Alchemy Conference - look at this -

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:

Tonks_op:
> Look what I stumbled upon. For those of you who remember Hans, here is an actual picture of him. He is going to be a speaker at this conference.  The section about Dr. Masaru Emoto sounds very interesting. About the effects of positive thinking on water, etc. 
> 
> http://www.alchemyconference.com/bios2009.htm#EMOTO

Geoff (second go at a reply after Yahoo disembodied my first):

Ah dear Hans Andréa. That brings back memories.

Hans and I disagreed very profoundly as did many Christians 
on the group when he tried to persuade us all that Christianity 
and alchemy are linked together which we saw either as heresy 
or complete nonsense.

The way of liberation which he supports is not dissimilar to first 
century Gnosticism in that to follow this way, you have to have 
special knowledge which is not plainly evident in the Biblical 
records.

I am surprised that he is listed as Hans Andréa in the conference 
data because his real name is Hans Rieuwers and, according to his 
profile, he lives in Haarlem in The Netherlands. He apparently 
taught in Australasia for many years which, coupled with him being 
Dutch, explains this excellent command of English.

When I joined HPFGU in July 2003, he had been a member - or 
at least had been posting - from he previous April, signing a few 
posts as "Hans" and then adopting the group identity "Ivan 
Vablatsky" later that month. In 2004, he started posting as Hans 
Andréa, which persona he maintained until 2007.

IN that year, he seemed to tire of the bullets of criticism being 
fired across the no-mans-land of HPFGU and went off to found 
his own group.

in some ways, I miss his doggedness, echoed in one or two 
current in the same way I miss the acerbity of Kneasy, who now r
esides with the Old Crowd.


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