What he tells and shows me in that modest peri-urban forest reshapes my sense of the world in ways I am still processing.
During the days in which he conjures open the underland of Epping Forest for me, I ask more questions than I have of anyone for what feels like years. Merlin Sheldrake, as the oldest joke in mycology goes, is a fun guy to be around. My first encounter with the author, Merlin Sheldrake, was in Robert Macfarlane’s book Underland (separate post on this site) where they appear together in Epping Forest (chapter three) with this introduction: The adjectives ‘odd’, ‘bizarre’ and ‘extraordinary’ don’t cover even the half of it and this first book from Sheldrake provides a fascinating glimpse into the subject. When Hamlet admonished Horatio by saying “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy”, fungi could well have been one of them, as Merlin Sheldrake’s scintillating book Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds, Change our Minds and Shape our Futures makes abundantly clear.
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