Our Ancestors Want Us to Be Mushrooms by Murphy Barney, Madison;

Wisdom for Living in Balance with the Planet and Each Other

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Publisher Weiser Books
Date of Publication 10 September 2026
Number of Volumes Trade Paperback

ISBN 9781578639236
Binding Paperback
No. of pages160 pages
Size 203x152 mm
Language English
Illustrations full-color spot art throughout

Short description:

Mushrooms have within their networks the answers to our biggest questions.

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Long description:

Mushrooms have within their networks the answers to our biggest questions.

The more we start to live like mushrooms, author Madison Murphy Barney argues, the more healthy, just, and abundant our lives will be. Unlike other mushroom-focused books, Our Ancestors Want Us to Be Mushrooms weaves the guiding attributes of mushrooms and ancestral wisdom into an inspiring metaphor that calls us back into the right relationship with each other and with our planet.

The book is cleverly divided into eight traits of mushrooms from which humans can seek guidance:

1. Humility
2. Beauty and delight
3. Creativity and unique gifts
4. Living in cycles and decomposition
5. Protection
6. Healing and nourishment
7. Flexibility and adaptability
8. Mystery and room for magic

Barney draws on her Indigenous roots and guides the reader on a journey to become more human through acting like mushrooms. Written with warmth, spirit, and whimsy, Our Ancestors Want Us to Be Mushrooms enchants the reader into a more engaged life with the world and themselves by embodying the innate qualities of the wondrous mycelial world.

“Filled with wise meditations and striking images, the nature text Our Ancestors Want Us to Be Mushrooms turns to the wild for lessons about community and social change.”
—Foreword Reviews

“We desperately need the medicine offered in this book, and I am so grateful for the guidance of Madison Murphy Barney, who reminds us that we are not just connected to ourselves and to one another, but to the universe of networks and beings who hold and tend to us just as we tend to them. In a world marked by rampant individualism and disconnection, we need paths of healing that restore us to community care in the deepest of ways. Recognizing that our ancestors want us to be mushrooms will help us forge that sacred path together. Read this book, and let it heal you.”
—Kaitlin B Curtice, Potawatomi author of Native and Everything Is a Story and director of the Aki Institute

“What if the answers aren’t above us, but beneath our feet? In this tender, imaginative book, mushrooms become a guide for living with more care, reciprocity, and wonder. Drawing on ancestral memory and the quiet wisdom of the natural world, Madison Murphy Barney traces a path toward a life shaped by cycles, connection, and attention to what’s already here. A small, luminous call to return. Barney has a way of making the reader feel like they are just walking with her through the woods, learning about the ways we are all interconnected.”
—Cody Cook-Parrott, artist and author of The Practice of Attention

“In a world where individualism and exploitation are considered a success, this book is a clear guide in returning to Earth wisdom. May we create networks of thriving, like our mushroom relatives.”
—Panquetzani, author of Thriving Postpartum: Embracing the Indigenous Wisdom of La Cuarentena