mycelia
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mycelia
Neil Theise
It is difficult to consider this perspective without trembling with the question of what it even means to exist — and to cease existing. With his particular life-focused lens on mortality — as the child of two Holocaust survivors, as a gay man who survived the AIDS epidemic that killed many of his friends — Theise offers a redemptive answer:
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Maria Popova • Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being
Incarnation
Tattoo by Luka Weinberger (last moon)
Mycelium describes the most common of fungal habits, better thought of not as a thing but as a process: an exploratory, irregular tendency.
Merlin Sheldrake • Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
... See moreRelational infrastructure refers to the social connections, interactions, and collective intelligence that underpin a community, network or group's ability to collaborate, solve problems, and drive change. It is an emergent framework of trust, shared values, and common goals that allows individuals, groups, and organizations to work together
Sam Rye • On Relational Infrastructure
Relational infrastructure is only really seen when you know what you're looking for - much like the web of mycelium connecting trees in our forests that make the flow of communication, resources, and mutual intermingling possible, and enable life to thrive.
Sam Rye • On Relational Infrastructure
Mycelium is polyphony in bodily form.
X-ref: Merlin Sheldrake on the Emergence Podcast, talking about how you would hear jazz if you put your ear to the ground. Constant improvisation of many voices.
The teeming hordes of living things on Earth, not only in space but in time, are actually all one massive, single organism just as certainly as each one of us (in our own minds) seems to be a distinct human being throughout our limited lifetime... Each of us is, equally, an independent living human and also just one utterly minute, utterly brief... See more