Julian sits down with his old friend Stephen VanNortwick to reflect on the past year and explore our places in the cosmos within, without, and right here on Earth.

*this is episode 93 of A State of Mind podcast*

Music: 'Through the Dark' by Ruby Begay with Jon Sousa: rubybegay.com, Instagram @Ruby.Begay

Relevant Links:

Star Trek Discovery | Lieutenant Stamets Succed To Quickly Create Spore Drive

USS Discovery Enters the Mycelial Network To Save Tilly | Star Trek: Discovery

https://ifst.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ijfs.13522

https://fungi.com/blogs/articles/beta-glucans-and-the-seven-pillars-of-immunity

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59473960

Paul Stamets:

https://instagram.com/paulstamets?utm_medium=copy_link

http://paulstamets.com/news/society-for-the-protection-of-underground-networks-spun

Topics (in chronological order):

0:00 Introduction and holiday wishes

6:02 Music: 'Through the Dark' by Ruby Begay with Jon Sousa

10:20 Conversation with Stephen begins

• Mycology, university research

12:20 Myco-remediation, energy

15:20 Environmental purpose for mushrooms, causes and human impact on resources, biofuels vs electrics

18:00 Cultural supply vs demand, environmental cost

19:00 Soil, horticultural, farm practices, food preservation

22:00 Bacteria, fermentation and probiotic process

24:00 Digestive systems, processed vs nutrient dense food

26:00 Mushroom connections and as a medicine

27:00 Foraging morels and other wild mushrooms

28:00 Fungal connection to trees

30:00 Gourmet mushrooms and cultivation

32:00 Garden integration with mushrooms

33:00 Mycelial networks and communication within nature

35:00 Gourmet vs medicinal

37:00 Ideas of centralized vs de-centralized intelligence

38:00 Flow, present moment, and surrender

39:00 Appreciation of nature

40:00 Global anxiety, hope perspective, nihilism

44:00 Mycology and information eco-systems

45:00 Star Trek

46:00 Space, science, and networks

49:00 Cycles of nature, symbiosis of mycology

51:00 Nutrition, health, and mis-information

55:00 Vaccines and polarization in society

60:00 Vaccine status

62:00 Anti-vax social party

63:00 Exploring and resetting through the pandemic

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