Gradually an understanding of the working of these subtle energies was developing. Dan Wilson, contributing to this, gave it as his view, that the energies were as interaction between:- Present thought

1. Past thought
2. Terrestial record or memory,
3. and Cosmic record

In other words, a mixture of cosmic and telluric forces, plus human consciousness, past and present. I don't think that we have bettered this overall view, and most Fountain workers are content just to know that our interaction with these energies is effective. Increasingly, those who may be called professional healers were attracted to the Fountain network, though we need always to remember that everyone practicing the Fountain concept is a healer in a very real and practical sense.

With the instalment of an office in Lelant, Cornwall, through the kindness of Paul Hawkins who lent us office space and under the full-time care of Sheila and Trevor Nevins, communication within the network became possible and fruitful. It is rewarding to read through early issues of the magazine and to recall the many friends who became dedicated Fountain workers in established groups. I started at this point to record the names of such peoples and groups, but to do so would be invidious as there are so many - many indeed known only to the Coordinator and all of inestimable value to the great work of healing our communities and our planet.

There are times when we make a point of identifying ourselves with world wide campaigns. Regular link-ups take place at various times and seasons, such as December and the New Year. Some of these qualify as high spots in the memory, not only because of the sense of unity, but even more for their obvious beneficial effects - such as the Harmonic Convergence in 1987. Inspired by the Mayan prophecies, the World Federation for Peace sent out a call for 144,000 people to link at sunrise on August 16th at sacred sites around the world. The purpose was to unite at the Earth's "acupuncture points to create a resonating link between Universal Energies and the Earth". It proved to have far reaching results. Intuitively we felt that it sparked off a huge change in human collective consciousness which is still affecting the world today.

Another area of research at around that time introduced a further important element in our understanding of the subtle energies. While working on the famous St. Michael Line which runs from southern Cornwall up to the Norfolk coast, Paul Broadhurst and Hamish Miller discovered a hitherto unsuspected anomaly, which they subsequently described in their fascinating book, "The Sun and the Serpent". They discovered by painstaking and meticulous dowsing over several years that the alignment meets with and is entwined by two serpentine energy flows (the Caduceus, symbol of healing) which may be of as masculine and feminine energies respectively. This opened up a whole new area of research into the subtle energies which is still proceeding today.

A further extension of Fountain community healing took place in September 1987, when Spanish Radio Cadena Espanola to the unprecedented step of sending healing by radio. This of course was an enterprise instigated by Colin and achieved through his well-established contacts in Spain. The time chosen was midnight (Spain's peak listening hour!). The programme's presenters were Miguel Blanco and the writer, Enrique de Vicente. During the hour long programme listeners were given a short talk by Colin on healing in general and this was followed by a healing session in the studio and a world wide phone-in, to contact and send healing as far away as Australia. There was also a time for questions.

Conference 1987 brought news of energy pattern changes dowsed since the Harmonic Convergence. Colin announced that the 8-factor had changed to 10. However, after the closing meditation of the Conference, the dowsers did a quick check, to find that the 10 had now become a 12. Jacques Derrieu at the French conference, which was in session the same week-end as ours, was predicting this change. Checks later in Spain, Athens and the island of Hydra seemed to confirm that the change was general. At the workshop on Hydra, tests were made on the human chakra system which showed five more chakras above the Crown chakra. Colin reported all this in the December magazine (No.18) and also stated that the concentric circles formerly dowsable on a functioning healer had now increased to 12.