Guest speaker: Paul Stamets

The last great mushroom conference of the millennium - Breitenbush, OR 1999

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Date this lecture was recorded: August 2016

Today's podcast features the 2016 Palenque Norte lecture by Paul Stamets, who is one of the leading mycologists in the world. In this talk Paul covers a wide range of knowledge about mushrooms and mycelium that will blow your mind. For anyone interested in biology, this talk is not to be missed. As Paul says, "There's a recurring lessen here folks, when we're facing extinction events pairing with fungi has an evolutionary advantage. And we should make use of that."

[NOTE: The quotations below are by Paul Stamets]

"If Terence [McKenna] was sitting here right now I'd tell him the same thing, 'Terence, 95% of the stuff you say is total bullshit. But you say it so well."

"There's a recurring lessen here folks, when we're facing extinction events pairing with fungi has an evolutionary advantage. And we should make use of that."

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