Podcast 620 – “Psilocybin and the Mycology of Consciousness”

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Guest speaker: Paul Stamets

Lorenzo and Paul StametsOrcas IslandMarch 2019

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Date this lecture was recorded: March 21, 2019.

[NOTE: All quotations are by Paul Stamets.]

"As we reach down and we find a mushroom, we have a Eureka moment that as we touch the mushroom we are touching a portal into an underground network of wisdom."

"In a single cubic inch of soil there can be more than eight miles of mycelium."

"Mushrooms had their form well before we had ours. These are ancestral organisms. These are not just miscellaneous little fungi growing on the ground. These are elders. These are ancient individuals. These are bastions of knowledge. Encyclopedic in their history of evolution."

"[Consuming psilocybin mushrooms] would be a shared community experience. And it wouldn't happen one time. It wouldn't happen ten times. It would happen millions upon millions upon millions of times over millions of years. Circumstantially, you cannot deny the possibility that the constant ingestion of magic mushrooms would have an impact on the evolution of human consciousness."

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