The Treasure Called the Psilocybes: Paul Stamets

[Music] I do our clinicians and particularly in therapists I very much encourage you to stay to see two individuals at the end of the life the Matan Hopkins research it's really important so across millions of light households in America in 1957 Life magazine was delivered with a very good mushroom sauce also a mushroom field guys and and this is something that's interesting to me here's Demeter giving Persephone a mushroom horizonte this is how you give a sacrament you don't go here take this you pay attention look at me this is what I'm giving you do you understand this is important that's a very very common gesture I've seen over and over again well Maria Sabina did something similar they giving it to our Gordon Washington here and then my brother John you know is giving me Selassie similan CH and I told him about this present a you need to give it a respect so um anyhow so my brother John was a very big important person in my life he went to Yale I'm braking went down to Mexico and Columbia an extraordinary interest in psychoactive substances I got really excited because of him and started getting into mushrooms and so John came back with this book John said never show this photograph in public sorry John and he came back with a book by Charles tart which one of the speakers referred to yesterday about blew my mind and oh my god Charles tarts up there again altered states of consciousness I grew up in a small town in Ohio my best friend Ryan Schneider he is my sidekick we hang with the other all the time I'm reading this book Ryan's interested in what I'm interested in so he wants to borrow the book I said listen John's going back to Yale in two weeks to give it back to him before he goes back to class so give it a book back to me so Ryan borrowed the book you know the few days later Ryan you know John's going back he's acting about the ask them about the book please go back to me and Ryan's hesitating and hemming and Hine and I say a few days later and now John's really pressuring me and I'm going you know Ryan where's my frigging book my brother's a frigging book and Ryan sheepishly looked at me he said Paul I can't give it back you I said why he says my dad discovered it and burned it I said your dad burned my brothers book I was shocked I was terrified to tell my old or a brother I told me was not happy and it was really unhappy with me and I thought you know I'm gonna make this into something good at this book and the subject was so disturbing to Ryan Schneider's father then I think I found the subject field of interest that I want to explore so not John you know went to Yale went the University of Washington neurophysiology school he became very well-known as a photographer when that he chose out of this career so I was always trying to impress marbler John I'm the youngest kid in the family and we grew up with a big laboratory in the basement Columbia in Ohio and with a intrepid aircraft carrier radio which my dad served in that aircraft carrier we had that in the basement so I listened to coded message but John is serious scientist he had rows and rows of chemicals and whatnot so hey John was I would take John and John I tripped a lot together so it's really great a family that trips together stays together it's a great bonding and but but John's always like you know being an alpha brother yeah Paul not good enough not good enough so I got vetted and awarded by the triple-a yes the American Academy Advancement of science that produces science magazine as the first invention ambassador of Triple A yes the group of seven of us including the founder of digital photography and so I got this a war I mean I had to go through a gauntlet of interviews and all this stuff and they want messengers who can message science to the public who are inventors who have happens who inventing things so I got chosen so I got my award that I was really excited that good brother I can show you now I got it there in a word no from Triple A yes and so I've real excited a called mother John several times on a Friday night and he didn't answer and he didn't answer him that was the day he died we never answered the phone so so because of John's encouragement and criticism and mentorship you know I've chosen this career so other people have influenced me a lot dr. Michael Buell and the left Alexander Smith holding the big mushrooms there then kids gates down below and Daniel stunts they all passed on they were all way we call politically conservative which is extraordinary because I showed up the Evergreen State College and started studying under Michael Buchanan met these other Giants in the field of mycology this is what I look like your suspicions are now confirmed by the way guys I was the first guy to go through puberty in my high school you know from my age group and now that's why I've come chairman I'm 19 years of age so anyhow so that we got a Drug Enforcement ministration license Michael buted and unrolled us and they're very strange to author not Jeremy booboo to myself all went and studied it under Michael boob and between the three of us I think we have 14 or 15 books on psychoactive plants and mushrooms between us so really really nerdy professor fun really great professor love love him still but he got the DEA license and so Jeremy and I the guy in the middle and myself we were umbrella with a drubbing for submission ares license and with i thought everybody was a DEA agent so i'm a solitary kind of guy anyhow but anyone came up to me I thought your you're an agent I can tell you know and so I got tempted and bribed all these sorts of times that always turned everybody down so I had never got in trouble but it's really extraordinary and then at the same time Terence Mckenna Gary Menzer Steven Pollak and Andy while this is all in the 1970s those of you are interested please pick up Harper's Magazine and read the story on stephen Pollak he was a physician in San Antonio Texas I was speaking to him on the phone when he was murdered with a 357 Magnum horrible story I called up several times later the police answered the phone the policeman who answered the phone was the killer and knew Steve had a lot of money and so as a crazy story you have to read it to believe it and then we did a series of psychoactive mushroom conferences through the late 70s you know into 2000 and I knew the Merry Pranksters and I knew the psychedelic scientists so I thought why don't we bring them all together so I knew both communities and so we did the 1999 Brighton Bush millennial mushroom conference and there's Andy wild era Sasha Shulgin you know a lot of top Psychonauts and Christian wretch and whole bunch of weathering David Arora whole bunch of people we had 45 speakers and 60 paying participants so it was I lost $50,000 I don't lose it it was the best investment I ever made because I got all these people together then in cycle activity conferences you know and in Europe occurred and Sasha show been there for those people how many people here a new church organ was created hundreds of new psychic active molecules anyhow number of books thing came out and as this for five of my books there but I love the book the golden guide to the listener eggplants what every third grader needs to learn you know you guys minerals you got birds you know you got fish and you got psychoactive plants this is because they the hippie inherited guide fortune totally in the psychedelics he commissioned this and of course the tea tas and everybody across the country up in arms so it was a one print edition these are worth 500 bucks apiece now so so then this philosophy cubensis scholarship fund is what i call it then permeated throughout the universities and colleges all over the world especially in California and people grow sulfide mushrooms in jars on grain and you know people don't get rich from this they paid it tuition they bought groceries and put the money back into the community but it was very much a very very common practice I went on discover four new psilocybin active species las diez addresses lots of informants lots of you senator bullosa and one I named after dr. Andrew wild that would be very clear here I've driven a line in the sand nature provides I don't okay you know the freedom of information protects books it doesn't protect me from telling you how to go suicide mushrooms verbally so don't ask me for psilocybin mushrooms nature provides I know but I have a passion for this so I did this was in in the vault I pulled it out about two months ago so this is kind of fun greetings and meet selasa B Azure essence Salah Sofia sure essence is probably one of the most potent mushrooms in the world it contains sullivan insulting up to 2% of his tried mask don't think of that 2% of the dried master this mushroom are psychoactive crystals why would a mushroom produce so much we don't know but it certainly has attracted the interest of humans the bluing that you see here is a bruising reaction is indicative of silicon as it degrades and the more bluing you see the more selsun there once was now so Simon dephosphorylation to Scylla sin and when you ingest these mushrooms Olson becomes a serotonin agonist it means that this whole cybernet where the sultan becomes a temporary neurotransmitter opening up the floodgates of the senses now this mushroom is sinuous it's got a sinuous stem which means it bends back and forth is gluing very very strongly and it has these very indicative spore color here on the annular zone and the spore copper Brown the mushrooms are blueish those two features in combination pretty much the facto determine selasa fee now look how bodacious the rhizome morphs are at the base of the stem this is a large Salafi by far the largest one that I know that grows on wood chips in the Pacific Northwest it is now a popular one to have in your backyard it's just fun it's just naturalized in the woods here and this is a beautiful fruiting of them and the Salafis many of the woodland philosophies have this chestnut brown to caramel color this one is unique in that it's got these combos and there is a broad ombo and the cap is very circular the bruising reaction is just from impact of rain this mushroom is one of the most fascinating and interesting ones to grow those who choose to partake of this mushroom should be warned these are exceptionally potent and oftentimes they can cause temporary paralysis loss of muscle control so that is not a good thing it seems that most people who boil this mushroom in hot water those symptoms seem to be alleviated but this is a clearly a sacred species and I love just personally touching it this is not a mushroom that I that I enjoy eating it's almost too potent for me and but it is a species that I greatly admire I love touching it enough handling it I love seeing it and it's a great indicator of the habitat in my magical mushroom forest that is very conducive to spiritual experiences these mushrooms now has spread all over California as many of you know there's a strong association with Internet companies woodchips and psilocybin mushrooms wonder why so lhasa female assistants another species that's hidden in landscape I have another story about that past but there are compound psilocybin insults in everything you did this whole time d grace Olson and their serotonin which is chemically very an instructor very very similar there's not compound called bio system they assistant is not illegal and it also is pharmacologically active and the methyl group there is easily cleaved by normal enzymes normal part a lot of your digestive systems is cleaving off the those methylated groups so that's really interesting to me so from those psychotherapists out there I think the potential of using bio system should be also examined philosophy students in CI after Daniels Tunsil any I or two of this pieces this Lhasa be Semillon CH a-- and selasa people eq Llosa liberty crafts grow and grasslands you know from ireland down in brussels ins in Chile to of course of Western North America etc so and here is another little know throughout the temperate regions of Europe and the Pacific Northwest well the most interesting philosophy is to collect his wound that grows near ponds in the grass and this this field has not had cows on it for more than 10 years so cows and sheep can help but they're not necessary and this is a loss to be simulants e8m they famed Liberty Cap this exquisite little food in here it's got a translucent stripe margin use his striations they're actually the gills showing through the cap and the cap also has a separate hole in gelatinous pellicle so here is one over here we can look at and as you tear the cap there is a film that's clearly visible I think it is well that's a big one that film stretches them breaks so these mushrooms are purple ground spores the several herbs Latins pellicle and they typically have a sharp um bow or nipple at the very very top of the cap and this the pillar or nipple is not always in every specimen but it's quite characteristic of the species in general so selasa be similan see it many people when they pick similar Sierra they don't realize that the stems so long I think it's a mutualistic species with the rhizomes of grass almost like a pseudo mycorrhizal relationship which it means it's not obligatory but it benefits from it and the stems often are picked because or people don't realize that the stem length is way way down so be careful always trying to get the base system if you can okay so a number of clinical studies have come out many of you know about this Johns Hopkins we're really one of the first articles that came out a pioneering article clinically showing a mystical like experiences that had significance 14 months post ingestion relatively high dose of psilocybin 30 milligrams 70% of the individuals reported positive experiences 30% reported negative experiences but interestingly the people who had native experiences the native experience is not and beyond the experience itself the people have positive experiences 14 months later talking their family members associates they still the the family members and so shi'ites loved ones noticing a significant change in the personality of the individuals and they still and we remembering the experience gave them further benefit this is the extraordinary thing with PTSD you remember you know you're the terrible thing that happened to you you become retama ties well this is the exact opposite of that we remembering the positive experiences psilocybin was it had a demonstrable benefit an extraordinary study it's a survey with prisoners four hundred and eighty thousand people surveyed by DSHS and they found there was associated now associations not causation but it can be but those people who had a soul Seidman experience were associated 27% decrease of larceny and theft 22% decrease odds for property crime 18% decrease odds for violent crime in a group of twelve hundred and sixty-six community members ages 16 to seventy there was this just recently came out I think it's in 2018 yep this is really interesting in couples if if the man had tripped on psilocybin there was a statistically significant negative correlation with violet with spousal abuse interestingly it did cross correlate with women so men who tripped on mushrooms tend to be nicer to their spouses I think that is extraordinarily interesting then then the emotional response and depression more articles there are clinical studies coming out left and right and compass has just been approved in many countries included states as an emergency treatment for treatment resistant depression that just came out in the news last week and a reset therapeutic mechanism is being proposed the opportunity with therapy this is important this or therapists Willie come in to play because the benefits without therapy are less permanent I guess is one way of saying it then with therapy when you have guided therapy with someone who's experienced they can help you rebuild your motive response I think as it cysts in neurogenesis you're reap a turning you're generating new neurons you find alternative pathways to express yourself you know and you build upon these through talking about them so another article that came out here in 2017 and I think many of you know this this is a great article please love this article 2018 well if you trip on mushrooms you have increased nature relatedness in a decreased tendency toward authoritarian political views several people have recommended I run for president and this would be my platform right you take souls Ivan yes next question you know I won't avoid any question I'll wave my sauce I could like flag now it's all on high so okay so this is what I want do you therapists to watch Louie Schwartzberg and I are doing a movie together we've been mating making it for 12 years called fantastic fungi Louie I acknowledge you and thank you for this clip and thank you Johns Hopkins Medical School for allowing us to show you this clip of two patients and this is this is really quite potent anyone who's had one of those experiences in a country where it's not legal to have them is stuck in this position where something really precious and really giving a great gift to you is not understood by the culture at large and furthermore puts you or other people or and other people at risk of prosecution and one response to that is to get angry and don't want to fight that and another response to it is to say loose gotta explain to people what's going on here and when people understand it then there will be accommodation and respect I've been diagnosed with prostate cancer my diagnosis was so bad that my project it was you know they were giving it any chance whatsoever my diagnosis was kidney cancer finding out that you may want to get your affairs in order I first found out about the study when my oncologists gave me a pamphlet he said here's something that might be able to help you with the anxiety if I was accepted into the study the most important thing is to remember that you're always safe and a recommendation is that whatever is coming up that you allow it that you don't have to like it but you say okay rather than trying to run away from it once a volunteer is enrolled in the study they're with us for the preparation the psilocybin sessions and the integration follow-ups after I have been a guide for around 350 psilocybin sessions and then about a thousand of the preparatory and integration meetings [Music] it's really just about experiencing what comes up as psilocybin takes effect [Music] [Music] and the intense part of this journey this world and things that matter to most people family and all that that wasn't even what it was about this anything mystical can't be explained it's something like that it's it's it's a feeling of such immense power that you can't even imagine I've never felt anything like it before it was about being in a place of infinite space and just being there [Music] there's a experience a positive mood sometimes open-heartedness love transcendence of time and space and then finally it's thought to be ineffable people say I can't describe that experience in my mind I said okay hold it if I give myself over to you can you promise me that I will be in at least as strong a shape it was when I entered this room and I felt a voice that I needed to heed do you think I would disrespect my own and II work this is the voice from on high saying do you think I would disrespect my child and I felt so beautiful I felt like I have never felt before my sense of being loved of being worthy of love of being cared for being important to someone [Music] it's huge [Music] one third of individuals in the study said it's the single most spiritually significant experience of their lives about 70 percent say it's the among the five most personally meaningful experiences of their lives and you say well so what what does that mean you know and and initially I thought I'm wondering if they don't have pretty dull lives but you know what people would say you know when my firstborn came into this world I'll never forget that and life has never been the same since my father passed away that was deeply moving to me I'm different now in the world and say you know it's kind of like that the most glorious part was that it made me feel more comfortable with with living you know because you're not afraid I've done frankly I'm just a laboratory scientist and I wasn't prepared for that from the memory of the transcendental state of consciousness many people report less anxiety less depression less preoccupation with pain closer interpersonal relationships and perhaps most impressive they claim to have a loss of the fear of death it recalibrates how they see death it's been amazing and talking about this idea of love many of them spoke about how nature itself is something like a substance called love have you touched that they've recalibrated shakily Nagato [Music] okay so those two patients have died now but they greeted their death with optimism and hope and feeling oneness and this is the big movement right now for the decriminalization of soul Simon in California and Oregon and elsewhere the United States it comes down to this simple argument you have a right to choose how you die you wanna die in fear and anger and hopelessness and anguish and regret what do you want to die knowing that you're one with the universe you're at peace you understand the the unanimity of being that's a real choice you have that choice with soul Simon and so I think the end of death argument is the best one we should allow this to be a personal choice for those people who want to do it so many studies have come out the lack of time but I'm going to jump into micro dosing really quickly micro dosing is taking a sub threshold dose of salt Simon below that which you can feel on this lhasa tea cubensis scale I'd like an elevator ride I'd like ten floors to an elevator or to a dude building half a Graham's the first floor five grams the hero's journey that's the tenth floor so you're taking about a quarter to a tenth of a gram to a twentieth of a gram somewhere in there so a tenth the 20th of grandmas loss be cubensis just below the threshold of having an effect really interestingly I know all sorts of straight people believe it or not who would never consider tripping on salsa but the concept of being am thinking of microdose saying could increase neurogenesis and fight depression and senility and dementia well that's a whole different subject plus they want to feel cool with their grandkids right now you know Mike reducing so anyhow Michael dosing is swept Silicon Valley I know several people who actually teach coders at the major Silicon Valley internet companies all of you know the names of these companies and the coders feel that it is giving them greater creativity amazingly roland griffiths just published this a few three weeks ago I thought they're gonna go from schedule one the schedule - schedule one means that a drug has no medical use and high potential for abuse and roland griffiths and his team has written an article arguing should move to schedule for the least restrictive drug designation there is similar to asthma medicine so meetings have been happening to the eff with the fda i'm tributed some of the internal conversations the FDA when they were approached by a group of these scientists saying it's good for PTSD for the world war veterans the fda in roughly loosen up this is good for PTSD on any level they said they've never seen a drug so powerful with so so much benefit with such low potential for abuse now those of you have not tripped on these mushrooms may not understand this is not like marijuana or alcohol where you want to get high the next day or have another beer after you trip on these mushrooms the next day you look at them you go no way I'm done for a while they have no potential for abuse you know okay so I'm going to show you something that is a little controversial there are some therapists here and there are some people who have DEA licenses so I'm speaking to those people in particular just so you don't get any ideas here the selasa me sinuses and azure essence they there are really different addresses is huge so i have invented blue juice you take ice cubes you chop up this lhasa be mushroom it's really counter into for a chemical extraction because typically you want hot you know solvents for better extraction nope not in this case it took me forever to figure this out you take ice cubes top of the mushrooms you put them in a refrigerator and they slowly melt over four or five days and they extract the sole simon without the beta Luke and all the other mushroom material so then you can make ice cubes for Burning Man [Music] strictly for scientific research okay how many people have read Michael Pollan's book yeah none it's a great intro book for the psychedelic naive a lot of us veterans you know have some criticisms about it but Michael has done a great job in making the bridge to a different audience of individuals who would not consider it because he has so much credibility so I want to I have to have once you forgive how many close in five minutes if I can there's another mushroom called lion's mane this is legal it's a potent neuro stimulant factors that are within it they regenerate smilin on the axons of nerves has been two clinical studies on this added mild cognitive impairment double-blind placebo-controlled clinical study significant increase in cognitive function and tests from consuming these mushrooms for about 25 days on our order of about four four to six grams for these mushrooms once in the morning and once in the evening by capsules it causes neurogenesis and particularly it removes amyloid plaques there's two really interesting studies with mice where they inject mice with a toxic polypeptide that induces amyloid plaque formation amyloid plaque formation is associated with Alzheimer's patients upon resection after death amyloid plaque can be confirmed in degeneration of myelin and the president say my FAQ interferes with neurotransmission the mice when they were fed full-blown Alzheimer's like symptoms of amyloid plaque when they're fed the lion's mane mushrooms three to four weeks later they had resolved my plaque had had been largely removed and demonstrations amazed experiments they then were able to navigate maze to near normal conditions were prior to that they were confused and unable to navigate so there was both resection improving microscopically as well as behavior this is a really important mushroom I would ask all of you to consider taking this mushroom on a daily basis we always suffer some four types of the neurological decline and this is a fact of Aging and so lines may mushrooms can be found in the wild a girl here in California and then unfortunately the price of psilocybin $7,000 $7,000 for Graham so I have a treatment I came up with a stacking formula a epigenetic neurogenic formula stacking Sol Simon lion's mane and vitamin b3 nicotinic acid so those of you who are over here may remember this I like to have a show of hands how many people remember in the 70s in particular if you're tripping on LSD or salsa even if you took niacin you could come down one two three four or five six seven eight nine ten eleven people you know it turned out not to be true but that's the conventional wisdom but I think that you've got nice and flushed it excites the endpoints of your nervous system well neuropathy oftentimes is seen as the dieback of your nerves at your fingertips and your toes so neuropathies oftentimes represent it that way I thought if you stack up with niacin you can excite the nerve endings and we know that lion's mane regenerates myelin on the axons of nerves and we notice else Ivan causes neurogenesis at the tips when I stack these together so this I think is a I want to reinvent Sullivan as a vitamin taking it as sub-threshold doses blowing the levels of intoxication the nice and also serves a purpose of like antabuse the patients will not be able to abuse it the adverse effects of a nice and flush of you those who take a lot of nice and you're itching your read people talk to you what's wrong with you you know it's a very very negative reaction so this is way of stacking these together for epigenetic neurogenesis and we lose body intellect of our culture with aging the aging population we're losing Pine Stein's every day because of neuro degeneration this is a loss to our cultural a cultural knowledge and it's so important that we give cultural that we get the knowledge to the next generation to pass on that next generations gonna become elders so if you just stack these and increase your ability to to increase your intelligence I think this is really important I yeah in the future okay I'm gonna leave the lunch I'm gonna try sock I have to tell you this story it's too freaking cool I just heard this and I was with some physicians and as a chef and up in Vancouver told me this 3-4 days ago I said this is crazy this is this is so fantastic now I don't do any Canadians here may know this game and people from Germany but he was in the Yukon or up in that area and it's a family of Ewing 150 people big bar scene lots of music people drinking smoking he doesn't do any of that stuff and you're sitting at our table and was all guys and they have this little game and they put nails on a pine board and they have a little time the nail heads are this big but that hammer is this big it's a bar game they play it all over the world now I guess the Asia they do it too and the idea is you put money on the table and you pound the nail down so I mean he's never played this before everybody else has been pretty intoxicated but he goes in the bathroom hey you want some soul Simon her about it sure so take the dose that's all Simon weights about 20-30 minutes ago invited to this whole game he's not tripping he's feeling it my brother's is really interesting and he said he gives got tunnel vision just excluded all the noise at all these macho Canadian young guys and all trying to outperform each other and they were going around as his turn and he looks at it tunnel vision takes a hammer boom nailed it literally right down they go to put ten dollars around is it again two times in a row eight times in a row everybody at the table is freaking out and then he said I had to do it I go what he goes the guy that was freaking out the most he looked at him in the end the Iseman they lost it well this makes sense this is an example of a case if you are throwing their spear against the saber-toothed tiger the increase in agility the increase in being able to perceive to cognitively strategize against to put an opponent an adversary against climate change you know I think that these compounds have enormous potential for increasing intelligence acuity in skills okay now this is important for you to know it's the mice injected with low doses of soul Simon extinguish the cat he could have the conditions fear response not the high doses high doses no doubt we'll do it but clinically showing they did low doses had a better influence than the higher doses this is also an argument for having a nootropic vitamin for treating depression long-term you have to be careful about deadly gamma - they're poisonous they have rusty Brown spores I have a 65 videos up on Instagram I think I call knowledge bombs I drop them every few days that's a bunch up there right now that you can go to my Instagram account and see these little knowledge bombs or one minute long talking about this mushroom so I want to disclose have four more slides here this is Jim mapless luteal folios this is gonna low esoteric this is extremely rare Souls I have an active mushroom it does have rusty Brown spores that's why we don't advocate people look for it but this is so crazy okay this is July 8th 2011 and it's just hard to believe that Paul stamps is boat will be growing a psychoactive mushroom but it's true I know it's not the best specimen right now but this is Jim Nautilus luteal Foley Asst it is unique to alder it's a very rare species fact most of my colleges will not be able to identify it I just happen to have a specialty in this area and it is it's so weird because my friend clay here hey clay he said he found a mushroom going off of a boat he brought it to me from your friend right and it was also Jim novelist ludia luleå so it begs the question now is this mushroom indigenous to northwest boats and I've never found this in the wild I've seen it in a Michael anshel society but uh go figure now I'm not gonna pick it so I guess I'm not breaking the law or am I breaking the law because it's growing here I know what it is I don't know what to do anyhow the helpers are Jim novelist ludia lowliest on stand misses both and we've had more than one sighting of this on this boat and more than one boat now to those and so bill figure this may be why some of the European species came to United States with pilgrims many of the ships that were brought over were then reconstructed into houses so my silly ol footprints you know came across the ocean that's very plausible okay so weird science this just Kate just came out about two months ago and cicadas 17 years in the ground they came up they come up I grew up in Ohio with cicadas you know several experiences the kid is there and they get these fuzzy butts well the fuzzy but it actually decomposes their sexual organs their genitalia falls off but they can still fly and the male's then will mimic a female behavior to entice a male cicada to get close to it because it was just discovered that that fungus in his butt is packed full of psilocybin yeah psychoactive sequitos and those he's got an eye the kid I saw these little fuzzy butts but knowing that Eric decided to analyze them so they have this sort of a mimicry of sex acts to entice and the females then also do this to do the same and back and forth to attract so the spores will dust on the other cicadas and then they go they go underground and this fungus lives in subterraneous lee but where is this gonna stop folks so next cicada of you know outburst there's gonna be all these Psychonauts out there collecting them and making teas of cicadas you know I don't know what's gonna happen with this so alright folks um I will just close with this one two minute [Music] little film your mushroom mycelium represents rebirth rejuvenation regeneration fungi generate soil that gives life the task that we face today is to understand the language of nature [Music] my mission is to discover the language of nature of the fungal networks that communicate with the ecosystem and I believe nature is intelligent the fact that we lack the language skills to communicate with nature does not impugn the concept that nature's intelligence it speaks to our inadequacy for communication we don't get our act together and come in commonality and understanding of the organisms that sustain us today not only will we destroy those organisms but we will destroy ourselves [Music] we need to have a paradigm shift in our consciousness what will it take to achieve my if I die trying and but I'm inadequate to the task to make a course change in the evolution of lifeless planet okay I try fact is I try how many people are not trying if you knew that every breath you took could save hundreds of lives into the future have you walked down this path of knowledge would you run down that path of knowledge as fast as you could I believe nature is a force of good good is not only a concept it is a spirit and so hopefully the spirit of goodness will survive thank you very much folks [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 42min 52sec (2572 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 22 2019

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