Testimonial letter from Dr. med Lydia Hektor

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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 Dr. med Lydia Hektor. It is "Exhibit A-215" 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 original letter, written in German, appears first, followed by its English translation. The image on the right in the text box links to a pdf file with the whole original letter, the translation and a notary statement attesting to the validity of the translation. It has 5 pages.

[German notary stuff]

Dr. med. Lydia Hektor
Lohe 4
2070 Ahrensburg, den 18.07.83
Telefon (04102) 583 06

Ich bin mir über die Bedeutung einer eidesstattlichen Erklärung im Klaren und weiß, daß die fahrlässige Abgabe einer falschen Erklärung an Eidesstatt strafbar sein kann.

In diesen Bewußtsein erkläre ich folgendes an Eidesstatt:

Ich, Dr. med. Lydia Hektor ( 41 Jahre, verheiratet, "1 Kind ) führe seit 9 Jahren als Ärztin für Allgemein.medizin eine eigene Praxis. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf hausärztlicher und psychosomatischer Tätigkeit: autogenes Training, Tiefenentspannung, Mitglied einer Balint-Gruppe, Lehr-u.Ausbildungsberechtigung für einen ärztlichen Assistenten. Außerdem bin ich Mitglied des Bundes Praktischer Arzte ( BPA ) und der Gesellschaft Homöopathischer Ärzte.

Durch Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, den ich zunächst aus seinen Büchern und dann auch persönlich kennenlernte, habe ich wertvolle Anregungen und tiefe Einsichten für meine Arbeit erhalten. Er vermittelte mir eine vollständig neue Sicht der Einheit von Körper und Bewußtsein, der menschlichen Fähigkeit«sowie der Therapiemöglichkeiten: Akupunktur, Homöopathie und Bewußtseins-erweiterung.

Diese neue holistische Sicht dos Menschen voller Weis’-eit vr.'-Liebe erscheint mir der einzige Ausweg aus dem analytisch-?ec'x-nistisch-materialistischen Weltbild der Wissenschaft unserer Zeit zu sein, deren Grenzen - bis zu Inhumanität und Selbsteerstö-rung - allenthalben sichtbar geworden sind.

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh lehrt einen konstruktiven und keinen destruktiven Gebrauch des Wissenschaft. Er zeigt uns dev.tlic-1 die Wurzel der Destruktivität sowie die Wege diese zu über'-'??iden.

Ich beglückwünsche die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika eine solche außerordentliche Persönlichkeit 5n ihrem Lande zu beherbergen.

D196070
Dr. med. Lydia Hektor
Ärztin für Allgemeinmedizin

[German notary stuff]

translation

Dr. Med. Lydia Hektor
Lohe 4
2070 Ahrensburg
West-Germany
July 18, 1983

I am aware of the meaning of a declaration in lieu of an oath and know that making a negligent false declaration under oath can result in prosecution. Knowing this I declare the following in lieu of an oath:

I, Dr.med. Lydia Jektor (41 years old, married, 1 child) have been running my own practice as a medical doctor for general medicine for 9 years. The emphasis is on family practice and psychosomatic activities: autogenic training, deep relaxation, member of a Baling group, authorized to teach and train as a medical assistant. Also, I am a member of the League of General Practitioners (BPA) and the Society of Homoepathic Doctors.

Through Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh who I first learned about from his books and later also met personally, I received valuable suggestions and deep insights for my work. He conveyed a totally new vision of unity of body and awareness to me, of human possibilities as well as therapy possibilities: acupuncture, homoepathy and expansion of consciousness.

This new holistic view of man full of wisdom and love seems to me the only way out from the analytical/mechanical/materialistic worldview of today’s science, whose boundaries have become visible — all the way to inhumanness and self-destruction.

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh teaches a constructive and not destructive use of science. He clearly shows us the roots of destruction as well as the ways to overcome them.

I congratulate the United States of America to host such an outstanding personality in her country.

(signed)
Dr.med. L. Hektor


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