In Tape 600X7, Bartholomew gently prepared participants for the end of the workshop by revisiting the foundational teaching: "You are not the story - you are the awareness of the story." He repeatedly emphasized that the path to peace and freedom does not lie in self-improvement, mastery, or spiritual techniques, but in radical honesty and unflinching presence. Bartholomew invited participants to surrender the need for transformation and instead rest in what already is. The teaching grows even more refined here, as he drew a clear distinction between true awareness and the subtle habits of the ego trying to "get it right."

Fear, resistance, and even spiritual ambition are welcomed not as obstacles, but as part of the field of awareness. Bartholomew stressed that the mind will rebel against the stillness and simplicity of presence, but this rebellion itself is just another object of awareness. "Let the mind sit beside you," he said, "not on the throne, but at your feet." The encouragement is not to destroy or reject the mind but to reorder its place in our inner landscape.

A major theme in this tape is the healing of self-judgment. Bartholomew spoke powerfully about the illusion of brokenness and the violence of self-rejection disguised as spirituality. "Stop trying to fix yourself," he said. "Begin to meet yourself." This is not a call for passivity, but for profound self-acceptance - a kind of existential permission to be as we are without shame or spiritual comparison.

When participants expressed concerns about forgetting these teachings after returning home, Bartholomew assured them that awakening is not a fixed state to be maintained. Rather, it is a process of remembering and returning. Forgetting is not failure, and the path is not linear. Even reactivity and forgetting become teachers when approached without judgment. "The only failure," he said, "is to turn away from your experience."

Several questions from the group elicited deep and compassionate responses, particularly around the difference between presence and dissociation, and the feeling of isolation that sometimes comes with spiritual growth. Bartholomew clarified that true presence is open and alive, even when it includes pain, whereas dissociation is a kind of inner withdrawal. He assured participants that they are not alone, even when surrounded by others who may not understand the journey. "Your own being is your greatest support," he said. "It never leaves."

As the session closed, Bartholomew returned to silence and reminded the group that truth is not about knowing or proving - it is about the resonance of being. This resonance is not in the intellect but in the heart, in the body, in the quiet inner recognition that no one else can give or take away. "You are not trying to become enlightened," he said. "You are simply peeling away what is not you."