Fantastic fungi : how mushrooms can heal, shift consciousness & save the planet / edited and introduction by Paul Stamets ; afterword by Louie Schwartzberg.

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San Rafael, California : Earth Aware Editions, 2019.

China : Insight Editions, 2019.

©2019

©2019

China : Insight Editions, 2019.

181 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm

Companion to the film Fantastic Fungi. Contributions from Michael Pollan, Andrew Weil, Eugenia Bone, and many more experts make Fantastic Fungi an awe-inspiring visual journey through the exotic, little-known realm of fungi and its amazing potential to positively influence our lives. An all-star team of professional and amateur mycologists, artists, foodies, ecologists, doctors, and explorers joined forces with time-lapse master Louie Schwartzberg to create Fantastic Fungi, the life-affirming, mind-bending film about mushrooms and their mysterious interwoven rootlike filaments called mycelium. This visually compelling companion book of the same name, edited by preeminent mycologist Paul Stamets, expands upon the film through extended transcripts, new essays and interviews, and additional facts about the fantastic realm of fungi. In this book, learn about the incredible communication network of mycelium under our feet, which has the proven ability to restore the planet's ecosystems, repair our health, and resurrect our symbiotic relationship with nature.

Fungi.

Fungi -- Ecology.

Mushrooms -- Therapeutic use.

Fungi -- Therapeutic use.

Mushrooms, Hallucinogenic.

Psilocybin.

Mycelium.

Mushrooms.

Creative nonfiction.

Gilbert, Matthew, contributor.

Stamets, Paul, editor.

Schwartzberg, Louis, writer of afterword.

Bone, Eugenia, contributor.

Simard, S. (Suzanne), contributor.

Pollan, Michael, contributor.

Weil, Andrew, contributor.

Griffiths, Roland, contributor.

Lincoff, Gary, contributor.

Sheldrake, Merlin, contributor.

Harman, Jay, contributor.

Fantastic fungi (Motion picture : 2019)

"Text written by Matthew Gilbert; all essays were based on interview transcripts and were reviewed or revised by interviewees when possible."-- Page 184.

Companion to the film Fantastic fungi, directed by Louis Schwartzberg.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mycelium: The Source of Life / Suzanne Simard -- Spotlight On: Old-Growth Forests: Carbon Warriors / Paul Stamets -- No Straight Lines / Jay Harman -- Fungi Facts: Wearable, Buildable Mycelium -- The Wood Wide Web / Merlin Sheldrake -- Fungi Facts: Billions and Billions / Nik Money -- Mushroom Mad! / Giuliana Furci -- Cultivating Myco-Literacy / Peter McCoy -- Spotlight On: Fungi Activism -- Fungi: A Bee's Best Friend / Steve Sheppard -- Mycoremediation: Growing Pains and Opportunities / Daniel Reyes -- Spotlight On: The Amazon Mycorenewal Project -- Spotlight On: Fungal Cleaners -- The Mushroom Revolution is Here / Tradd Cotter -- The Sky is Falling, But There's a Net / Paul Stamets --

Mushrooms: Pharmacological Wonders / Andrew Weil -- Spotlight On: A "Tail" of Recovery / Paul Stamets -- Fungi Facts: The Health Benefits and Varieties of Medicinal Mushrooms -- Fungi as Food and Medicine for Plants (and Us) / Eugenia Bone -- Delicious Mushroom Recipes -- Fungi Facts: The First Cultivated Mushroom -- A Forager's Homage / Gary Lincoff -- Spotlight On: Gary Lincoff: Myco-Visionary (1942-2018) -- A Mushrooming of Interest / Britt Bunyard -- Spotlight On: Desert Truffles / Elinoar Shavit -- Fungi Facts: Mushrooms Across Time: An Ancient History / Elinoar Shavit -- Growing Your Own / Kris Holstrom -- Fungi Facts: Eating Wild / Katrina Blair -- Mushrooms to the People / William Padilla-Brown -- Our Global Immune System / Paul Stamets --

The Renaissance of Psychedelic Therapy / Michael Pollan -- Psilocybin in a Test Tube / Nicholas V. Cozzi -- Doorways to Transcendence / Roland Griffiths -- Spotlight On: Touching the Sacred / Alex Grey -- A Guide Through the Maze / Mary Cosimano -- Spotlight On: Johns Hopkins Session Transcripts -- Spotlight On: Sacred Ceremony / Adele Getty -- A Good Death / Stephen Ross -- Spotlight On: Psilocybin Research: A Clinical Resurrection / Charles Grob -- The Mysteries of Self-Ness / Franz Vollenweider -- Spotlight On: Microdosing: Real Or Placebo? -- Of Apes and Men / Dennis McKenna -- Counterpoint: The Stoned Ape Theory -- Not / Andrew Weil -- Mystical Experiences Across Religious Traditions / Anthony Bossis ; Robert Jesse ; William Richards -- Spotlight On: Council on Spiritual Practices/Heffter Research Institute -- Spotlight On: Meditation and Psilocybin / Vanja Palmers -- Changing the Game / Paul Stamets -- Afterword / Louis Schwartzberg.

1683837045 (hbk.)

9781683837046 (hbk.)

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