Testimonial letter from Anthony Pleace
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 Anthony Pleace. It is "Exhibit A-1690" 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.
 Knoll Lodge TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN At Manchester University I was awarded an Honours Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 1974. The next three years I spent in research at Newcastle University. I then worked in Industry for three years as a designer. During this time I became interested in the spiritual side of life and discovered the religious books of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. There I found an extraordinary clarity of thought and a remarkable sensibil(?) I found in my own life that after applying Bhagwan's philosophy I am able to be much clearer and more creative in my engineering ability. I noticed that His meditation techniques have made me more centred and calmly objective in emergency situations. I see Bhagwan as an exceptional person of world renow(?) He is making an outstanding contribution to human thought. Yours faithfully |
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