Scientists Found an Edible Mushroom that Eats Plastic, and it Could Clean Our Landfills
Elias Marat – Whether we like it or not, our society has become completely reliant on plastic.
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Company Develops Revolutionary Way to Create Leather, Wood, and Bricks from Mushrooms
Phillip Schneider – We need natural materials to replace plastics.
Quantum Perception and the Recognition of Plant Consciousness
Joseph S. Gallwitz – If a tree falls in the forest with noone around does it make a sound? Of course.
How Synchronicity and Magic Mushrooms Changed This Man’s Life
Video – Terence Mckenna shares his personal experiences with magic mushrooms and Carl Jung’s synchronicity, which is often regarded as coincidences in life.
10 Functional Foods Which Destroy Cancer Cells
Dave Mihalovic – There is no such thing as a cancer cell that cannot be defeated by the human immune system.
Are Mushrooms the Solution to the Worldwide Bee Colony Collapse?
Jefferey Jaxen – The intricate matrix of mushroom mycelium under our feet represents rebirth, rejuvenation, and regeneration.
Psychedelic Plant Teachers and the Limits of Normal Perception
Jose A. Arvide – If life wasn’t real, it would be the craziest psychedelic trip ever…
The Link Between Mushrooms, Bees, and Mass Extinction
Alex Pietrowski – Deforestation is the biggest threat facing humanity, and a respected mushroom researcher has discovered how deforestation damages bees…
Meet the The Mushroom Of Immortality & The King of All Herbs
Alanna Ketler – Chaga is extremely powerful because it contains within it, the actual life force of trees – the most powerful living beings on this Earth.
How Underground Therapists and Scientists Keep Psychedelic Medicine Alive Despite the Gov’t Ban
Tom Shroder, AlterNet Waking Times In the past decade, after thirty years in the deep freeze, research into the medicinal use of psychedelic drugs, ranging from psilocybin to Ketamine, and from MDMA to LSD, has begun to accelerate. FDA-approved pilot studies and clinical trials using the drugs under controlled conditions and in combination with talk …
Consciousness and Technology – 3 Mind Expanding Comparisons
Dylan Charles Waking Times Of all the pursuits of human kind, the understanding and exploration of consciousness offers the most likely opportunity for us to realize a civilization oriented towards cooperation, compassion, sustainability, and respect for life. Awakening to higher states of consciousness is the process by which a person, or a collective, can re-organize …
5 Types of Medicinal Mushrooms and How They Boost Health
Andreea Nica, AlterNet Waking Times Different species of mushrooms have valuable benefits. Understanding how food interacts with our bodies and the role it plays in healing various health conditions can be helpful. Whether food is used as part of a medical treatment or a prevention-focused diet, knowledge is power. Though some may disregard medicinal food, …
5 Mind-Blowing Lessons from Psychedelics Experts
April M. Short, AlterNet Waking Times A recent online course unraveled psychedelic science, medicine, art and spirituality. The problem with banning anything out of a fear of the unknown is that many unknowns will remain. Such is the story of many psychedelic drugs in the U.S. While the government has experimented with various psychedelic compounds …
Further Proof Psychedelic Mushrooms Could Help Keep You Sane
Elizabeth Limbach, AlterNet Waking Times Researchers looked at psilocybin’s impact on anxiety and depression. Anxiety disorders top the list of America’s mental illnesses, affecting 18 percent of the U.S. population. Yet, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, only a third of its sufferers receive treatment for it. Meanwhile, the association reports that 3 to …
Study: Magic Mushroom Compound Could Help with Depression
Paul Fassa, Natural Society Waking Times At least three different formal psychiatric studies on the effects of psilocybin, extracted from “magic mushrooms”, were performed on voluntary subjects who had never experienced psychedelics before. All had similar positive results. The motive for these studies was investigating the potential for treating depression and other psychiatric maladies with psilocybin. Two …
Psychoactive Mushrooms – Mycologist Paul Stamets on Nature’s Little Teachers
Waking Times Will mushrooms have a pivotal impact on whether or not we survive into the next millennium? Is it possible that those of us who have been exposed to the cosmic properties of psychoactive mushrooms were chosen by nature to be vehicles for receiving communications between plants and humans? Mycologist and author Paul Stamets …
Unraveling the Origins of Bioluminescent Fungi
Liz Kimbrough, Mongabay Waking Times Aristotle (384–322 BC) reported a mysterious light, distinct from fire, emanating from decaying wood. Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) mentioned feasting on a glowing, sweet fungus found on trees in France and, in the late fifteenth century, a Dutch consul gave accounts of Indonesian peoples using fungal fruits to illuminate …
Reishi: The Brilliant Mushroom
Pamela Duff, Green Med Info Waking Times These varnished-looking mushrooms are gorgeous when fresh since the caps are liver-red to a reddish brown and distinctively glossy. Ganoderma is from the Latin gan, meaning “shiny”, derma meaning “skin”, and lucideum meaning “brilliant”. The surface is arranged in lumpy zones with colour progressing to white or yellow along the edge. Lucideum grows on hardwoods …
Are Psychedelic Drugs the Next Frontier in Wellness Research?
Scientists are now starting to more actively explore the effects that psychedelic drugs have on the way we humans think and act.
Nootropics, Psychedelics & Expansion of Consciousness
Christina Sarich, Contributing Writer Waking Times From ancient Vedic times in India, to the sanctuaries of Greece, including the Temple of Delphi, to the terraced Mayan hills in Central and South America, and spirit journeys of American Indians, to the DMT and mushroom induced trances of the aboriginal Australians, to the opium dens of China, …