Mycelium are Earth's natural internet

Paul Stamets

You know there are no coincidences. This morning I met someone reading the book "The secret network of nature" in a café and we had a quick chat. I mentioned that I intuitively feel that blockchain and digital networks resemble nature (or the more they do, the more successful they will be) - but I don't really have any evidence for that and wanted to read up on this. I was wondering if this book might be it.

Later I searched for it on Amazon, and of course now "the internet" knows what I'm interested in and a short while later I found myself watching Paul Stamets' conversation with Joe Rogan about Mycelium - the amazing huge mushroom network.

If you want the short version, watch his TED talk, but of course the conversation with Joe Rogan is much more elaborate and interesting.

In the conversation he says that we share 40% of our DNA with mushrooms. Mushrooms were the first living organisms on our planet - dated back to 2.4 billion years ago. We basically stem from mushrooms.

Call me crazy but this makes so much sense to me! In terms of Oneness, from a consciousness point of view - we have been told we're both an individual drop or wave in the ocean, but we're the whole ocean at the same time. Well, another translation is, that we're all individual mushrooms, while being part of a huge connected mushroom network at the same time. Right?

Our biological relationship makes that mushroom have such huge medical benefits for us.

And of course some mushrooms also communicate with us and can provide healing and enhancement of consciousness in a psychedelic way.

I'm hooked! I've never experimented with mushrooms (and I'm in Thailand right now!!!), but I am just living down the street from a place that produces mushroom health supplements, so I'll start by checking this out first.

But think I'll have to communicate more with them soon... ;) I also feel that everyone else already does, and I'm the last one to the party...