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
believe issues tacky
I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.
twenties lsd minutes
Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.
years style heirs
We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.
fall people matter
It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.
manipulation prey
The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.
maturity people culture
Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.
communication ideas effort
My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart [just] one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances.
culture dimensions
Culture is another dimension.
responsible humans human-beings
Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.
knows
For all we know, we know nothing.
jobs thinking class
I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a shamanic professional class if you will, whose job is to bring ideas out of the deep black water and show them off to the rest of us and perform for our culture some of the cultural functions that shaman perform in pre-literate cultures.
gentleman tables eras
What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
intelligent causes language
It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.
History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.