As mentioned in our previous newsletter, the very last workshop with Bartholomew present took place at the Ghost Ranch retreat center in Abiquiu, NM, in February 1995. One of the 166 people in attendance was Ann Claassen (now known as Qris), an environment attorney based in Washington DC at the time, who assigned herself the extraordinary task of transcribing the 8 cassette tapes containing excerpts of the 5-day workshop. The tapes have not been processed yet to be uploaded to the Bartholomewmaterial.com site, but Qris generously agreed to make her transcription available in PDF format. You can access it by clicking here. Thank you, Qris!

2. New tape additions

Since the publication of our last Newsletter (No 5), 8 new tapes were converted and uploaded to the site (more are on the way). They are:

3. Reaching a milestone

The complete collection of well over 1200 tapes that resulted from the 17 years of teachings shared by Bartholomew through Mary-Margaret Moore can roughly be divided into 6 groups of anywhere from 100 to 150 tapes each. The most urgent task at this point in time remains to convert all of them into electronic .mp3 files in order to preserve them and make them more readily available to the world and for posterity.

I am happy to report that tapes 1 to 199 and 500 to 600 have all been converted and placed on a server where they are now safe and secure. That does not mean that they have all been processed and added to the web site just yet. Some have, but not all. That will happen in due time, at a slower pace. Now all that remains to be done is to finish groups 200 to 299, 300 to 399 and 400 to 499, many of which have already been converted (and some of them posted on the site).

4. Instant translations

If you look at the top of the menu on the left of any page on the site, you will notice a new addition: a Google button that says "Select language". If you click on the little arrow, you will instantly be shown a menu of no less than 132 languages! Choose one and watch the page appear in that language within seconds. There are very few transcripts available on the site as of yet, but as time goes by and more and more are added, people who are not fluent enough in English will be able to get a good idea of what can be found in the Bartholomew material in their own language. Of course that feature does not apply to the audio tapes themselves since they are in English. If you want to give it a try, go to this page, choose a language and watch what happens: https://bartholomewmaterial.com/transcripts/6-010278-IntroductoryTapeWithJohnAikenEdit.html.

5. Map of all Bartholomew teachings

If you look at the bottom of the menu on the site and click on "Travel Map", you will see a page that shows a map of the world with all the locations where Bartholomew/Mary-Margaret Moore traveled to give teachings. You can zoom on any of the places marked with a blue dot and - if you want more information - click on it. That in turn will give you the tape number, the location, the date and, when available, the title of the tape. To sum up, we have right here in one map a bird's eye view of 17 years of Bartholomew's and Mary-Margaret's work.

6. Testimonial

"Following my invitation to anyone willing to share what the Bartholomew material has meant or done for them and how it might have changed their life, I received the following beautiful email from Karin in Australia, reproduced here with her permission. Thank you, Karin!

Dear J.J.,

"Dear J.J.,

I received newsletter no. 5 unexpectedly because I didn't even know there was such a thing. Presumably (and thankfully!) I got it because I had made an enquiry about ordering something to be sent to Australia and got on the list that way. I recently googled Justin Moore to see whether he had published any books on numerology (I hadn't known his given name before recently listening to a tape in which it was mentioned) and through the googlings (rather than the newsletter) found that Mary-Margaret had passed away. I found myself bursting into tears at losing her from this planet, especially at this time when it seems we really, really, more than ever, need everyone we can to help increase the love in this world. The separation and fear being actively peddled by many people, governments and organisations are sometimes so overwhelming that it is difficult not to get caught up in it. Fortunately some of the new tapes have already helped me deal with this. Nevertheless I am hoping that Mary-Margaret will come back soon and continue her work.

7. "I Come as a Brother" in CD

When one looks at the Books page on this site, past the first row of books, you will see the successive editions of the first Bartholomew book, "I Come as a Brother". You will also notice that the first three editions were published in print only. but the fourth edition was different. It was published only in Kindle format and as a 4-CD set, read by Mary-Margaret Moore. In other words, there is no printed version of this fourth edition.

For people who enjoy audiobooks, this 4-CD set is a unique bridge to the wisdom of the Bartholomew teaching. It's also a great present (hint, hint). High Mesa Press informed us that they still had a number of sets available for sale and authorized us to sell them on their behalf through this site. At this time, the price for the USA is an all-inclusive $21.00 ($27.00 for all other countries). Payments are made via PayPal (you don't need a PayPal account to make a payment as you can use your credit card).

"I Come as a Brother" 4-CD Set

USA $21.00 USD All other countries $27.00 USD

8. A rare article

As we all know, not very many articles - if any at all - have been published in the media or even in New Age magazines about Bartholomew and/or Mary-Margaret Moore. Well, our friend Jan De Courtney recently discovered such a rare gem, and she was quick to share it with us. Thank you, Jan!

Published in the September 1984 issue of The Sun magazine, it was titled "True Love - A Conversation With Bartholomew". It is the touching narrative of someone who decided to lay bare the difficulties he was facing in his marriage and share the advice Bartholomew gave him. Remarkably. at every turn in the conversations, Bartholomew refrained from giving the author directions on what to do, explaining instead in an impressively neutral way the different choices that were open to him and the likely results of each one. As always with Bartholomew, we are left with a lot of food for thought.

9. Questions or comments?

If you have questions or comments, please let us know at info@bartholomewmaterial.com. If they are of relevance for everyone, they will be incorporated in the following newsletters. Thank you!

J.J. Surbeck