This year's issue of the Psi Symposium Annual Journal has a number of very interesting and provocative articles by both ministers and lay people. The opening selection, "Sacred Traditions and Practices," is by retired UU minister, Rudi Gelsey, who gave the PSI Symposium lecture and workshop at the UUA General Assembly in Charlotte, North Carolina last June. The article is based on his lecture which was very well received.

The second article is by Reena Kondo of New York City. She noted that one of the readers of our Psi Symposium Newsletter mentioned Michael Talbot's book, The Holographic Universe. She remembered she had done a paper on Talbot's book for a course in Hinduism given last summer at Meadville/Lombard Theological School by Wade Wheelock. She sent it to Newsletter Editor, Ruth Sutro, who sent it along to me for the Journal since it was too long to publish in our Newsletter. It is an interesting and well written paper. If I were the professor, I would have given her an A.

Arthur Myers, author of The Ghostly Register and the recently published The Ghosthunters Guide, shares some interesting correspondence from a friend and "developing mystic" in Michigan, named Heather. Heather speaks of her spiritual transformation process which she compares to the classic symptoms of the awakening kundalini energy flow as described in yoga literature. She also describes her inner communications with her spiritual guides and her growing identification with the I AM consciousness that expresses itself through us all.

Irving Gale, of Delray Beach, Florida, who wrote an article on reincarnation in last year's Journal, continues his reflections in a new piece which he calls "The Bank of Our Soul." He tells us that the most important energy we have within us is the energy within our Soul. It is the memory bank of all our life experiences — past, present, and future — and the source of intuition, imagination, and inspiration. Thanks again to former Psi Symposium Board Member, Rhoda Zagorsky, for submitting this article for consideration. I am glad to be able to share it with our readers in this issue of the Journal.

Our fifth selection, "The Greatest Mystery," was originally given as asermon by Frederick E. Gillis, minister of the Westminster Unitarian Church, on June 13, 1993. I saw from his church newsletter that he was going to be talking about the mystery of human consciousness itself. I asked him to send me a copy so that I might consider it for the Journal. I am happy to share his thoughts with our readers.

The concluding article, "Thoughts On Spiritual Transformation," is by Charles F. Magistro, minister of the UU Church of Central Nassau in Garden City, N.Y. It was originally presented to "The Greenfield Group" (a UU ministers study group) at its 1991 Spring Convocation in Peterborough, N.H. The focus of the convocation was on the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous as a spiritual process. As a member of The Greenfield Group, I was impressed with the depth and comprehensiveness of Charles Magistro's paper and asked him if I might publish it in the Psi Symposium Journal. He said yes and here it is. Charles challenges his readers with the thought that the sometimes "anti-traditional" stance of Unitarian Universalism may be disintegrative to authentic spiritual transformation. We need to move beyond the "God of the Intellect" to find our spiritual depth.