Testimonial letter from George Gross

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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 George Gross. It is "Exhibit A-254" 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.

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George Gross • Robert Riddell • Wilhelmina Hoedeman
Date: July 21, 1983

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

As a Psychologist and a former consultant th the Council fo Europe in the field of Innovation in Education, 1 wish to draw you attention to the unique contribution of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.

The process of innovation is of vital importance in all our social institutions: lack of innovation leads to stagnation. No one has done more than Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh to inject new vitality into the western tradition of psychology and education by greating a synthesis of the best in eastern and western research and practice in these subjects. And his contribution has direct practical relevance and applicability in a wide variety of fields ranging from group psychology and therapy to basic education.

Sincerely yours,
George Gross
[signed]
106 JERMYN STREET • LONDON SW1Y 6EE • TELEPHONE: 01-839 1130
Bankers: National Westminster Bank Ltd. 75 Shaftesbury Avenue London W1V 8AT


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