Wholesight is an understanding of the Whole, not the parts, and "the language of Wholesight is the language of myth, of poetry, of art, of music." Parker-Rhodes leads us on a paradoxical romp through a series of classical myths in an attempt "to show by myths and stories how we may gain a little fluency in the forgotten tongue" of Wholesight.

And as each myth is presented and interpreted, Parker-Rhodes drops jewels of suggestion to pique the imagination: The Phoenix ("if you look too analytically you are likely to miss the point"); The Stair of Bethel ("what is its substance and what its form?"); The Sky and the Tree ("what is time but a streamer in the hand of the Divine Dancer, tracing the figures of creation for us creatures to wonder at?")

The Feast, Theseus, Prometheus, and The Holy Grail add richness to the mythological landscape in Frederick's quest to explain Wholesight. "The Holy Spirit is a fluent form which plays with our souls as the wind plays with the sea. We can hinder her play with ice floes of pride and breakwaters of self-regard, we can refuse to sway with the wind, we can stand stiff and dumb amid the dancing of heaven - or we can trust ourselves to be blown away, safe in God's love, to the garden of delight."

Learn the language of Wholesight, learn how to speak, and then learn how to listen: "Listen, then, to the silence. Listen to what they say who say nothing. Open yourself to the silence within, to the Inward Light that shines in every soul. Learn in silent waiting the gift of humility, the gift of love, the gift of tongues, the gift of expressing the silence in words so that they who understand can exchange their words for the silence from which you speak."

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