The Unitarian Universalist Psi Symposium is now in its 30th year of existence as an affiliate organization of the U.U.A. We began at the UUA General Assembly, Boston, in 1969 and have somehow managed to endure for three decades. In celebration of our 30th year the 1998 and 1999 issues of the Psi Symposium Annual Journal will feature a selection of articles which have appeared in past issues of the Journal along with some interesting current offerings. In this year's edition we have seven articles from previous issues and two which are being published for the first time.

H. Brunner Dickman, Esq., a lawyer, and longtime member of the First Unitarian Church in Cincinnati, is a graduate of Silva Mind Control, and has been a hatha yoga teacher. His article on "ESP and Other Paranormal Phenomena" appeared in the 1982 issue of the Journal.

The late Dr. Horace Westwood, a well-known and highly regarded Unitarian minister, published a controversial book in 1949, THERE IS A PSYCHIC WORLD, based on his personal explorations of psychic experiences of a family member. We published a chapter from his book, "Psychic Research and The Beginning of Christianity", in the 1977 issue of the Psi Journal, and are pleased to do so again. David Rhys Williams was also a highly regarded Unitarian minister from the same period as Dr. Westwood. He also had the courage to study and reflect upon the significance of the data from parapsychology and shared his views in his book FAITH BEYOND HUMANISM, published in 1963. His reflections on "Parapsychology and The Question of Immortality" was published in the 1969 issue of the Journal.

Your Editor's sermonic reflection on "Death Remembered In Dream & Reality" was first published in the 1982 edition of the Journal. He did an update with some additional material for his pulpit in 1993 which is here included along with three selections from others on a similar theme. Karlis Osis, Ph.D., worked for many years researching deathbed visions for the American Society of Psychical Research. He once lectured for the Psi Symposium on "Deathbed Observations In the U.S. and India" at our 1977 General Assembly which we are pleased to republish in this year's Psi Journal. The Rev. Dr. Peter E. Lanzillotta (Near-Death Experiences), past President of the Psi Symposium, and the late Rev. Charles S. Slap(The Tunnel and the Being of Light), published back to back pieces on near-death experiences in the 1987 Psi Journal, and once again in 1998.

The final two selections in this year's Journal are by U.U. ministers, William J. Metzger, speaker at the Psi G.A. lecture in Rochester, N.Y., last June (Visible and Invisible Worlds: Finding Healing and Wholeness), and Richard Fewkes, Psi Symposium Journal Editor, and presenter at the Psi Symposium Annual Meeting at Ferry Beach, Saco, Maine last July (THE SCARAB AT JUNG'S WINDOW). Bill Metzger is the former Editor of THE QUEST, the quarterly journal of the Theosophical Society in America. Richard Fewkes is in his 30th year as minister of the First Parish in Norwell, Mass. He plans to retire as minister and Psi Symposium Journal Editor and President in the year 2000.