122. Why Isn't Everyone Tapping Into the Ancient Wisdom of Mushrooms? with Alli Schaper

122. Why Isn't Everyone Tapping Into the Ancient Wisdom of Mushrooms? with Alli Schaper

May 12, 2026 · 1h 13m · Season 5 · Episode 121

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Emily Fletcher interviews Alli Schaper about the healing potential of functional mushrooms and their historical significance.

Why Isn't Everyone Tapping Into the Ancient Wisdom of Mushrooms? with Alli Schaper What if the tools for healing grief, protecting your brain, and accessing direct divine experience have been growing in the earth for thousands of years and most people just forgot? In this episode of Why Isn't Everyone Doing This?, Emily Fletcher sits down with Alli Schaper, entrepreneur, wellness pioneer, and co-founder of Super Mush, for a wide-ranging conversation that moves from the science of Lion's Mane to the cultural history of psilocybin, from grief and brain trauma to microdosing as ceremony, from a black bear encounter in the wilderness to why worry is brakes on our prayers. Alli got off eight to nine pharmaceutical medications at 23 and became her own doctor. Functional mushrooms were the turning point. She built Super Mush, a brand born at the intersection of ancient plant wisdom and modern neuroscience, and founded the Microdosing Collective, a nonprofit dedicated to education and access for low-dose psychedelic use. This conversation is grounded, personal, scientifically curious, and spiritually alive. In this episode, they explore: – What a 5,000-year-old caveman named Otzi tells…

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