“Speak to the Earth and it shall teach you” ~Job 12:8

“For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.” ~ Seneca the Younger circa 25 A.D.       

Donna J. Elsten Ministries a church of animism is a Nevada not for profit corporation established October 1, 2001 under 501 (c) (3) as a church; donations to Donna J. Elsten Ministries are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. Animism means life; soul as distinguished from matter. Donna J Elsten Ministries is a church of animism based on the belief in Spirit, as the essential principal of life –including the indwelling spirits of all species and natural phenomena of the Earth –where animals, plants, water, air and even rocks, and the universe of which you and I are all a part, have a soul…even you…This belief implies a sacred reverence for all of the life forms dwelling upon the planet and the planet itself, including its waters, plants, land, and air and for the universe of which you and I are all a part. Animism means that people believe there are spirits.

“In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life–no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, –my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, –all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing, I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am a part or particle of God.” ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson circa 1860