{"id":76646,"date":"2024-10-15T20:43:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T18:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?post_type=magazin&p=76646"},"modified":"2026-10-31T18:22:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T16:22:45","slug":"from-outlaw-to-spiritual-healer","status":"publish","type":"magazin","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/magazine\/traces\/from-outlaw-to-spiritual-healer\/","title":{"rendered":"From outlaw to spiritual healer"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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\r\n From outlaw to spiritual healer <\/h2>\r\n\r\n
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Alexander Golandsky was a criminal biker and cocaine dealer. Then he changed his life radically.
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In his former life<\/strong>, Alexander once wanted to throw a person into a fire. He was still a criminal biker at the time and a member of one of the notorious one-percenter clubs. He remembers the evening when, high on LSD, he thought the woman he was talking to was a witch who was about to curse him. In a panic he pushed her into the fire \u2013 her trousers caught light and she screamed. Fortunately she was largely unhurt. Today Alexander knows how dangerous and irresponsible that was. His drug trip could have had terrible consequences, and it was only by sheer luck that things turned out as well as they did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexander has spent his whole life in the house he grew up in. Although his father disinherited him, he still got the house through his compulsory share of the inheritance. Many of the windows are broken now, and the shutters often stay down. Little light gets into the rooms, and the traces of an eventful life are visible on Alexander\u2019s face. Even so, he is happy to take anyone interested on a journey through his past. He talks openly about his biker life, which began when he was 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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