Fungus Theory of Conscious Growth explores one of the most radical ideas in modern science and philosophy: that human consciousness is the evolved spore of all organic life on Earth.
Author and filmmaker Mark L. Christensen reimagines evolution as a single, continuous growth process — from the first living cells to modern humanity — following the same adaptive logic that governs fungal life. In this view, the human mind represents nature’s highest experiment in survival, designed to carry the seed of awareness beyond the limits of Earth itself.
The book connects biology, psychology, and cosmology into a unified model of growth. It introduces key concepts like the Void of Psychosis, where identity breaks down to evolve; Maximum Conscious Growth (MCG), the universal drive of intelligence to expand; and Cosmognosis, the realization that consciousness is woven into the very structure of the universe.
At its heart, Fungus Theory invites readers to see themselves as part of a much older, planetary intelligence — one that began in the soil and will continue, through us, into the stars.