As the years go by changes occur in the voluntary personnel performing the administritive tasks of editing the magazine, coordinating the network and looking after its funds. Since there is no membership fee, the funds consist only of magazine subscriptions and donations. Changes often mean a change in style and emphasis reflecting, as they are bound to do, the personalities of the volunteers. However, the initial Fountain concept remains unaltered and the underlying dedication is preserved and handed on unchanged and this will continue to be the case.

Our overseas affilations expand. The 1989 Conference had as its climax the intial link with Kiev. This was the direct result of welcoming our first speaker from Russia, Alexander Neklessa who gave us a a fascinating account of his work in SYNLA. SYNLA, formed in 1967 by a group of like-minded people, is primarily a research organisation, which sees humanity as a single synergetic organism continually adapting to change and now about to undergo a new evolutionary phase. Consequently, the decisons that we make now affect our chances of breaking away from historical patterns. Their work ranges from psychology, transpersonal psychology and psychotherapy, and also research into dowsing, healing, eastern mysticism amd western (European) magic. Contact with Alexander led to the first Fountain visit to what was then the Soviet Union. This took place in 1991. Believing that the English St. Michael Line continued somewhere north of Leningrad, Hamish Miller was keen to establish at least some hint of its location. What he did find in the short space of time available was a segment of the Mary Line near the town of Viborg. Both lines were picked up on the road between St. Petersburg and the Finnish border. Further developments are awaited!

Central to our thinking during the last few years have been messages received through our Sudbury group from Hasim, channelled by David Walters. These had a profound influence upon Fountain awareness. With their positive, wise and practical advice, they proved welcome, even to those who were not usually amenable to channelled messages (though there were naturally still some agnostics). The message from the Spirit of the Earth was particularly affecting with its emphasis on the unity of all the Nature kingdoms and upon the value of our 'input' for planetary well-being. Of the Fountain work Hasim said, "It is hard to overstate the importance of the network. There is not much else happening at the moment that is more important. It is the safety-net that can catch the next stage of evolution." He also foretold world wide changes that would be happening "within 20 months rather than 20 years". As this message was received in 1990, the truth of his words is now self-evident. The inner changes in the collective consciousness have since produced results which a few short years ago we would have thought needed a succession in major miracles.

A second message specifically to Fountain will fittingly end this part of our story. Printed in the magazine (No.28), these are his words." Those involved in Fountain work must begin to develop a wider concept of the significance of the work they are doing." Speaking of other changes to come, he continues, "Those changes are, briefly, a fundamental change in vibration. There will not only be a change in one's own environment, but also in terms of one's interconnectedness with everyone else's. Think, for example, of the consequences which you are already beginning to see in man's interconnectedness with the animal kingdom. That is a change which comes about in one's emotional, mental, psychological and spiritual awareness. There will be dramatic changes in economy. The same with attitudes to the human race. For example, the whole concept of military intervention has to be re-examined and that has huge consequences in terms of the economy, unemployment, etc. Thses are all symptoms of change in the vibrational level. You are going to have a really practical consequence of the change which takes place on this very fine subtle level". Few of us would deny that such changes are occurring at an ever increasing rate