Merlin Sheldrake, The Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, Shape Our Future
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
- EcoResolution sits down with Merlin Sheldrake to talk about his new book The Entangled Life, mushrooms, ecology, consciousness and Our Relationship With Nature.
"Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. By examining fungi on their own terms, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms - and our relationships with them - are changing our understanding of how life works."
- Merlin Sheldrake
You can order or pre-order Merlins transformative new book via www.merlinsheldrake.com
Merlin is interviewed by EcoResolution co-founder Christabel Reed.
About Merlin Sheldrake:
Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and a writer with a background in plant sciences, microbiology, ecology, and the history and philosophy of science. He received a Ph.D. 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’s research ranges from fungal biology, to the history of Amazonian ethnobotany, to the relationship between sound and form in resonant systems. A keen brewer and fermenter, he is fascinated by the relationships that arise between humans and more-than-human organisms. He is a musician and performs on the piano and accordion. Entangled Life is his first book.
About EcoResolution:
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Such wonderful angelic intelligences. There is indeed real hope for us and the world we’ve so stupidly abused
Great point about the sunflower, i think that everything is conscious, that all matter is made from consciousness. Plants have the equivalent of muscles, their equivalent of eyes and even a sense of smell which they use for communication. Modern life really kills the magic that's all around us.
I work as a tortoise biologist in the Mojave desert overseeing pipeline construction and it’s impacts. Whenever I find fungi in the spring I do a little fungi dance ☺️ but also take care not to trample.
The great thing is that the dynamical system of nature is resilient adaptive and continues regardless of if we understand it's workings or.. not..
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. A most enjoyable interview.
I love the way you interview very intelligent questions ❤❤
I was so fortunate to find this interview in a search for Merlin Sheldrake. The interviewer, Christabel, was almost as impressive as Merlin. I will be following EcoResolution now. I feel as enlivened by the awake, open space of consciousness in which this conversation took place as by the brilliant paradigm-shifting information and meta-views that were exchanged.
Paradigm shifting and meta-views? You post modernists are clinically insane. Since there are infinite ways of interpreting something, how about the the interpretation that you're all insane?
Thank you Tomar for your kind words! Sending love from the EcoResolution team!
What a wonderful interview. I am sharing this with the permaculture network. Thank you.
Thanks Morag! Have a lovely day!
This kid is too cool.
love this book and interview.. Excellent Podcast
Thanks Michael!! Merlin is so inspiring!
Wow. What a beautiful, rich Interview. U2 had a great, deep flow together. Brilliant questions & authenticity, amazing communication with "mouth and hands" , relaxed and joyful, full of knowledge and intelligent wisdom. Thank you so much for sharing this. I learned a lot from both of you 🙏🌱🌳 deep bow
Thank you for your kind words! We are so happy you enjoyed it! Love, EcoResolution
Having listened to a few interviews with Merlin Sheldrake I have decided that I like this one best :-) It is wonderful to listen to two young persons carrying along with so much thoughtfulness :-)
And yes, I did very much enjoy reading the book. Come birthdays, comes Xmas quite a few members of my family will "have to" as well. Everybody should join in... :-) This is about life and not about what "they" all do to it out there.
What an honour :) thanks Johannes!
Wow! Listening to an ABC (Australia) radio interview with Merlin just now, which led me to an online investigation of this man. My professional interest is fungi toxicity.......Merlin has unwittingly led me sideways to a previously unexamined/misunderstood area. Haven't been so enthralled by a radio conversation.....ever! Thank you so much!
Love that! Thanks for sharing Lorraine!
Is he a son of Rupert? Rupert is one of the most inspiring, outside-the-box thinking scientists there is. This Merlin comes across as if he has these talents too.
Yes Merlin is Rupert's son. There is another brother, Cosmo, who is a brilliant musician. The link below is to an interesting and informative article on Rupert and Merlin. Among other things, it recounts how Rupert was persecuted for years by narrow-minded mainstream scientists who refused to accept his brilliant new ideas.
sarawrightnature.wordpress.com/tag/merlin-sheldrake/
@@jennadaigle7508 Thanks for this Jenna
@@lorrainehinschen780 You're very welcome Lorraine.
Yes he his! They are an amazing family! Check out Cosmo Sheldrake's music and Jill Purse's family constellation and chanting work!!
New sub thanks to this interview, Merlin is just amazing, like often said about major important 'things' : why isnt this thought at school?
Wonderful conversation, thank you!
Thanks for tuning in! :)
Wonderful. Informative Funny Brilliant.Entertaining Thought-provoking.. And so... adorably English!
hehe! Thanks Heady for your kinds words!
“Loosening the grapes of our habits.” I like that!
I was wondering if he was Rupert's son, one look at his face and i can see the genetics. Excellent interview with insightful questions, liked and subbed :)
Wow - an awesome interview - will follow EcoResolution!
Thanks Luis!
farmed commercial mushrooms over twenty years ago. Been a fungi fan since i was fifteen, always considered the skin akin to fungi. Curious about the leather now.
This is the type of information i like to feed my brain before i expose it to disseminated propaganda. Excellent interview, excellent questions, next time see if you can get an i don't know response...
Thanks Craig! So cool you've been farming mushrooms for so long! Inspiring!
Fascinating!
Thanks William!
Brilliant.
Coming out in the UK today! www.penguin.co.uk/books/1115381/entangled-life/9781847925190.html
Fungal leather is also a win for the poor cows :)
The book is available in Europe already. 😉
I wish my name was Merlin
Fascinating overall although fact check as most carbon is locked in limestone by an order of magnitude - it's an important fact. :)
Thanks Paul!
There is no such thing as dead matter; but it is the most deadly idea.
Just read his amazing book. Btw his hair looks like mycelium!
kinda got anoyed that she made the conversation so mutch about here self and here amzing and beutifull thought on how to view that world and kinda destroyed the dynamic.. .more then half of the interview is left. But i think i search for another one..
Latin scholars will tell viewers how to pronounce "fungi". (Merlin is being polite.)
He's had too many magic ones 😂😂😂
Well his name is Merlin 🤪
"as though England or America were a developed country". Perhaps the young lady hasn't lived in a "developing" country.
England and America are developed countries. There are different definitions. Australia is also a developed country.