Dr. Merlin Sheldrake and Sir Tim Smit in conversation at Christie’s.

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
  • This TKF Talk organised by The Klosters Forum brought together two brilliant minds to talk about what fungi and plants can teach us in these tumultuous times. The conversation was moderated by the renowned journalist Hannah MacInnes.
    Thank you Christie’s for hosting us.
    For more information about other TKF Talk videos, please visit www.theklostersforum.com
    Dr. Merlin Sheldrake- Ecologist and Best-selling Author
    Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and bestselling author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. He received a PhD 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. Merlin is a keen brewer and fermenter and is fascinated by the relationships that arise between humans and more-than-human organisms. He sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation and the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks.
    Sir Tim Smit- Co-Founder and Executive Vice-Chair at Eden Project
    Sir Tim Smit read Archaeology and Anthropology at Durham University. This began a lifelong passion for regeneration and working to put things into good heart. Following occupations embracing his many interests from Archaeology through music to wreck diving, Rare Breed animal husbandry and building restoration, in 1990 He ‘discovered’ and then restored ‘The Lost Gardens of Heligan’ with John Nelson. Of which he remains a Director. This is now one of the UK’s best-loved gardens having been named ‘Garden of the Year’ by BBC Countryfile Awards (Mar 2018). Tim’s book ‘The Lost Gardens of Heligan’ won Book of the Year in 1997. Tim is today Executive Vice-Chair and Co-founder of the multi-award-winning Eden Project in Cornwall. Since its opening in 2001, over 23 million people have come to see a once sterile pit, turned into a cradle of life containing world-class horticulture and startling architecture symbolic of human endeavour and our dependence and unbreakable part in the systems of the natural world.

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  • @Mako7eyes
    @Mako7eyes ปีที่แล้ว +11

    These two compliment eachother perfectly. Ive been enjoying Merlins presence in my head for a couple of years now like a very fine wine, now i realise I've been missing the cheese

  • @rachelgrainer3549
    @rachelgrainer3549 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    I’m delighted to see Merlin Sheldrake present to the public the case for symbiosis and connectivity thinking in 2023.Merlin mentioned Lynn Margulies toward the end of the talk because she was the evolutionary biologist who fought the scientific academic community for 25 years before finally being accepted with her theory of symbiosis. Bravo Merlin! Lynn was my best friend at the U of Chicago in the 1950s and I know she would have loved this video as much as I have. Thank you for this…good fortune and good future for us all!’ 14:39

    • @reghand3276
      @reghand3276 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hi Rachel, nice to hear your connection with Lynn. I just got out of my depth reading Lynn and reverted to Merlin for a while. It's a great presentation.

    • @Babesinthewood97
      @Babesinthewood97 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Very interesting ❤

  • @Lelabear
    @Lelabear ปีที่แล้ว +13

    If we let him, Merlin could save us all.

  • @kreipesimona2322
    @kreipesimona2322 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Love this combination of understatement and massive expertise. So British.

    • @bertibear1300
      @bertibear1300 ปีที่แล้ว

      Smit is Dutch and Eden project is not popular with Cornish.

  • @marieweinstein2840
    @marieweinstein2840 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love listening to
    Sheldon!
    He is fascinating and I hope we see much more of him in the future! Fungi are exciting’

  • @JasonLockwood87
    @JasonLockwood87 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    That part about the end of the world not actually being the end of the world and instead being the end of us, resonated with me. They’re correct. We, as humans, think we are more important than we actually are and we need to reform those symbiotic relationships with plants and fungi. We do not have dominion over anything, something has dominion over us. The day we realise what our place is on this earth will be the day we become more advanced than we could ever have hoped.

  • @melparadise7378
    @melparadise7378 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Thank you for speaking out about the trash fire that is America's pharmaceutical industry. That shit damn near killed me, and is what inevitably led me to mushrooms (and eventually your book). Mushrooms saved my quality of life and a lot changed really fast. It's a wonderful time to be studying mushrooms in Oregon. I owe them so mush. :*) ...they're also slowly taking over my studio...just so many mushrooms. haha

  • @billiverschoore2466
    @billiverschoore2466 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Such beautiful insights so beautifully communicated 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
    Yes all this 'saviour' mentality... so very potentially dangerous.
    Thank you for mentioning the dangers of cultivated and foreign plants/fungi escaping into the wild.
    May your insight myceliate the present system, digest it and transform it!
    Am looking forward to living long enough to see people's awe, respect and understanding grow to such an extent that today's human misdemeanors will be well on the way to being a thing of the past.
    🌳🕊💚

  • @olgaroyenko4226
    @olgaroyenko4226 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    absolutely beautiful talk, thank you for inspiration!

  • @Varg580
    @Varg580 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One of the best interviews I've seen so far!

  • @ionamay494
    @ionamay494 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Amazing, inspiring and engaging talk! Thank you.

  • @GiannaBrachettiTruskawa
    @GiannaBrachettiTruskawa 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Dr. Merlin Sheldrake is so endearing when speaking about eating mushrooms who devoured Dr. Sheldrake's book. 😊

  • @lesleycassell
    @lesleycassell ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Excellent discussion - really enjoyed it - thank you

  • @marieweinstein2840
    @marieweinstein2840 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Tim is fascinating , knowledgeable 51:19 as well as humorous

  • @mandyshanks2327
    @mandyshanks2327 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I agree that Merlin’s book, Entangled Lives, is life.

  • @RSEFX
    @RSEFX ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Dr. Smit, being a person from the UK may be observing and making observations about people who are a lot more "staid" than much of the rest of the world's peoples. Rigid, maybe is the word I'd use, having lived there for a while...which is not to say this isn't a wonderful highly successful, etc etc peoples and country, but....to me it tends toward formality and a certain degree of rigor/stiffening up among the older citizens: Which may explain his view about younger people (who, very often can be pretty darn dystopian everywhere, but who may seem more "breakthrough-oriented" when viewed within the context of the British traditions) I will also add, I think he is brilliant and a wonderful listen (as with M. Sheldrake) and greatly admire him. Also adding that I am an Anglophile, regardless of any of the above.

  • @mandyshanks2327
    @mandyshanks2327 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    His father, Rupert sheldrake, is an angel.

  • @jsneuzilagent9940
    @jsneuzilagent9940 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I like to think that Newton’s third law: explains his theory-and the equal and opposite reaction was the apple cider you invented. I like your work and that of a Rupert Sheldrake. Cheers!

  • @jeffnegron8845
    @jeffnegron8845 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Is that Rupert’s son?

  • @TheJohnFiles
    @TheJohnFiles ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Underground growth and underground networks are the not same thing sweetheart. That was cute how she thought it was in the introductions.

  • @mary-anncarleton7578
    @mary-anncarleton7578 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤❤❤.

  • @-wildwoods-
    @-wildwoods- 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Such an interesting talk recently had some libs never felt so good anything and everything seemed possible mushrooms are amazing lifeforms

  • @DJASHLOFT
    @DJASHLOFT ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I would bet every I have on nobody ever in history has written a book and then ate it before now

    • @frodoggbooboo
      @frodoggbooboo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      An original!

  • @mandyshanks2327
    @mandyshanks2327 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I went to that Cornwall thing. I paid for it. Please be humble -the owners that is. Merlin is authentic, long may he live. Tim is a snake in his jungle.

  • @Babesinthewood97
    @Babesinthewood97 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I met a guy who was experimenting with creating materials from fungi and moulding it into windmills. I think there could be a future with materials that are harmful.

  • @fredwitherow420
    @fredwitherow420 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Horace was lonely....... 😊😊😊

  • @Clazers
    @Clazers 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mesmerized. Wow.

  • @maureenmannion6748
    @maureenmannion6748 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @frodoggbooboo
    @frodoggbooboo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cutting Edge!!! Listen People!!!

  • @frodoggbooboo
    @frodoggbooboo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Before the internet, there was the mycelial network. The organic network may even be more complex because it is self generated.

    • @hArtyTruffle
      @hArtyTruffle 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, the WoodWideWeb 🍄

  • @cornfall
    @cornfall ปีที่แล้ว

    18:31 - - Hold On - - !!!