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PETER McCOY on Fungi and the Birth of the Modern Psyche /37

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Anthropocene, Land, Story Telling, Progressive, Liberation, Media, For The Wild, Decolonization, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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We welcome back Peter McCoy, who leads us through the earliest evidence of the fungal “queendom” in the development of culture and human intelligence, and shows how understanding fungal biology and mycelial webs can steer our social experiments. Support the show

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It's dry and close to burning

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crying out for water

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where we explore radical ideas relating to Earth renewal. Today we welcome back Peter McCoy, who speaks on

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