Auto-SummaryThe post explores the unique nature of mushrooms and their mycelium, comparing it to water in terms of unity and flow. It suggests that taking mushrooms can lead to a profound sense of unity and interconnectedness with the world, as well as a shift in perception. The author proposes that this shift in consciousness may have influenced the evolution of mushrooms, as they gained insights from humans and other beings. The post also touches on the idea that mushrooms and humans may have exchanged knowledge and perspectives, leading to the development of mushrooms in different environments. The author concludes by suggesting that just as humans benefit from diverse nutrients, mushrooms may benefit from diverse "intellectual nutrients" to expand their consciousness.
I been thinking, about how and why we think the way we do about the world when we take mushrooms.
First i take a look and mushroom mycelia. Unlike most living things(maybe even anything) you see in nature, fungus mycellium is one "mass". so unlike plants and animals, it doesn't have organs that do this, or specific hearts or brains that do that, it is one single "membrane"
If you think about the nature of these mushrooms being in unity of "one", what is a major feeling people get when taking mushrooms? or even LSD which is a derivative of the ergot fungus? i know i've felt, and MANY others who have tripped, this thought has gone through them: "WHOA! I'M ONE WITH EVERYTHING! ITS LIKE I CAN'T EXPLAIN IT! EVERYTHING IS EQUAL AND ONE ENTITY, AND I'M JUST PART OF IT!"
This is a thought that was major with the "psychadelic" movements. maybe it has to do with mushrooms showing us their point of view, in a respect? If you reverse it around and could imagine that mushrooms could "eat" us, would they think "WHOA! ITS LIKE, EVERYTHING IS DIVIDED! EVERYTHING IS LIKE... ITS OWN THING! EVERYTHING HAS ITS OWN SINGULAR IDENTIY, NOTHING IS CONNECTED!"
Is it a coincidence that most artists who are "trippin'" generally have artwork that "form" and "mesh" together, with little definitive lines a geometric shapes, for the most part.
If fungus could "eat" us, would they be fascinated by the ability to catagorize, and would they paint using perfect shapes, laws, and boundries?
UPDATE. because i've been pondering this a bit.
If eating mushrooms do give us knowledge of a their perspective, and in return we give them a knowledge of a our perspective, could this show some light on how the mushroom evolved into being?
First i get back into the mushroom mycellium, in it being "one free flowing entity". A good analogy is comparing mycelium to water.
Look at water and it has no organs or mechanisms, is not geometric and it is free flowing.
So by seeing the nature of water, maybe it sheds light into mushroom mycelium. Anybody looking at this must've realized the connection of how mushroom mycelium is similar to water, and being that mycelium needs LOTS of water, it should be clear of how water formed the structure and nature of mycelium. For instance, water flows free, mycelium grows free(of course provided its in the right envrionment but u get the idea), water is one entity, but can be split, but still doesnt change, and mycellium can too do the same, so the "essence" of water was passed down to for the creation of mushroom mycelium.
My point is when something becomes part of something else, part of its essence becomes what it is part of. So since mycellium has high amount of water, its essence is highly of water. Other points can be made like this: we eat the flesh and muscle(protein) of animals, we become big and strong, eat more and we get stronger. If we eat a pumpkin seeds, we can become more fertile, eat more and we become more fertile.
Eat magic mushrooms and we see things differently, eat more and we see things differently more INTENSELY.
If you look at the "concious intelegence" transfers that occur when eating mushrooms it possible the opposite happens and that the mushroom mycelium gains some of our concious essence when u eat it, you may start to see how and why the MUSHROOM(and i mean MUSHROOM, not the fungus or mycellium, that came from water) came to be.
You may have noticed that i say the mycellium is one single entity, and may be thinking "well what about the mushroom? is that not a seperate entity?" And yes, it is. But look at the essence of a mushroom. It has individual parts and mechanisms that are seperate, it is geometric. It has a stem that gives it some height, and gills which give send off spores, it is not one singular "membrane". Think where this "essence" of being more of a divided, mechanical, logical(don't quite know how to say it) living thing. Me, and you.
I believe that the mushroom evolved into being because it came into contact(contact doesn't necesarrily have to mean "make us trip", i mean just come in CONTACT in anyway with us, transfering each others essence) with a more mechanical, logical, geometric being, probably us.
This is why mycellium is underground, and mushrooms come above, because when it comes above ground, it needs to be able to adapt to a new world. By gaining a new perspective from us(could be another animal or something but at least for magic mushrooms i think that most likely it would've been humans) they were able to adapt to a different world they could not fathom by gaining some of our knowledge of some VERY BASIC things of how it worked, when otherwise they would not. Maybe these mushrooms don't hold a "univerisal truth" but simply a different perspective, that may enable us to adapt better, and shed a different light on us.
If we can transfer nutrients and proteins from foods, which help our bodily health, why can't the same be said about intelligence and perspective? I don't know what philosopher exactly but i know its been said(maybe it was jesus, i dunno, think so) that "the wisest is he who understands not just the view of one man, but the views of multiple men" its something like that, i know that basic message has been conveyed in Alex Grey books. So like good body nutrition- which to be healthy u need to eat not just one type of foods, but all types of vegetables, breads, meats, and fruits- it is essential for good health of the mind that we see from a different angle we couldn't possibly see before, we need to have differnt mental "nutrients".
Maybe that is why we dream at night...
(its a lot, i know... if u actually read that all, WOW! but it does feel good to express myself.)
P.S. another litlle thing to note, most people will say that Fly Agarics are much more mystical and more powerful than psilocybe(i've never actually taken them) maybe this is because of it mycorhizal synergy effect with a tree, thus when u eat it you not only get the "intellegence" of the mushroom, but also the tree... might be why its so much more intense.
Edited by butralance (09/30/08 03:38 AM)
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