Merlin Sheldrake on fungi and magic mushrooms | SVT/TV 2/Skavlan
2024 ж. 8 Мам.
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What does Tokyo’s urban transport system and slime molds have in common? In this interview, biologist Merlin Sheldrake explains how humans can learn from fungi and talks about his magic mushroom experiences.
Musician Miriam Bryant and cross-country skier Marit Bjørgen is also in the studio.
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Merlin is one splendid fellow, very much like his dad.
I was just thinking that’s got to be his son ! Pleasure to listen to him like his father!
He is indeed.
yes he is, it's really beautiful to see, the same kind of intelligence, skill of communication, sympathy and handsomeness. I remember his father especially from the discussions with Krishnanurti, Bohm and others. Beautiful, profound man. He has clearly also been a fantastic father.
I mean his dad is a scam artist so not really a compliment
@@kingpandagodoftaste9001What an ignorant comment about a great man.
This man has a really appropriate name - his discussions are always magic.
My goodness, he really looks like his dad! What a charming handsome young man! As a Scandinavian myself living in England, I think it’s fair to say that we have the most educational talk shows in the world. I think this type of interview would be lost if shown to the wrong audience. Fredrik Skavlan is such a wonderful, humble and measured gentleman. He is genuinely interested in the subjects that his guests present. It’s nice.
This is something unique about Merlin. I never heard him repeat a line in any of his responses. A lot of people (including me) do it to just emphasise their point. I find that very interesting!!
similar skill in his father , I'm sure he learnt at his knee
Such an interesting guest and topic. I’m a senior citizen who just recently discovered your site and I’m enjoying your choice of guests so much. I’m going to begin researching your past guests and I’m certain it will be an enjoyable experience.
Lovely to hear! ❤️
Such an amazing talk…
I don't know why but this guest makes me feel like I'm 8 years old but in a good way haha
merlin and rupert: two sheldrakes to change the world. a great family.
cosmo too
He is so much like his father! it's really beautiful to see, the same kind of intelligence, skill of communication, sympathy and handsomeness. I remember his father especially from the discussions with Krishnanurti, Bohm and others. Beautiful, profound man. He has clearly also been a fantastic father.
Mushrooms only gave me realizations that faded when I came down. Our minds are not ours. We have a spectrum that we tap into on the collective consciousness
That's interesting, I found the opposite. Weed has fleeting epiphanies but shrooms were mind changing.
"our minds are not ours" whos are they?
A Real World Sheldon Cooper for fungi Everywhere ! 🐱👤
What a brilliant communicator Merlin is. I could listen to him all day. Like father, like son. ❤
I really felt years younger than him, it must be his ability to have a really interesting conversation. 💚
Merlin is a great guy; I highly recommend his book Entangled Lives. His brother Cosmo makes amazing music!!
Fascinating guest thanks 🙏
Having lived in Norway for years (speak the language too), I really enjoy this show, the variety of guests, Skavlan. Tusen takk!
Merlin is amazing. We are lucky to have such a brilliant mind helping us understand the natural world’s secrets 💎
Merlin is an amazing educator!
could listen to him all day, then again he reminds me of hermes....the last joke oh my, he is clever.... i wonder what they were thinking about all this. i loved the way he connects everything from the science of fungi to the life lessesnt and prerpectives. to know they existed so long before us make me even more curious about how humanity started and were we are all from years ago. id love to know what Merlin thinks of that if hes ever on again
Coming from country where mushroom picking is Nr1 sport is such a treat to listen Merlin
I can only repeat what the person (mister jib) directly below me in the comments section says: "Merlin is one splendid fellow, very much like his dad". This family---Rupert, Merlin, etc---are a marvel of humankind...and the "kind" part of it also seems apt, as in "kind to the world", and " kind to new ideas"!
I too took part in this loophole in London in 2004-2005
Nice interview. Johns Hopkins university has been studying using magic mushrooms for end stage cancer patients and to help patients with addictions.
Gosh, he looks and sounds like Michael Sheen ! ❤
The connection of all things. It is the truth of the universe. Perhaps 'magic' mushrooms is their attempt to get us to understand.
merlin is a genius just like his dad.
"They put their bodies into their food." 🤯
Top geezer.
Jesus it is Sheldon!!!
I Want het fungi he's having, he look's very happy with him self ..
I think he is just slightly autistic in the way most high level intellectuals are I don't think it's smugness rather he just doesn't feel compelled to disguise his enthusiasm.
"They" makes it sound so creepy, and although excelllent, the book is slightly unnerving at times. Especially the species that manipulates a certain ant by growing inside and spouting a long stem and head from the poor unfortunate creature. A great read though.
Fungi is Magic
He’s gorgeous. A better looking version of the young Dr Who.
Magic Mushrooms should definitely be legal.
He looks like a fun gi
крутой чувак!
Although a very smart lad, I'd just like to see him be the next Dr. Who...Humans aren't ready for fungi yet, the actual dominant species.
On them, was he? ;)
Oh good, a case for 'all life is intelligent.' Now we can take that next step, and having divorce intelligence from a brain, realize that mind is not a property of matter. Thus, in order for life to exist, something or someone, had to add mind to matter in order for it to become alive. Which leads to the logical conclusion that life cannot occur accidentally.
See The Urantia Book for more information from the Life Carriers who started life on our planet, known to them as Urantia.
that women was lookign at the other guy trying to catch his eye to say "he's a bit odd", you can see it, she is trapped in her fragile little world of insecurities and judgement, she is not used to seeing someone so expressive, who speaks with their mind body and soul and not just with words.. pfft simpleton
Dolphins play with blow fish and get high on small doses of their poison.
They seem very afraid of the law in Sweden
In the first couple sentences, the whole idea of evolution is debunked. The relationships are INTERDEPENDENT. They could not “evolve” separately.
That does not debunk evolution even one bit. In evolution, organisms adapt to their environment and if this environment is full of other organisms, there will be interdependences - it's unavoidable.
The two women were just sitting there tripping on Merlin.