Yes — it has been a long time, a whole year in fact, since the last Newsletter (November 2025!). I owe you an explanation, and the short version is a happy one: the silence wasn’t for lack of activity — quite the opposite. So much has been happening behind the scenes that writing about it kept getting postponed in favor of actually doing it. The upside is that there’s now a great deal to share, as you’ll see below. Thank you for your patience.

1. Miracle software

First, one of the factors that slowed me down for a long time has been a painstaking search for solutions to the many audio issues encountered in some of the tapes, particularly the early ones. That is, until literally just three months ago, AI suggested I use a program that I had never heard of before that performs the miracle of eliminating all background noise, leaving only the voices of the speakers loud and clear. It is not perfect yet, with Mary-Margaret’s voice sounding in some rare instances like a chipmunk, but at least the words are distinguishable, whereas before one had to strain to understand them in many cases. That program is called Adobe Podcast if anyone is dealing with the same problem, and a maximum of 4 hours of audio per day can be processed, on line.

A good chunk of recent time has therefore been allocated to spotting the audio files already on the site (bartholomewmaterial.com/audiofiles.html) that are difficult to hear and replace them with improved versions much easier to understand. The tapes that have already been processed that way can be recognized by the last box at the end of each listing with a pink background and usually designated as “Excellent”. See tapes 181, 182 and 183 as good examples of tapes that were difficult to hear and are now a pleasure to listen to. If there are any other such files that you have noticed present audio parasitic noises, let me know their number(s) and I will replace them as quickly as I can.

2. Move from Substack to MailerLite

After months of frustration dealing with the particulars of Substack, I have moved on to a more user-friendly mailing program that allows for an easier creation and mailing of newsletters, which hopefully will therefore appear more frequently. The sign-up form at the bottom of every page of the site reflects this change. The Newsletters that were published on the Substack site have all been updated and transferred to the BartholomewMaterial site and are listed on the Newsletters page, so none of the past news has been lost.

Four of these newsletters published on Substack were recycled separately in the form of the four buttons added at the top of the Homepage. They are “Who — or What — was Bartholomew?”, “Who was Mary-Margaret Moore?”, “Who were the main players?” and “How this project began”.

3. Of flags and figures

Having wondered for a long time how many visitors come to the bartholomewmaterial.com site and from where they are, I asked AI to build a little app that can now be found at the bottom of the menu on every page in the form of a slowly rotating earth showing the flags of the countries from which visitors hail. In addition, the number of visits from each country is detailed below the sphere. It resets itself at the beginning of every month, and within a year we will have enough data to assess where most of the visitors come from overall. Last month (October 2026), it was interesting and somewhat surprising to notice that whereas the US is of course the biggest source, the second country on the list was… China, followed by India and Vietnam! We’ll see over time if that trend remains steady, or if it even expands.

This may be due to the fact that there is a Google Translate button at the top left of every page that allows visitors to read the site pages in their own language (albeit with no guarantee as to the integrity of the translations), or maybe that they are comfortable enough in English to read and listen to the original tapes. Either way, this feature gives more people a chance to access Bartholomew’s wisdom.

4. Addressing a serious technical problem

Several months ago, I was informed by one alert user of the bartholomewmaterial.com site that some of the pages were not working properly, returning limited responses to queries. So with the help of AI I conducted a review and found out that, yes, for some unknown reason, a good chunk of the database supposed to contain ALL the Bartholomew tapes had disappeared! Everything has now been restored, and it gives impressive results. To be more specific:

1. If you click on the “Ask Bartholomew” button in the menu, you can ask anything, and after a few seconds you will be given a thoughtful text that is an AI-written synthesis of hundreds of the best segments found in the totality of the tapes in response to your question. Quotes are included with live links to the corresponding tapes when they exist on the site, and when they don’t yet, the mention “audio not yet available” appears.
2. The next button is the “Search Index”, which will give you references and links to ALL the instances where whatever word you choose to search appears in all the tapes. This is an amazing tool for anyone curious to find how many times a concept, a word or an idea has been mentioned by Bartholomew over the years it was present via Mary-Margaret Moore (1978 to 1995).
3. With “Themes”, the following button, you can access the main concepts developed in the Bartholomew material and get a synopsis for each one of them. This feature is particularly useful for beginners who don’t know much about the Bartholomew teachings.
4. In the same spirit, the “Quotes” button offers up to 200 of the best quotes around a short list of Bartholomew’s most fundamental concepts. Artistically rendered, that page allows anyone to get a glimpse of the many times one of these concepts was mentioned, each one with a direct live link when the source tapes are available.
5. And finally, the “Find Quotes” button allows anyone wishing to locate full quotes around specific words to choose from up to 200 of them. While the results look very similar to what one can obtain with the Search Index page, there is in fact a difference in that the latter gives a comprehensive listing of ALL sentences pell-mell where a specific word appears while the Find Quote page limits its result to 200 fully formed and quotable sentences.

Have fun with these different tools. Try them and see how far you can go. If you encounter any problem, either reply to this email or, if you prefer to do it privately, send a note to info@bartholomewmaterial.com.

5. No more PDFs

Over time, it became obvious that having the transcript of each tape reproduced next to its PDF version was a waste of space and time since the transcript version can be saved as a PDF file if anyone wants to keep it that way. Granted, there are still quite a few that don’t have a transcript ready, but they are slowly being added, like all the other categories.

The only exception is the PDF collection of the 600 series (-X1 to -X8) famously put together by Ann Claassen several years ago in a single volume, which can be found and downloaded here: 1995 Ghost Ranch 5-Day Workshop (in Abiquiu, NM). This was the last time Bartholomew would be present to dispense his wisdom through Mary-Margaret Moore, and that makes it therefore a unique document, recommended by Mary-Margaret herself.

6. More Summaries

As you may have noticed on the audiofiles.html page, many more Summaries have been added. This has become possible thanks to AI’s amazing ability to read an entire transcript and reduce it in seconds into a well-written and comprehensive summary. It is particularly useful in view of the fact, mentioned before, that the title of a tape usually doesn’t tell the whole story of how many topics are actually addressed in it. The Summary for each one of them tells it, in great detail, allowing readers to decide whether they want to listen to the whole tape or be content with the summary only.

7. How many tapes are there already?

After adding tapes on a day-to-day basis for a long time without really keeping count, I asked AI to do an inventory, and the results are interesting, to say the least.

The total number of tapes is 1,124. There will be modifications to this figure over time since tapes that are missing today (58) — or unknown — may be found tomorrow. Some tapes are beyond redemption in terms of audio usability, and in some cases tapes are consolidated when they have small segments that can be integrated into others.

From that total of 1,124, 338 to date have been uploaded to the site, meaning that 786 are still left to be uploaded, of which 58 are still missing or are unusable.

Digging deeper, AI found a more detailed count of tapes divided by 100-bloc:

1. The 1–99 bloc of tapes contains 83 in total, 38 of which are on the site, leaving 45 more to go.
2. The 100–199 bloc of tapes contains 89 in total, 53 of which are on the site, leaving 36 more to go.
3. The 200–299 bloc of tapes contains 113 in total, 16 of which are on the site, leaving 97 more to go.
4. The 300–399 bloc of tapes contains 250 in total, 22 of which are on the site, leaving 228 more to go.
5. The 400–499 bloc of tapes contains 253 in total, 27 of which are on the site, leaving 226 more to go.
6. And finally, the 500–599 bloc of tapes contains 328 in total, 174 of which are on the site, leaving 154 more to go.
7. Also included in the grand total are the 8 tapes that make up the 600 series.

What these figures clearly indicate is that too much emphasis has been placed on the 1-99 and 500-599 blocs and not enough on the 200-299, 300-399 and 400-499 ones. A more balanced approach is needed, particularly considering that in the arc represented by all the tapes together, one can distinctly notice differences in their quality and focus. In the beginning, by his own admission — paradoxically voiced through Mary-Margaret Moore herself — Bartholomew contended that his biggest issue was that she was full of doubt regarding both the scope of the project he had in mind (so to speak) and her own abilities to be the proper channel to achieve that project. That lack of self-confidence disappeared over time, culminating in the 500-599 bloc, where her voice is strong and unhesitating.

That evolution is also reflected in the fact that — particularly in the 1-99 bloc — there were many tapes described as “Private session” in which Bartholomew dispensed all sorts of advice to both Mary-Margaret, her husband Justin and other people. For the most part, due to the fact that these tapes are private, precisely, they have not been added to the site and will remain confidential, with only a few exceptions that — with other identifying names removed — contain messages that can be beneficial for anyone listening to them.

8. Additions of particular interest

Among the tapes added to the site recently, two are of particular interest.

The first one is a tape that, uncharacteristically, is not a teaching session with Bartholomew via Mary-Margaret Moore, but instead a lecture given by Dr. John Aiken in March 1978. Dr. Aiken is the man thanks to whom the whole Bartholomew experience started. The audio tape is probably one of the most difficult to hear, even after cleanup, but AI managed to capture enough of its content to turn it into a coherent narrative that sheds some interesting light on these early stages.

The second one tells the story of some of Bartholomew’s own past lives. Ironically, in later tapes one can hear him downplay the importance of past lives (which he qualifies here as mostly boring), but he nevertheless accepted in this case to answer a request to talk about his own, which he limited to three. All three were rather painful, but accelerated his eventual awakening. See Bartholomew’s Past Lives.

9. “I Come as a Brother” in Norwegian!

Thanks — again — to AI’s ability to consult large databases at warp speed, we found out that there exists a Norwegian version of “I Come as a Brother”. It will be added to the foreigntranslations.html page soon, in addition to the existing ones in German, Japanese, Korean, Danish, Spanish and Turkish. In the meantime, if anyone wishes to order that book, this link makes it accessible… but since it is marked as “sold out” (“Utsolgt” in Norwegian), another option is this free PDF version that AI located on the archive.org web site (the repository of the entire Internet), although it is a shorter version by about half of the original.

10. The bartholomewmaterial.com site saved to the archive.org site

Speaking of preserving the material hosted on the bartholomewmaterial.com site, should anything happen that would cause it to disappear, it’s already been backed up on archive.org, also known as the “Internet Archive”. With the help of AI, a system has been set up that uploads the site at the beginning of every month, guaranteeing that uploads and modifications are thus preserved for posterity (that is, as long as the archive.org site itself remains operational). Here is the web page address (which you may want to bookmark for future reference): https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.bartholomewmaterial.com/.

11. The complexity of processing the tapes

Lest anyone thinks that uploading the tapes is a simple process, maybe a detailed description of the process they go through will help understand why it’s been seemingly so slow. Given the fact that their audio quality varies widely, some take relatively little time, while others can take literally days. Here are the different phases of the process:

1. listen to the tape as it’s been received. If it is of reasonable audio quality, it is a candidate for immediate upload to the site (i.e. “Audio”). If it is not, see 2. below.
2. process it through the cleanup software to eliminate most if not all background noises, leaving only the voices to be clearly heard, at least in most cases, then upload to the site;
3. process this cleaned version of the tape through another step which results in an automated transcript;
4. on the basis of that transcript, AI drafts a summary of the tape which, after editing, is posted to the site (i.e. “Summary”);
5. listen to the cleaned version of the tape again, but in greater detail to make sure that all background noises are eliminated (barking dogs, traffic noises, coughs, etc.);
6. on the basis of that second edition of the tape, AI drafts the full (and edited) transcript posted on the site (i.e. “Transcript”);
7. at the same time, AI drafts the read-along version of the tape, allowing one to listen and read at the same time. To identify which tapes have a “read-along” version, the title of the tape — a live link — is highlighted in the box, with the title against a blue background instead of a gold one. This phase comes last because it takes a very long time to make sure that each word is both heard and highlighted in blue/bold at the same time.

12. A final note

The site is free, and — as I promised Mary-Margaret — it always will be, so that Bartholomew’s wisdom stays within reach of anyone, anywhere. Keeping it online does carry real costs, though, and the work behind it is a labor of love, done entirely unpaid. There are now 205 of us on this list; if even a modest number chip in a dollar or two a month, it comfortably covers those costs and lets me keep restoring and adding tapes. If the material has meant something to you and you’d like to help keep it free and growing, the PayPal button is at the bottom of the menu on every page — any amount is warmly appreciated. (Contributions aren’t tax-deductible in the US.)