Testimonial letter from Alejandro Celis H.
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 Alejandro Celis H.. It is "Exhibit A-1157" 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 one page.
 July 15, 1983 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: My name is Alejandro Celis H. I’m from CHile. I work there as a psychologist. I've worked as a psychotherapy teacher in the state’s University (Unlversidad de Chile) in the Psychology Department for 8 years. My main interests have been Psychotherapy, Counseling, Group Therapy, Body work, and Eastern Philosophy and Mysticism. I’ve also translated five books on those fields for the Chilean printing firm, Cuatro Vientos Editorial. On my professional and personal search, Ive studied the work of Carl Rogers, Fritz Perls and many other famous psychologists and psychiatrists. I’ve studied and practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique, body work techniques (Bioenergetics, T’ai Chi, Martial Arts, breathing) and meditation techniques from various sources. I came across Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh’s religious books and lectures and tapes in 1980. I was so full of enthusiam with them that I started translating his book "The Psychology of the Esoteric" into Spanish. The book was published by Cuatro Vientro Editorial (in Chile) in 1981. Up to then, I had never found such a deep and clear understanding of the human mind - and neither had I seen such clear and effective clues to understanding and transcending human suffering. Parallel to this, it was obvious that he wasn’t only an exceptional psychologist, he was also the most profound and comprehensive spiritual teacher I had ever come across. Before I read those books and listened to a few taped lectures, I had the intention of writing on humanistic psychology or the spiritual search. My feeling, after coming across Bhagwan’s books, is that all that might be said about psychology or religious teachings that could be of any use to modern man, he has already said. [signed] |
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