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Dr. Harald Wiesendanger
Founder and chairman of the AUSWEGE foundation
Harald Wiesendanger, the board member of the AUSWEG Foundation /Ways Out Charity
Harald Wiesendanger, the board member of the AUSWEG Foundation Dr. Harald Wiesendanger (born 1956), studied philosopher, psychologist, and sociologist, has published over 50 books since the late 1980s, mainly on psychological and medical topics, as well as more than 3000 articles in newspapers, magazines, and internet portals. He currently writes primarily for our newsletter “Ways Out Information” and for his blog “Klartext.”
After completing his doctorate, he spent two years researching his main field of study, the philosophical body/soul problem, as a German Research Foundation scholarship holder (DFG). This led him to parapsychology and esotericism. “Behind a fog of confusing world views and pseudo-facts,” he found a “hardcore of phenomena that a scientifically educated person has to acknowledge with astonishment, even if it remains a mystery to him how they are possible at all.” He encountered puzzling recoveries of supposedly “treatment-resistant,” even “untreated” patients, as well as a wealth of high-quality scientific tests and experiments in which unconventional therapies achieved effects that could not be dismissed as observation errors, placebos, or fraud.
This also included the particularly controversial spiritual healing, which was the focus of Wiesendanger’s work for 15 years. From 1992, together with Swiss colleagues, he organized the world’s largest public congress for the border areas of science, the “Basler Psi-Tage,” within the framework of the “World Congresses for Spiritual Healing.” In 1994 he founded the umbrella organization for spiritual healing (DGH); He was its first chairman until 1998 but then withdrew because “even mental children sometimes fail so badly that they are finally given up for adoption with a sigh of relief.” He dedicated 17 non-fiction books to spiritual healing – including the bestseller “The Great Book of Spiritual Healing” – published a specialist journal for spiritual healing (“Der Heiler” 1996-1998), and was involved in several scientific healer tests. Among other things, in 1998, he conducted a medically controlled distance healing test with 120 chronically ill and 50 healers. For the Europe-wide distance healing study EUHEALS (2001-2004) funded by the EU Commission, he won and coordinated around 470 healers from 21 countries who treated 400 chronically ill remotely for six months.
In the course of time, Wiesendanger moved more and more away from the healer scene – “first and foremost, spiritual healing requires itself.” He denounced their excesses – most recently in his inventory “Heal ‘Healer’?” – warned those seeking help against alleged “miracle” perpetrators, against exaggerated promises, against “wannabees who try to make up for something with cloudy esotericism, dubious titles, and diplomas, what they lack therapeutic ability.” In order to “separate the wheat from the chaff,” he founded the “International Placement Agency for Outstanding Healers” (IVH) in 2005, which aims to “filter out the few experts” in the alternative health scene with an elaborate selection process. In the same year, he set up the AUSWEGE foundation, which he has headed ever since. Her name says it all: chronically ill, for whom conventional medicine has reached its limits, she wants to show therapeutic solutions – not only in spiritual healing but also in the entire spectrum of natural and empirical medicine. In addition, her prevention is important “so that you don’t have to look desperately for a way out.”
Wiesendanger was the author and editor of several book titles for the Ausege Foundation, including “Ausege – Kranken different help” (2015), “Die Impflügen” (2018), “Animals eat?” (2018) and the ten-volume series Psycholügen (2017). Since 2007 he has been issuing the newsletter “Ausege Infos.”
In recent times he has primarily been concerned with the health-political and economic background of our sick health system, the impotence of holistic treatment approaches in the industry-controlled Western conventional medicine, the expert belief of the psychological society, and the underestimated abilities of lay helpers. In his books Devil’s Stuff and Unheilkunde (both 2017), he warns those seeking help against psychiatry, which is heavily involved in pharmaceuticals. His foundation urges more humane psychiatry in a petition.
With AUSWEGE/ Ways Out, explains Dr. Wiesendanger, “I want to give back some of my incomprehensible happiness: to have three healthy children myself.”