Jonathan has degrees from Princeton and London School of Economics, but for the last twenty years has charted a course through audio and sound reproduction which has truly never been traveled. Founding two companies (Oswalds Mill Audio/OMA and Fleetwood Sound) which many regard as producing the finest sounding audio systems in the world today, Jonathan has led an international team of world class engineers, designers and experts in the creation not simply of the best equipment but in understanding and reimagining how sound can be used across a range of applications, including psychedelic research, exploration and therapy.
Jonathan joined the FDA Phase Two Clinical Trials conducted by New York University for Alcohol Use Disorder in 2018/2019 and was successfully and completely cured of alcoholism with high dose psilocybin. This experience set him off on a path to understand how the music and sonic parts of psychedelic treatment work with the mind and body. Intensive research and study over the ensuing 6.5 years have given Jonathan hands on experience with practices using psychedelic substances and sound, indigenous musical traditions and healing modalities all over the world. In particular, Weiss has focused on how sound is actually received and processed during the psychedelic experience. His belief is that sound is the critical, key ingredient in this process and that by improving the quality and delivery of sound to subjects in the psychedelic process that outcomes can be dramatically improved over current, standard practices.