Testimonial letter from Alan John Byron
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 Alan John Byron. It is "Exhibit A-630" 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.
 from To whom it may concern. Bhagwan Sree Rajneesh. I am a General Practitioner of medicine with experience in Psychaitry & Psychotherapy. I am a Founder Member of the Institute of Transactional Analysis of the U.K. and Clinical Member of the International Transactional Analysis Association. I am one time Consultant in Psychaitry to H.M. Prison Wakefield & have had consultancys to Sheffield Marriage Guidance Council, Northern Ireland Polytechnic, German Association for Humanistic Psychology and various organisations in the U.K. & Northern Irealnd. I am the author of a number of articles & Publications on the use of Alternative methods of Psychotherapy. I have had occassion to use the methods & techniques of Bhagwan during my Prison consultancy & in personal Group Therapy. I am of the opinion that they have been of great benefit, especially to those of a violent or disturbed character. I have attended Bhagwan courses, read some of his books, used his tape material for Meditations & discussed his works with my Peers. I am of the opinion that he has made a substantial impact on the treatment of emotional disturbance and can offer great benefit to those seeking to improve family, working & personal life. Bhagwan is very well known in Europe and I am certain he will have a considerable amount to offer to the people and culture of whatever country he chooses to reside. [signed] |
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