1. A beautiful collection of illustrations

With her permission, I borrowed the one above, one of my favorites, because it illustrates one of the suggestions made repeatedly by Bartholomew over many tapes, which is: take a few minutes as often as possible during the day to stop everything you are doing and simply “drop down into the Self”. Here he suggests to do it “a hundred times a day”, which means roughly every 15 minutes. We will get back to this process later. It’s as simple as it is powerful. For help, there is a convenient little app called MultiTimer that will help you “remember” but let me just warn you that 15 minutes go very fast. Some may prefer 30 minutes intervals.

2. A Gift from Australia

Sometimes surprises come from far away. In response to my call for the missing tapes from the Japan-India trip of August 1992, I was contacted by Lin Bell, who was on that trip (see picture below, with Mary-Margaret holding hands with the Dalai Lama, and Lin to the right of her). She kindly offered to send me a few tapes she had kept, not from that famous trip itself (I’m still looking for them), but from a two-day workshop that took place in Byrons Bay (Australia) on July 22-23, 1991. I had never heard of that workshop! I am therefore especially grateful to Lin. These tapes will be added to the site soon.

3. More uploads to the site

Tapes number 500 to 525 are now all uploaded, but to appreciate the number of recent additions, you need to go to the Workshops page where the majority are located. You will then notice that these new uploads can be identified by the fact that the “Audio” box has a white background and will remain that way for several months before returning to the gold background. As more are added, you will see more of these white boxes.

If there are tapes that you listen to that you find of poor audio quality, please let me know and I will put them on the priority list to be improved.

4. Which is (are) your favorite tape(s)?

There are so many good tapes it is impossible for anyone to decide which one takes precedence over the others, but we all have listened to one or more that have had a special impact on us. If you feel like sharing what they are, it could be beneficial to everyone else.

So Ann wrote recently to highlight Tape 43A (“Ego and Projection”), which she did not hesitate to call “foundational”. Additionally, in response to my standing request that fans (or devotees) of Bartholomew share how his teachings have impacted their lives, she sent me the following observations regarding that tape:

Since you would like more dialogue on what the Bart info means to people, I'll give you the highlights of what I've gotten from Tape 43A:

• Most of the time I am in reaction mode, interpreting others' words/actions as an attack and so counterattacking (projecting).

• My first reaction to another's negative words/actions is fear and guilt, so I interpret them as attacking and I counterattack (project). But if I understood that about myself, and that whatever they say/do (project) has no rational connection to my beingness, then I can end the game of action-reaction and instead extend.

• Extension arises out of remembering "home", with which I may connect through beauty, nature, wonder etc., and I can then extend that to others, which may start a ripple effect.

• On some level, I know whether I am projecting or extending.

• It is possible to always extend.

• If I truly believe that there is a Power that fills the Universe and that is within me and that is accessible to me, why am I wasting my time doing anything else?

  Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Ann!

5. Support

I want to keep access to the tapes entirely free, as promised to Mary-Margaret, but I have nevertheless steady costs attached to this whole project, which has already been going on for several years (and that’s my choice). So I am not asking the few generous subscribers who have already made contributions for more as I don’t think it’s fair to always rely on the same people, but I would like the people who have not contributed anything so far to ask themselves if they think that what they’re getting from listening to the Bartholomew tapes is worth a few dollars a month. Any such support is deeply appreciated. The direct link to make a donation (either one-time or recurring monthly) can be found here.

Thank you!