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The first time I learned about myco existence was around the same time I still had unchecked anger, and emotions. I can vividly remember being so awestruck and angry at the same time I felt completely defeated. It sent me into a manic state for a while and it took a lot to bring me back. It was as devastating as learning all the lies I had been told as a kid.
I knew exactly what they were talking about. I’ve dug in the dirt and hit those spots where you don’t see anything but there seems to be some sort of invisible wires running through it. It wasn’t roots, but it was something. If I could recognize that as a child, how were entire adults just ignoring it?
Once I learned that it’s a gigantic neural network essentially I immediately stopped all sorts of actions I had taken before. I don’t even like digging into the ground any more unless I really have to.
I stopped viewing anything that wasnt a human as less than. I stopped viewing nature as a nuisance to be demonized and dominated. I stopped viewing fungus as bad poison. OF COURSE random mushrooms run the risk of killing you, it’s a representative of a massive living, feeling, thinking network. If you randomly started trying to pick off humans they would kill you too. Hell I became conscious of every single thing I let touch the ground in that moment.
Learning how the fungus can be connected to millions of different plants at once and will literally take nutrients and water from one of those strong plants to help out a completely different type of plant a mile away I knew we had made a huge mistake.
These are just the things we’ve figured out too.. There’s still so much more. We’re only able to replicate MAYBE (I don’t remember hard numbers) 10-20 strains of myco out of 100s we’ve seen so far. There’s some forms of myco that won’t even let us get close to it. The minute it senses an unnatural disturbance it takes off and you never see it again.
All of this blew my mind so far back I no longer was concerned with whether or not we destroy ourselves before we progress off this planet. We currently do not deserve to leave this planet. We don’t deserve to literally murder the life that came before us then just rocket off into space.
These are living, thinking, feeling organisms that have been evolving for millions of years before we built fire let alone stepped out of Africa. They are the sole reason why our planet is the way it is, and are the sole reason why we became what we are. If it weren’t for the fungus, we’d all still be putting around in a deoxygenated planet of creepy colored water and gas.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if we found out fungus had a hand in the great oxygenation events that lead to what we know as our planet today. We were nothing more than a barren rock until plants left the ocean and the fungus are directly responsible for the success of leaving the ocean and spreading across the land.
I say that long winded hippiness to say this.. We need to be more conscious about what we are doing. We can be better and we can work with nature better than we do. Trying to at least understand where nature is coming from will put you leagues ahead as a grower. We humans think we can make everything better. We can’t. We can make things bigger, that’s it, and rarely is it sustainable to make things bigger, as we’ve seen over and over. We’ve let fear and convenience make life altering decisions for us, when neither feeling nor thought has any business in any decision making process.
Sorry for the long winded soapboxing lol.. Learning that our planet is actually one gigantic organism with its own neural networks and body parts really changed something inside of me just as much as PTSD, and just as much as those first Acid/shroom/and DMT trips did.
Next year I guess.
