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IMO I think this is why he started having bad trips at the end of his career. Because he started out seeking some kind of academic recognition through his writing and philosophy, albeit using his counter-cultural method, but he ended up as an older man speaking in front of drugged out teenagers at these underground raves. These kids had no concern for philosophy, they were the consumerist hedonists that Terence frequently spoke out against, fully raised and bred to be good consumers. Terence was seeing the futility of trying to educate and organize these people, and I think he got super black-pilled just before falling ill.

That said I do think that he did fall for some of the 1960's libertine memes, but that is to be expected within the cultural milieu of the time. I guess the OP might be right in some regard... I think that the big issue that the psychedelic community ran into was it's total dissolution of boundaries, and this idea that through anarchic free love the Gaian mind would just magically appear. This is actually not how it works, and you have to study the classics to really understand how the Gods manifested themselves into Political and Spiritual movements. On almost every occassion, the introduction of a new spiritual and political program is heralded by some kind of military dictator. Obviously if Terence would have gone around preaching this in the 60's he would have been reviled by the hippies, and probably thrown in jail by the feds. But if you apply Terence's psychedelic theory of evolution to the classical religions, you can see how people like Caesar and Alexander the Great were probably engaged in some kind of occult rites. They took the final step though of organizing their communities into a physical military force that established the order of the universe under their watchful gaze.

TL;DR We need a God-Emperor Military Dictator to enforce a Psychedelic Cosmology in society.