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
thinking worry waste
Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin' out loud. It's a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
technology understanding intellectual
There is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the psychedelic experience. There is no contradiction between ultra-advanced hyperspacial cyber culture and Paleolithic archaic culture. We have come to the end of our sojourn in matter. We have come to the end of our separateness.
drug computer
The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
information meat made
Our medium is meat, but we are made of information.
responsibility thinking culture
Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.
kind building excellent
Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.
messages closure coming-back
The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.
song ayahuasca information-processing
Ayahuasca is driven by sound, by song, by whistling. And its ability to transform sound, including vocal sound, into the visual spectrum indicates that some kind of information processing membrane or boundary is being overcome by the pharmacology of this stuff. And things normally experienced as acoustically experienced becomes visibly beheld, and it's quite spectacular.
feel-better next-day done
It's the only hallucinogen I know, where if it's made right, the next day, or the day after the experience, you actually feel better than if you hadn't done it.
skins important diving
It's as important to be well informed in this area, if you're going to do it, as it is to be well informed about procedures in skin diving and that sort of thing if you're going to do that.
mental-illness absence shamanism
One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.
steps bondage every-step
Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.
buddhist opposites rushing
History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.
imagination dimensions information
The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information