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
self levels ascent
This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.
believe psychics dimensions
I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.
civilization communicate seems
It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically.
done return psychedelic
What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.
mean mind together
The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This means that mind and matter at the quantum mechanical level are all spun together.
believe thinking gnosis
I think there's a shamanic temperament, which is a person who craves knowledge, knowledge in the Greek sense of gnosis. In other words, knowledge not of the sort where you subscribe to Scientific American, and it validates what you believe, but cosmologies constructed out of immediate experiences that are found to be always applicable.
reality mind primaries
The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.
ideas psychedelic standing-out
Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience.
school ideas ascending
Certainly neo-Platonism, Plotinus and Porphyry and that school are psychedelic philosophers. Their idea of an ascending hierarchy of more and more rarefied states is a sophisticated presentation of the shamanic cosmology, which is the cosmology that one experientially discovers when they involve themselves with psychedelics.
people able dimensions
The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the potential for transcendence in all people. He is an exemplar, if you will.
children culture world
We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
imagination enzymes activity
You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.
psychedelic psychedelic-experience involved
Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.
ideas scorn my-own
I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.