Paul Stamets & Caroline Casey

Democratic Animism: Mushrooms Myth and Metaphor Magic is simply a willingness to cooperate with everything.

Convene with these two collegial co-operators, as they cahoot for the benefit of all beings. Stamets is renowned for his ingenious cooperation with the fungi realm for bio-remediating (healing) ourselves and the planet, and Casey for her dedication to the collaborative power of myth and metaphor. Historic serious fun!

Caroline W. Casey is dedicated to “Pragmatic Mysticism-Democratic Animism” and the Trickster Medicine that brews it all together to fuel reverently ingenious social change in innumerable shape-shifting forms: as Visionary Activist Astrologer; weaver of context of the “Visionary Activist Show” on the Pacifica Radio Network; author of Making the Gods Work for You, keynote speaker at innumerable social change conferences, and Chief Trickster at Coyote Network News. www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com Paul Stamets has written six mushroom-related books. Several are used as textbooks around the world by the gourmet and medicinal mushroom industries. He is the author of many scholarly papers in peer-reviewed journals. Paul received National Geographic Adventure magazine’s “Green-O-vator” award and the Argosy Foundation’s “E-chievement” award. In November of 2008, the Utne Reader recognized Paul as one of the 50 Visionaries of the Year.