The scene is a rather sombre and windowless space of a great university lecture hall, but there is nothing sombre about the gathering. The gentle strains of Mike Rowland's "The Fairy Ring" produce an atmosphere a little different from that usually encountered in this hall at Sussex University. The subject-matter of the talk is different too. We are introduced to such ideas as Qabala and Sacred Geometry, while the magic word 'dowsing' is much in evidence. Through all this enchantment and stimulation there perambulates, sometimes on the distant platform and sometimes among the recreating audience, a figure which is in one way stately and a trifle austere and yet, in another seems to invite the exchange of badinage as well as the engrossing interchange of ideas. To me, shy and retiring, this august personage was to remain for a while on the far horizon. Yet I sensed, even from a distance, the warmth and friendliness that was to become apparent. Such is my first memory of Colin Bloy, whose researches has resulted in the birth of Fountain International. A friend and I were attending our first Fountain Conference - the year, 1984; the season, Michaelmas

On the evening of the Friday we had, in addition to wine and nibbles, feasted on the mind-boggling tenets of the power of human thought and the energy networks - to us totally unfamiliar and presented in dramatic form by the great Michael Bentine. By the Saturday we were already enthralled by the whole concept, as also by the much needed assurance that we had at last found a way of influencing for the good the increasingly disturbed and disturbing world in which we were living. Thereafter, we were to become dedicated to the Fountain concept and all that is implies.