Jonathan Ott – If Energy is Eternal Delight, What about Matter?

Jonathan Ott – If Energy is Eternal Delight, What about Matter?

In answer to the question, as to the real effects of psychoptic drugs… we shall examine the attoscopic nature, of macroscopic reality; by way of determining where lies the ‘hallucination’: in quotidian materialism; or in the architecture of the universe, as it unveils itself to us? In other words: a logical and step–wise, chemico–physical, geometric proof, concerning that peculiar reality, within the spectres perceived by our “perishing mortal eye”! As it might be… Through the looking–glass, and What We Find There. [Technical training not prerequisite. Comprehension of simple arithmetic, and a bit of solid–geometry, withal, is.]

Jonathan Ott is an ethnobotanist, writer, translator, publisher, natural products chemist and botanical researcher in the area of entheogens and their cultural and historical uses, and one of a group of researchers who coined the term “entheogen”.

Ott has written eight books, co-written five, and contributed to four others, and published many articles in the field of entheogens. He has collaborated with other researchers like Christian Rätsch, Jochen Gartz, and the late ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson. He translated Albert Hofmann’s 1979 book LSD: My Problem Child (LSD: Mein Sorgenkind), and On Aztec Botanical Names by Blas Pablo Reko, into English. His articles have appeared in many publications, including The Entheogen Review, The Entheogen Law Reporter, the Journal of Cognitive Liberties, the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs (AKA the Journal of Psychedelic Drugs), the MAPS Bulletin, Head, High Times, Curare, Eleusis, Integration, Lloydia, The Sacred Mushroom Seeker, and several Harvard Botanical Museum pamphlets. He is a co-editor of Eleusis: Journal of Psychoactive Plants & Compounds, along with Giorgio Samorini.

Ott has experience of field collecting in Mexico, where he lives and manages a small natural-products laboratory and botanical garden of medicinal herbs. A number of his ethno-botanical products have been studied to determine their possible benefits to individuals suffering various mental aberrations. In his book Ayahuasca Analogues, he identifies numerous plants around the globe containing the harmala alkaloids of Banisteriopsis caapi, which are MAOIs, and plants containing dimethyltryptamine, which together are the chemical base of the South American Ayahuasca brew.

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