Mycelium Teleology
Mycelium Teleology is the belief that fungi are motivated by nothing less than the creation and maintenance of the ecosystem of the planet. This belief maintains that the so called “higher order” creatures of terra, and humans in particular, have been engineered by fungi. The human brain with its 100 trillion neural pathways is a fractal repetition of the larger earth-bound mycelial network with its trillions of paths. The human brain is contained mycelium; mycelium in a nutshell. Mycelium communicates with species throughout the ecosystem through the vibrations of the forest itself, metabolic transfer, the molecular exchange via mycorrhizal networks, fruiting bodies and the baroque chemical substances found therein. Though the means of communication between fungi and humans are many and various the principle mode of communication are psilocybin, ergot, and amanita muscaria. These “epiphanies” of Mycelium Teleology are in part what induces the belief system in humans: the teleology. Described elsewhere as plant wisdom, knowledges generated by fungi are shared with humans through the epiphanies and through the DIY movement of radical mycology: these lead inevitably to a phenomena in humans called mushroom thinking. Though the higher registers of the teleology are cosmic, the functional purpose is bound to the earth and to the planet; the cosmic purpose of mycelium teleology is corporeal, found within bodies, soil, trees and forests.
