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
attitude believe opposites
This is a very central part of the psychedelic attitude toward the world, to entertain all possibilities but to never commit to belief. Belief always being seen as a kind of trap, because if you belief something you are forever precluded from believing its opposite..
ideas psychedelic bursting
I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen.
psychedelic states description
What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.
moving ideas community
It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.
self process reflecting
The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.
years style heirs
We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.
psychedelic moments reason
The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is?
mind dirt needs
What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.
attitude psychedelic should
What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is the attitude with which you should go into these things.
years together fifty
Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together.
psychedelic psychedelic-experience involved
Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.
drug helping shamanism
The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.
mind bigger domain
The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.
views years names
We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is now seen as it was seen a hundred years ago. Nothing is left of the world view of one hundred years ago.