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Mushrooms, moonshine and psychedelics: Merlin Sheldrake on the wild life of fungi – Telegraph.co.uk
The biologist’s new book is about the interconnectedness of nature. Should we see everything from Covid to Class A substances differently?
When Merlin Sheldrakes book, Entangled Life, arrived from the printers, he marked the occasion by eating a copy. Not plain that would be insane. First, he dampened the pages, then he seeded them with the fungi that produce oyster mushrooms and waited for the fat, fleshy plates to sprout through the covers.
It was great! he tells me cheerily, of chomping on two years worth of research and writing. They tasted just like normal oyster mushrooms, which is encouraging. It means they fully metabolise…
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