Imagine a murder mystery: a dead body is found in the library of a country mansion. Due to deep snow, we can see that no one has come in or out. Eight other people were in the house at the time. We read the book in eager anticipation of learning which of the eight did it.
Libraries have been referred to as “Universities of the People.” Mark L. Christensen has certainly spent some time in libraries, absorbing teachings from fields as disparate as astrophysics, to psychology, to cellular genetics. He rolls all this erudition up into a single theory he calls the “fungus theory.” File this one under “intellectually thrilling.”
Humans as spores? A fungus as the source of all life? In Fungus Theory of Conscious Growth, Mark Christensen presents a serious, extensive theory—one that argues the universe is built to push life toward higher consciousness, and that humanity may be just one step in a much longer evolutionary chain designed to carry that growth beyond Earth and into whatever form evolution requires.
