I am most grateful for the kind invitation extended to me to address this gathering tonight. For me it is a great honour and, in many ways, like coming to Rome to plead my cause, as I shall shortly seek to make apparent.

What I shall seek to say is an amalgam of several sources and types of data.

In the first instance, it is a highly personal and idiosyncratic statement of experience.. in the second, corroboratory evidence from others, dependent and independent, where it was possible to test the positivist scientific nature in support of certain aspects of my story. In the fourth, results of an established frame of reference. In the fifth, some results obtained by the application of information thus acquired.

The key to the whole story at the beginning was the dowsing experience, which I state at the outset to be valid. Where I am the only witness to events and phenomena, I have attempted to the best of my ability to observe and record them faithfully.

For the story I will thus try to communicate may be called the 'Quest for the Holy Grail in the 20th century', of which the significance may become apparent later. It is a story which may at times be susceptible to the charges of romanticism and naivety, but at the end of the day it was innocent and that may be very important. It is a story of application, guided or misguided, by a group of people who, having satisfied themselves that a certain paranormal or abnormal phenomenon existed, spent the subsequent years investigating this phenomenon, and continue to do so, examining every possible source of information in order to explain it. That process continues, and may always continue.