Jonathan Ott's house torched - Jonathan Ott Fund - Please Donate

I am copying here an important message regarding my friend and colleague Jonathan Ott, available at: http://www.dosenation.com/listing.php?id=7319 "Jonathan's house was torched by parties unknown. From CognitiveLiberty.org. 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.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[s]. 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.For that reason, I am dedicating my full attention first to saving the books—I now have 53 boxes banded and stashed, and there will be perhaps 100 to 125 in total. This is hard and dirty work, but I can see light at the end of the tunnel.So I am fucked in a major way and the rest of this year will be devoted to moving to Colombia and starting over there. I go to Colombia to lecture in May and hope to have library and lab packed up by then. I have to start over again for the 4th time, but will land on my feet and in 2 years time be better off than before.Help me out!"The site Cognitive Liberty is collecting up donatinons at http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/news/jonathan_ott_fund.htm.

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