Autistic

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Word of Thanks

Many people have contributed to this project. I thank them from my heart as it has helped already so many patients in their struggle in life. It is a joy to see how retarded autistic children open up and become capable people.

Provers
Many thanks go to all the friends who proved so many ferns. They did it with pleasure and a warm heart for the project of the ferns.
The Dungarvan group with Mairin Begley, Kate Cross, Martin Jakob, Martin Jennings, Isabelle Klein, Marie O'Sullivan, Franziska Prosser has done many great provings. I especially want to thank Kate, for being always at the front of organising proving seminars to show their value.
We had great times with the Zell group with Petra Balloch, Lyssa Clayton, Christine Fordinal-Frey, Günther Fordinal, Martin Jakob, Markus Kuntosch, Franziska Prosser, Franz Swoboda, and Tomáš Výboch. The results of the provings are very valuable.
I thank the people of the Utrecht group: Petra Balloch, Ursula Bleeck, Britta Dähnrich, Stephanie von Frankenberg, Anton Kramer, Pieter Kuiper, Monika Lang, Dorothea, Sonja Obbink, Angelique, Gerard Wiringa. Their provings helped to start discovering and applying the ferns, backing up all the new developments.
I thank Franz Swoboda, Susanna Diez, Sylvia Lakeland and Juliane Hesse for presenting their provings of ferns and permitting them to be published in this book.
I thank my sister Toos and my wife Maria for the home provings.

Robert Müntz
I thank Robert Müntz greatly for his belief in my ideas and projects and having made homeopathic remedies from the ferns. Without him this book would not have come into existence.

Patients
I thank the patients for their trust in me and their permission to present their cases. They understand that their examples show the power of the ferns and that their permission can be of help for many other patients.

Cases
I thank all the homeopaths who contributed with cases for this book, increasing the understanding of the ferns: Catherine Bozon, Doug Brown, Susanna Diez, Magdalena Jakubaszek, Anton Kramer, Pieter Kuiper, Marie O'Sullivan, Chantal Roux, Joelle Smaniotto-Gorton, Jonathan Stallick, Franz Swoboda, Tomáš Výboch, and Michaela Zorzi. They contributed greatly in discovering and confirming the classification and with that the remedy codes of the ferns.

I want to thank Deborah Collins, Pieter Kuiper and Maria Davits for their proof reading.

I thank the botanists, especially the members of the Pteridophyta Phylogeny Group, who helped me with their classification of the ferns.
I thank Gabor Maté, Arno Gruen and Joachim Maaz for their discoveries and books about the psychopathology of normality. It gave a deep insight in the origin of fern states.
I thank all spiritual scientists, especially Eckhart Tolle and Ramana for their insights in the essence of human being.

I thank musicians who have made such marvelous songs that helped me to go on with this project, for instance: Ludovico Einaudi, Pink Floyd, Dhafer Youssef, Hania Rani, Ali Farka Touré, Fatoumata Diawara, Ibrahim Maalouf, Be Svendsen and many others. I feel that especially Pink Floyd expresses very well the clash between authenticity and adaptation.

I thank my colleagues of our clinic for the continuing support in my search to find to source of problems and diseases and with that their cures. More in general I thank all homeopaths who have contributed to the science of homeopathy and on whose knowledge I could build further.
I thank my dear friend Martin Jakob, who often is the first to grasp my ideas and use them with success in practice.
I thank my family for their support.

And I especially thank Maria Davits, who always supports me in these time consuming projects. She is always present with her insights.

Jan Scholten