Spark Shroom Project
Spark Shroom is an oral-history and storytelling project that honors the moment, fungus, or single mushroom that sparked wonder, a shift in perception, and a deep, lasting, often obsessive interest in fungi and mycology.
These stories from prominent mycologists and mushroom people are not about expertise or identification, but about encounter, relationship, and transformation. What was it that made their heart flutter and drew them closer to this mysterious world?
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'Spark Shroom' builds from the term 'Spark Bird', originating in the birding community, as a parallel term for fungi: the catalyst that transforms birds or mushrooms from simply being a part of the scenery into a focused passion.
Fungi
Talk
Fungi talk. They guide, teach, and orient.
“Fungi Talk” isn’t just about mushrooms. It’s about listening to what the world speaks through darkness, embededness, and the unseen.
Fungal exudate, cosmic ecology, sacred roundedness, relational accountability.
What wisdom do fungi share and what kind of power, insight, and perspective becomes available if we have these exchanges with them?
Fungi teach us about the initiatory powers of death, birth, and the mosaic of our continual emergence. Fungi show us that much happens in the underworld, or places unseen. This is a feminine myth. The place of undoing, the creative ground within is where we access the depth of the deep psyche. Fungi are guides for crises and transformations, both ecologically and imaginally. To disregard the sacredness of fungi, and nature, means we fall out of connection.
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Fungal
Diversity Survey
Fungal Diversity Survey (FUNDIS) is the first nonprofit that focuses on North American fungal biodiversity and conservation.
As a board member and previous Executive Director, Gabriela envisions a world in which fungi are better understood, appreciated, and protected. There are many ways to get involved.
