Biography

Christopher Jonathan Ott was born in Woodstock, NY July 23, 1959 to artists Lynfield and Phyllis Ott. In 1964/65 his parents met Meher Baba in India, were very impressed, and subsequently, in 1966, moved their family to the Meher Spiritual Center in Myrtle Beach, SC. 

Chris grew up there until he was 20, when he moved to California to work in the film industry. Ott worked as a camera assistant in an animation studio, Korty Films, Inc., in Marin County, from 1980-1982, and then studied film formally at the University of Southern California. There he received a Bachelor of Arts in cinema/television production. In 1987 Ott established Caravan Films, Inc. in Wilmington, NC and wrote and directed films.

In 1997, Ott moved to Fayetteville, AR, where he studied philosophy at the University of Arkansas, receiving his MA in 2001. During this period he developed his theory of perception, consulting with members of the University faculty, including the famous quantum chemist Lothar Schäfer. In 2004 he wrote and self-published The Evolution of Perception and The Cosmology Of Substance: A Simpler Theory of Everything. In 2020 Ott began a YouTube channel called "The Daily Philosopher" to promote his idea, and in February 2021, he self-published Evolution of Perception Re-Explained: A Radical New View of Reality. 

Chris Ott lives and writes in Myrtle Beach, SC, just across the street from the Meher Center where he grew up.