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
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