A mystic works with metaphysical laws just as a technician works with physical laws.  The laboratory for the exercises in these applications is you-behind-the-eyes or you-between-the-ears – your mind. 
          Here is an example of how this works. 
          To paraphrase a quote from the Buddha, you are not to believe anything you read, hear, or see in writing unless something deep down inside you quietly responds and says; "Yes, that's true."  It does not matter if you think it may lead to some kind of divine revelation or come from a Divine source.  Do not believe it unless something quietly responds deep inside you – a quiet yes.  Quietly means; there is no emotional content.  Emotion may occur after the 'event', and the 'event' itself occurs without emotion.
          Truth, being the laws of Creation, is at the very core of our being.  When we hear a symbolic reference to it, our mind makes the connection to Truth and something deep inside us responds.  This can be looked upon as a form of sympathetic resonance.

          Now and then, I AM A I will refer to this quiet response as ‘truth ringing’ or ‘truth bell’ inside you.  If any information from this text comes along and that bell does not immediately ring, let it go for now.  You may however, want to set the information aside on a shelf within you and wait; do not make any judgments.  It could be your perceptions are not open enough for that Truth to enter. 
           ‘Higher’ Truths will not be perceived unless some ‘lower’ truths are perceived.  For example, it is recommended to teach basic math operations (+, -, /, x, etc.), before you teach trigonometry.  After a student learns the necessary math operations, then trigonometry is possible.

If you choose to use this information in its originally intended class format, get a notebook.  The inside of the notebook cover should be divided into four parts.  Each quarter has a different label.  One label would be In, one label would be Out, one label would be Mine, and one label would be After.            What do these labels mean?  Please refer to Figure 1-1.            Whenever that ‘truth bell’ rings within you from something inside the book, you would make a slash mark under In.  If you heard something outside the book that rang that bell, you would make a mark in the Out box.  When you realize something inside yourself, by yourself, and the bell rings; then you would make a mark under Mine.       After was for when you were done with the book and the notebook may become a journal. ==> This assignment is to accumulate 10 - 15 hash marks in the In box.  ==> 5-10 each in the Out box and the Mine box.  ==> After 20 hash marks, you could stop because you may be somewhat familiar with this quiet sense.

Figure 1-1, Keeping Track

          The main idea of this exercise is to get you to be familiar with the truth-ringing concept; that an event occurred within you, to feel it, and to learn to recognize it. 
          For you, the reader, a goal of the exercise may be achieved if you had a pad of paper and a pencil next to you as you are reading the text.  Every time you read any theory in the text and there is a resonance or response within you, make a hash mark on the pad.  By the time you reach 10 to 15 marks, you may have an idea or a feel of this response mechanism to truth.  The exercise's purpose will be achieved as long as you recognize ‘something’ occurred. 

          It may not be important to know or to indicate what the concept or the thought was.  Just that you recognized it happened.  You can write it down if you want.  However, within the oral class format it could become counter-productive to learning. 
          The main idea of the exercise is to get you to recognize your own mechanism, how you respond to truth, or how truth affects you…deep inside. That which keyed the response is of lesser importance for this application.

          When this series is used as a personal self-help, the Out and Mine boxes are equivalent to keeping a journal for anything.  Because you probably will not be walking around with a notebook, the Out box may not be marked until you come back to the notebook.  ("I heard something ‘heavy’ today.")  For this exercise, only 5-10 hash marks are required in the Out box. 
          Again, the idea here is to recognize an event occurred inside you.  A later exercise will cover Mine later.  Exercise 4 introduces you to how you can perceive your own truths in an application and possibly ‘ring your own bell’. 

          It is understood that what you are being asked to recognize is ever so subtle.  And…there are some clues that this event has been occurring on a regular basis:

• When hearing truth consistently, the consciousness change in the hearer can be interesting.  This consciousness change expresses itself in different ways.  One way can be the listener agrees with every word spoken, perhaps accompanied with a sense of peace and wholeness; and, you cannot remember what was said. 

• When reading truth, the consciousness change can become like a rain on the face analogy.  A light rain on the face may feel refreshing, and yet, most people can only take so much of it.  Too much rain can feel overwhelming. 

• Another reading symptom that appears is similar to hearing the truth.  You are absorbed, agree with everything read, and cannot remember what is being read. 

          To summarize this exercise, your mind is the ‘lab’ and you are asked to recognize an event occurred in the ‘lab’.  Do not accept any theory from this text (or any other place) unless there is a quiet response inside you.  This also means do not summarily reject the idea either.  The idea is to cultivate a ‘watching and waiting’ attitude to the text and your response to I AM A I.