This will be short. I’m on the road and pulled off to alert you to something. I came across a book that is up there with The Invisible Rainbow in importance and profundity, especially the latter. And there is a weird… not coincidence, but conflation to it.

It was recommended by someone I trust with this sort of thing. He just gave me the title: Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures. Yeah, a seriously unlikely to be true subtitle. Well, I’m on my third listen (while driving this time) and am thinking if anything, it’s modest.

They didn’t find truffles that day but some delicious ‘shrooms, of which they gave me a bag.

But the weird conflation is the author’s name, Merlin Sheldrake. When I saw it I was thinking back and didn’t recall even one time Rupert S ever mentioned having a son, let alone a Ph.d.-ed and brilliant one. But ‘Merlin’ sounded like a name he’d hang on an offspring and yes, Merlin is his kid.

I don’t have time to do a review, but I’ve learned more about HTWRW, on the deepest biological level than from… a pile of previous works. (Weird: Everything about Merlin’s book tends to reinforce Morphic Resonance, yet, as I say, Rupert never mentions him. I fear they had a falling out.)

I will say this, though. The section on truffles reminded me of two folks I met in the deep Oregon woods a couple years ago. Mother and son truffle hunters. I recalled how strangely they behaved at first, suspicious of my motives, it seemed. After a bit, with Gus and my motley rig, they relaxed. 

Truffle hunters, it turns out, tend to be serious people. (Truffle hunting can be dangerous biz!) You’ll get it if you read or listen to Merlin’s book (he reads it himself and even sounds like his pop).

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View some of his Youtube interviews and you’ll see/hear Rupert in him and understand how profound the subject is. But don’t bother with the ‘cast by de Grasse Tyson, that fucking moron who thinks he’s a comedian. He asked Merlin a question that proved he didn’t even know who M’s dad is. Good thing: I don’t think the jerk understands a word Rupert ever said. He is the worst of the Gatekeeper lot.

This is rough, sorry, although you’ll probably thank me later. I hope to eventually hear some comments on the book.

Here are a couple of YT vids but they don’t substitute for the book: