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THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF HEALER ALFONS VEN STORY THE EXTRAORDINARY ALFONS VEN HEALER Belgian engineer turned homoeopath and alchemist Alfons Ven has developed simple remedies that can restore the body's master control system, based on the idea that the invisible controls the visible. Part 2 of 2 Musings on healing illem de Ridder: So you did not find it through alchemy or homoeopathy. Alfons Ven: Those things gave fundamental ideas. Everything that exists, a molecule, an atom, exists of body, spirit and soul. Everything, from the minutest to the largest thing we can imagine, exists of body, spirit and soul. But the eye-opener was: the invisible controls the visible. Then I knew, "This is my profession!" What are we doing right now, for instance, recording this interview? We capture our voices on tape. You cannot see them, you cannot grasp them, but actually they are going around in space. Invisibly. Our voices are being carried by the wires; we store them on tape without seeing how. All abstract, very abstract. We store the abstract onto a carrier and it reaches the listener as a reality. Wherever you are, listening to this interview, reading this transcript, you join the reality of Willem and myself. This isn't magic; it is science. It is invisible, but not magic. Of course, classical science, which only occupies itself with materialistic ideas, has always had difficulties understanding this. But every day we are handling things where the invisible controls the visible, the physical, the tangible. Willem: These days, in medical science, there is more and more talk about the influence of convictions and ideas—that, in fact, more people die from the diagnosis than from the disease. If you learn that there is no hope, your entire immune system drops by 80 per cent. This idea that a conviction, or an idea, or a mentality, can make you sick is something at least pointing to the direction of the invisible controlling the visible. Because an idea is abstract. One cannot see it. Alfons: But that is a misrepresentation of the idea. It is an exaggeration. Of course, convictions can kill you. Of course, a false interpretation of something leads you astray. But this should not be used as an escape. Take, for instance, the founder of homoeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann. He was a genius. Nobody will deny it: the man was a genius. The way he worked, organised and found things, he was a genius. Jan, the alchemist, is a genius. But that in itself is meaningless. Hahnemann was in an alchemy school with Hufland, also a German. Hufland had all kinds of alchemist pupils around him, of whom Hahnemann was not the best in terms of healing. And because he was not capable of healing people with his alchemical preparations, he said to Hufland, "It is all in the mind." And Hufland said, "Get out of my laboratory. If you cannot heal, be humble enough to say 'I can't’, and go on searching. But do not blame it on the mind." Willem: On the mind and the thoughts. Alfons: And now we are making the same mistake with classical, regular medicine. If you talk to psychiatrists (which I do now, as they and all kinds of specialists collaborate with me), they all confirm that on a diagnostic level we can do fantastic things and we know exactly what is going on, but when it comes to the praxis we know almost nothing. Willem: And what works is often a placebo. Alfons: Which of course works because it is suggestion. So that now they say, "It is all suggestion". But they make the same mistake as Hahnemann. Because they are impotent, because they lack the power to heal, they say, "It is the mind". So a man gets a gigantic ulcer in the stomach. He is a trucker; a big, strong man. When the cancer cannot be cured, the man suffers from depression because he has three or four children and says, "I'm going to die. What about my wife and children?" The situation turns into a vicious circle. "You have the ulcer because you are depressed," they say. There is no cure because they blame the cancer on a mental condition. Similar things can be seen in the Interview with Alfons Ven Evolution Vision Foundation Postbus 509 4645 ZW Putte, The Netherlands Telephone: +31 30 233 3188 Website: http://www.visionone.tv by Willem de Ridder © 1996 Website: http://www.willemderitter.com by Willem de Ridder © 1996 Website: http://www.willemderitter.com NEXUS = 33 DECEMBER 2007 — JANUARY 2008 www.nexusmagazine.com