

7. The 1994 Bozeman (MT) 2-Day Workshop (7 tapes)

Back to basics

In the introduction to “I Come as a Brother” (1986 High Mesa Press edition), Mary-Margaret refers to Bartholomew as an “Energy” rather than a person, explaining that

“This energy’s concerns are with giving us tools to awaken from the illusion of our separateness from the One—again and again, this has proved to be its deepest concern. Bartholomew has come as a brother and as part of a universe of equality to remind us all of what we already know—that we see an illusory world of separation, and it causes us pain. But we, as brothers and sisters of this energy and to the rest of the Createdness, have within us the ability to know the One. And it seems to be Bartholomew’s loving job to remind us that we created the illusions and we, Thank God, can end them.

What better way to remind us of what this material is all about?

Why listen to the tapes?

Dawn Weaver, grand-daughter of Dr. Aiken, sent me a stack of old transcripts, pointing out in particular an interesting excerpt from one of the earliest tapes (Tape 32X2, “Impact of the transcripts”.)

Here Bartholomew explains why listening to the tapes is important and how it impacts listeners:

There is no question that anyone who comes into the process, and merges himself into listening to the tapes, will soon find areas of their awareness opening, almost without knowing it. Flashes will come. Things will flash, and this is because the process is working.

Depending on their own experiences, each such beneficiary will have to determine what Bartholomew meant by “flashes”, whether he was referring to actual visual flashes, or flashes of intuition or inspiration.

Individual requests

We all have our favorite tapes, the ones that either impacted us the most or the ones that “spoke” to us more than others. If you, the reader of this newsletter, feel like sharing your favorite one, it would be wonderful to let us know. If there is one or more tapes that has a special meaning for you or which has affected you in any way, would you be willing to share it with the group, even anonymously? I’ll start (with two tapes actually).

1. My first favorite is Tape 513 (“Relinquish Judgment”).

   Why this tape in particular? Because it made me aware of how judgmental I had been my entire life (and still am to a degree). Listening to Bartholomew on this subject had a profound effect on me when I realized the futility of my judging others and/or situations. And yet, while it is less of a struggle than it used to be once I became aware of my judgmental attitude, I must remain vigilant to this day in order to stop myself from doing it again. As Bartholomew says in another tape (Tape 193), “We Are Living All Lives” simultaneously, even if we are not aware of it, so why judge since they are also us? What a concept.

2. My second favorite is Tape 528AX1 (“1991 Tasmania 2-day Workshop”)

   Why? Because in it, Bartholomew shared the following amazing statements:

   The medical model will have to change or it will dis-create itself. And I would like to suggest to any of you who are interested in this kind of thing to give it a lot of life and awareness in your life. Every moment there is a dialogue going on between your mind, that is your thoughts, and the body. And those trillions of cells are listening to whatever you are saying, and it is their job to out-picture whatever it is your mind is telling them.

   I would like to throw down a challenge for all of you, and many of you in this room are young. I'd like to tell you something and see if you can play it out in your life: aging process as pictured by most people on the Earth plane is false. It does not need to be that way. The reason that it is that way is because people believe it is that way. I'd like you to consider applying the opposite thought, coming in with thoughts that say: "The older I get, the stronger, the more alive, the more dynamic, the more beautiful, the more healthy I become. Each day of my life, I am more radiant, more exciting, more marvelous. I am younger in stature and in feeling and in intensity, this every day of my life"... and see what happens. [Laughter]

   Why not make medical history, you know, why not? [Laughter] Someone has to do it. I'm saying that it is a thought-form that is playing itself out all over this planet and billions of people are suffering as a result of a faulty thought-form. It is nothing more than a faulty thought form, ladies and gentlemen, and the cells' job is to hear what the mind says and play it out. If you doubt me, spend the rest of your life trying this. [Laughter] If I am wrong, when you do that process you call dying, which I call moving into expansion, we'll meet and we'll talk it over. [Chuckles]

The implications of these statements are simply staggering. We don’t need to get old? We don’t have to get sick? How is that possible? Well, if you’ve listened to Bartholomew for some time, you can discern a few basic messages, one of which is that our mind is more powerful in creating our reality than we give it credit for, which also means that we’re not using it to its full capacity to mold the reality we want. And as we have been repeating since the beginning of humanity, sentences like “Getting old ain’t for the weak.”, “My body’s falling apart.”, “If it’s not one thing, it’s another.”, “I’m just tired all the time.”, “I’ve been to more doctors than I can count.”, “This weather’s killing me.”, “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.”, etc, are in fact shaping our reality, just the wrong way. Each one of us has a whole catalog of these sayings that humans have been telling themselves forever.

What’s the solution? Change the script! Turn it around, from fatalistic resignation to positive creation and transformation. Yes, sure. That’s easier said than done… and yet nevertheless not impossible if we are watchful enough and catch ourselves repeating these old negative messages and replace them with positive ones each and every time they pop up in our head. Watch yourself and gently correct yourself each time, and you should see results.

That sounds promising enough, but what about pain? Ah, yes, pain is another matter altogether. Pain has a powerful way of confiscating a sufferer’s attention from everything else. Nothing else seems to exist but that pain, be it physical or psychological. Bartholomew dealt extensively with pain and how to deal with it in Tape 103 (“Health and Healing”), but essentially his message is that instead of fighting pain, the best way to deal with it is to accept it but at the same time watch it as if it was apart from you, illustrated by saying “there is pain” instead of “I’m in pain”. And then focus on the healing, brought on by the light. This is a rich topic that we can discuss more later.

A FaceBook group?

One question that has been bugging me for some time now is whether we should have a private FaceBook group to facilitate communications and exchanges of ideas and opinions, considering that the Substack platform for comments is not the most practical nor user-friendly. I know that not everybody is on FB or even wishes to be there, but if there is a large enough consensus, it’s something that we could try. What do you think?

Feedback?

If you have any other feedback, idea or suggestion that you would like to share, we’re all ears. Thank you for your time.