A Human Strategy

A Human Strategy
Toward a genuine spirituality

second edition








Our minds are circumscribed by our immediate reality, but we stop short at the thought of it.





by Matt Berry





An attempt to find a positive orientation toward life which does not deny reality.





        copyright © Matt Berry










Table of Contents
 A Human Strategy    1
My Slice of Eternity    5
The Descent of a Realist    9
If God were Permitted to Be Real    10
The Institution    20
Civilized Behavior and the Last Banana    23
The Unselfish and their Charity    25
The Impossible Individual    26
The Public Animal    28
The Error-Making Organ    31
The Irreducible Surface    40
The Written Attempt    45
The Turning Point    49
The Nature of this Book and Some Problems    49
The Impossible Realist    53
Personal Science    62
Resentment    67
Potential    71
A Magnetic North    73
Blind Fate    77
Brave or Fearless    79
From Serf to Middle Class, the Berry Picker    83
Self-Appropriation    87
Amorality    95
Repetition: The Redemption of the Ideal    104
The Human Process    111
The Door of Ennui    114
Energy and Mechanical Force    115
Freedom and Force    117
The Stimulus and the Self    121
Desire Versus Necessity    124
Habits and Construction    128
Preferring Stimuli    138
Becoming    141
Art and Beauty    145
Toward Victory    146
The Human Spirit    148
Conscience and Decision    149
Magic and Sensation    151
Prophecy    155
Spontaneity    156
The Spirituality of Repetition    158
Compensation    160
Providence    163
From the Diary of the Megalomaniac    164
Dignity and Nobility    172
Authenticity    173
The Struggle from Solitude    175
Mortality    177
The Monument to Everlasting Joy    183
A Few Happy Thoughts    183
The Use of Suffering    188
Misfire    192
The Problem with Happiness is that it is not a Concept    194




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