Jonathan Ott is a highly regarded ethnobotanist, writer, natural products Chemist, Botanical researcher, and pundit in the area of entheogens and their cultural and historical uses. Of particular note is his book Ayahuasca Analogues, in which he researched and identified 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. He collaborated with important workers like Christian Rätsch and Jochen Gartz, and appeared as a speaker at the Starwood Festival in 1996[1]. He has co-authored several key books and papers with the late ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson. He has many years experience field collecting in Mexico, where he lives and manages a small natural products laboratory and botanical garden of medicinal herbs. – Wikipedia




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Books by Jonathan Ott

Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History – by Jonathan Ott and Albert Hofmann (Hardcover – Jan 1996)

Pharmacophilia: or The Natural Paradises – by Jonathan Ott (Paperback – 1997)

Ayahuasca Analogs – by Jonathan Ott (Hardcover – Jun 1994)

The Age of Entheogens & the Angel’s Dictionary – by Jonathan Ott (Paperback – Jan 1995)

Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History – by Albert Hofmann and Jonathan Ott (Paperback – Feb 1993)

Pharmacophilia, or, The Natural Paradises – by Donna Torres, Timothy S. Girvin, and Jonathan Ott (Hardcover – Jan 1997)

Hallucinogenic Plants of North America (Psycho-mycological studies) – by Jonathan Ott (Paperback – Jan 1977)

Hallucinogenic Plants of North America – by Jonathan Ott (Paperback – Jan 1982)

Persephone’s Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion – by R. Gordon Wasson, Stella Kramrisch, Carl Ruck, and Jonathan Ott (Paperback – Jul 29, 1992)

Pharmacotheon: Ethnogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History, Second Edition Densified – by Jonathan Ott (Paperback – 1993)