Terence
Terence
Publius Terentius Afer, better known in English as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic, of North African descent. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. Terence apparently died young, probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome. All of the six plays Terence wrote have survived...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionWriter
mind-blowing ego culture
Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
plot culture expansion
Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
darkness bigger bonfire
The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.
mind-blowing secret blowing-it
You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.
mind-blowing answers faces
The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
losing-control views important
Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today don't understand that it's not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place.
imagination condensation
We live in condensations of our imagination
mushrooms levels able
It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough.
enzymes language individual
What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are for us as a species is an enzyme that catalyzes the language-making capacity.
tools inspection immense
The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.
imagination world body
The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.
future gun civilization
Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.
mind-blowing apes facts
Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.
museums perception world
We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.