This extraordinary session began with Bartholomew's teaching on Krishna as a real spiritual force field rather than a historical person, then shifted dramatically when a higher master entered to deliver one of the most powerful statements on the nature of One Mind in the entire Bartholomew Material - a passionate call to trust God's love, move past the terror of inner exploration, and reach the point of experiential knowing from which one can never fully be pulled back.

Context: A session in Santa Fe on September 23, 1978, with the Aikens and the Moores present. At the request for teachings on Krishna comparable to earlier sessions on Christ and the Buddha, Bartholomew explained why they had deliberately avoided the Christ topic (due to pressure on Mary-Margaret from her church community), then offered a fascinating discourse on Krishna, before a higher master entered mid-session to address the deeper question of One Mind.

Krishna - Real Power, Not Historical Person: Bartholomew explained that Krishna was not a historical incarnation in the way Ramana Maharshi was. Rather, the Krishna force was a real and immensely powerful spiritual force field that was impressed upon the psyches of women in ancient India - women who, subjugated in every other realm, found in the spiritual domain the one area where they could be free. Because their deepest association with love and protection was through the male, they personified this force as a divine masculine being. Their tremendously naive and open faith, in a land already becoming a focal point of spiritual power, enabled them to perceive this force in etheric form - and they saw it blue, because that high spiritual realm is blue. The specific facial features were later inventions, but the blue vibrating form was real. Bartholomew emphasized that Krishna's color is the most important truth retained about him: when people meditate on Krishna as blue, they can eventually move into and become one with the entire blue void - the highest accessible spiritual realm.

The Bhagavad Gita: While acknowledging the Bhagavad Gita as more helpful than many treatises for those still engaged with moment-to-moment material questioning, Bartholomew cautioned that it has been changed, added to, and taken from - even more splintered than the Bible and the Quran. His recommendation: find the simple in it, stick to it, and do it. Above all: keep a constant remembrance of the Krishna force and let it teach directly, rather than getting trapped in the modern trappings and complications.

One Mind - The Higher Master Enters: When the discussion turned to the paradox of apparent separateness among the masters themselves, Bartholomew began explaining that Buddha Mind, Christ Consciousness, the Void, and the Great Light are all words for the same truth: there is only One Mind. At this point, a higher master entered the session. This master explained that all the energy fields who communicate through Mary-Margaret are constantly, totally aware through inner vision that they are one. When they speak in terms of separateness, it is because if they presented things as they really are, there would be no bridge of communication possible. Only in deep meditation can the deeper realities be transmitted directly.

The Call to Trust and the Point of No Return: The higher master delivered what became one of the most impassioned passages in the entire Material. The reason people fear looking within, he said, is not simply the ego's fear of dissolution - it is that they take their own ego-created images to be all of reality, and they are terrified that looking within will reveal the same imagery, only vaster and more demonic. They do not trust that God is love and can only act in total love. The master's urgent call: once you experience even the slightest moment of the real Source, the unreality of your images will never again have the same hold on you. At that point you become a true believer - not in the sense of accepting someone else's authority, but in the sense rooted in the word "to be": grounded in the beingness of the One. Prior to that point, the masters warned, they can lose you. After it, you are never fully fooled again. And in coming to know your own divinity, you give others the greatest gift possible - because you cannot believe in your own divinity and exclude any part of the One.

Paths of Intellect and Love: The session included a tender exchange about different spiritual paths. One questioner, whose path had been intellectual rather than devotional, was told that the constant working with ideas - musing over, referring back to, trying to perceive from various angles one central theme - is an absolutely valid way to arrive at truth. The master emphasized that there must never be a desire to impose one's own path on another. The true friend, the true brother, only seeks to support and encourage each person's own movement, trusting the divine process at work in every being.

God Does Not Judge: The master closed with a powerful declaration: God does not judge - God loves. Judgment implies good, bad, better, best - all illusory meanings placed on ever-changing images. The terror of the ego is that it believes it has created a world against God's will and must answer for it. But this is nonsense: God is not so puny that any ego can create against Him. What appears to have been created in opposition to God is not creation at all - it is illusion, gossamer, without substance.