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
smart lying people
Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.
sea drawing people
The "just say no" campaign at this point is a lot like drawing sea-monsters over certain unexplored areas of the map and expecting people to stay away. It may work for some, but explorers live for this kind of thing.
moving apocalypse millennium
The apocalypse is the millennium, and the psychedelics move you into the future.
lying intelligent waiting
Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent Other, that beckons us out of history, and says, you know: 'The galaxy lies waiting.'
animal glory humans
For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.
impossible-becomes-possible impossible
It's the impossible become possible and yet remaining impossible.
play needs exploration
Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.
lying believe historical
This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.
loyalty children years
What is the psychedelic experience? What promise does it hold for a sane future for our planet and our children? And what is it about it that kindles the kind of loyalty that I feel coming from the people in this room this evening? And I submit to you that it is nothing less than the rebirth of a voice that has been silent for at least a thousand years, the still small voice of the Logos of the planet.
reality culture language
Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
space mind three
The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.
unique impact mind
The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.
imagination monkeys information
We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time.
technology imagination safety
The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.