Genesis of the mystical ecstasy in the prologue of the Parmenides’ poem

The preserved fragments of the Parmenides’ work is one of the oldest testimonies of the mystical experience in philosophy. Mystique meets here with metaphysics. The poem’s prologue is a transcript of the mystic passage of a young man to the goddess who symbolizes the truth of being. By knowing the goddess and her message, young man learns the nature of being. The ecstatic experience opens him on the metaphysical dimension of reality. The sources of the Parmenides’ mysticism are following: the pythagorean philosophy, orphism, shamanism and the cult of Apollo at Delphi.