Testimonial letter from Christiane Hallpatch
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 Christiane Hallpatch. It is "Exhibit A-1082" 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.
 DÉPARTEMENT DE LA PRÉVOYANCE SOCIALE ET DES ASSURANCES N° To whom it may concern Lausanne, le 19 th July 1983 I am 28 years old and working in Switzerland in two different fields:as social worker for the Swiss Administration and as an educator in a home of the International Christian Women’s Association. I studied the social and psychological sciences in Lausanne’s University, getting my B.A. in 1977. My approach changed during these studies from sociological towards psychological, and I became very interested in all the different psychotherapies or means to help man to be more aware, to open and to connect with creative energy. I studied with G. Boyelsen from England and with G. Pijoan from Switzerlandbio-energetics. During this time, I heard about a place in India,in Poona where therapists from all over the world gathered around a master, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh; I decided to go and visit there, feeling a need for a wider approach than that experienced till now. After the usual results of ordinary psychotherapies, what was happening there was like a revelation. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh was verbalising the different phenomenons in religious dicourses that He would give every morning: they included a total approach to man, in all His dimensions, and I got impressed by His psychological and social views:He included everything known till now, putting it together(instead of separating and specialising)and yet going beyond it, reaching a higher level where Jesus-Christ is next to Wilhelm Reich, where love and spirituality are one with everyday life, helping each other to grow. And this was the touch, the most exceptional and the most simple touch that was missing till now. He got it, He reveals it inside each of us, and we reveal it inside the people we meet or work with. I feel very grateful towards Him and I feel His presence on the Earth is a real gift for everyone in every field. Sincerely yours |
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