I do know what you mean about tuning into that world. I started foraging the same year that I was trying to grow them. Learning about the about spores and mycelium, all this stuff going on you can't see is combined with this shift in focus when I was out hunting for them in the woods. You feel yourself hooking into an new aspect of Mother Earth. And every time I have a good find it feels like She's lookin' out.
As for the reason I chose the winecaps to cultivate, mostly it was that it was considered one of the easiest cultivars to grow. And also that it grows in wood chips. The other ones that are recommended for beginners were oysters that are grown on logs. I'm a gardener, so it seemed more like the type of gardening I actually knew something about.
Only it was different, very different.
Maybe King Stropharia finally forgave me for all the mistakes I made:/