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This book intends to establish, against his numerous modern
critics, that the ancient philosopher Parmenides was a mystic.
Instead of arriving at his conclusions by cold reason, Parmenides
found the unity of Being, which he called "the Truth," by turning
to a life of meditation. His use of reason throughout his poem was
not intended to discover the Truth, but to undermine those who
would disallow the Truth which had been revealed to him: the Truth
as living and intelligent that is, some One, not something. In
making the case that Parmenides was basically a religious seer,
this book makes clear that the rationalist opponents of this
interpretation have inevitably misread and emended the text to suit
their views. Far from rejecting a mythic presentation of ultimate
Reality, Parmenides' narrative upholds the doctrine that all Truth
is one, as the mystics proclaim. This book also attempts to explain
how, if Reality is ultimately one, multiplicity and flux can be
part of the human experience.
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