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Thursday, January 5, 2017

It’s Alive- Mycelium
Jan 5, 2017
Evolution is a beautiful name. All things evolve over time learning from its mistakes and producing a better functioning “being.” Human beings evolved from fungi over millions of years. While we evolved into the two-legged creatures, with a brain, of today, we also kept what worked well for the fungi. Take a look at the mycelial network of fungi and take a look at a micrograph of brain cells and you will see how neurons travel thru the network highways. In humans, we like to think of ourselves as “aware beings,” but we rarely think of fungi as a conscious being. While in fact, it is as much aware as we are; even more so.
Even more interesting is how the fungi have evolved and how humans have evolved. While the fungi choose to be tied to the earth, humans evolution took them into being apart yet depending on the earth.
Somewhere in the evolutionary past, humans were connected to the ground in many ways that they are not connected now. All living things have a connection to this fungi. Insects, plants (obviously because they have roots which are intertwined with the mycelium), animals, birds, and humans.
However, humans developed their brain into what it is today. In the beginning, while mankind was still young, humans relied on the connection they had with this fungi.
They learned to observe their fellow animals and insects. They learned to listen to the trees( The forest actually). They would “feel” the fungi. They would learn to smell for the results the fungi produced. The forest has a different smell after rain. The plants smell different. They also look different to the trained eye, like for example an ant.
Insects developed a relationship with fungi. They grow it underground as a primary food source as well as for healing.
Insects have evolved right along with the fungi over the millions of years they have co-habituated.
In my past articles, I often talk about Brix and how insects actually can determine if a plant has high or low Bric levels. Yes, insects have no idea what Brix means let alone understand our primitive way of communicating. They have evolved to know when a plant is “sick” and thus becomes food for them. Just like the wolf knows when a sheep is weak and sick.
Many folks keep asking me about Brix and what it is. To make a long story short, Bric relates to mineral levels in plants. It refers to particular types of sugar levels which I relate to mineral levels also. Mineral levels in plants and animals are directly related to mycelium and how mycelium breaks down minerals by using Oxalic acid and calcium oxalate. The mycelium forms Oxalic acid crystals which are formed by all of the mycelia of the fungi. The mycelium mineralizes rock (as in rock dust) by combining with the minerals naturally found in rock dust. The calcium from the calcium oxalate forms two carbon dioxide molecules. This develops into a complex food web that continues to grow and “eat” more minerals found in the rock dust. Thus creating soils that are rich in the proper minerals needed by plants and all living things.
Another interesting thing that we must understand is that if you look out into space, you will notice that space resembles mycelium fungi, only many billions of times larger. Another interesting thing about space is dark matter. Dark matter, while many say it is invisible, is actually very visible if one learns how actually to look. A computer model of this dark matter shows us the resemblance to mycelium matrix.
Ok, let me explain to you what I see and what I understand about all of this.
First off, we are not actually the smartest beings on the planet, Mycelium is.
Mycelium has been evolving hundreds of millions of years longer than us. It has patterned itself to the galaxies.
While we humans have managed to separate ourselves from the interconnection of “all,” mycelium have actually continued to grow and communicate with itself around the world (one being here) and as well with the universe. Humans have managed to separate themselves from the whole. We still have the same pathways, the same senses that the mycelium have.
What this means to me is that we can communicate with this “being” that lives inside the earth, who’s skin is top soil.
I have a radio show called “The Body and the Garden” in which myself and a doctor talk about the similarities between our bodies and the earth’s body. There are tiny differences except one, and that is that we can move free beyond the boundaries of the soil. We are tied to the soil and the health of the mycelium in many ways.
I said I would explain how trees communicate with each other. Well, can you guess by now how they communicate? Can you sense the direction I am going here?
I learned to meditate early in life but didn’t know that it was called that. I was always able to sit down under a tree and listen. The tree would show me that it was aware. I would be able to feel if it was happy. I would be able to feel that something was wrong with another tree. I knew that trees helped each other. I always would go to the most powerful tree in the forest and pay my respects by hugging and just sitting. The mycelium is a major communication highway for all living things, for us too. The mycelium and the environment are one. You can tell a lot about the environment you live in by the health of the mycelium. That is why I started one of my shows called “It’s Alive” way back in 1970. More next week! Enjoy the rain we will be getting lots more in Jan.
Any questions? Email me andylopez@invisiblegardener.com
Andy Lopez
Invisible Gardener