Zoe Helene, Cultural Activist, Founder, Cosmic Sister
Zoe Helene, MFA, is an artist, environmentalist, and cultural activist best known for empowering women through sacred medicines such as cannabis, ayahuasca, peyote, San Pedro and psilocybin mushrooms—our co-evolutionary allies—through Psychedelic Feminism, a term she coined and popularized.
Zoe founded Cosmic Sister (@CosmicSister), an environmental feminist collective for people who understand that the grossly imbalanced “power-over” patriarchal model will continue to lead humans down a devolutionary path ending in the destruction of life as we know it on Earth. She believes creating a true balance of power across the gender spectrum—globally—is the only way humans (and non-humans) will survive, and that it is our moral responsibility, as Earth’s apex predators, to protect and defend the rights of non-humans to live freely in thriving, uncompromised wilderness sanctuaries.
Cosmic Sister’s educational advocacy projects, grants, awards and scholarships promote sacred medicines as a way to lift women’s voices, celebrate diversity, and jump-start rapid cultural evolution. In the right set and setting, psychedelics can help women explore the wilderness within, in part to identify, explore, and hopefully heal unhealthy roots of human suffering, such as wounds and disempowering social programming related to surviving in—and rising in resistance of—global male-dominance.
“Psychedelics have the power to help us rapidly evolve from a cultural or behavioral perspective so we can be better citizens of Earth as a species, which starts with hundreds, then thousands, then millions, then billions of individual revolutions within,” Zoe says.
Zoe has been featured in Forbes, BBC, VICE, BUST, LA Yoga, Playboy, Outside Magazine, New York Magazine, Boston Magazine, Sensi Magazine, DoubleBlind, Lucid News, Psychedelic Times, Organic Authority, The Journal for the Study of Radicalism (a peer-reviewed academic journal), and many more. She has also been a guest on many popular sacred medicine podcasts, including Psychedelics Today, Psychedelic Salon, Shakti Stories, The Third Wave, In A Perfect World, Adventures Through the Mind, and People Making Change. She has presented and/or led Psychedelic Feminism talking circles for venues such as MAPS Canada, Spirit Plant Medicine Conference, The Emerald Cup, New England Women’s Herbal Conference, Bastyr University, and Naropa University.
http://zoehelene.com
https://www.instagram.com/cosmicsister/?hl=en
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