This extraordinary session includes teachings on the Second Coming of Christ, a discourse on the Buddha requested by Dr. Aiken, one of the most complete explanations of prayer in the Bartholomew material, and a remarkable appearance by Quan Yang - a teacher from audience member Virginia's past lives in ancient China, together with a personal reading describing her as a radiant "yellow flower."

Context: This session took place in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with Dr. Aiken, Justin Moore, Mary-Margaret Moore, a guest named Virginia, and others present. It began mid-discussion about the Second Coming, suggesting it continues from an earlier tape.

The Second Coming - Power Activates All: Bartholomew clarified that Jesus as a historical figure could not literally "walk the earth plane" due to his immense energy - the physical body could not contain it. A part of the Christ being "will choose and has chosen" to manifest, bringing wisdom for the coming age. Claims of multiple returning disciples are "misinformation" - the idea that someone must wait 2,000 years to correct a minor error is "totally unlike godlike love and wisdom." Crucially, Bartholomew warned that powerful spiritual force activates ALL existing powers - both light and darkness: "It does not say, I am a good light and I will only activate good people. It says, I am power." The outcome depends entirely on human choice: "There is no guarantee that even the coming of this beautiful being will be able to tip the scales. It depends on the hearts of men."

The Buddha's Teachings: When asked for a discourse on Buddha comparable to his earlier Christ teachings, Bartholomew stated: "The Christ and the Buddha are identical on one level. Higher, there is no Christ and no Buddha." He noted that Buddhist documentation is more accurate than Christian scriptures, which were written later with "much imagined and hoped." The primary importance of the Buddha is that "he dealt with the breaking of the illusion... There is one mind, and the Buddha knew there was one mind." On Zen Buddhism, he called it "the most difficult of the branches - austere, very sharp, very high" but requiring "a very restricted environment" to practice fully. Modern teachers who have adapted these teachings "are to be commended - the days of the austere path are gone."

Salvation Redefined: Bartholomew reframed this Christian concept: "On the highest level, there is no one to be saved and there is nothing to save anybody from." Salvation means "to lift them up out of what they have been living in and lift them into a different state" - to save one from illusion, to wake them up. The "born again" experience is real - "literally they are lifted up out of themselves." True salvation is this upliftment maintained continuously.

Prayer - A Complete Teaching: This is one of the most intriguing explanations in the Bartholomew material, presented in ascending levels. At the lowest level, all human desire to connect (speech, touch, sex, writing) is really desire to be one with another. Male-female love is "the greatest illusion" because it compresses universal love into "very small cylinders." When human relationships fail to satisfy, people turn to personified deities: "Prayer is the method of lovemaking... because you can't touch them, you can't make love to them. So what's left? You can talk to them." The key problem: "Most on the earth plane do all the talking and need to do some of the listening. It's just like a man and wife. If the man is yelling at the woman all the time and doing all the talking, there's no real relationship." At the highest level, one seeks union with the Source itself, but this requires total surrender of separateness: "You cannot keep your special separateness and be a part of that one source... The closer you get to losing that sense of I - the small I - the more afraid you will become." But those who persist discover that "There is an incredible peace and joy and love and protection... You're not left alone. Never, never, never are you left alone."

The Book Project:: Bartholomew confirmed that his earlier reference to "a book" was about the channeling work. Justin Moore may serve as guide with the Aikens as backup. The book will serve the developers' spiritual growth as much as helping others. Mary-Margaret was to be directly consulted on questions - not just used as a vehicle. This related to a future school/community that will form in Taos.

Virginia's Reading - The Yellow Flower: Bartholomew gave here a beautiful personal messages: "If you could envision in your mind, let us say, a yellow flower. The yellow flower that radiates the warmth and the love and the life force and the sustenance that moves through the very air that it lives in. This is the kind of symbol that is brought into one's mind when one looks upon your deeper sense." Her "karmic load is pretty much paid off" - she is ready to perceive her own light and share it.

Quan Yang - A Past-Life Teacher: During this session, a teacher from Virginia's past lives briefly manifested: "Perhaps to refresh your mind, cast yourself back in your memory to a river. And there are steep walls of granite carrying themselves to the sky. And we sat by the river, you and I. And we talked. And the blossoms fell from the trees and floated on the river. And we watched. And we learned the lesson. All things come, all things go. The river moves on." This was in ancient China. Quan Yang promised to commune with Virginia as she goes through her daily life.

The I Ching and Mediumship: Asked whether Mary-Margaret should use the I Ching, Bartholomew responded: "Tell her only when she's feeling chicken." It is "counterproductive" for developing direct inner wisdom. Addressing her concern that channeling is "a lower order of service," Bartholomew explained: "A really highly attuned mediumistic expression calls for the person to lay their life down, literally lay their life down in order to serve someone else."

Chiefs and Indians: "No one will reach the Godhead without being a follower. No one. There are many more chiefs on the earth plane right now than there are Indians." True power comes from "total surrender, total giving over, total reception and total love. The person who is the strongest in the world is the person who loves totally."