We pierce the veil of mystery surrounding the entheogenic use of Amanita muscaria mushrooms with pioneering educator Amanita Dreamer as she shares her experience of the mushroom's effects along with preparation techniques and protocols for consuming this misunderstood medicine!
We take a journey from the University of Ghent to the forests of Panama to learn about fungal order Laboubeniales as well as other understudied pathogenic fungi and their habitats with mycologist and adventurer Danny Haelewaters PhD!
We take a trip into the ancient future with Fungi Foundation foundress Giuliana Furci and board member, actress and activist Nathalie Kelley, to learn about Fungi Foundation's work in documenting ancestral & traditional uses of fungi by indigenous communities around the world & to celebrate the upcoming "Future is Fungi" event on June 26, 2021!
It's an adventure to the University of Louisville where we drop into the academic universe of Dr. Michael Perlin to learn all about fungal plant pathogens - how they live, how they function and what they can teach us!
We drop in with educator, research and event organizer Darren Springer AKA Darren Le Baron to learn about the untold history of psychedelics in Africa and how we can all empower ourselves by uncovering the roots of our own indigenous traditions and learning how to grow our own mushroom food, medicine and spiritual technology!
We're off to the countryside of Devon England to meet up with Robin Harford, founder of Eatweeds.co.uk, to learn about his unique sensory botanical practice of wild plant foraging, how this process healed him and the perspectives he's gained through his ethnobotanical research!
We take an excursion to West Virginia University to visit the inspiring Kasson lab where we'll learn about forest pathogens, zombie cicadas and fungus eating millipedes with Dr. Matt Kasson!
We go on an adventure into the astounding annals of Fungi Magazine and to the hallowed wilds of Telluride Colorado with magazine editor and executive director of the Telluride Mushroom Festival Britt Bunyard!
Professor Suzanne Simard joins us to explore her first book "Finding the Mother Tree" and brings us into her world, the intimate world of trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the vital truth that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks full of mycorrhizal fungi by which trees are living communal lives not that different from our own!
We join mycophagy legend Larry Evans on a journey into the soil carbon cycle to learn how burying wood may be a critical tool in healing our forests and then Larry paints us a vision of a new future where human society is based on ecological values instead of human fictions like money and property!
Social activist, psychedelic explorer and mushroom cultivator Reggie of Oakland Hyphae shares his work empowering BIPOC communities in the emerging psychedelic industry and introduces us to the first annual Psilocybin Cup!
We take a trip to Anchorage Alaska to learn about the microbial majesty of the soil food web with America's longest-running garden columnist and author of the award-winning book "Teaming with Microbes" Jeff Lowenfels!
