# The True Path

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- Book: [The True Path](https://www.bookquiver.com/roy-mathew/the-true-path) ([The True Path.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/roy-mathew/the-true-path.md))
- Authors: [Roy Mathew](https://www.bookquiver.com/roy-mathew)
- Publisher: basic_books
- ISBN: 978-07-3820-681-3
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2002-04-18
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In The True Path, Duke psychiatrist Roy J. Mathew draws on his own extensive knowledge of neuroscience as he looks at the centuries-old Indian idea that spirituality is a state of mind-a higher form of consciousness. Mathew shows how the latest brain research demonstrates that activities such as prayer, music, art, nature, intuitive knowledge, altruism, and meditation stimulate the non-dominant hemisphere of the brain. Spirituality is intimately connected to this area of the brain and must be accessed-according to Indian philosophy-by removing the " sheaths" of everyday life. With scientific evidence that this " pure consciousness" truly exists, Mathew shows readers how to use meditation, yoga, and other traditional methods of contemplation to achieve this spiritual state of mind.