Testimonial letter from Elena Barbieri

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 Elena Barbieri. It is "Exhibit A-2037" 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 Italian, 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 2 pages.

ELENA BARBIERI corso di Porta Ticinese 12 20121 Milano 20 luglio 1983 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Sono una neolaureanda in medicina e chirurgia presso l'università di Milano e lavoro presso l'Ospedale Fatebenefratelli nel reparto di Chirurgia d'urgenza. Sento vivamente di comunicare quanto sia stato utile per me e per la mia professione apprendere le tecniche di meditazione e le terapie corporee di massaggi shia-tzu, rebirthing e rebalancing studiate e messe a punto da Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. Inoltre riconosco altamente validi nel campo della scienza medica i discorsi tenuti da Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh rispetto alla medicina olistica riportati in molti i suoi libri. E' quindi mio vivo desiderio che la possibililità di permanenza di Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh negli USA possa permettere il sempre maggior fiorire del suo esperimento. In fede [signed] translation Elena Barbieri corso di Porta Ticinese 12 20121 Milano July 20, 1983 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN I have just obtained my Master Degree in Medicine & Surgery from the University of Milan and I work at the moment at the ’’Fatebenefratelli" Hospital, in the department of Emergency surgery. I heartily desire to communicate how useful it has been for me and for my profession to learn the meditation techniques and the body therapies of massage and shia-tzu, rebirthing & rebalancing created by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. I also consider the discourses given by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh on the wholistic medicine - transcribed in many of his books - as extremely valid in the field of the medical science. It is then my keen desire that the possibility of residence in the USA given to Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh may allow a fuller flowering of his experiment. In trust

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