This is a uniquely valuable session in which Bartholomew mapped out the entire landscape of psychic functioning - from ordinary fortune-telling to the deepest spiritual transmission. He described four distinct levels of reality that psychics can access, explained exactly how the channeling process works with Mary-Margaret, and revealed why healers who lack forgiveness, love, and service cannot access the real power. The tape serves as both a practical guide to evaluating psychic claims and a map of the inner realms encountered in meditation.

Context: A session in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on September 18, 1978, with Justin Moore. Bartholomew had specifically asked for this question about psychic predictions to be brought forward, feeling many people needed clarification on the subject.

No Psychic Communication Is Error-Free: Bartholomew began with a clear warning: no psychic or mediumistic communication is totally free of error - including his own specific guidance to individuals. Even the greatest psychics have varying times of clarity and less clarity. Time-related predictions are especially unreliable, as even Edgar Cayce famously missed on projected dates. Life has organic movement; one can predict the general flow of a river but not where every drop of water will land. However, if a psychic misses the entire scope of a prolonged event, something is seriously wrong and the communication should not be trusted at all.

How the Bartholomew Process Works: Bartholomew described in detail how his communication with Mary-Margaret differs from full-trance mediumship (where the channel loses all consciousness). Mary-Margaret opens herself willingly, laying herself open in a yearning to help. Divine thought - which is feeling tone, not words - is impressed upon her awareness, bypassing the ego's imagination entirely. The distinction is crucial: egos work with imagination (images shown to awareness), while divine communication bypasses that process and works directly with awareness itself. The degree to which Mary-Margaret can open determines how clearly the data comes through. She initially kept the process at a distance out of fear, but has come to trust the power and now has perfect recall.

Four Levels of Psychic Perception: Bartholomew mapped out four distinct levels of reality that psychics - and meditators - can access. The first is the physical/material level, where some psychics can predict events, financial outcomes, and physical manifestations with great accuracy. The second is the psychological level, where the true motives behind one's actions can be perceived - why certain events manifest in one's material life. The third is the occult level, where forms, beings, and the world of the dead are perceived - this is where the bulk of psychics operate, with varying degrees of clarity. The fourth and deepest is the spiritual level, the realm of true power, where those whom Bartholomew called not psychics but "messengers" bring forward the great truths. This is the realm from which the great teachings of the planet emerge. Each level requires "passing rights" - a psychic who operates brilliantly on the physical level may be completely foggy on the psychological level.

The Qualifications for Real Power: Access to the deepest spiritual level requires three qualifications: forgiveness, love, and service. Without these, the deeper realm remains closed - not out of cruelty, but because raw spiritual power in unqualified hands could do tremendous damage. No black magician can enter this realm, which is why despite their impressive achievements, they cannot accomplish much of real consequence. The power lies deeper than they can reach.

These Are Also the Meditation Realms: Bartholomew made the crucial connection that these four psychic levels are also the levels encountered in deep meditation. He urged meditators to move quickly through the first three levels - however alluring and captivating they may be - and anchor their awareness in the deepest spiritual realm, where real peace, wisdom, and power reside.