Scientific Animism

Shasta is the founder of Saba Cooperative DAO, a solarpunk storyteller, content creator, and community incubator. Shasta is also a group facilitator and counselor, supporting individuals and communities with a variety of issues, including co-occurring addictions, trauma, and dispute resolution.

Shasta holds an undergraduate degree in social work from Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts, and a master's degree in Psychology and Counseling from Goddard College in Vermont. Over the past 15 years, she has studied consciousness, world spiritual practices, and sustainable communities, and has designed and supported over a dozen outpatient, intensive outpatient, and transitional living programs in New Hampshire.

From 2009-2017, Shasta was a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor (MLADC) in New Hampshire, operating her intensive outpatient practice and halfway house, Another Way Counseling PLLC, from 2014-2017. She also briefly taught undergraduate Biopsychology as an online adjunct faculty instructor for Southern NH University.

In 2017, Shasta transitioned her focus to healing using hypnotic journeying and plant medicines, attending conferences and workshops hosted by MAPS and Zendo. However, she completed her personal training and initiations into these practices as a self-guided mystical process, isolated for 40-days deep in nature. During this private hermitage with intense focus on psilocybin, Shasta experienced great transformation and formed her relationship with the mushroom, which now allows her to confidently guide others through their sessions. She has been facilitating private journeys, using psilocybin, since 2018.

Shasta is also passionate about socially building and networking healthy communities, permaculture, and nomadic life, as well as mystical pursuits, sound therapy, music, dance, and meditation.