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
inspirational life believe
I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
thinking preparation marathon
I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.
doe wells deals
Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
real truth-is spread
The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.
issues people answers
Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a matter of seeking the answer, you have found the answer. Now the issue changes dramatically, you must face the answer.
ocean ideas imagination
The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.
discovery mind matter
Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that nature is some kind of minded entity. That nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized , lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind.
mirrors ability mirror-image
Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves,
make-you-smile should deeper
The truth for sure, when it arrives, will make you smile. If it doesn't, you should seek a deeper truth.
moving eye years
What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself for billions and billions of years. There is, so far as we know, nothing more advanced than what is sitting behind your eyes. The human neocortex is the most densely ramified complexified structure in the known universe.
life-is-like life-is cannabis
I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
real imagination library
What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
culture operating-systems programming
Culture is your operating system.
monkeys coral-reefs kind
We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components.