interview by ALPEH MOLINARI portraits by BRIGITA ŽIŽYTĖ & MARKIN Enigmatic entities between flora and fauna, fungi, with their metabolic ingenuity, unfold a world of new solutions from food production to medicine, fashion, and planet preservation. It’s time to partner with them to transform the world and our minds. ALEPH MOLINARI — There is a new revolution happening with fungi. It’s something I’ve spoken a lot about with our mutual friend Daniel Pinchbeck, who is also one of the guest editors for this issue. I’ve been picking mushrooms for 18 years, so it’s a subject that interests me deeply. And I think that this new revolution, unlike the one in the ’60s and early ’70s, can truly shift things into new directions, more than before. You come from an almost Darwinian 19th-century tradition of scientific fieldwork, looking for revelations in the most minute details of life. What first drew you to this world of fungi? MERLIN SHELDRAKE — Many…