Testimonial letter from Eurycles A. F. L. Pereira
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 Eurycles A. F. L. Pereira. It is "Exhibit A-569" 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.
 Eurycles A.F.L. Pereira I am a senior economist working with Brazilian Government Bank for Economics and Social Development and I’ve been Chief of Infrastructure Department for the last 5 years. It is my task to evaluate and promote projects dealing with "urban development" transportation, warehousing, and other bank needs, to meet higher students of quality of life. I am also an engineer in civil works and I am a fellowship of Economic Development Association of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank). I want to state that I've met at Rajneeshpuram such inspirated ways of finding the best and the cheapest urban development (most economical for each dollar of capital costs) that I must say it is, no doubt, due to the presence of a genius - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh -whose inspiration and religious teaching provides the main guidelines for the fabulous work already done. And more. I can foresee in a few years a very, very high quality of life due to the work already undergoing. I have never seen such work in a desert site like Rajneeshpuram. I've met Bhagwan first some 3 years ago and I've read many books and used to listen to many tapes of his speeches and music. I am very grateful to Him for I am disclosing my inner hidden religiousness in a very happy way by opening my heart to love as I couldn't imagine. Together with such love flows creativity wherever I am. I recognize that the exceptional creativity at Rajneeshpuram is absolutely remarkable in my field of work and interest such as I have described above. Sincerely, |
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