This profound session served as both encouragement and final guidance as Bartholomew approached the end of his regular presentations. He addressed a spiritual community that had been gathering for 17 years, acknowledging their journey from initial doubt about their potential for enlightenment to a growing recognition of their inherent awakened nature.

Bartholomew emphasized that the fundamental obstacle to realization is not external circumstances but the persistent belief that awakening requires something outside oneself. He traced the evolution of spiritual seeking from frantic searching through various paths and practices to a simpler understanding that what is sought is already present. The core teaching revolves around distinguishing between the "thinking mind" - which creates fear, separation, and endless rumination - and the "working mind" or present-moment awareness that operates without the drama of past and future projection.

The session addressed the common spiritual trap of believing one must "remember" to be God or maintain constant awareness. Bartholomew explains that this creates the illusion of separation between the rememberer and what is remembered, when in truth there is only one consciousness expressing itself. He used the metaphor of walking deeper into ocean water until suddenly "you're in" to describe the moment of recognition that shifts everything.

A significant portion dealt with the apparent suffering and chaos in the world, responding to a participant's despair about global conditions. Bartholomew maintained that the greatest service one can offer is personal awakening, which radiates into the collective consciousness. He suggested that despair often arises from mental projection rather than direct experience, and that the awakened consciousness present in each moment knows precisely what it's doing, even when circumstances appear chaotic to the separated mind.

The teaching concluded with the radical simplicity that awakening is each person's inevitable destiny - the very purpose of human existence. Rather than something to be achieved through effort, it was presented as a natural unfolding that occurs when the habitual patterns of limited self-identification finally dissolve. Bartholomew's final encouragement was to stop the mental patterns that create fear and separation, and simply relax into what has always been present.