Mycorrhizal

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> Invisible circulation through living relationship. Support moving where it is needed without waiting to be commanded, priced, or praised.

## The Feeling

You kneel in forest soil and push your fingers into the duff. Beneath
the surface — beneath the roots you can see — there is a web you
cannot. White threads finer than hair, connecting every tree to every
other tree in a network older than any human language. A mother Douglas
fir is feeding a shaded seedling thirty meters away, sending carbon
through this web without being asked, without keeping score. The
seedling lives because the network lives.

Put your ear to the ground. You will not hear it. But it is speaking.

![Cross-section of forest floor showing tree roots connected by a glowing white fungal network underground, nutrients flowing as light between root systems, mushrooms fruiting on the surface above, dark rich soil](visuals:photorealistic cross-section of forest soil showing massive tree roots interconnected by delicate glowing white mycorrhizal fungal threads, nutrients traveling as pulses of warm light between trees, mushroom fruiting bodies emerging on surface, rich dark humus layers visible)

## What Nature Teaches

Suzanne Simard proved what indigenous peoples always knew: the forest is
one organism. Mycorrhizal fungi connect ninety percent of land plants
into a communication network that shares nutrients, sends chemical
distress signals, and allocates resources by need rather than merit.
When a tree is dying, it dumps its carbon into the network — a final
gift. When a seedling is struggling, the mother tree increases the flow.

There is no central command. No coordination. No one decides who
deserves resources. The network senses gradients and responds. Surplus
flows toward the thinnest place the way water flows downhill — not because
someone ordered it, but because that is what networks do when they
are healthy.

## How It Lives Here

The mycorrhizal network is the model for how communities connect to
each other. Regular communication with at least five other communities.
Traveling members who carry learnings between nodes like spores in the
wind. Shared platforms — digital mycelium — for sensing what each
node needs and what each has in surplus.

The rule is simple: send what you have to where it is needed, without
being asked. Food, skills, people, attention. Let the gradient do the
work. Trust the network more than the plan.

## The Questions That Live Here

These are questions to ask beneath the visible surface:

- What is the human equivalent of the mycorrhizal network — and is it
  already running beneath our awareness?
- How do you build invisible support structures that function without
  being managed?
- What happens when the network is severed — and how does it heal?

## Connected Frequencies

→ lc-w-field, lc-w-cell, lc-circulation, lc-network, lc-land

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