Testimonial letter from Elvira Rodriguez Alonso

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 Elvira Rodriguez Alonso. It is "Exhibit A-2669" 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.

SARVOGEET CENTRO DE MEDITACION RAJNEESH July, 18th 1983 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN I, Elvira Rodriguez Alonso, School Teacher Graduated by the Autonomous University of Madrid at the year 1979 and Graduated in a four years Body Expression Summer University at Madrid, want to state the extra ordinary personality of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and how much he has influenced my professional and daily life. Professionally he has enriched my everyday's contact with children helping me to consider a child as a subject of spontaneity, love and natural potentiality to grow with and not as a object to stuff dead knowledge in. Personally I came in touch with Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh through his books and lecture tapes and also through his disciples who carry out his outstanding outlooks into practice day by day transforming life into love and care for each human being. For all that I give my international support to the exceptional ability of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in the field of Science and Arts. [signed] Signed: Elvira Rodriguez Alonso TITANIA, 55 • MADRID-33 • Spain • (91) 200 03 13

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