Jonathan Ott
Jonathan Ott is a prolific and highly regarded writer, translator, publisher, reviewer, and pundit on virtually every aspect of entheogen botany, chemistry, pharmacology, bioassay, culture, and history. The term entheogen itself is most closely attributed to him; he was one of the people who helped coin it, and its propogation as a meme is due in large part to its use in his books.
In addition to his abundance with the written word, Ott has produced and co-produced numerous conferences and seminars on entheogens over the past 25+ years. Ott was the translator of Albert Hofmann's 1979 LSD: Mein Sorgenkind (first published in 1980 as LSD: My Problem Child by the McGraw-Hill Book Company), and produced an English translation of On Aztec Botanical Names by Blas Pablo Reko. He did the technical notes for the English translation of Baron Ernst von Bibra's 1855 German book Die Narkotischen Genussmittel und der Mensch (published in 1995 as Plant Intoxicants: A Classic Text on the Use of Mind-Altering Plants by Healing Arts Press). Several of his own books have been translated into German and Castilian (Ott prefers "Castilian" as a more precise word than "Spanish"). Articles and excerpts of his books have been translated into numerous other languages. His writing has appeared in Harvard Botanical Museum Leaflets, Curare, Eleusis, The Entheogen Law Reporter, The Entheogen Review, Head, High Times, Integration, Lloydia, the Journal of Cognitive Liberties, the Journal of Psychedelic Drugs, the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, the MAPS Bulletin, The Sacred Mushroom Seaker (Ed. T.J. Riedlinger), and other publications. He is co-editor—with Giorgio Samorini—of the bilingual publication Eleusis: Journal of Psychoactive Plants & Compounds.
Jonathan Ott is arguably one of the most devoted heads—or "pharmacophiles" in the Ott family of words—in the world. The Proemium from his volume Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic drugs, their plant sources and history (ISBN 0961423498) presents one of the most comprehensive and readable treatises on drug policy reform to date.
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Books
- Pharmacophilia: The Natural Paradise. Natural Products Co. (1997). ISBN 1888755016
- Age of Entheogens & the Angels' Dictionary. Natural Products Co. (1995). ISBN 0961423471
- Ayahuasca Analogues: Pangaean Entheogens. Natural Products Co. (1995). ISBN 0961423455
- Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic drugs, their plant sources and history. Natural Products Co. (1993) ISBN 0961423498
- Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion. Natural Products Co. (1986). ISBN 0300052669
- The Cacahuatl Eater: Ruminations of an Unabashed Chocolate Addict. Natural Products Co. (1985). ISBN 0961423404
- Teonanacatl: Hallucinogenic Mushrooms of North America. Natural Products Co. (1978). ISBN 0914842293
- Hallucinogenic Plants of North America Natural Products Co. (1976). ISBN 0914728164
- Ometochtzin: Las Muertes de Dos Conejo (2001)
- Just Say Blow. Coca and Cocaine: A Scientific Blowjob (2001)
- Shamanic Snuffs or Entheogenic Errhines (2001)
Articles
- The Delphic Bee: Bees and toxic honeys as pointers to psychoactive and other medicinal plants
- Pharmahuasca: On Phenethylamines and Potentiation
- Proemium
- DMT Snuffs - Cohoba, Yopo and Vilca
- Idiosyncrasy and Pharmacophilia
- Phytomphalos
- Pharmanopo-Psychonautics: Human Intranasal, Sublingual, Intrarectal, Pulmonary and Oral Pharmacology of Bufotenine (2001)
Interviews
- Interview with Jonathan Ott, by Jörg Auf dem Hövel and Achim Zubke (2000)
- Jonathan Ott Speaks (part 1): Interview by Jon Hanna and Will Beifuss (Entheogen Review, 1998)
- Jonathan Ott Speaks (part 2): Interview by Jon Hanna and Will Beifuss (Entheogen Review, 1998)
Links
- Jonathan Ott Page on Librería Muscaria (Español/Spanish)