Listen: Merlin Sheldrake on the Mind-Expanding Power of Mushrooms

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In the second episode of Where It’s At, Jefferson Hack sits down with the Entangled Life author to talk about how fungi shapes our understanding of life on earth

Launching today, the second episode of AnOthers new podcast Where It’s At sees Jefferson Hack talk to renowned mycologist Merlin Sheldrake. Between his best-selling book Entangled Life and the extraordinary time-lapse documentary Fungi: The Web of Life (with otherworldly narration by Björk)Sheldrake has been instrumental in explaining how fungi shapes our understanding of life on earth. As well as its enormous impact on both environmental and mental health, Sheldrake deep dives into his illustrious childhood conducting experiments at home, and the influence of family friend and famed philosopher and psychedelic advocate, Terence McKenna. 

Listen to the new episode of Where It’s At below or wherever you get your podcasts. 

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