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
block pounds meat
Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be present in a hundred and forty five pound block of meat.
brain internet domain
The Internet is the global brain, the cyberspacially connected, telepathic, collective domain that we've all been hungering for.
powerful imagination glory
The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.
way-forward people simplicity
Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.
hands world tools
And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.
ego world feminine
The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
creativity artist doctors
The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.
art names ego
Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed
years people sacred
Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.
drug psychedelic surrender
The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the experience of the plant or the drug. This act of surrender is the major technical function you will be called upon to perform during the psychedelic trip.
running next technique
Cultural conditioning is like bad software. Over and over it's diddled with and re-written so that it can just run on the next attempt. But there is cultural hardware, and it's that cultural hardware, otherwise known as authentic being, that we are propelled toward by the example of the shaman and the techniques of the shaman. ... Shamanism therefore is a call to authenticity.
believe hallucinogens shamanism
I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.
done homework dose
Don't diddle the dose. Once you have done your homework, go for it.
thinking people anxiety
I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.