Testimonial letter from Christine Glaus

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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 Mrs. Christine Glaus. It is "Exhibit A-1026" 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.

Mrs. C. Glaus
Strehlgasse 17
CH-8001 Zürich
Switzerland
Zürich, July 19th 1983

To whom it may concern

ladies and Gentlemen,

I would like to describe to you in what way Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh has become one of the most important teachers for me in my profession as a pianist and music teacher.

His meditations have helped me to achieve a physical state of relaxation which has made it possible for me to now play loud and quick parts without effort or strain - which normally is one of the greatest problems for women. None of my music teachers had been capable to mediate this capacity to me during my 10-years' training as a musician. Bhagwan’s meditations have also helped me to experience music in a deep way not feasable to me before.

His books and therapy groups have also enriched my experience as a woman music teacher. I now for example am capable of recognizing the cause of physical tensions in my pupils which allows me to teach with much more empathy than before and also to help them to loosen up.

Yours sincerely,
[signed]
Christine Glaus


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