mycelia
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mycelia
The coffee shop where 162 regulars have their own mug (1977)
youtube.comPierre could not afterwards remember how he went, whether it was far, or in which direction. His faculties were quite numbed, he was stupefied, and noticing nothing around him went on moving his legs as the others did till they all stopped and he stopped too. The only thought in his mind at that time was: who was it that had really sentenced him to
... See morethefreelibrary.com • Book Twelve: 1812 - Chapter X
“In a cycle, there is no end.”
Guiliana Furci on, as she puts it, “protecting death”
In a cycle, there is no end.
Guiliana Furci
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Every organism has "a fungal component that is sustaining them" . . . . They are "the firmament of life on earth." The "basal organisms" that provide the "possibility for plants and animals to live."
Nellie’s Curation • Quotes
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from Guiliana Furci in Advaya Rewilding Mythology course
I often think you've found your vocation when it's like...the cordyceps taking over the ant.
You're infected. You're just going to be in service to something else and you'll never know the full story.
-Sophie Strand (light paraphrase)
Mycelium as the “sticky, connective tissue in ecosystems” (Sophie Strand), the “egg in the cake.” (Giuliana Furci)
i.e. Democracy arose out of contexts where people from different social strata were actively meeting, actively and physically dancing together.
Democracy doesn’t work without dancing, without the breaking down of ego
(Chiara Baldini, Advaya course re: Rewilding Mythology)
the future won’t be rebuilt by algorithms or governments. it gets rebuilt the way everything good gets rebuilt — at human scale, with the people actually around you, one front porch at a time.