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
reflection self recognition
History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
thinking order kind
Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.
revival figures
The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman.
creating ego psychedelic
Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.
people psychedelic sexuality
In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.
may dirt common
When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.
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..
crazy book important
We [psychonauts] are all going to go into the books as pioneers, because it's too early for us to be anything else. There's no map, no finished database, just anecdotes of the crazy, crazy stuff that goes on. That's why it's so important to try and share [our stories].
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.
miracle mind
Mind conjures miracles out of time.
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?