Francis Gooding · From Its Myriad Tips: Mushroom Brain · LRB 20 May 2021
And that is why, for millions of years, trees have paired up with fungi. Fungi are amazing.
Peter Wohlleben • The Hidden Life of Trees: The International Bestseller
The fungus not only penetrates and envelops the tree’s roots, but also allows its web to roam through the surrounding forest floor. In so doing, it extends the reach of the tree’s own roots as the web grows out toward other trees. Here, it connects with other trees’ fungal partners and roots. And so a network is created, and now it’s easy for the t
... See morePeter Wohlleben • The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature Book 1)
The Beyond, whatever it consists of, might not be nearly as far away or inaccessible as we think . . . But if these dried-up little scraps of fungus taught me anything, it is that there are other, stranger forms of consciousness available to us, and, whatever they mean, their very existence, to quote William James again, ‘forbids a premature closin
... See moreRichard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
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the fungi are pursuing their own agendas and appear to be very much in favor of conciliation and equitable distribution of information and resources.
Peter Wohlleben • The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature Book 1)
It is likely that fungi have been manipulating animal minds for much of the time that there have been minds to manipulate.