The Future Mycelium Podcast

Episode two of Mushroom Afterhours is here to wrap up and celebrate the first season of The Future Mycelium Podcast! Today we're going to be talking more at length about the nature of polypores, some of the polypore underdogs (Artist Conk and Red-Belted Polpore), a rapid-fire round of recommended mushrooms for bodies that menstruate, get pregnant, get post-partum and get menopausal and how Julia Cameron's book titled, "The Artist's Way" has helped bring this podcast earthside! We'll laugh,...

Are you ready to go out and find morels? Or maybe you're an up and coming mycohacker looking to throw some morel slurry in your lawn for morels aplenty? This episode has got you covered! It's a literal info dump of all things morels, false morels and more! If you have questions about where to find morels, how to ID them, how to prepare them, how to cultivate them etc, this is the right episode for you! We will discuss the cultural love for morels, the cultural differences in perceptions of...

Be afraid...be fairy afraid...in this episode peeling back the layers of the fae, ethnomycology and Irish storytelling!In this Joe Rogan length episode, we're traversing a thorough story of Irish and Celtic mythology and how it might reveal the secrets of the psyche and its understanding of nature.Topics include but are not limited to the lore and science surrounding the coveted "fairy ring", St. Patrick, Leprechauns, The Old Gray Man, `The Sheerie, Changelings, The Pooka, Merrows, The...

Lichen, Caves and Crystals, oh my! Take a trip across space and time in this thrilling episode exploring the world of lichen and how they intersect with our understandings of time, ego and individuality. This episode will make you stop and question where does nature end and where do we begin? Is anything really all that separate from anything else?Come and dip your toes in the lichen caves with two lichenologists Heather Stewart-Ahn and Jesse Miller, hailing from the West Coast of the USA...

Kicking off the first Mushroom Afterhours podcast, a subseries within The Future Mycelium Podcast, we chat about all things cacao, wellness, climate anxiety, foraging and mushroom love.Thanks for being here today and although this offering is a little different, there is excitement in switching things up and seeing where it goes. May this offering honor your time, energy and attention, may you leave feeling tonified in your inner sight, may you find comfort in the unknown, may you feel...

Ever thought about setting aside a truffle piggy bank to dip into when the white truffle season is upon you?If not, this episode might help you make that decision. We're diving into the hypnotic and intoxicating world of truffles today, to see if we can't expand our vocabulary of nature.This episode explains the different kinds of culinary truffles, the importance of their growing environments, and perhaps reveals a thing or two about the collective human psyche and its primordial nostalgia...

Episode seven is available for your listening pleasure of The Future Mycelium Podcast. Today has a little bit of something for everyone. A bit of true crime, a bit of mushroom identification and a whole lot of talk about mushroom foraging with the one and only Fungi Woman aka Barbora Batokova.This episode seeks to discuss and hopefully dispell further any deeply ingrained and unchecked mycophobia you might be harboring while raising questions about what truly constitutes a death from a...

Take a journey into the liminal space between yin and yang today on this episode of Future Mycelium. We are talking all things Reishi.Titled the "Queen of the Forest" or "the mushroom of spirituality", Reishi/Lingzhi/Ganoderma Lucidum deserves a show all her own.Enjoy this relaxing and educational podcast permeating across Eastern Asia and who knows...you just might come face to face with something fang-toothed. That or a foot-reading cult.If you enjoy this episode, please rate it on...

Ever thought about setting aside a truffle piggy bank to dip into when the white truffle season is upon you? If not, this episode might help you make that decision. We're diving into the hypnotic and intoxicating world of truffles today, to see if we can't expand our vocabulary of nature. This episode explains the different kinds of culinary truffles, the importance of their growing environments, and perhaps reveals a thing or two about the collective human psyche and its primordial...

Episode 4: Santa’s Amanita: A Very Merry Skeleton Woman Happy Winter Solstice sweet, sweet souls! Today is the perfect day to talk about the ever-iconique mushroom, Amanita Muscaria and her relationship to Christmas extending back thousands of years. There is an unearthing of the true origins of Christmas, from the shamans of Siberia, where we take the shortest day of the year to indulge in the mystery of its origin together. You might just find that hidden mycophobia you don't even know...

From cradle to grave, life on Earth is an ever-entropic wild ride. But could psychedelics paradoxically be a means to ground and center ourselves here in the Upside Down? Jenna takes you on a journey not only through but to the end of time in this episode of birth, death and psychedelic agency. Today, we'll map out what happened to the psychedelic scene in America following the initial synthesis of LSD and the mushroom veledas from Maria Sabina in the mid-twentieth century to today as we...

Episode two of The Future Mycelium Podcast is teeming with golden nuggets of fungi facts. We're taking a trip down ancient shamanistic memory lane to trace the modern westerner's relationship with mushrooms, both psychedelic and not. Jenna traces back this history to ancient times while comparing and contrasting the shamanistic practices of amanita muscaria and psilocybin from Sibera to Mexico after etching out the varying perspectives of European counties' relationships to mushrooms. A...

The world is in need of a new language, or perhaps the revival of an ancient one...one that speaks into existence a deep appreciation of and balance with nature. It can feel overwhelming to know what to do to fix the problems mankind has created in such a short amount of time, but we must know that there are solutions, many of them being mycological in nature. This is episode one of The Future Mycelium Podcast, hosted by Jenna Masomi, an American expat living in the Norwegian wilderness...