Merlin Sheldrake eats mushrooms sprouting from his book, Entangled Life
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 มิ.ย. 2020
- Fungi make mushrooms, but first they must unmake something else. In this video, I eat oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus) that have sprouted from my book, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, & Shape Our Futures. Now Pleurotus has eaten Entangled Life, I can eat the Pleurotus - and so eat my words.
Initially I was flattered that Pleurotus had so eagerly devoured the book, but on reflection I'm not sure that I can interpret their behaviour as a vote of confidence. Pleurotus have famously diverse tastes and are able to eat an astonishing variety of things, from crude oil, to used cigarette butts, to glyphosate - they can even trap and consume worms when they need to.
The mushrooms were delicious: I couldn't taste any off notes, which suggests that the fungus had fully metabolised the text.
The book was soaked in boiling water. The fungus was introduced to the book in the form of myceliated grain and placed in a sealed plastic bag in the dark. After a couple of weeks, when the mycelium had grown, I removed the bag, placed the book in the light, and kept it moist with a water spritzer while it fruited over the course of about five days. Many thanks to my friends at Grocycle.com who inoculated and incubated the books.
Find out more about Entangled Life at merlinsheldrake.com.
Naming your kids merlin and cosmo is such a power move
Naming them is one thing; helping them grow into their names is where the real power lies. I’ve been following their dad, Rupert, since the ‘80s. That he has amazing children is no surprise.
Their parents seem incredibly fascinating. What a childhood they must have had!
He said his parents named him Merlin after the fish, not the magician
@@gkdsama his father hung with Terence McKenna and came up with the theory of morphic resonance, and his mom practices an incredibly fascinating yet unusual form of therapy and developed a new method of overtone singing which sounds like singing two notes at once. Also his brother’s name is Cosmo. Perhaps he *was* named after a fish, but there is definitely a whole lot of magic going on, and I would imagine The Merlin would be quite proud of his studies.
@@humanbeing-_-_- is there any videos of his mom singing like that?
High levels of intelligence, originality, sensitivity and adorableness: all contained in just this one superlative being.
You talkin about Merlin or the fungi lol
This whole situation is such an enormous vibe I can’t even describe it really.
Looking forward to reading your book!
Update: I read your book.
It was an enormous vibe.
Agreed
this is the only man i’d trust to hold my choccy milk
It must have been hard filming in there. Not mush room.
it's a bad pun.
mmm cheesy. I like it.
Hi Merlin, just thought I’d write you a little thank you note if you were to ever read this. I’m reading Entangled Life at the moment and it is just mind blowing. The passion with which you write and the endlessly awe inspiring things that you describe is something I wake up excited by every day!
Mushrooms (foraged Liberty caps to be specific) saved my life 12 years ago, rescuing me from depression and setting me back on the right path, whilst triggering a huge amount of creative energy for my music! I’m now a professional musician. They opened my eyes to the real world, that there is one consciousness. I’d heard your Dad talk about these things with Terrence McKenna before but experiencing it for myself changed me forever.
I must say, mushrooms seem to have a way of coming into your life when you need them most. I found Liberty caps again this year for the first time in years. And loads of them! I also began foraging for other mushrooms this year finding some incredible things! My best was a metre wide hen of the woods! It made about ten delicious meals/stocks and broths.
The point is mushrooms are continuing to save my life. I’ve lost my job as a musician this year due to COVID and had to move back in with my parents which as a 30 year old is quite demeaning. But having moved away from Brighton to Cornwall, I managed to forage and find all these incredible mushrooms, not least the Liberty caps which continue to pry open my third eye!
Your writing, the writing and talks of your dad, even the music of your brother Cosmo (who I had the pleasure of meeting 5 or so years ago, when he was leading amazing choir sessions in Brighton, where he’d teach us incredible polyphony, I actually noticed you’d written about one of the pieces he taught us!) have been a source of great inspiration to me and you continue to bring me much joy and inspiration to this day! Thank you so much and all hail the mushroom 🍄♥️
“Lack of brevity is proof of psychosis” - Terence McKenna before a Q&A with his fans
Merlin is such a fun guy!
Yes, very _fungi_ 🍄
haha! Very drole!
@@aureliuszeta3037 badum tss
What an ingenious advertisement (including the musical time lapse) for a brilliant book!! This is by far my favorite ad I’ve ever seen for anything!
Check out Maynard's motivational commercial, it's the best
His book is now also an audiobook read by his lovely voice. 💜
This is hard-core, soothing, philosophical, and simple all at the same time.
I could listen to Merlin talk all day!
honestly, you are so cool. never thought i would really feel this way for somebody still alive.
The most beautiful way to eat ones own words indeed 🙏✨💚
This guy makes mushrooms sound interesting.
Also he looks like the doppelganger of one of my high school mates.
The fact that this person and others exists lifts my spirits. Realizing this while I rot away in Texas crushes my soul
delicious
im currently devouring the book
It's like Cedric. "Merlin's Mushrooms!"
this is the only form of ASMR i actively enjoy
You're one amazing writer! Wow, what an inspiring and authentic person!
How long should I read this book to get a harvest of mushrooms of this size?
I wish this video and book had millions of views like kpop, to awaken more and more people. The solution to our society, can be extracted learning from nature, like this book expresses. Wonderful master piece!! Loved every page of it. Ty ty ty
I'm about 100 pages in and already it's having an effect on how I view the world... Or how "I" as a community of trillions of living organisms view the world... I'm working on a video based on some of the wonders this book has revealed. Great writing Merlin. Beautifully written. Congratulations on a wonderful piece of work.
We must all be humbled by nature with all of its mystery, beauty and power. Great book Merlin!
The oysters like your book as much as I do!
Cosmo: "Eat your words the first and third should taste of you"
Merlin:
Dude you're a rara avis, in the best possible way! We need more brilliant imaginations and eccentric personalities such as yours. Greetings from Vancouver, BC :)
Love how you got a nice old gas oven no need to spend money to pointlessly replace a functioning bit of kit, poor world, just pure fungi love I will buy your book thankyou
About halfway through your audiobook rn, really enjoying it!! Great writing and reading. Might pick up a physical copy as well!
The strangest but most wholesome and interesting man I've ever seen.
I love that you "ate your words"!!!❤
Beautifully Said!
😄😃that's so funnneeeee 😊😅 beautiful to watch as well 😌
I’ve never encountered a person so aptly named before
Just read your book...loved it! I am hooked on mycology!
Didn't know you have a TH-cam channel. I just finished reading your book. I enjoyed it so much! 👍📙
Someone needs to turn the fact that he ate his own book into a viral meme.
The most BRILLIANT book, so not surprising that this is the best book promo video I ever did see. Well done Merlin.
Just finished the book, really enjoyed it, fascinating stuff
Damn, you're cool! Really want to read your book now
You're such a great human. I love this.
I love this and I love your work! Absolutely thrilled to have bought this book and looking forward to devouring it, just like your fungus did! Maybe I shall fruit some ideas from it. :)
Outstanding! I also LOVE the book!
An extraordinary book. Amazing as a novel, powerful as an academic journal. Love it.
Absolutely brilliant 😉 Merlin👍
I concur with the Pleurotus in that the book is, thus far, a great read
Oh, thats cool to see you have a yt channel. Just finished the book, great read, tho i didn't try to taste it... yet.
MERLIN!ive yet to read it, i havent read in too long. your book will motivate me im sure!! side note and surely you get this all the time but your curls your eyes and your smile have brightness, an infectious sort of joy and playfulness whilst learning at the same time.......thank you ☺
Loved your book, and loved this video!
This is such a great video. Had to share with my friends. Just got your book, looking forward too reading!
I love the subject.
Been reading your book down by the river in Moudsville, WV and loving it! Thank you for you knowledge and insights.
I've just discovered this mushroom lover and since I'm one as well I will soon devour his book too.
This is beautiful
Cheers!
I just finished reading your book. It's a great video that's perfectly connected to the epilogue. I got great inspiration from the book. I need to take a closer look at the mushrooms I bought yesterday and put in the refrigerator.
*Merlin*, I love this! I've been following your papa for years now. I also just finished your interview in The Sun Magazine, May, 2021. Easy on the fried oil though, as it has the capacity to plug up your endothelial in an identical manner as do saturated animal fats.
Oh man... that is so epic!!
His voice is relaxing.
I'e just read the book in one sitting in my uni library and tgis video came up after i searched for the mushroom picking song, how fun!
In one sitting?! You must have fungus on your backside. 😳
I wish he had filmed a time lapse video of the mushrooms growing and consuming the book.
Bonkers. Loving the book, btw.
Absolutely fascinating. I thought to look up merlin here on 29 October after an interview he's just given on our ABC radio at 10:30 PM... I've needed a spell to process my thoughts after this video .He's got some quality that a Hollywood film producer could use ; am I right ? . I wasn't expecting it .
Anybody watched that Seinfeld episode where Cramer invents a coffee table book that folds out to become a coffee table ? This fella has a book about mushrooms/fungi which can be converted to edible mushrooms after you've finished reading it ; conceivably it would be sold with a spore sachet inside the cover . A producer might figure him for a Dr who or Harry potter production maybe but there's other potential too. Gotta say I'm being reminded of Tiny Tim the ukele strumming singer of decades ago . He knows his stuff, the radio interview was about forty minutes and he was answering listener's questions .
You unit..👍☝☝👍👌.
I just got the new illustrated version. It's amazing!
I have some oyster mushrooms I'm growing in a bag in my room, they seem to be growing really well.
"which i plan t eat, and thus eat my words" THAT IS just like wow, i need to know your mbti......i am an infj and even tho know nothing in this field. everyone has a particular way of thinnking and i see how your brain croses information. just by the way you speak, i also could listen to you all day!!!!
I've the read the book. Great. Love it. Etc. BUT. I'm poor. Let's hope we (the rich) can change.
Fun x lots
Really enjoyed your book Merlin! What a terrific read. Gotta love Oyster mushrooms cooked that way. Looking forward to your next book mate! New sub to your YT channel! 👍👍😉😉🍄🍄🍄🍄😉😉👍👍
So did you sort of eat the book ?
My son’s called Max Angelo Power...it’s a blessing and an invocation 🙏
I just finished your book and loved it! Are you still planning on making a book-beer?
I came here to meet the person who wrote the incredible book that I just finished. Merlin, if you ever visit South Dakota please reach out so I can drink some home-brew while mushroom hunting with you :)
Literally ate his words
Had to put a voice to the words! All I could hear was David Attenborough in my head whilst reading!!
Read your book. Noble effort with nothing to be ashamed of...well done. Yet i was very disappointed that i never got to hear your thoughts on what fungal networks really are. I have my own thoughts and i am happy with them...but still was left wanting your thoughts as well. Its ok, you are young...lots of time left to make your stand.
This made me hungry
Anyone else here from Simons Peculiar Portions?
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Just saw you doing an interview with Russell Brand Mushroom man you are cute. Good luck with the book! Father ted quote. inspired to try some mushrooms tomorrow even though I don't think I like them 🍄
te amo
So quirky, them fungi! 😆
Fungi aligned people tend to follow suit 😄
Nice Morris curtain :)
Thank you I am studying glyphosate impacts and pollution and it is the first time I hear of Pleurotus capacity to "digest" the chemical compound and found few papers on it (quick literature search). I wonder if it works with metobolites as well. it seems to be tested mostly on formulations. This is particularly interesting given adverse impact on soil mychorrizal balance ...If you see this message by chance and have any paper suggestion I would be grateful. Love your work btw :)
Really enjoyed the book although I haven't eaten it. How did the book beer turn out?
I was silently hoping that my copy of the book started to develop fruiting bodies during and after reading it. A few minutes later I woke up in 2021 :)
You seem like a fun guy.
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I like your knife by the way
Lol he is such a fungi!
When are you going to drink the pages, with the added yeast..and “close the circuit?”
Did someone threaten to make you eat your words?? Great Book well done!
Legendary book shrooms
... Pleurotus has famously *booooiiinnnnggg* diverse tastes.... 😂🤣
They look great! So many levels to what you have done here.. Perhaps you may learn even more from your own work by digesting the digesters 🤔😂
Or fruit of the digesters really...
Am I saying what I mean? 😅
I Hope your book will help me learn 😊📖💭
If the fungi need nutrients to consume and grow, what are the nutrients in the paper? Dead wood?
how did the beer go?
Does the properties of what the fungus eats affect the mushroom? I'd be very put off eating a crop that grew from used cigarette butts 🤣
Thankyou 🙏
Just some more advice from a caterpillar.
Did you ever ferment a copy into beer?
Omg, but how did they taste?!
"i must eat my words"
and they should taste of you :)
Getting Laios Touden vibes here