fungi

There are few beings more connected than fungi. Beneath the soil, its mycelial network, a shimmering white web tethered to the earth, connects the roots of all natural beings. While weaving through the darkness, mycelium picks up on every exchange and notifies the natural world of it all. With every step, it senses and welcomes you.

Despite its underground stealth, this mysterious and unimaginably intelligent being offers us an obvious link to our truest nature. Where the mycelium is the telephone line, exchanging unseen energies of love between the trees, plants, and us, mushrooms are the fruit of connection - an offer to humans to communicate.

Imagine this: one minute, all you see are trees, the vast sky, and other humans. Plus, maybe so much noise it's distracting. And yet… something catches your eye, bright but hidden under dead pine needles.

Despite the chaos of the land, a fairy ring calls to your intuition to look its way.

This interconnectedness has always existed on earth, but has long been forgotten by many. We are all always connected, despite our awareness of it. We must only remember it.

Fungi gift us an awareness of deep interconnectedness. This wisdom disproves coincidence, and shows us that everything exists in tandem with everything else.

Sink a little deeper than the beauty that meets the eye. What are your local trees, plants, and fungi communicating through the subtle networks you can’t see?

THE PRAYER

Connection to the Earth lives within me; I only have to tap into it.

REMEMBER YOUR CONNECTION

꩜  Picture yourself sitting in the center of a “fairy ring,” the mycelium links every mushroom and you together - a web of connection bridging the liminal space between you and the earth.

꩜  Listen to a podcast featuring Paul Stamets.

꩜  Go searching for fungi friends after a rainstorm (but please practice safe and mindful harvesting).