Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet
An all-star team of professional and amateur mycologists, artists, foodies, ecologists, doctors, and explorers joined forces with time-lapse master Louie Schwartzberg to create Fantastic Fungi, the life-affirming, mind-bending film about mushrooms and their mysterious interwoven rootlike filaments called mycelium.
What this team reveals will blow your mind from mushrooms for health to possibly saving the planet. This visually compelling companion book of the same name, edited by preeminent mycologist Paul Stamets, will expand upon the film in every way through extended transcripts, new essays and interviews, and additional facts about the fantastic realm of fungi.
Fantastic Fungi is at the forefront of a mycological revolution that is quickly going mainstream. Learn about the incredible communication network of mycelium under our feet, which has the proven ability to restore the planet’s ecosystems, repair our health, and resurrect our symbiotic relationship with nature.
Fantastic Fungi aspires to educate and inspire the reader in three critical areas: First, mushrooms for health – the text showcases research that reveals mushrooms as a viable alternative to Western pharmacology.
Second, mushrooms save the planet – it explores studies pointing to mycelium as a solution to our gravest environmental challenges. And, finally, mushroom psychedelics – it details fungi’s marvelous proven ability to shift consciousness.
Motivating both the visually stunning film and this follow-up book is an urgent mission to change human consciousness and restore our planet.
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