Our Fountain technique for directing healing energy is the simplest imaginable. In our daily link-up we are asked to visualise our local Hara, the focal point of our community, and infuse into it peace, harmony and love. The Hara could be thought of as an acupuncture needle. This technique is based on the understanding that in the relaxed meditative state, i.e. the alpha brain rhythm, we reach the level of the collective unconciousness, where we are subconciously communicating all the time. Hence our Fountain motto "Energy follows thought"We know too, that when we concentrate on any particular quality eg. light or love or peace - we actually produce an electro-magnetic frequency which 'sparks off' change. Of course this will apply to negative thoughts as well and stresses the necessity for focusing on the positive. Fountain work is based on these two concepts and its effectiveness has been proved throughout the years. Practised faithfully in a given locality, it will result in the building up of a reservoir of 'light-energy' affecting the whole area. I have said 'practised faithfully' and should add 'constantly', for we have noticed that sustainability is a key factor in the success of the operation.

This our established technique and I think it would be interesting to link this to the discoveries of today's quantum physics. During the past three decades there has been a growing body of research data concerning the power of thought, prayer and healing. Under the broad heading of 'Parapsychology', researchers in the U.K. such as Capra, Pribrom, Bohm, Sheldrake, Lovelock and others in the U.S.A. and Russia have been discovering alignments with metaphysical and spiritual concepts.

Such work in the physical sciences may not be of great interest to spiritual healers who have implicit faith in their various disciplines. However, to others, it is very exciting to find that there is a natural basis for an understanding of our human powers, which serves to reinforce in us the promise that we are some use in the world. Of special interest is research into absent healing and traditional prayer. A fascinating account of such research, since 1970, is given by Lynne McTaggert in her recent book "The Field" Here I must content myself with a few of the concepts dealt with in her chapter on healing.

In carefully controlled and repeated tests it was found not only that absent healing worked but that the healers could be from diverse backgrounds, using many different techniques and that the method chosen was immaterial. Other tests proved the effectiveness of traditional prayer, said with the intention of asking for healing of the subject. INTENTION was found to be the key and the general concensus was that healing through intention is available to ordinary people.

It is worth quoting a paragraph summarising all the tests undertaken: "...what they seemed to have in common was an ability to get out of the way ............ most of them claimed to have put out their intention and then stepped back and surrendered to some other kind of healing force, as though they were opening a door and allowing something greater in."

Another example described was one in which healing was aided by simply hoping for a good result. This must give us pause , for, if this is the case, we surely need to reassess and correct our normal attitudes, so that instead of instinctively reacting negatively we come to expect the good! This reminds me of a wonderful passage in Teilhard de Chardin's 'Le Milieu Divin':- "No doubt ....our prayers and our actions are concientiously directed to bringing about God's kingdom. But in fact how many of us are genuinely moved in the depths of our hearts by the wild hope the world will be recast?"

This 'wild hope' should be our aim and a valid part of our prayer process, - a process so simple that everyone can take part, young or old, physically active or housebound. And lest in spite of everything our faith should falter again, it is as well to ground it in the certain knowledge of our actual physical oneness with the whole of creation, from the smallest quark (a sub atomic particle), to the furthest star in the cosmos, and from the humble yet benificent earthworm to the great archangels.

Deepak Chopra has a unique gift for making this concept come alive for us:- "Your slightest intention is rippling across the universe ..... Every intention is a trigger for transformation.." and "A thought also transforms the field.." As for the field itself, Chopra stresses "This quantum field isn't separate from us - it is us.." He has already described this as 'a timeless, flowing field of constant transformation'. The repeated use of the word 'transfrmation' is noteworthy and one is reminded of its epitome in the natural world, - the life-cycle of a butterfly!

The American physicist Hal Puthoff has defined for us a new and vital concept, 'the zero point field', which he describes as a "..a giant reservoir of energy..". What used to be thought of as 'space' is not nothingness. In McTagart's words "...even between stars is, in subatomic terms, a hive of activity..". This concept seems to relate, in metaphysical terms, to the 'Void' encountered in Qabala as Unmanifest Existence. The revelations of quantum physics align uncannily with this ancient tradition. To quote Chopra again "This void is mysteriously imprinted with information even before any information is expressed".

The psychaitrist R.D.Laing in his book 'The Politics of Experience' writes: "This zone, the zone of no-thing, of the silence of silences, is the source. We forget that we are all there all the time." This statement so gripped my imagination, long years ago, that I noted it down and, thereafter, transferred it from notebook to notebook. It has now proved its relevance in the light of quantum physics. But it is in a book by the poet and philosopher John O'Donohue that the neatest definition is to be found. He quotes the artist Anish Kapoor as saying "The void is not silent ............. Its a space of becoming."

That 'space of becoming' is what we 'tap into' when we pray or meditate and when we do our Fountain link-up. Let us remember what those researchers found, that whatever technique was used and however diverse our philosphical or religious background, the intention to heal effects a change for the better. Chopra's "Every intention is a trigger for transformation" summarises this truth. He also says "Intention is the active partner of attention".

This ties in beautifully with Huna teaching, which concieves of our attention, our vision and our thought as aka-threads, linking us to the object of that attention. These, in turn, are 'coloured' by our intention, good or bad, and that and that what we send out comes back to us in some way. (Another link with the concept of the field)

So, we intend, we send, and leave the outcome in higher hands than ours. For there is another name for this 'space of becoming' ..........ABBA - Father!

Peggy Bunt

Further reading:Lynne McTaggert: "The Field; The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe" Published by Harper Collins ISBN: 0 - 7225 - 3764 - 6 (available from Cygnus Books)