A Human Strategy: Toward a Genuine Spirituality

by Berry, Matt

• ISBN13: 9781581128376
• ISBN10: 1581128371
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Universal Publishers

Table of Contents

My Slice of Eternity	p. 7
The Descent of a Realist	p. 10
Introduction	p. 10
Atheism	p. 11
The Institution	p. 13
Civilized Behavior and the Last Banana	p. 16
The Unselfish and their Charity	p. 17
The Impossible Individual	p. 19
The Public Animal	p. 20
The Error-Making Organ	p. 23
The Irreducible Surface	p. 31
The Written Attempt	p. 35
The Turning Point	p. 39
The Nature of this Book and Some of its Problems	p. 39
The Impossible Realist	p. 42
Personal Science	p. 49
Resentment	p. 54
Potential	p. 57
A Magnetic North	p. 59
Blind Fate	p. 62
Brave or Fearless	p. 63
From Serf to Middle Class, the Berry Picker	p. 68
Self-Appropriation	p. 71
Amorality	p. 78
Repetition: The Redemption of the Ideal	p. 87
The Human Process	p. 93
The Door of Ennui	p. 96
Energy and Mechanical Force	p. 98
Freedom and Force	p. 99
The Stimulus and the Self	p. 102
Desire Versus Necessity	p. 105
Habits and Construction	p. 108
Preferring Stimuli	p. 116
Becoming	p. 119
Art and Beauty	p. 122
Toward Victory	p. 127
The Human Spirit	p. 129
Conscience and Decision	p. 130
Magic and Sensation	p. 132
Prophecy	p. 135
Spontaneity	p. 136
The Spirituality of Repetition	p. 138
Compensation	p. 138
Providence	p. 141
From the Diary of the Megalomaniac	p. 142
Dignity and Nobility	p. 149
Authenticity	p. 152
The Struggle from Solitude	p. 153
The Real God	p. 156
Mortality	p. 156
Who God is Not	p. 162
The Name of God	p. 164
Honor God by Opposing Him	p. 172
Conclusion: The Monument to Everlasting Joy	p. 176
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