Toni Nash, CSJ Bio
Toni Nash, CSJ - a teacher for over 50 years, a national lecturer, retreat director, and spiritual director. Toni holds a doctorate in Philosophy and Religion with a concentration in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. She co-founded Sisters of Earth in 1994.
My interests and work are in embodying the new consciousness in today’s exploitive consumer society. I teach online courses through the Deep Time Network. Topics include Spiritual Leadership, New Consciousness, and a World in Crisis; Religious Vows within the New Consciousness; The Doctrine of Discovery and Decolonialization; and Spiritual Practices to Make a Difference. I am also interested in joining with other interest women in a Catholic Sisters Residential Schools Truth and Healing Initiative.
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My ministry as a Religious Cosmologist focuses on understanding the roots of our destructive relationships to each other and our planet, and presents a path toward right relationships. By aligning our actions with how the Universe builds strong, sustainable structures, we connect with creation’s natural energies to transform our behavior and address our ecological, social and spiritual crises with a new consciousness.
Toni partners with religious and faith communities to become more authentic members of a sacred Earth community, and to take up their role as spiritual leaders in this time of planetary crisis. She’s also applying her work as a religious cosmologist to heal relationships with Native American communities affected by the boarding school era.
The Heart at the Heart of the World: Frohlich Interview Questions from Sr. Toni Nash, CSJ August 28, 2024 , Chapters 3,4,5 1. Moving toward Nature-centrism, letting go of anthropocentrism, towards more participatory way of being within our Earth community. toward a New Animism. Could you say more about the New Animism and why this direction is so important? 2. Gaia theory and the process of symbiosis seem to point to deeper types of relationships than affection or even kinship. How might the insights of Gaia theory and symbiosis deepen our understanding of the depth of relationships open to us in this web of life? 3. The divinely given direction of evolution - toward beings that can manifest qualities like those of the Divine Heart. Sounds predestination - an impersonal God manipulating creation- maybe a little more subtly from inside the processes, but still pushes everything toward a preferred outcome. There is no free will. How does this bring us any closer to a satisfying story of who we are as humans and who God is? 4. Humans are the ones best suited to manifesting these qualities of heart (e.g., evolutionary advantage p 77), Doesn’t this support anthropocentrism and work against the humility that humans need in order to develop true kinship? 5. Chapter 5: examples of the problems that result when we humans try to define (limit) things. When we label something wild, chaotic, queer, etc., the subject seems to explode the boundaries we place on it. How do we remain alert to and question our cultural assumptions as we seek to form kinship relationships?
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