The Rev. Wayne B. Arnason, Minister of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church in Charlottesville, Virginia, and President of the UU M inisters Association, was our keynote speaker at the Unitarian Universalist Association's General Assembly in Fort Worth, Texas last June. His address on "The Geography of UU Spirituality" was very well received and many expressed that they were looking forward to its publication in the Psi Symposium Annual Journal. We are pleased to present it to our readers as the lead article in this issue of the Journal.

Dr. James Luther Adams, retired professor of theology and ethics at Harvard University, died this past July at age 92. He is without doubt the most renown Unitarian Universalist theologian and social ethicist in the 20th century. He was a mentor to many across all denominations. He was the occasional preacher at the Editor's installation service in Norwell 25 years ago in 1969. A great raconteur with an encyclopedic mind he could talk about anything under the sun including sleep and dreams. We are pleased to reprint his article "In Praise of Sleep" which first appeared in the Summer 1977 issue of KAIROS, a UU theological Quarterly. At the time your Editor was Chair of the Board of Governors of KAIROS.

As a follow-up to Dr. Adams article, the Editor, Richard M. Fewkes, publishes "A Sermon On Sleep," which was first preached from the pulpit of the First Parish in Norwell around 1980. He's not saying how many congregants were put to sleep by his oration, but it was appropriate to the occasion.

Rev. Webster Kitchell has degrees in the ministry as well as psychology. After serving UU Societies in New York, Missouri, and Texas he has been settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico since 1981. At some point Coyote, "the trickster" from the stories of the Native Peoples of America came into Web's life, eating donuts, hanging out, and discussing philosophy with him. This is their discussion on The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield.

The Rev. Dr. Cynthia K. Edson has served a number of UU churches including Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, California and Alaska. Her article on "A Brief Visit to the Land of Snows" tells about her two week study and initiation into Tibetan religious practices in the fall of 1991. Her visit was not to Tibet, but to Manhattan, along with five lamas all of whom received a major initiation from the Dalai Lama. Dr. Edson is currently studying library science in the graduate school at Simmons College in Boston.

Edgar Peara, minister of the UU Community Church in Park Forest, Illinois, is a former Christian Science practitioner who still applies the laws of mental healing to the work of the ministry. His article on "Ideas for Doing Creative Thinking and Mental Healing Work" is an explication of the use of mental concentration and affirmation to effect healing in self and others.

For many years Suzanne Adams has been the lay coordinator of the Merrimack Valley Psi Symposium which meets at the North Parish Church in North Andover, Massachusetts. She also edits the Psi Symposium Chapter Newsletter and does a good deal of the writing herself. She was invited by the minister, David Blanchard, to preach and lead the service last February 1994. Her sermon "Looking at Life from the Inside Out" is the result of that effort, which we are pleased to share with our readers.

The concluding article is unusual in that it is a piece of channeled writing from a spiritual entity named "Vywamus" through the instrumentality of UU minister and teacher, Glen Snowden. This selection, entitled, "Celebrating Universal Life," is a chapter from a larger yet to be published book, and gives special focus to the creation of "some elements of a Universal Liturgy," or what I would call a cosmic liturgy. Are there any other UU channelers out there? Let us hear from you.