Testimonial letter from Bengt Eggemar

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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 Bengt Eggemar. It is "Exhibit A-578" 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.

Projekt & Produkt
Box 6066, Torparmors väg 6, 16245 Vällingby, Tel.897854
Inovation, Projektering, Produktutveckling
BENGT EGGEMAR
Datum 15th of July 1983
Vår ref.

To whom it may concern

I, Bengt Eggemar, work with innovations for development of international sport and leasure facilities.

For that purpose I have been consulted by the Swedish Goverment for 15 years. I am manager for three companies, "Project & Product Innovations", "Swedice Ltd" and "Data Sport Ltd" and in my work I am supported by the National Swedish Board for Technical Development and Swedish Sports Research Council.

I first met Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in India 1979. My meeting with Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in person, and since then, following His work in books and tapediscourses has ment a great deal for me as a person and to my success in my occupation. I would say it has totaly opened my personal creativity and care as father to my family as well as manager for my companies.

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh qualifications as a religious teacher and spiritual leader are above all doubts.

The work that is done in Rajneeshpuram is admirable. I really hope Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh will be given place and space to continue to inspirate the development of this ecological commune.

Finaly I like to congratulate the Nation of USA to the exceptional opportunity to offer such a personality a citizenship in your Nation.

Yours faithfully
[signed]
Bengt Eggemar
Manager director


(Please note: We assume that the above letter is still copyrighted, but we regard its historical interest to constitute a Fair Use exception for publication in this wiki.)