Christopher John Thomson sat with his back to the main window of what eventually became known as The Blonde Factory, a bar in the Bruntsfield area of Edinburgh, Scotland. The year was 2005 AD. The month, February.
He leaned forward and stretched out his right hand.
"So, we establish a School of Consciousness in the Spanish Pyrenees?!"
"Yes," replied Graham Stewart, matter-of-factly, "Why not?"
And so it was decided.
And so it came to be, approximately 9 years later.