I am The Mushroom King, and the fungi have hijacked my nervous system. I am a puppet for the mushrooms. They are holding me hostage, and they are forcing me to be a comedian in Los Angeles. The fungi have taken over my body. They forced me to address my
Hi, I'm Ryan, and I am a comedian who is a translator for the mushrooms. I listen to mushrooms and they talk to me. Mushrooms tell stories me that the humans are acting crazy and that we have to change over the next ten years to help prevent
I am The Mushroom King, and the fungi have hijacked my nervous system. I am a puppet for the mushrooms. They are holding me hostage, and they are forcing me to be a comedian in Los Angeles. I’d rather be living in the middle of the wilderness, living off
As humans evolved from our ape ancestors, our brains evolved to create technology, yet over the 275 years since the industrial revolution, we have detrimentally destroyed our home. Plundering the natural world for resources, wiping out 75% of the buffalo population in the 1900s, and massacring the Amazon rain forest,
Ryan Williams is the Mushroom King back from the Mushroom Underground. With his fungal brain, stuck in his ape-like body, he’ll share an unfiltered viewpoint into the perspective of the fungal kingdom, about us homosapsens. Human beings are causing great harm to the planet, this mostly started over 14,
One day I dream of opening up a Mushroom Land, which replaces Disneyland, where we can buy Disneyland as a distressed asset, converting every ride and attraction into a mushroom themed adventure park. Space Mountain becomes Mycelial Space Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain turns into Big Chanterelle Mountain, and the Haunted
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My life will never be the same after tonight shatters my preconceived notions about what is possible in the more-than-human world.
Hi friends! This is Ryan Williams, and you may know me from The Influencer Economy book, wellness episodes, and hundreds of General Assembly Los Angeles events. How have you been? A lot has changed in our lives since we started this community in 2013. I am sending you love <
Hi Mycelium Friends! A few months we organized an event during Los Angeles Climate Week, alongside Plant Based Treaty, World Mycelium Storytelling Night. I was in the middle of writing a one-person show, which was a big reason why we had to postpone it. Sorry about that! Like the mycelium
Hi, I'm Ryan, and is a newsletter about stories about mycelium, comedy, and personal mushroom writing and/or art from me. I am thrilled to announce that I am debuting my new one-person show, The Psilocybin Files: Becoming Resilient Like Fungi this June as part of the Hollywood
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Mushrooms touch every aspect of our society from politics to science to pop culture to the more than human world. The more I learn about fungi, the deeper and more connected my life becomes.
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Mushrooms teach us about interdependence, a reciprocal relation between two seemingly interdependent bodies, ours and theirs.