This particular session addressed fundamental questions about engaging with difficult emotions without falling into catharsis, and dealing with anger that seems disproportionate to circumstances. Bartholomew began with Christ's invitation "Come unto me, all of you that are heavy laden, and you will be refreshed," explaining that the "me" refers not to any personality but to the eternal "I Am" presence within - the place that provides genuine refreshment not by removing difficulties, but by bringing the freshness of truth into conscious awareness.

The core teaching centered on the radical possibility of experiencing tremendous anger, pain, and resistance while simultaneously being present to the underlying bliss of being. Bartholomew challenged the dualistic thinking that one must move away from negative states to find enlightenment, emphasizing instead that billions of things can coexist simultaneously. The path involves "snuggling into" whatever feeling arises - however disastrous it may seem - without trying to understand, avoid, or fix it, but simply allowing oneself to merge deeply into the power of that feeling.

Bartholomew used examples of awakened beings to demonstrate that enlightenment doesn't eliminate human responses or preferences. Even Buddha and Christ continued to have judgments and reactions, but with the crucial difference that they recognized these as temporary phenomena arising and falling within unchanging awareness. The awakened ones maintain "tremendous laughter and humor" about their residual human conditioning, seeing clearly through these patterns while experiencing them with detachment and knowing they are not ultimately real.

A significant portion of the session addressed the misconception that spiritual awakening requires perfecting the personality or eliminating all human imperfections. Bartholomew pointed out the absurdity of trying to perfect something (the ego-personality) that is going to die, when the only thing that is inherently perfect is the eternal Consciousness that never changes. Using the movie screen analogy, he explained that just as no activity on screen affects the screen itself, all human experiences - positive and negative - leave the essential nature of being completely untouched.

The teaching emphasized the immediate availability of awakening, challenging listeners to examine their direct experience rather than relying on concepts about separation. Through pointed questions like "Has there ever been a moment in your life that you weren't there?" and "Where is the separation between you and God?", Bartholomew guided students to recognize that the sense of separation exists only in the mind as repeated ideas, not in actual experience. He stressed that awakening is not a feeling or experience to be attained, but the recognition of what is already eternally present.

Bartholomew concluded with passionate encouragement, addressing the students not as limited egos but as Consciousness itself. He emphasized that the power behind all speech and experience is conscious Awareness, and that as Consciousness, each person has the complete capacity to be aware of themselves as Consciousness. The session ended with the promise that sincere calls from the heart for awakening must be answered, and that all life circumstances are arranged to support this deepening recognition when it becomes one's truest desire.