Testimonial letter from A. P. J. Judge
This letter is one of a remarkable series of over 2650 letters amassed in 1983 to support Osho's attempt to get permanent resident status in the US at the time of the Oregon ranch. The image is reproduced here with the kind permission of The Oregon Historical Society. Information about their collection of these letters and other supporting material -- the "Jeffrey Noles Rajneesh Collection", named for Osho's immigration lawyer Jeffrey Noles, who compiled them in 1983 and donated them to the OHS -- can be found at this page. The wiki is grateful to the OHS for making access available for these documents. For more information and links to all the letters, see Testimonial letters.
This letter is from A. P. J. Judge. It is "Exhibit A-903" in the Noles collection.
The text version below has been created by optical character recognition (OCR), from the images supplied by OHS. It has not been checked for errors but this process usually results in over 99% correct transcription. Most apparent "errors" are correct transcriptions of typos already in the original. The image on the right in the text box links to a pdf file of the original letter, it has 2 pages.
 7 Trevor Street To Whom It May Concern, I am an English Doctor. I trained form 1961 to 1965 at the London Hospital Medical College, University of London. There I was awarded the Charrington Award in anatomy for outstanding practical ability and was runner up for the award in Medicine and Surgery. I hold the following degrees: M.B.B.S. (Lond.) L.R.C.P. (Lond.) and M.R.C.S. (Eng.). Part of my post-graduate training was with Sir Reginald Watson-Jones who was senior orthopaedic surgeon at the London Hospital and consulting orthopaedic surgeon to Her Majesty the Queen. I assisted him in his private and national health service work. My postgraduate hospital training includes general medicine, general surgery, accident and emergency, orthopaedic surgery and paediatrics. Before specializing in psychiatry and psychotherapy. Later I moved into primary care medicine with a special interest in the psychosomatic aetiology of disease and preventive medicine. I consider myself well grounded in the art and science of medicine. However, as I progressed I became increasingly disillusioned with moder medicine - it had become over-technical and ineffective in many areas such as stress-related diseases. I also felt a real lack of compassion for people unfortunate enough to need the help of the profession. Then, nine years ago, I first became acquainted with the work of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, when I read a Sannyas Magazine in a friend's house. I was immediately struck by his clarity and understanding of the human condition: he was obviously a highly superior intelligence. Later when I heard the quality of his voice on tape I immediately knew that intelligence was blended with compassion. Two years later I became one of his followers and visited his ashram in India. There I was ready to turn my back on my training and past medical experience to look for inner peace and contentment in meditation. He gave me the gift of meditation and also encouraged me to remain in my field with the promise that he would teach me to be a Doctor with a difference. That difference was to bring love into the use of my skills. I know deep in my heart that promise has been kept and the greatest miracle for me is that the larger part of that teaching has been imparted during Bhagwan's silent phase; bearing testimony to the fact that his being in silence in no way renders that work obsolete. This silent man with the beautific smile is indeed a rare genius of world renown who through his followers is making many contributions in the field of healing and medicine. His methods of meditation are very useful psychotherapeutic tools of value in psychiatry and in the many areas of physical disease associated with stress that have become so prevalent in the western world. The hundreds of religious books and tapes of his discourses have reached to all the corners of the earth. I consider Bhagwan to be one of the greatest philosphers and spiritual teachers the world has ever known. Yours sincerely, |
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