The Secret Path is one of Paul Brunton's earlier books. Having travelled across India and met men whom most would cast as unworldly hermits and sages, the author has since had a compelling urge to encapsulate his thoughts and observations for a wider audience. He seeks to unravel that age-old question:

What is the essence of man?

It not ironical that the soul of man should seem less open to Investigation than the earth on which he abides?"

How many in today's frenetic world ever pause for long to think of this Observation? Should man be looking away from the external plane of Everyday living with all of its underlying malaise, and look inward for Answers? Does the author define God? Can such a supreme power and The essence of man be one and the same? What have we long Overlooked from those ancient civilisations, the Egyptians, Mayans, Native Indians and many others, as well as the wise and seemingly Forgotten snippets of wisdom from the East?

What do his experiences in the East offer us?

Can a simple hermit, living a simple austere life on a remote Hillside, hold wiser council than intelligent modern intellectual Scientists, philosophers and scholars?

For Paul Brunton the answer to life's and paradoxes lies in exploring not The physical world, but the deepest recesses of the mind, the soul or What he terms the over self -the infinitesimal point of that which he believes is the true I -what we are.

This book, the secret path, succinctly illustrates his forceful Messages and explains, through his reasoned observations and Experiences, ways to find this eternal truth.