![]() ![]() But the story it has to tell is far stranger than any fiction, because this is the story of ourselves. Parmenides, the ancient Greek poet who is known as the father of logical thought, has been a decisive influence in shaping the whole course of Western. The documents, the discoveries, the people that it describes are all as real as we are. In the Dark Places of Wisdom is no work of fiction. ![]() Our dramatic failure to acknowledge or come to grips with that reality is what has been responsible for so much of the emptiness - of the sense of something missing - in our modern lives. These are just two ingredients of this extraordinary book, which uncovers an astonishing reality that lies unsuspected right at the origins of the western world. And yet they did this with a purpose we’ve completely forgotten … Strange evidence about a tradition of people who were mystics but who were so intensely practical that, two and a half thousand years ago, they shaped our existence and the world we live in. A set of ancient inscriptions on marble found forty years ago in southern Italy, recording details so bewildering that scholars have kept silent about them … ![]()
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