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Some think plants have spirits. I believe plants do because they emanate an energy. What about Mushrooms? Shrooms?

 
Why would they be different from anything else?

If you're going to ask "Is this a special exception to the general-case rules?" it does better to have a good reason for why on earth there might be such an exception.

I just always wondered, because I am into Botany. Fungi is Mycology. They must have food to survive. Some Fungi are wood lovers, and some are manure lovers. They seem to be closer to bacteria than plants. Plants rely on Fungi to break down nutrients in the most simplest form, so that the plant can assimilate it easily.

 
If anything from rocks to Xboxes can have spirits, why not fungi?

I just always wondered, because I am into Botany. Fungi is Mycology. They must have food to survive. Some Fungi are wood lovers, and some are manure lovers. They seem to be closer to bacteria than plants. Plants rely on Fungi to break down nutrients in the most simplest form, so that the plant can assimilate it easily.

Apart from the botanical aspect, I was also thinking of the chemognosis angle.

I mean, I've read a couple of accounts of people going through Iboga root treatment, who experienced being led by "Mother Iboga", even though they were in a lab, so perhaps some mushrooms have a similar oversoul. Or, maybe that's delegated in the case of Amanita muscaria, to some reindeer oversoul that make the mushroom not poisonous (and the mushrooms themselves retain individual spirits.) I don't know, I'm not familiar with that tradition.

And of course, there must be a lot more people who just get high and see random strange things.

If anything from rocks to Xboxes can have spirits, why not fungi?

Right! If quartz crystals have energy and spirit, so too should a grain of sand. If you look to Wolf or Eagle to guide your spiritual path, I'd also be open to wisdom from ants-- or lactobacillus (now that we know it's there.) And if great trees have spirits, so can cyanobacterium.

Some think plants have spirits. I believe plants do because they emanate an energy. What about Mushrooms? Shrooms?

Shrooms have the spirit of really enjoyable food poisoning. Maybe that's the "spirit's" aim. "Injest me, have light stomach cramps, see colors when you poop, have a good 5 hours."

Without beauty there is no ugliness. Without pain there is no pleasure kind of thing.

Apart from the botanical aspect, I was also thinking of the chemognosis angle.

I mean, I've read a couple of accounts of people going through Iboga root treatment, who experienced being led by "Mother Iboga", even though they were in a lab...

Yes.  Iboga is insistent that you LISTEN and DO.

Disclaimer: don't try this at home.

I see what you did there.  :whis:

 
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--Chabas

Some think plants have spirits. I believe plants do because they emanate an energy. What about Mushrooms? Shrooms?

 
Yes, I think shrooms have spirits.  But if you're interested in biology, do viruses have spirits?  How about cells?  Does each cell in your body have its own unique spirit?  Does a planet?  Does a rock?  Does a human?