Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet

I love Paul's work. I just didn't realize this was a coffee table style book when I ordered it. This would be great for educators, or mushroom enthusiasts leaving breadcrumbs for friends to make them curious about mushrooms. Get Mycelium Running, otherwise.

The book is gorgeous. My primary concern is that the literary content is a collection of essay contributions and as such it contains less information than I was hoping to find. The information presented is shallow, but that may be what you are looking for. It is a beautiful book and it touches on several topics but I found myself looking for works with more depth after I was done. At this price it is worth owning just for the photography though.

This really is a coffee table style book and a quick read. I enjoyed every bit of it, provides terminology useful to enticing interest or information sharing. I would really like to see the film, hosting is only option for groups of 100 or more; hopefully the film will be available soon. The book is a companion to the film. "The Magic Beneath us" doc. Update: Seattle has the Seattle showing Friday 11-15. Paul Stamets and Louie Schwartzberg are presenting afterwards. Tickets were just $40 for front of, or $30 for back half. I got two, I'm confidant I'll find a equally interested attendee. Stamets ,Fungi Perfecti has a link to showings all over the country.

Another gem from Paul Stamets! This is a Stamets Coffee Table book that anyone can read, it’s not as intimidating as Paul’s other books. A wonderful companion book to a great film, I was able to see the film in the theatre and I was very impressed! I’m super happy to see Paul Stamets collaborating with Micheal Pollan, I’m very fond of both of their books and their lectures! A very lovely book, nice and clean, not covered in ugly stickers like Barnes and Noble does. Who puts stickers on beautiful books? I love leaving my copy out on the coffee table, my friends have enjoyed thumbing through the pages, and even some of their younger kids enjoyed the photos and started getting excited about mushrooms! I’m very happy with the book, the price was excellent, and I had the book from Amazon long before it was really available at book stores! The shipping with my Amazon Prime was fast and free, the book arrived undamaged about 48 hours after I ordered it. Definitely buy this book. It’s beautiful, the photos and essays are brilliant and thought provoking, and supporting Paul Stamets and his work with bees and mushrooms is money very well spent! Glad to see this book come out, this book fills a nice gap, just like Paul’s other books and also Michael Pollan’s latest book, a great way to open the conversation about mushrooms with other people. Buy this book right now!

Love this, got a lot of learning out of it, I'm reeling.......this will take about 7 years to learn all this info, but worth the start of the journey!!! Yes, mushrooms will save the planet! So start learning!!!PS. The giant plastic island in the ocean......they have determined, the only thing that can dissolve, and eat that is..........mushrooms!!!!!!!!

Just buy it already....

Absolutely beautiful photos! This is a great book to share with company and get people excited about what’s going on out there in the world of mycology and the possibilities for healing ourselves & our planet.I wanted to point out an edit if the publisher reads this comment-Page 78, 9th line, 16th word- ninety is spelled incorrectly. Just thought I’d share since the book is new and is probably still being printed. Thanks to these amazing people for trail blazing the future of medicinal mycology!

I was really hoping that the book would go into greater detail, but it is formatted as a series of essays with photographs. It makes a nice coffee-table book, but it came across more as a series of endorsements, rather than an in-depth look at this fascinating topic. I was kind of disappointed.

It is a great read and very informative with a lot of facts on mushrooms, I did not appreciate and know.

Fantastic book on fantastic fungi, well photographed and researched.

Excellent book

Great book for mushroom lovers!

Great book lots of information and lovely pictures. Ideal for the fungi fanatic.