When we say "fungi", most of us think of portobellos, magic mushrooms, mold, or maybe skin diseases. Paul Stamets, leading expert in the mushroom world, calls that a great obstacle. Stamets is a visionary, and what he envisions is a world where people finally throw overboard their mycophobia and enter a symbiosis with Eumycota, the exponents of the Fungi Kingdom which houses an estimated number of 1.5 million species, and is, of all other kingdoms, closest to our own.