Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake – 5⭐

“A mycelial network is a map of a fungus’s recent history and is a helpful reminder that all life-forms are in fact processes not things. The “you” of five years ago was made from different stuff than the “you” of today. Nature is an event that never stops. As William Bateson, who coined the word genetics, observed, “We commonly think of animals and plants as matter, but they are really systems through which matter is continually passing.”

This was such a fascinating read. I thought I knew a lot about the power of Fungi but in actual fact I knew nothing. This book did a really good job at helping to make the science involved more understandable. We get an overview of what is probably the common knowledge understanding of Fungi, and with each chapter we learn more and more about just how fucking wild this side of nature really is.

I think there is definitely so much about fungi we don’t understand, and so much that it could do, some of the most interesting things that popped up in this were what it could do for mental health, and what it could do to help clean up the mess we are making of this planet.

“Science isn’t an exercise in cold-blooded rationality. Scientists are—and have always been—emotional, creative, intuitive, whole human beings, asking questions about a world that was never made to be catalogued and systematized.”

My biggest takeaway from this book though was how we as humans constantly try to apply human logic to everything around us, nature and science included. I wonder how many discoveries are missed or overlooked because of our inability to look at things through a human lens.

I also think I’ll need to dip into this book from time to time, there is a lot of information that I kind of want to be able to bring up in conversations because it’s mind blowing, and I need to make sure it’s accurate. Zombie ants being my current mindfuck!