Dr. Merlin Sheldrake and Sir Tim Smit in conversation at Christie’s.
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- Опубліковано 23 лис 2022
- This TKF Talk organised by The Klosters Forum brought together two brilliant minds to talk about what fungi and plants can teach us in these tumultuous times. The conversation was moderated by the renowned journalist Hannah MacInnes.
Thank you Christie’s for hosting us.
For more information about other TKF Talk videos, please visit www.theklostersforum.com
Dr. Merlin Sheldrake- Ecologist and Best-selling Author
Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and bestselling author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. He received a PhD in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Merlin is a keen brewer and fermenter and is fascinated by the relationships that arise between humans and more-than-human organisms. He sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation and the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks.
Sir Tim Smit- Co-Founder and Executive Vice-Chair at Eden Project
Sir Tim Smit read Archaeology and Anthropology at Durham University. This began a lifelong passion for regeneration and working to put things into good heart. Following occupations embracing his many interests from Archaeology through music to wreck diving, Rare Breed animal husbandry and building restoration, in 1990 He ‘discovered’ and then restored ‘The Lost Gardens of Heligan’ with John Nelson. Of which he remains a Director. This is now one of the UK’s best-loved gardens having been named ‘Garden of the Year’ by BBC Countryfile Awards (Mar 2018). Tim’s book ‘The Lost Gardens of Heligan’ won Book of the Year in 1997. Tim is today Executive Vice-Chair and Co-founder of the multi-award-winning Eden Project in Cornwall. Since its opening in 2001, over 23 million people have come to see a once sterile pit, turned into a cradle of life containing world-class horticulture and startling architecture symbolic of human endeavour and our dependence and unbreakable part in the systems of the natural world.
These two compliment eachother perfectly. Ive been enjoying Merlins presence in my head for a couple of years now like a very fine wine, now i realise I've been missing the cheese
If we let him, Merlin could save us all.
I’m delighted to see Merlin Sheldrake present to the public the case for symbiosis and connectivity thinking in 2023.Merlin mentioned Lynn Margulies toward the end of the talk because she was the evolutionary biologist who fought the scientific academic community for 25 years before finally being accepted with her theory of symbiosis. Bravo Merlin! Lynn was my best friend at the U of Chicago in the 1950s and I know she would have loved this video as much as I have. Thank you for this…good fortune and good future for us all!’ 14:39
Hi Rachel, nice to hear your connection with Lynn. I just got out of my depth reading Lynn and reverted to Merlin for a while. It's a great presentation.
Very interesting ❤
One of the best interviews I've seen so far!
I love listening to
Sheldon!
He is fascinating and I hope we see much more of him in the future! Fungi are exciting’
Love this combination of understatement and massive expertise. So British.
Smit is Dutch and Eden project is not popular with Cornish.
That part about the end of the world not actually being the end of the world and instead being the end of us, resonated with me. They’re correct. We, as humans, think we are more important than we actually are and we need to reform those symbiotic relationships with plants and fungi. We do not have dominion over anything, something has dominion over us. The day we realise what our place is on this earth will be the day we become more advanced than we could ever have hoped.
Thank you for speaking out about the trash fire that is America's pharmaceutical industry. That shit damn near killed me, and is what inevitably led me to mushrooms (and eventually your book). Mushrooms saved my quality of life and a lot changed really fast. It's a wonderful time to be studying mushrooms in Oregon. I owe them so mush. :*) ...they're also slowly taking over my studio...just so many mushrooms. haha
Such beautiful insights so beautifully communicated 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Yes all this 'saviour' mentality... so very potentially dangerous.
Thank you for mentioning the dangers of cultivated and foreign plants/fungi escaping into the wild.
May your insight myceliate the present system, digest it and transform it!
Am looking forward to living long enough to see people's awe, respect and understanding grow to such an extent that today's human misdemeanors will be well on the way to being a thing of the past.
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May your insight myceliate the present system 👌👏👏
absolutely beautiful talk, thank you for inspiration!
Amazing, inspiring and engaging talk! Thank you.
Tim is fascinating , knowledgeable 51:19 as well as humorous
Excellent discussion - really enjoyed it - thank you
Mesmerized. Wow.
Dr. Merlin Sheldrake is so endearing when speaking about eating mushrooms who devoured Dr. Sheldrake's book. 😊
I agree that Merlin’s book, Entangled Lives, is life.
Dr. Smit, being a person from the UK may be observing and making observations about people who are a lot more "staid" than much of the rest of the world's peoples. Rigid, maybe is the word I'd use, having lived there for a while...which is not to say this isn't a wonderful highly successful, etc etc peoples and country, but....to me it tends toward formality and a certain degree of rigor/stiffening up among the older citizens: Which may explain his view about younger people (who, very often can be pretty darn dystopian everywhere, but who may seem more "breakthrough-oriented" when viewed within the context of the British traditions) I will also add, I think he is brilliant and a wonderful listen (as with M. Sheldrake) and greatly admire him. Also adding that I am an Anglophile, regardless of any of the above.
His father, Rupert sheldrake, is an angel.
Cutting Edge!!! Listen People!!!
I like to think that Newton’s third law: explains his theory-and the equal and opposite reaction was the apple cider you invented. I like your work and that of a Rupert Sheldrake. Cheers!
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Before the internet, there was the mycelial network. The organic network may even be more complex because it is self generated.
Yes, the WoodWideWeb 🍄
Underground growth and underground networks are the not same thing sweetheart. That was cute how she thought it was in the introductions.
Such an interesting talk recently had some libs never felt so good anything and everything seemed possible mushrooms are amazing lifeforms
I met a guy who was experimenting with creating materials from fungi and moulding it into windmills. I think there could be a future with materials that are harmful.
I would bet every I have on nobody ever in history has written a book and then ate it before now
An original!
Horace was lonely....... 😊😊😊
18:31 - - Hold On - - !!!
Is that Rupert’s son?
Yep.
And Cosmo's brother 🙂
@@lesleycassell Love Cosmo!
he's the image of his father
yes, you know everything is in relationship🤣🤣🤣
I went to that Cornwall thing. I paid for it. Please be humble -the owners that is. Merlin is authentic, long may he live. Tim is a snake in his jungle.
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