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
alive earth matter
What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.
perfect becoming microcosm
We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.
tiny world fractions
The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world...
thinking circles landscape
I think that what these psychedelics do, is they actually do connect you to the whole circle. You stand outside of the moment from which you embarked on your psychedelic experience, and you see eternity like a vast landscape deployed in front of you. So what I think psychedelics are is they're about time, and they somehow make all time co-present.
communication believe swimming
I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of communication that is both psychedelic and telepathic; a model for the human communications of the future. In the not-too-distant future men and women may shed the monkey body to become virtual octopi swimming in a silicon sea.
fall world empires
We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.
sex drug secret
The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church.
flames mind-blowing looks
We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
ocean easy
It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
believe opposites mind-blowing
My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.
smart understanding what-if
Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
dmt mind-blowing cost
The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
mind birth internet
Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.
imagination world body
The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.