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
differences people drug
The only difference between a drug and a computer is that one is slightly too large to swallow. ... And our best people are working on that problem, even as we speak.
life thinking toxic
I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
book drug way
I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.
want psychedelic centerpieces
I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that we want to be part of.
inspirational life believe
I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
thinking preparation marathon
I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.
doe wells deals
Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
real truth-is spread
The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.
issues people answers
Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a matter of seeking the answer, you have found the answer. Now the issue changes dramatically, you must face the answer.
ocean ideas imagination
The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.
discovery mind matter
Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that nature is some kind of minded entity. That nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized , lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind.
mirrors ability mirror-image
Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves,
make-you-smile should deeper
The truth for sure, when it arrives, will make you smile. If it doesn't, you should seek a deeper truth.
moving eye years
What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself for billions and billions of years. There is, so far as we know, nothing more advanced than what is sitting behind your eyes. The human neocortex is the most densely ramified complexified structure in the known universe.