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are the best; they know what they are doing. So I went to see the _—_ from the people I helped, but I was not really feeling good. homoeopath with little faith. I knew this wouldn't work. Willem: You were sick yourself, but you were helping other Homeopathic medicine is diluted. There is nothing in it. I knew people. all that. Yet I went and the man was very honest. He checked me Alfons: I was helping more and more people. thoroughly and said, "I cannot help you." He said, "Your problem Willem: With some incredible results. is beyond my competence. All I can probably do with my Alfons: Yes, the results were rather nice, remarkable even. omoeopathic medicine is make you feel a bit better." And that's We treated psychological problems and such things. At the time, what he did. He gave me preparations and I got a bit, a tiny bit I was also reading a lot of books and what I myself practised was etter. If you are real down, a little bit means a lot. a technique called "direct counselling". Willem: Yes, that's true. Willem: Direct counselling? Alfons: That's true, right. So I felt a bit better but he told me, Alfons: Right. It means that within a few minutes of talking, "It is not going to cure you; it is not really going to help you; it is the patient enters a kind of pipeline leading straight to the root of just a little help." I was grateful for the help. Then he told me, the problem. You do not beat around the bush but you say, "Here "You are a very intelligent man and still alive. Maybe something is your problem." And then there is no way back. That is direct else can help you, something like psychiatric homoeopathy, but counselling. Then you have two possibilities: either they know nobody knows much about it." This was completely new, who they are, or they get cured—almost instantaneously. Direct certainly thirty years ago. There had been two French doctors in counselling achieves healing results no psychiatrist will in thirty Lyons, France, and they had been years. You come to the point and do not turn experimenting with this psychiatric around. You nail the problem, and... homoeopathy. Father and son. They had Willem: And once they recognise it... had a small clinic where they treated these Alfons: Recognising the problem is 80 kinds of cases, and also drug addicts. They per cent of the cure. Because, once they had had some kind of success. But all they It means that know, they say, "Aha! Okay!" had left was a manuscript. He said, "If you ws . Willem: If they do not recognise it, it gets need that kind of homoeopathy, try to find within a few minutes worse. this manuscript and use it yourself. It is H H Alfons: Normally they recognise the probably something." But I was not in the of talking, the patient problem, but it depends on the person who condition to travel. Everything was too enters a kind of does the counselling. Someone who cannot much. I had phobias and fears of travelling. H i i get to the heart of the matter probably has to I had no business travelling. But I kept pipeline leading come back. If he cannot get to it after two or pushing friends to help me, and finally I got straight to the root three visits, he doesn't have to come back the manuscript. I read it, tried things out and, again, made a little progress. Willem: So, you started using it. Alfons: I began using it according to their prescriptions. I couldn't go to the pharmacy myself, so I had people go and have this and that preparation made for me. Again, I made a little progress and I was very grateful. I said, "It is not what I expected from it, but it is better than nothing." I still rejected the homoeopathic stuff. You see, as a scientist, I had to believe in it. Though I was not convinced, I saw results. So homoeopathy which, of course, was when my children got ill, I gave them much gentler and with fewer side homoeopathic remedies and they were cured. And before I knew effects. So there was progress on that part, but not too much on because either I cannot help him or he isn't willing to open himself up. But it worked really well. And I got assistance also from doctors and other people willing to help me. Willem: So you were a sick doctor helping people. Alfons: Yes. A sick man curing other people. And I could not help myself. I only got myself a little better under control. You see, at the time I had the centre I was not on normal drugs. I helped myself with of the problem. Recognising the problem is 80 per cent of the cure. it, people began consulting me because they had heard about me. the level of identity and quality of life. I could not reach the They saw me making progress bit by bit, and they heard about all deeper levels of my problem, the core where it all began. the things I was using. They thought, "If it is doing something for Willem: Your character was out of whack, you might say. him, it might do something for me." And soon I had in Antwerp Alfons: Yes. the first therapeutic centre, which we called a kind of a biological Willem: You had lost your identity. centre, where we used applied homoeopathy administered by a Alfons: Almost. I was estranged from my identity. I was like regular doctor. a stranger to myself. Willem: Because, of course, you weren't a doctor yourself. Willem: A condition in which you cannot imagine your Alfons: Right. He did the clinical side. He examined people. _ identity? I had learned, if you do not examine people, if you do not Alfons: Right. It is terrible. If at the time somebody had said, approach them in a really professional way, sooner or later you "T'll break your arms and legs, and you will be well within eight are going to go wrong. With him being responsible for the weeks and you won't have any more problems," I'd have said, clinical side, I had always a correct diagnosis, and I did the "Break them right away." Without any hesitation I would have homoeopathic prescriptions myself. It was a fine combination. said, "Break them." Because I would have known that within We had real success, yet Alfons himself was not much better. My eight weeks it would be gone. Whereas my prospect was: this quality of life had improved a bit because of the recognition I felt _lasts forever; it will never go away. It means that of talking, the patient enters a kind of pipeline leading straight to the root of the problem. Recognising the problem is 80 per cent of the cure. NEXUS = 19 within a few minutes OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2007 www.nexusmagazine.com