This concluding session began with Bartholomew addressing the fundamental shift from body-mind identification to consciousness recognition. Opening mid-conversation, he explained that people have the relationship backwards - rather than having consciousness within them, they exist within consciousness. When the tenacious human attachment to "me and mine" is released, what emerges is what has always been doing everything: consciousness itself. The body-mind simply "catches up" as the last to know, finally recognizing "Oh! I didn't do it after all."

In this teaching, Bartholomew explored the profound metaphor of deep sleep as a glimpse into the desired state. Every night in dreamless sleep, people enter a state of non-form awareness where they're not conscious of body, mind, or sensations, yet upon waking they know they had "a good sleep." This demonstrates the accessible nature of pure awareness - the stillness that consciousness seeks to recognize while remaining awake and aware.

A major focus addresses the common spiritual trap of chasing peak experiences. When students have powerful blissful moments, the body-mind immediately wants to repeat them, like M...'s desperate attempt to recreate a transformative experience. Bartholomew explained that such experiences are simply objects in consciousness that rise and fall. The mistake lies in becoming addicted to particular experiences rather than recognizing the awareness within which all experiences arise and dissolve.

The session extensively developed the light metaphor that has run throughout the teachings. Everything perceived exists only through "the light of God." Without this illuminating awareness, there would be no perception and nothing would exist. This light is constantly present, enabling all seeing, feeling, breathing, thinking, and being. Every moment of perception is direct contact with the light of awareness itself, making enlightenment not a future attainment but a present reality often overlooked due to its obviousness.

Bartholomew addressed practical concerns about his departure, reassuring students that his help will be more powerful in the non-physical realm where there are "no filters." He challenged students to have more faith in the continuing guidance from the unseen world, emphasizing that his assignment continues until each connected soul awakens.

The teaching culminated with profound guidance on transforming negative experiences into spiritual tools. Rather than trying to fix, change, or escape difficulties, students were encouraged to use them as "bells ringing" that redirect attention to the eternal within. Every challenging person or situation becomes an opportunity to stop engaging with the "limited and unreal" and instead drop into the "vast and eternal" depths of being. This transforms problems from obstacles into solutions - not solutions that fix external circumstances, but pathways that lead directly to recognition of one's deathless nature.