Testimonial letter from Ernst Schmid
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 Mag. Ernst Schmid. It is "Exhibit A-1149" 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.
 Mag. To whome it may concerne! I am a professor in a high-school, teaching the subjekts Biology and Fine Arts. I am the coordinator for the Fine Arts at the "Bundesrealgymnasium 22" in Vienna/ Austria. Friends, who became disciples of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, tola me about his work and so I started reading books of him. I became very interested in his ideas and finally I went to Poona in 1980. to participate in some of his personal growth programs. These programs and the discourses about education and individual support for children had deep going influence for my work as a Teacher. My relationship fo pupils got a totally different understanding. His ideas of growing every pupils individual talents and personality convinced me very positive. For me there is no doubt that Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh is one of the rarest and precious teachers for humanity with most extraordinary abilities. Sincerely |
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