Paul Stamets is a world-renowned mycologist, featured in the 2019 Netflix documentary, Fantastic Fungi. In our interview he explains why he thinks that psychedelic mushrooms can help humankind to survive the crisis of the 21th century.
We interviewed Stamets at the last International Conference on Psychedelic Research (ICPR) in 2022. We publish this full interview on Drugreporter ahead of the next ICPR conference that will take place in Haarlem next week where Drugreporter will film again.
A few highlights from the interview:
- how does it make him feel that his work inspired the mysterious mycelial network (a subspace domain that facilitates interstellar travel) in the Star Trek Discovery sci-fi series;
- how can psychedelic experiences deepen our connection to the universe;
- how psilocybin induces neuroplasticity and neurogenesis;
- why he thinks that microdosing psilocybin makes you a better person;
- what is his special microdosis-combo;
- how does he see the future of psychedelics.
