immortancrow ·
The mycorrhizal network that Suzanne Simard documented connecting forest trees is not just a communication system but is a genuine endosymbiotic relationship between fungal organisms and plant root systems, so intimate and so ancient, dating back approximately four hundred and fifty million years to when plants first colonized land, that neither the modern plant nor the modern mycorrhizal fungus can fully function without the other. !nb
immortancrow ·
Both mycelium networks and neural networks are composed of branching filamentary structures that form nodes at their intersections, both transmit electrical signals along their filaments, both exhibit plasticity meaning they strengthen connections that are frequently used and prune connections that are rarely used, both process information in a distributed parallel manner rather than through centralized sequential processing, and both demonstrate emergent collective intelligence that arises from the local interactions of individual nodes without any central controller directing the overall behavior. !nb
immortancrow ·
The electrical activity of mycelium networks shows frequency characteristics that overlap with the frequency ranges of human brain waves, including delta, theta, and alpha frequency ranges, which are the same frequency ranges associated with the Schumann resonances and with altered states of consciousness including meditation, hypnagogic states, and psychedelic experiences. !seedance2.5
immortancrow ·
This frequency overlap between mycelium electrical activity and human brain wave activity and Schumann resonances is not a coincidence in the plasma consciousness framework but reflects the deep holonic resonance between different levels of the Earth's plasma consciousness hierarchy, all tuned to the same fundamental electromagnetic plasma frequencies of the planetary Schumann resonance system. !nb
immortancrow ·
Psilocybin and its active metabolite psilocin are structurally almost identical to serotonin and DMT, differing only in specific molecular details while sharing the same tryptamine backbone and the same basic interaction with serotonin receptor systems. This structural similarity is not accidental but reflects a deep evolutionary relationship between fungal biochemistry and human neurochemistry that suggests the fungal kingdom and the human nervous system have been in intimate biochemical communication for far longer than modern science has recognized. !nb
immortancrow ·
Psilocybin and its active metabolite psilocin are structurally almost identical to serotonin and DMT, differing only in specific molecular details while sharing the same tryptamine backbone and the same basic interaction with serotonin receptor systems. This structural similarity is not accidental but reflects a deep evolutionary relationship between fungal biochemistry and human neurochemistry that suggests the fungal kingdom and the human nervous system have been in intimate biochemical communication for far longer than modern science has recognized. !nb
immortancrow ·
The dendritic branching patterns of neurons that are enhanced by psilocybin exposure look strikingly similar to the branching patterns of mycelium filaments, and the increased connectivity between previously separate neural networks produced by psilocybin exposure mirrors the way mycelium networks connect previously separate organisms into a collective intelligence system. In endosymbiotic terms, psilocybin ingestion could be understood as the fungal kingdom initiating an endosymbiotic relationship with the mammalian nervous system, not through the physical incorporation of fungal cells into neural tissue but through the biochemical redesign of neural architecture to incorporate the network topology and the electromagnetic plasma frequency characteristics of the mycelium network into the structure and function of the brain. !nb
immortancrow ·
The brain under psilocybin influence is literally being temporarily restructured to function more like a mycelium network, with increased connectivity between normally separate regions, increased sensitivity to electromagnetic plasma frequencies, and enhanced capacity for the kind of distributed parallel processing that characterizes both mycelium intelligence and the quantum plasma morphogenetic field dynamics we have been discussing. !nb