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that meant the end of the story. So the exorcist called and asked, three months later they were back on drugs. Or people saying "How is the boy?" I said, "Fine. He is back in school." He said, they had some entity in their house. He expelled them with his "Impossible." I said, "Why impossible?" He said, "With rituals and they were gone. But after a while it was worse. And everything you explained to me, it is not possible. I gota clear he said, "With you it is different. They leave without rituals and picture that the boy probably was possessed. How can you have do not return." He knew right away this was something special, him back in school with these little preparations? Can I come to something new for him. But as we say in Flemish, you do not see you this time and talk about it?" I said, "Okay." He came, walk in a sack. Our activities had not gone unnoticed. The priest and again we talked about my method of work—not his. was notified by the cardinal, the highest Church authority in the Willem: He didn't tell you anything. country, not to deal with me any more because I did not profile Alfons: Nothing. But finally he said, "I think you add myself as a Catholic. I was a kind of heretic. I think they were something to your treatment. Without knowing it, you are afraid of me; they obstructed because I did things they could not performing a kind of ministry on the spiritual level, of which you do. And that was not good for their business. are not aware." I said, "Okay, let us put it to the test." He said, Willem: Right. So you were banned from the Church. "T'll bring somebody for you to heal or to deliver." I said, "Fine; Alfons: Yes. The cardinal wrote a letter to the bishops, saying, the centre is open to everybody." He brought in a lady. And once "This is a heretic; do not deal with him or ask for his assistance." more, I did my job. This lady, who for decades had been under I was not supposed to know that I had secretly been the spell of some entity, was healed. And then he brought two excommunicated. They wanted to get rid of me. I was a nuisance persons, and four, and ten. It did not end. Then he said, "Alfons, because I did not turn people to Christianity or Catholicism. I want to induct you into the spiritual world." Willem: You just cured them. Willem: A Catholic priest said that? Alfons: Yes. I cured them, delivered them, helped them. Just Alfons: Yes. I said, "Why me, because I'm not all that like that, almost automatically. I could understand that I Catholic. I think very liberally about life. Why me?" He said, undermined the clergy's authority, at least that they felt that it was "You may not know it, but you are very gifted, naturally gifted. coming to that. The priest received strict orders to cut all ties with And I want to teach you everything I know." I considered it and me. And so our ways parted. did not say no. So he said, "Go home and close up your centre." Willem: And you had no more centre... He was asking a lot. Alfons: No more centre; still not Willem: Why did you have to feeling good... Right. I was the great close your cere? "You h a Our activities had not gone pomoeopath of Antwerp. Everybody ‘ons: He said, "You have gifts. A A new me. I cured people. I was the Gifts which you received gratis, you unnoticed. The priest was exorcist. I was everything. But I SnaeaaiTi'snd pani ev | notified by the cardinal, © J mys t.no movement what happened. Of course, the the highest Church authority people, but I had asthma, I had people with whom I worked in the in the country. not to deal with allergies, I had heart problems. I had 3 centre, the doctors, weren't happy. all kinds of problems. I had a lack of They said, "Alfons, it is going great me any more because I did not identity. Of course, being busy with and now you are going off to do 7 i matters spiritual and homeopathic, I something else." I said, "If it is true profile myself as a Catholic. became more and more aware how what the priest says, that I can things are interconnected, how they achieve on a spiritual level something coincide, how all coincides. that nobody else can, or at least he can't, why shouldn't I do it? After all, better is better." And I thought, "Probably my own Alchemical Homoeopathy problems are on a spiritual level. Who knows? So by learning a Alfons: And while I was practising all of this, a man came to lot about these things, I can help myself a step further. Or I can me. He, too, had heard about me. His name was Jan. And Jan say, ‘It didn't help me at all.'". And indeed, being aware of the came to me with a spiritual problem. Jan was a member of the spiritual world and all those things did not help me a bit. Rosicrucians. "Alfons," he said, "I am highly initiated. But it is not Willem: What did you do? You travelled around with him? a blessing. It is killing me. It drove my wife away and my Alfons: First he came with all these people to my centre when it children. It only brings misery and I want to get out from under it." was closed. Then he sent me people at home. And we travelled I said, "I know of other people who are Rosicrucians and do not through Flanders and encountered all kinds of situations: have these problems." "It is all a matter of initiation," he said. poltergeist manifestations, various forms of possession, obsession "Can you help me?" I said, "Let me try." and torment. We encountered all sorts of things, but always Two, three months later he was "re-programmed" from his false dramatic; nothing simple, everything extreme. And again and beliefs and living a normal life again. I had never asked what his again, I took things he could not solve, and they got solved almost —_ profession was. All I knew was his first name, Jan; John in automatically. English. And Jan asked me, "Can I do something in return?" I Willem: But was he not able to help people, too? am a pragmatic mind, I am an engineer, so I said, "What are you? Alfons: Sure. I saw him doing things such as praying over What can you do?" He said, "What do you want from me?" I people. He laid hands on people, he delivered people who said, "Well, I have this homoeopathic talent and this spiritual believed in his religion. I saw them changing. But after time, it ministry. But the problem is that I am not getting better myself." all came back. And then something struck me: the idea that if I could control Willem: It was not permanent. myself, things would go better. Because, in fact, saying I am not Alfons: Most of the time it was not permanent at all. For completely myself is like saying I am not in control. So I told instance, the priest got people off drugs, but when he came back _ him, "I have always been controlling things, factories, automation, Our activities had not gone unnoticed. The priest was -- ane ab i. unnoticed. notified by the cardinal, the highest Church authority in the country, not to deal with me any more because | did not profile myself as a Catholic. Alchemical Homoeopathy Alfons: And while I was practising all of this, a man came to me. He, too, had heard about me. His name was Jan. And Jan came to me with a spiritual problem. Jan was a member of the Rosicrucians. "Alfons," he said, "I am highly initiated. But it is not a blessing. It is killing me. It drove my wife away and my children. It only brings misery and I want to get out from under it." I said, "I know of other people who are Rosicrucians and do not have these problems." "It is all a matter of initiation," he said. "Can you help me?" I said, "Let me try." Two, three months later he was "re-programmed" from his false beliefs and living a normal life again. I had never asked what his profession was. All I knew was his first name, Jan; John in English. And Jan asked me, "Can I do something in return?" I am a pragmatic mind, I am an engineer, so I said, "What are you? What can you do?" He said, "What do you want from me?" I said, "Well, I have this homoeopathic talent and this spiritual ministry. But the problem is that I am not getting better myself." And then something struck me: the idea that if I could control myself, things would go better. Because, in fact, saying I am not completely myself is like saying I am not in control. So I told him, "I have always been controlling things, factories, automation, NEXUS = 21 OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2007 www.nexusmagazine.com