Paul Stamets, Taste3 2007, Session 1: Power

[TheAnakmas]

fantastic , thank you Paul

[Blackliam]

He's always constrained for time, but this information is so important!! I wanna hear you talk for hours, Stamets, teaaaach meeee! lol

[Modus57]

We need ideas that will work fast. It seems like fungi are some of the fastest, smartest and most useful components in nature. We would be wise to look to nature and emulate her in order to heal ourselves. Thank you Paul Stamets.

peace

[ainsheea]

Paul, what is the painting at 10:20, who is the artist?? this looks strikingly similar to one of my paintings in its dimensions and subject matter....how odd!! and somehow doesn't surprise me, I could have been 'telepathically" inspired by them!

[zimij325]

@ainsheea God made giggles and telepathine. Ooops, 'scuse me.

[ogskeetdizzle]

i want a fire mushroom hat from translevania cool.

[peaveyblazer158]

yes adam and eve but it is in our nature to explore the unknown such as fruit of knowledge there is something soothing about the word forest to me i see talk of god the great unknown.... god do sent seem to provide answers only a vast amount of questions the past few days have been euphoric for me any one know terence meckena

[jihadpizza]

Bravo Stamets. You never cease to amaze me.

[zimij325]

One for the National Assessment of Educational Progress. They plan to include world history by the end of 2012 according to wikipedia. Whaddaya know?

[zimij325]

Jesus saves to pay his taxes to save his own scooter. Gee...ain't that swell? Which mushroom is the best at navigation? She should be able to lead us somewhere nice. Epiphany Park...build it and they will come. Punk with potential. We'll fruit this human potential thing yet. The evil hand of doom hacks at that potential and that'$ that. Shut up, love, and hang on. Now we're playing in the field of the lords. People walking around with crossed eyes eating spotted Ts. Why does Rudolph have a red

[ainsheea]

@zimij325  wow ya, ok buddy.

[zimij325]

@ainsheea Yeah, I got fed up and gagged a bit, but I feel great now.

Thanks for asking.

Live well, be free

[ainsheea]

i do like metaphors thanks for the laugh

[zimij325]

I propose the use of fungal mycillium to filter watersheds everywhere...even your backyard. Get Back.

I appriciate the simplicity of real medicine. Why, why, why?$? Caduceus, could you see us? $nake on a $tick. Thinkin' ain't dancin'. That's the price one pays to see the dimentional berriers compress, or whatever that was...Get Back to where you once belonged. and WOW!!! What an amazing breakthrough.

Sincerest Thanks to Paul for his PIECE of the PUZZLE. Get water and wood fun guys WAIT!

[bullsaidart]

Can anyone tell me if my em1 bokashi supplies mycofiltration benefits to my garden ?

[hdmgs]

Abyss

It is alarming what is going on in the states. The middle part of the country seems to have become a hub of incredulity.

Reading the responses across YT and the ones below, scientific illiteracy is clearly the central reason. Most strange is the clear religious biases people often fill their gap in understanding with.

People would rather absorb anti-science, anti-evolution stances, or bandy about attendant conspiracy theories, than address their own lack of education.

[abyssquick]

Though, they usually don't see it as their own lack of education. Of course, they get offended when this is brought up.

Basically they don't have the macroscopic interest. They may have immediate interest in nature, but not in the temporal, ancestral context of all life on planet earth.

The bigger picture is daunting, but this is precisely why there are so many fields of earth science, each working to understand small parts of earth's history, collectively unified by evolutionary theory.

[whonotmeyou]

not everyone mate is it just here u think?

[abyssquick]

This is undoubtedly a US phenomenon, predominantly. Specifically, the heartland & southern USA, where anti-evolution & anti-science memes are being propagated in fundamentalist churches.

I speak with scientists in other nations, and there is no social rejection of science. It is embarrassing to the USA to have this happening. We once were at the forefront of technology. Now we have a growing scientific apathy & illiteracy, a public prosperous by modern science, now rejecting it's methods.

[abyssquick]

...and if it continues, our grandchildren will be working menial grunt jobs for other nations. The illiteracy in science & it's methods has no place in this modern age... Let alone anti-science conspiracy nonsense.

[whonotmeyou]

i wouldnt say theres a problem with just people in the usa id say theres a problem with people who have that point of view, i think its meaningless to say that there all from some country, although i hear you, the perspective on life and reality presented and accepted in the U.S. is pretty strange

[abyssquick]

The geographical observation is also incidental one. It's in the USA mostly because that's where the memes originate. It's not to say creationists are all American, but only that most of them are, and why. It's not any sleight toward their nationality. I think maybe if they had some ecumenical perspective, these people might think more. Science is ecumenical; universal. Creationism is distinctly regional.

I deal with people within and outside the USA, and have made the observation myself.

[whonotmeyou]

ok im not entirely sure what u just said but i think i get the jist of it. i think people just dont wana know anything cus there so bombarded with fear 247

[abyssquick]

Yes; and it's a big scary universe. And it's far easier to say "goddidit" and let that be the end of it. At least in the US, presently.

[whonotmeyou]

whats funny to me is that if you follow science and think about stuff you will see how it really is an amaizing life and theres way more too it then whats on the surface. its like the genral idea of religon is a cheap imitation and people prefer it somehow.

infinity infinity

[xxx777aaa]

@abyssquick i believe that an intelligent designer would easily be able to incorporate an intelligent underground nutrient delivery system such as this video illustrates. the internet is the data delivery system we have designed. i think IT did IT.either way it pretty awesome!

[abyssquick]

i don't see how the dichotomy is rendered-- i.e. it must unilaterally be either one or the other... there are many other ideas on the playing field- morphic resonance, implicate order, etc... if we are concerned with being egalitarian.

i come from a different culture- i wasn't trained to worship anything, my ancestors had no personfied "god" as a singularity; there is no solid belief; there are only stores; parables.

so you can see we may think very differently based on that alone.

[abyssquick]

Yes- Scientific illiteracy is common

They don't have any concept really, the scope of science. The present-day abundance of the fossil record and biodiversity is far more rich than the public could possibly expect.

Many will try to single out one thing that clashes with a belief (always about mankind's place) and incrementally coming to question all of biology, geology, atomic physics, earth science - all of which yield tangible everyday results due to accuracy.

[abyssquick]

The knowledge of atomic physics has wrought technologies such as this computer.

The public glady accepts the products of meticulous science. When science, despite it's accuracy (which can only occur if the theories are correct in some basic sense), trespasses on religion, we see the public rejecting the methodology, and the thinking.

[abyssquick]

It's very illogical, I think. Science is all part of one singular methodology. All theories yield tangible results. Evolution is more palpable than most (gravity or atomic theory), as we actually understand what it is, and how it works.

It is the most -hated- theory it seems because it says something contradicting a strong religious belief.

The efforts to refute it need to address on an equal scope and detail, and they simply don't. Arguments against it only show lack of scientific education.

[HomesteadProvocateur]

Mushrooms = People! ROFL

[jonahlasvegas]

adam and eve = people! ROFL

[HomesteadProvocateur]

Making a hat out of CHITIN? I love this stuff, symbiosis all the way!!!

It is like a whole new world I've only recently discovered in the last year. _not so much with the evolution nonsense_

[abyssquick]

yes, but the discovery was only possible with evolutionary understanding....?

what's all this "anti-evolution" stuff recently? i don't understand. it's perhaps a bit esoteric, yes... but that doesn't make it wrong... it's been more than proven through it's sheer versatility.

the only dispute in sciences is -how- it happens... "whether" it happens hasn't been a noted issue since 1925... and long since gone with the ridiculous amounts of evidence today...

[HomesteadProvocateur]

What is with the anti-evolution stuff is that people are starting to learn to critically think is what. When you've been brainwashed into believing a concept that has not been observed, isn't replicable and cannot be verified without a shadow of a doubt, you are left with bunk science. Just because the masses believe it for a given time, doesn't mean it's right. But I don't see the point in arguing the point, perhaps we can agree to disagree on this issue? I've had my fair share of debate! :)

[abyssquick]

anti-evolution -- it's -only- a US 'belief', chiefly among a certain interpretation of religion. meanwhile, the rest of the world finds no issue.

i had the displeasure of hearing Russian scientists joke about this "problem" we have in the USA-- meanwhile they are excelling in horticultural science based on tracing evolution.

yes I do disagree. I have to; I am logically obliged. how can something with so much physical evidence (more than the theory of gravity!) be so easily shrugged off?

[HomesteadProvocateur]

And Isreal, a predominantly theologically based culture is the leader in the agricultural exports of tropical fruits and flowers, they surpass Russia in many ways I'm sure, and as predicted by the Bible, the barren desert that their land once was due to mismanagement, is now blooming with flowers. Evolution and the concept therein, is not necessary in the understanding of the natural world and plant life. In fact, the analogies in the Bible explaining plant life, IMO far outweigh any science tex

[HomesteadProvocateur]

I disagree that the physical evidence supporting evolution surpasses that required for gravity! Carbon dating has been refuted and proven wrong in various cases, with different parts of the same object, (ie. fossil) being measured as different ages. Not to mention it presupposes the amount of carbon in the atmosphere has remained at a constant, using the ratio of carbon to its isotopes as the means by which to measure time, and then scientists go and say we have increasing carbon in the atmosph!

[HomesteadProvocateur]

By all means, disagree, your logic isn't any more logical then mine. When you have a belief in something not seen, it is called faith. I hate to tell you, but you have faith in evolution, and I have faith that things were created. Both of us are not going to be able to prove our stance without a shadow of a doubt, but both require FAITH... There is evidence that suggests there is a creator, it is abundant, and yet ignored by much of humanity, does it mean it is not in existence? Tunnel vision..

[ugadawgs1984]

Hi again HomesteadPro...

I believe in evolution and that the Bible is the Word of God.  I'm certain that most people on this thread probably are not in that line of thinking, but I thought you'd consider the thought interesting. If you'd like to discuss PM Me.

[HeliosCore]

What was that mushroom he first presented called?

[abyssquick]

i believe it is [common name] birch polypore

[funnyguise]

More confirmation of what John Allegro wrote.

Our connection to mushrooms has been known for a long time only to be re-discovered now.

[Xerond]

Such an awesome video, thank you for uploading it.

[Logicbeatslies]

This is good!

[Snowflake70]

I know about Vx ...this is awesome! Thank you. I had no idea.

[dellsprospects22]

only way i'm doing drugs is if i get cancer

[Iseeyoursoul]

MAN NO WONDER that's why I always feel more natural on mushrooms.

[dreaminginnoother]

mushrooms disassembling all kinds of human created problems.  Pollution and ego. So helpful on so many levels.

[silversobe]

A revolution of truth is coming..

Educate yourself

[methylamine]

I LOVE Paul's lateral thinking. We need more people who are broadly educated in multiple sciences and arts; we need ANOTHER RENAISSANCE!

[bobfole]

Oh how I wish I could afford to attend this conference. Thank you so much for posting these videos. They introduce me into a world of food that I would have hardly known.