The Search for Happiness

This book is, by turns, a seeker's memoir, an introduction to the brain and a manual of contemplative instruction. I have not set out to cribe all the traditional approaches to spirituality and to weigh their strengths and weaknesses. Rather, my goal is to pluck the diamond from the dunghill of esoteric religion. There is a diamond there, and i have devoted a fair amount of my life to contemplating it. But getting it in hand requires that we remain true to the deepest principles of scientific scepticism. Where i do discuss specific teachings, such as those of buddhism or at veta vidanta, it isn't my purpose to provide anything like a comprehensive account