I Have America Surrounded Quotes

“Whatever you believe imprisons you. Convictions create convicts.”
― J.M.R. Higgs, I Have America Surrounded: A Biography of Timothy Leary

“To fathom hell or soar angelic/Just take a pinch of psychedelic.”
― J.M.R. Higgs, I Have America Surrounded: A Biography of Timothy Leary

“Being included in a ceremony wasn’t easy, for it was only permitted to enquire about the mushrooms ‘when evening and darkness come and you are alone with a wise old man or woman whose confidence you have won, by the light of a candle held in the hand and talking in a whisper’. The mushrooms themselves had to be picked”
― J.M.R. Higgs, I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary

“Megalomania is a common reaction to extensive LSD use, for once you are aware that your reality was created by yourself for your own benefit, it is hard to avoid getting a God complex.”
― John Higgs, I Have America Surrounded: A Biography of Timothy Leary