The Truth Tuning Toolkit exposes you to the basic mechanics of your mind and the mechanics inherent in most working mystical schools of thought. Be it Christian, Buddhist, Sufi, theosophists, or shamanic…, working spiritual systems all work off of the same laws. They are separate facets on a single jewel. The Toolkit presents the mechanics of these laws/truths in a set of simple exercises that you can follow with a minimum of ponderous philosophy. Exercises demonstrating these mechanics are presented in such a generic way that they allow you to integrate their basics into your own personal philosophy. The Toolkit exercises are applicable to the secular mind as well as the spiritual mind. You do not have to be spiritually orientated to get something from the Toolkit. The Toolkit exposes you to: • Truth perception and recognition • Meditation mechanics and modalities • Extending your mind through time and space • Using the mortal mind’s limits • ESP cultivation • Music use • And more… The Truth Tuning Toolkit will help you extend your mind beyond its self imposed limits. The Toolkit can help you experience the ‘something else’ that you know is there.

Application #13 – Sound of Music Music is the most powerful spiritual/metaphysical tool that Man has. This entry in the series combines previous applications to show how listening to music affects your mind, along with, providing you with numerous application directions. Exercise 13 – Music exercise variations, “riding the music” The true power of music lies in the mind of the listener or the musician – your mind. And, who you really are is way beyond the music. The music itself is only a tool. Listening to music can involve a number of mental applications already introduced in previous series entries. These applications are: 1) Application 5: Eye Exercise or ‘Surfing’ the Mechanism a) In this application, as the eye and the mind coordinate, the information of the event goes through the mind’s cognition mechanism and it takes a specific moment of time as it does so. Your mortal mind/matrix is refocusing. Constantly moving the eyes before the cognition mechanism is completed, creates a condition of non-choice and no ‘subjective event’ in the mind/matrix. Your mind/matrix is constantly refocusing before it finishes a recognition cycle. When listening to music, you are doing the eye-exercise with your ears. Your mind is constantly refocusing on each note. You are ‘seeing’ with the ears while you are resetting your mind. b) The result of doing this for just a short period of time is your mind/matrix starts over after you are done – resets. Herein is a major effect of listening to music; it is a release or stepping out of the mental processes. Music helps you take your mind off of your woes. This is how music can be cathartic c) Due to the above, listening to music for an extended period of time can initiate trance states, like long distance driving. 2) Meditation Applications 8-10 a) Meditation is a one-point focus on an event. Listening to music is a one point focus on an event. b) Previous applications – Application 10 -- stated that it is hard to keep an empty mind or a blank mind indefinitely. However, it is much easier to do the blankness in short ‘bursts’. Rather than to keep an empty mind and do it for 5 or 10 minutes, it is easier to do ‘bursts’ of blank, blank, empty, empty, empty. i) When first emptying the mind, there is a focus on an initial effort to have an empty mind; and then, a focus on maintaining the emptiness. These repetitive ‘bursts’ can be seen as a repetitive initial effort (as opposed to making the effort to be empty and holding it). ii) In Application 10 the idea was introduced that with chanting and some meditations, you can use the words as the vehicles for this emptiness or blankness. With instrumental music, you can introduce the emptiness or blankness with each note, sets of notes – chords, or beat. c) With the case of music involving a singular instrument, the emptiness can also be initiated between the notes. This can also be done with multiple instruments and following a melody. Your mind introduces ‘bursts’ of emptiness between the notes of the melody. You can use the notes and words. Either way, listening to the music serves as a vector to a one point focus -- meditation. d) Be advised, that repetitive use of the mind’s focus on emptiness is a similar use of the mind as the eye exercise already mentioned (a repetitive cognitive operation). It is also similar to the quick repetitive use of a word as was introduced with meditation entries to the series – Transcendental Meditation. And still…a one-point focus of performing this act/event makes this a meditation. All of the above is combined in one operation – listening to music. 3) Applications 1A and 4, the effect truth has within the mind a) Previous applications in this series have mentioned that truth has an effect on the mind. From Application 1A -- a passive activity --to ‘pumping’ truth through the mind or weaving thought forms like Lexio Divino – an active application, Truth can alter consciousness. Taking the two previous examples of how music can alter consciousness through a constant reset and having a one-point focus for a window of time (a delta t -- t), ‘pumping’ truths – concepts -- through that same altered mind will augment the effect of the previous two conditions. b) This is the power of musical verse. The one-point focus on the words of the music serve the same purpose as the one-point focus on the words of a chant. In addition, it introduces to the mind a sequence of concepts that will alter consciousness depending on how much Truth (and individual associations to the Truth) is in these concepts. This is called weaving thought forms.

In order to see how his toys worked, Steve started taking them apart at an early age. As he got older, he started to take his mind apart. Steve started ‘experimenting in his head’ before the age of 11. Steve has been a merchant seaman and a soldier. While in the military, his mental experiments led him into an intense period of thaumaturgical magic training. College followed, along with a time in the world of systems trouble shooting – analog electronics, air balancing, and energy management. He “dropped out”. For the last 25+ years, he has been in ‘service’ to a number of rural communal environments. Fixing things is his form of ‘”chopping wood and carrying water”. The intent and philosophies of the communal environments he has served have varied from an established – 40+ years – avant-garde community’s exploration of the human potential to a 1100+ years monastic order. The Truth Tuning Toolkit and its parent book, I AM A I, are a result of his internal explorations and his eclectic exposure to a multitude of mystical and/or spiritual concepts. During the last decade, Steve has been in service to a residential massage college in Northern California. It is in this environment he has been teaching the exercise applications found in the Toolkit’s parent book, I AM A I, as an extra curricular class -- Introduction to the Mystic Sciences. Those who completed his course expressed their appreciation for the class. Some people have expressed their appreciation of the class years afterward; after they have done their own personal research. In the summer, Steve can be found attending music festivals, passing the ‘energy’ on.