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
order planets privileged
There is a morphological enfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a privileged part of this.
men soul body
The content of the dialogue with 'the Other' is a content that indicates that man's horizons are infinitely bright, that death is in fact, well, as Thomas Vaughn put it, 'the body is the placenta of the soul'
pheromones levels hallucinogens
I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally.
reality years world
For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.
democratic-ideals people use
In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use of psychedelics] as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation.
games miracle matter
Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.
inspired pomposity
These religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses.
believe issues tacky
I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.
twenties lsd minutes
Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.
years style heirs
We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.
fall people matter
It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.
manipulation prey
The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.
maturity people culture
Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.
communication ideas effort
My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart [just] one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances.