It appears there is a force, a power, a stream of life that runs through everything. Emerson called it The Oversoul. Jung called it the Collective Unconscious. Christians call it The Holy Spirit. Buddhists and Humanists call it The Human Spirit. Unitarian Universalists often call it The Spirit of Life. My Religious Education professor sometimes called it “the much more dimension of life.” When we are still, and when we are genuine, authentic, and listening, something deep down inside speaks. We have experiences. Answers come to us, unbidden. Feelings of wellness wash over us. We know something, for certain.

Rev. Jean and her husband, Lackey, moved to Brevard in 2005 from Memphis, where she was the first minister of Neshoba Unitarian Universalist Church for 13 years.