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The transformative power of spiritual experiences is well known-drug addicts have recovered after them, and hardened criminals have reformed. But is there a scientific explanation for this phenomenon, which Indians call "yoga"? Although Eastern traditions have long pondered this mystery, Western science has tended to dismiss spiritual experiences as whimsy on the part of believers. In The True Path, Roy J. Mathew draws on his own extensive knowledge of neuroscience to prove the age-old Indian idea that spirituality is a state of mind, a higher form of consciousness. He shows how the latest brain research supports the idea that quieting the neurons that control everyday activities allows for a more spiritual contemplation of life. As this part of the brain slows down, other parts become more freely expressed, promoting relaxation and pleasure in one's surroundings. With scientific evidence that this "pure consciousness" truly exists, Mathew shows readers how to use meditation, yoga, and other traditional Indian methods of contemplation to achieve this spiritual state of mind.
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Roy J. Mathew, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Professor of Radiology at Duke University, was born in southern India. He is an internationally recognized researcher in neuroscience and Clinical Director of the Duke Addictions Program and the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center in Butner, North Carolina. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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In a "modest attempt to bridge the chasm between science and philosophy," Roy J. Mathew, a Syrian Christian from southern India and a professor of psychiatry and associate professor of radiology at Duke University, presents The True Path: Western Science and the Quest for Yoga. Mathew, the clinical director of the Duke Addictions Program, recounts stories involving death or drug addiction and recovery, and transformative spiritual experience, known in India as yoga. He draws on his extensive neuroscience research to explore such matters as "[w]hether a meditative trance is neurally mediated." This balanced, readable take on the neuroscientific underpinnings of spirituality will appeal to scientists, philosophers, religious folk, addicts and addiction workers of every stripe. Illus.
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