Ep38 - Mushroom Depictions in Art - Pt 4 of Mystic, Magic and Mealtime Mushrooms

This episode is part 4, or episode 38, and will look at some examples of my favourite artworks that depict or feature mushrooms…by artists including Ming dynasty Chinese artist Qiu Yang, Chinese-Canadian artist Xiaojing Yan, Beatrix Potter and Elsie Wakefield, Yayoi Kusama, Hine Mizushima, Wangechi Mutu and more. There will be a bit about the Game of Shrooms, the annual world-wide mushroom art N seek event created by Attaboy. There will even be a little bit of mushroom magic in film and music at the end with a note on the 2019 documentary film Fantastic Fungi and from the late Czech mushroom composer Vaclav Halek.

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Ep37 - Mealtimes, Mental Health and Mindfulness with Karmen Perez-Pineda of Cats with a Heart - Pt3 of Mystic, Magic and Mealtime Mushrooms

Part 3 - Mealtimes, Mental Health and Mindfulness with Karmen Perez-Pineda of Cats with a Heart of a four-part series on Mushrooms - Mystic, Magic and Mealtime
Mushroom culinary customs from around the world, mushroom tips, health benefits, how Psylocibin mushrooms are being used medicinally and at some of the past and present female pioneers behind psychedelics and psychiatrics. Plus I will chat with Karmen Perez-Pineda the founder of Cats with a Heart about mushrooms and her amazing socially responsible initiative which aims to raise awareness and funds to end child exploitation in the fashion industry.

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Ep36 - Mushrooms - Mystic, Magic and Mealtime - Pt 2 - Fungi Folklore

Fungi Folklore - Part 2 of a four-part series on Mushrooms - Mystic, Magic and Mealtime
This series is inspired by Karmen Perez-Pineda, Founder of Cats with a Heart who will be interviewed in Part 3
Pt2:
The etymology, symbolism, folklore, magical properties and culinary traditions of mushrooms - that’s mystic, magic and mealtime mushrooms
Image: Fungi: twenty species, including the fly agaric (Amanita muscaria), death cap (Amanita phalloides) and Boletus and Agaricus species. Coloured lithograph by A. Cornillon, c. 1827, after Prieur.. Credit: Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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Ep35 - Mushrooms - Mystic, Magic and Mealtime - Pt 1 - Shamans and Shrooms

Part 1 - Shamans and Shrooms of a four-part series on Mushrooms - Mystic, Magic and Mealtime
This series is inspired by Karmen Perez-Pineda, Founder of Cats with a Heart who will be interviewed in Part 3
Pt1:
Brief intro into the series
Mushroom synopsis
Ethnomycology & Shamanism & Cave Art
Aboriginal Gwion Gwion, Australia
Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria
Pegtymel Petroglyphs in Far East Siberia in Russia
Mesoamerican society
María Sabina

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