By examining fungi on their own terms, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms – and our relationships with them – are changing our understanding of how life works. Fungus, as Merlin Sheldrake writes in Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures (Random House), is everywhere, yet easy to miss. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. Sheldrake’s mind-bending journey into this hidden world ranges from yeast to psychedelics, to the fungi that sprawl for miles underground and are the largest organisms on the planet, to those that link plants together in complex networks known as the ‘Wood Wide Web’, to those that infiltrate and manipulate insect bodies with devastating precision.įungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that support and sustain nearly all living systems. Merlin Sheldrakes marvelous tour of these diverse and extraordinary life forms is eye-opening on why humans should consider fungi among the greatest of. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Can mushrooms take over your mind On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Matt Kirshen explore the weird world of fungi with fun-guy fungus expert and ecologist, Merlin Sheldrake. Here is a video of me eating the mushrooms that sprouted from my book, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, & Shape Our Futures.
When we think of fungi, we probably think of mushrooms.
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