He might be old news but he is new news to me and that’s what counts.  This guy…he’s great check out what he has to say about STUFF and stuff…enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeASZgnlN_M&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
So this makes me think about it once again.  Terence and Paul both have this idea that mushrooms have great and virtually untapped potentials wether they be psychoactive or not.  Man! What if they really are IT.  Like THE thing that everything links to.  The potential of fungi has been revealed to me this night.  The mushrooms have a mission.  Is that mission to give us a mission? All this just makes me so angsty to get out into the field of mycology more than ever.  I feel (after sort of scratching around for a year or two) that we might try to be more like the mushroom in our day to day lives to enhance the general quality and happiness of…everything.  They really set forth a dominating example if you ask me.

thats facinating, thanks for sharing.  Its like we are chosen by the mushrooms, I feel like the human race is the equivilant of an arrogant little bratty kid that thinks he knows more than all of the adults, the adults being the trees, the plants and the mushrooms that made it possible for all of that to grow.  They are all way more evolved than we are, and i would say more intelligent aslo, just cause they dont use an inadiquate and limited form of communication like words doenst mean they are not intelligent.  Im gonna have to get that book!

Glad you liked it as much as I did!  It seems that we are much younger than those species.  You’re right, we are such brats!

I did a little more searching on Paul Stamets after watching that, there is a video of him at a Psycoactivity Conference or something in amsterdam that is pretty cool too, he goes more into his experiences with psychadelic mushrooms.  Ill post a link if i can find it agian, shouldnt be hard

I’ve seen that one I think.  Hehe. Usually when I stumble across people like this I go bonkers finding out everything about them.  (sigh) I want to live in the Pacific Northwest so baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.

I know what you mean, i did the same thing when i discovered Terrence Mckenna. 

“Is this the largest organism in the world? This 2,400-acre (9.7 km2) site in eastern Oregon had a contiguous growth of mycelium before logging roads cut through it. Estimated at 1,665 football fields in size and 2,200 years old, this one fungus has killed the forest above it several times over, and in so doing has built deeper soil layers that allow the growth of ever-larger stands of trees. Mushroom-forming forest fungi are unique in that their mycelial mats can achieve such massive proportions.”
—Paul Stamets, Mycelium Running

I want to see that!  I wonder if the logging road actually ruined it or if its still there.  I wonder what it would be like to trip there

Haha yea.  That has been beating on the back of my skull for some time.  IS it still there?  I’m not too sure how to go about finding it on the internet.  I could imagine that tripping there could be the most extraordinary experience any voyager could ever have.

yea its crazy how much we dont know about fungi, really makes me want to get into mycology, i cant think of a more facinating field