I’ve never seen a mycelial network, but I trust in its existence. Maybe spirituality is the same.

I've cultivated a natural-born skepticism—a spiritual being in an atheist's mind. Conceding to the existence of God or the supernatural has been unintuitive at best, and the "logical" explanations I heard growing up always felt more like a pseudologic scoped to the parameters of an incomplete worldview.

It's easy to dismiss supernatural experiences as random chance or confirmation bias.

• You dream of something, then it happens? You were primed to expect it.
• You think of someone just as they call you? The algorithm made your interaction inevitable.

And yet, there's something unsatisfactory about these explanations. Sure, in many cases, there is a scientific reason why some inexplicable event happens. Caution is warranted. The proponents of the supernatural can misguide us into faulty reasoning.

And yet, maybe the problem isn’t that these experiences are false—but that we don’t have the right model to understand them.

That’s where mycelium comes in.

the spiritual world is a mycelian network

You've probably never seen one in real life—I certainly haven't. But you’ve seen mushrooms, right?

Mushrooms are just the fruiting bodies of a vast underground organism—the real intelligence is hidden beneath the surface.

A single mycelial network can stretch across an entire forest, passing signals, nutrients, and even warnings between trees—just like neurons in a brain. It’s an invisible, intelligent system beneath our feet.

Scientists call this the "wood wide web." Mycelium acts as an information conduit, linking seemingly separate entities into a larger, intelligent system. It’s an invisible intelligence, connecting everything into one vast, living system.

what if we are the mushrooms?

For one New Year celebration, I went camping with some friends. As I walked through the forest, I noticed mushrooms—something I had been reading about extensively.

A thought struck me: perhaps we humans are also just the fruiting bodies of a much larger network.

Maybe we are connected by spiritual networks that allow the transmission of messages or other seemingly "supernatural" experiences. This network may exist on a non-physical plane of reality—one we currently lack the tools to observe, except through the subjective experiences it imparts on us.

beyond the physical

While this metaphor may not convince a hardcore materialist, it has helped me feel more comfortable with the possibility that we are connected in ways beyond the physical. We are more than just individual entities, more than just the fruiting body. We are part of a much larger organism, bound together by sophisticated networks of information.

Maybe we’re not as separate as we think. Maybe we are part of something vast, unseen, and deeply intelligent—just like the mycelium beneath our feet. Perhaps spirituality isn’t belief—it’s connection. And maybe that connection is real, whether we see it or not.

We are not just the fruiting bodies. We are the network.