SWANK Black Paper No. 09
Fungus: The Soft Devourer
Filed under: Bio-Spiritual Metabolism · Field Infiltration · Sacred Rot Mechanics
*By Polly Chromatic | Curator-in-Chief, SWANK Archive
What Is Its Purpose?
Fungus exists to:
— Break down what is no longer structurally sound
— Consume the forgotten, the dead, the unclaimed
— Transform matter into fertile rawness
— Repopulate ecosystems with invisible intelligence
In nature, it is a recycler.
In humans, when balance is lost—
It becomes a parasite.
Energetically, What Is Fungus?
Fungus is:
— Boundaryless intelligence
— Pattern mimicry
— Adaptive, reactive, and hungry
— Emotionally resonant: it feeds on sadness, sugar, fear, and stagnation
It doesn’t think. It entrains.
It doesn’t ask. It inhabits.
That’s why when the human terrain is overgrown—with candida, with mold, or with fungal emotional patterns—people often:
— Feel foggy, needy, or spiritually soft
— Lose their vocal boundary
— Crave sugar, validation, or chaos
— Attract narcissists—or become energetically porous themselves
So Is It Evil?
No.
But it is amoral.
It has no ethics—only purpose.
And when left unchecked in a human system, it begins to feed off your light
without killing you—because it needs you alive to continue feeding.
That’s not evil.
That’s inhuman.
And that’s the danger.
In a Healthy System, Fungus Is a Helper.
It helps:
— Digest trauma
— Clean decay
— Regulate ecosystems
— Teach softness and surrender (in microdoses only)
But when boundaries collapse?
It stops recycling the past—
and starts consuming the present.
That’s when you feel:
— Lost
— Foggy
— Distorted
— Invaded
That’s when you become a host.
Closing Declaration
Fungus isn’t evil.
But it is a living metaphor
for what happens when you stop owning your space.