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Jonathan Ott's house burned down!!!!

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JONATHAN OTT’S HOME & BELONGINGS DESTROYED IN A FIRE!

Xalapa, Mexico mid-March 2010

A tragic fire by arson has burned our dear friend Jonathan Ott’s

lovely home to the ground. He was lecturing in Spain at the time and

he is personally safe, but homeless and shaken. This is a tremendous

loss, and Jonathan could use your help right now. He must relocate.

How often have we heard Jonathan referred to as the leading authority

on entheogens (a word he jointly coined)? His writings are considered

the gold standard of accuracy. And those of us who know him personally

have experienced his endless generosity, wit, and talent. He is one of

the legends in our midst to whom we owe so much. Now is our chance to

pay him back in his hour of need. Here is what we can do...

Jonathan is currently homeless but staying with neighbor friends. Each

of our efforts, however small, when combined will make a huge

difference for our esteemed friend and colleague Jonathan. He needs

financial help for shipping expenses and various relocation costs

right now.

Please make a donation right now:

http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/news/jonathan_ott_fund.htm

Please forward this request to your contacts and post on sympathetic

web sites. Longer text at above link.

Jon Hanna:

Jonathan had been providing a place to crash in his newly created lab/guest

house for two guests, who ended up getting into a couple of physical

altercations with Jonathan's neighbor. Clearly, Jonathan found this to be

unacceptable, and his guests' anger was then turned onto him. While he was

gone from the country, they burned his place down. Nearly all of his books

are now covered soot and have to be cleaned before packing up, but

thankfully only about 40-50 of them were charred and none were consumed. So

he's got a bunch of sad, dirty, tedious work ahead of him, packing

everything up into fruit crates, trucking it to Veracruz, shipping it by

container to Cartagena de Indias, then overland to Manizales, in the

Cordillera Central. Colombia as a spot to relocate likely has more to do

with the fact that he has a gig and a friend he can stay with there; but it

is also true that he was increasingly disenchanted with the area in Xalapa

where he lived.

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Arson? Who would want to burnt Mr. Ott's house down?

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"In his own words:

"[My] home was completely burned, destroying everything that was most important: laboratory, hydroelectric system, custom-built and -designed electric motorcycle and, for the crowning touch, [the arsonist] tried to burn [my] library, one of the best private collections on ethnomedicine that exist. Signed, personal copies of some of Albert Hofmann’s books were even used as fuel to ignite expensive laboratory equipment! While the humidity of the cloud-forest saved the books, the house was rendered uninhabitable and without power; the laboratory unusable.

“It is the attempted book-burning which most outrages me and, I think, will outrage others."

Yep.

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shit man. thats seriously fucked up

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"Signed, personal copies of some of Albert Hofmann’s books were even used as fuel to ignite expensive laboratory equipment!"

WTF.... Who in there right mind... Thats extremely lame... not cool at all...

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Well, whoever they are ...

J Ott knows them well enough to have them as guests

but at the same time... they're clearly fucked up people

that *shouldn't ever be guests* yet alone tolerated in any way.

Yet, for some reason... their names are being shielded.

Personally, If someone burned down my house

ESPECIALLY, after I showed such a kindness as allowing them to sleep there

I would hunt them both down

Drag them back by their scalps through ant mounds while smeared with honey

Only to have them tied to stakes and fed to wild dogs. While streaming it live over the internet

and charging for tickets to recoup my losses.

Before I would start even thinking of calling things even.

Edited by Flip

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Flip, I can think of a bunch of reasons for not naming names.

Think about it, he's in MEXICO.

We don't know who his guests were... maybe not tye dye wearing

anglo hippies or normally harmless people.

I would imagine someone who would do a thing like this felt like

they could get away with it...and Jonathan is an expatriate, even if

he speaks the language and fits in down there...

I hope Jonathan's staying safe...and will pass this along, and send

a donation. Ott's books changed my life forever, and many other people's

too...opened a lot of doors.

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