Merlin Sheldrake: The Entangled Life
How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, Shape Our Future
Where do our selves begin? Where do they stop? How often do you consider what your 'self' consists of?
"We have all these microbes living inside of us, more than we have our own cells, and without these microbes living inside us, we wouldn’t grow and develop and behave as we do. So what we call ourselves, is really this community, this ecology..." How can we thrive when we have disconnected from nature and the very things which we are made of?
In this episode of EcoResolution Interviews Christabel sits down with Merlin Sheldrake to talk mushrooms, ecology, consciousness and our entangled 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 disasters. 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."
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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.
A keen brewer and fermenter, he is fascinated by the relationships that arise between humans and more-than-human organisms. He is also a musician and performs on the piano and accordion. Entangled Life is his first book. You can order or pre-order Merlins transformative new book via www.merlinsheldrake.com
