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
silly people mind-blowing
Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
dmt our-world mind-blowing
Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
mean position-of-power citizens
So you know what we have to do is stop looking for leadership from the top, because the least among us make their way into those positions of power... So what we have to do is knock off this fantasy of being citizens inside a democratic state, I mean, what we are, are the propagandized masses inside a fascist dictatorship.
thinking understanding enterprise
To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.
ego psychedelic absence
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
real mind-blowing magic
The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.
process objects
You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort.
self two mystery
The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.
media our-society needs
Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.
weed pursuit-of-happiness marijuana
If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.
imagination condensation
We live in condensations of our imagination
intellectual taste ninety
Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.
hysteria trends standing-out
Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity.
way development language
It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.