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Free Download The Gift of Mind A Compendium WILLIAM JOHN COX The Gift of Mind: A Compendium Copyright © 2020 William John Cox All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without permission in writing from William John Cox, who asserts his moral right to be identified as the author of this work. The cover image depicts the geometric progression of the waveform of our universe inversely set upon a logarithmic spiral. Software engineering modeling by Brian Norberto Gonzalez, and cover graphics by Liam Newman. Mindkind Publications Mindkind.info The Gift of Mind: A Compendium A Message of Mind: Hello, We Speak the Truth The Book of Mindkind: A Philosophy for the New Millennium Mind & Its Languages of Reason Mind: Before & After The Way of Righteousness The Choices of Mind: Extinction or Evolution? DEDICATION This a compendium of five little books I have published over the past 42 years, documenting my search for the meaning and method of mind. These writings are a gift from me to you, from my mind to yours, as we each struggle to survive and to understand the purpose of our lives. This is now your book, and you are free to toss it out with the garbage or burn if for fuel. You may, however, encounter images and ideas that resonates with the thoughts flowing through your mind— as we seek, together, to avoid the grave and immediate threats to our existence, with an alternative image of a joyful future for our children, for whom all of this was written, a way to make it happen. wjc Long Beach, California April 17, 2020 A Message of Mind Hello, We Speak the Truth WILLIAM JOHN COX (Thomas Donn) The Gift of Mind: A Compendium: Number One A Message of Mind: Hello, We Speak the Truth Copyright © 2019 William John Cox All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without permission in writing from William John Cox, who asserts his moral right to be identified as the author of this work. Hello: We Speak the Truth was published in 1978 by CLS Publishing Company and copyrighted under the pseudonym of Thomas Donn. ISBN: 9781701376359 Mindkind Publications Mindkind.info DEDICATION For my children—those I fathered and Those I’ve adopted along the way. CONTENTS Preface: Forty-Two Years Ago ............................................................... 1 Prologue ..................................................................................................... 5 When – The Past ...................................................................................... 7 A Promise to My Self ....................................................................... 9 A Healthy Poem .............................................................................. 10 Alone ................................................................................................. 11 Reflections ........................................................................................ 12 Whose Voice? ................................................................................... 14 One Voice Spoken by Two Heard by All .................................... 17 What is Happiness? ......................................................................... 18 Where Have All the Happy People Gone? ................................. 19 Friends and Others ......................................................................... 21 My Teachers ..................................................................................... 22 A Silly Dream ................................................................................... 23 Fear .................................................................................................... 24 Now – The Present ................................................................................ 25 My God ............................................................................................. 27 Birth and Death ............................................................................... 28 The Ocean ........................................................................................ 31 A Reason for Reason ...................................................................... 34 Heaven, Hell, and Reality ............................................................... 36 Reality Revisited ............................................................................... 37 Reality and Fantasy .......................................................................... 40 Fantasy and Imagination ................................................................ 41 Sophistication ................................................................................... 42 Lawyers ............................................................................................. 43 The Truth ......................................................................................... 44 Alone Revisited ................................................................................ 46 Friendship ......................................................................................... 47 Love ................................................................................................... 48 Writing............................................................................................... 49 My Home .......................................................................................... 50 Self Portrait of a Madman’s Eyes Seen in the Stained- Glass Window Above His Desk ................................................... 51 Failure ................................................................................................ 52 Then – The Future ................................................................................ 53 The Beauty of Sleep ....................................................................... 55 Happiness and Destiny ................................................................... 56 Faith ................................................................................................... 59 Voice of the Ages............................................................................ 62 Jesus, Son of Man ........................................................................... 64 Love Revised .................................................................................... 66 A Basic Concept .............................................................................. 67 Nature ............................................................................................... 72 Men and Women ............................................................................. 73 Marriage ............................................................................................ 74 Children ............................................................................................ 76 Mother’s Love: A Common Bond ................................................ 78 War ..................................................................................................... 80 Work .................................................................................................. 83 Charity ............................................................................................... 85 Hate ................................................................................................... 86 Morality and Ethics ......................................................................... 87 The Law of Man and of the Universe ......................................... 88 Twenty Questions............................................................................ 91 Hello .................................................................................................. 93 A Madman’s Last Prayer ................................................................. 95 A Final Dedication .......................................................................... 97 Epilogue ............................................................................................ 98 PREFACE: FORTY-TWO YEARS AGO During 1977, I worked as a prosecuting trial lawyer and lived in a loft overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Manhattan Beach, California. I spent much of the summer contemplating my life and my future. I had kept journals over the years, primarily as poetry. As I read what I had written over the past 20 years, I realized I had not always been entirely honest or faithful in what I had recorded. Those justifications and exaggerations I discarded, and I kept only the most accurate and concise. My skill, then and now, if any, is writing briefly and simply about complex issues. I do this, once I’ve thought about something sufficiently to understand the problems and to imagine solutions, in order to clear brain space for other considerations. As I get older, it becomes increasingly necessary for me to record thoughts, before I forget them. I can read these pages in the future, along with you, as though for the first time, and wonder. A Healthy Poem was one I saved, and I used its phrasing of “when, now and then” as chapter headings in Hello: We Speak the 1 Preface: Forty-Two Years Ago Truth. The saved journal entries were primarily organized in the past of “When;” however, the poems of the present “Now” and the future “Then” resulted from a process of lucid dreaming. To one degree or another, we all carry on a dialogue within our mind, as we carry on conversations with everyone we encounter,
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