Testimonial letter from Guido Tassinari
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 Dr. Guido Tassinari. It is "Exhibit A-1742" 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 3 pages.
 ISTITUTO DI BIOENERGETICA «W. REICH» TO WHOM IT HAY CONCERN Il nostro Istituto ha introdotto per primo in Italia lo studio teorico e l'applicazione pratica della Bioenergetica, nella evoluzione da W. Reich ad A. Lowen. Dal 1975 organizza workshop e training professionali, con 1'Assistenza di terapisti americani della scuola di Esalen e di New York. Il nostro Istituto è dal 1978 in relazione con la Fondazione Rajneesh, prima a Poona e ora nei vari Centri in Europa e in Italia. Alcuni dei dirigenti dell'istituto si sono recati prima, in India e ora in Oregon, perchè credono che le tecniche di gestalt e bioenergetica praticate nei nostri córsi abbiano avuto uno sviluppo positivo molto interessante negli workshop organizzati dai terapisti che si ispirano all'insegnamento di Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. Possiamo testimoniare che le metodiche reichiane e loweniane praticate e sviluppate dai terapisti discepoli di Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh sono risultate molto efficaci per soggetti disturbati psicologicamente. Lo staff dell'istituto ha trovato molto interessante il pensiero religioso di Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, al punto che alcune sue predicazioni sono state da noi tradotte e pubblicate-sulla nostra rivista "Pulsazione". In fede. translationINSTITUTO DI BIOENERGETICA (W. Reich) TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Our Institute introduced in Italy for the first time, the theory and practice of Bioenergetics, as it has developed from W. Reich to A. Lowen. With the assistance of American therapists frcm the Esalen and the New York School, our Institute has organized, since 1975, workshops and professional trainings. Since 1978 our Institute has been in connection with the RAJNEESH FOUNDATION in Poona and then in the numerous centers in Europe and Italy. Some of the Directors of the Institute have visited India and now Oregon, as they believe that the gestalt and bioenergetics techniques practiced in our workshops have developed positively and significantly thanks to the workshops organized by the therapists who are inspired by the teachings of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. We can testify that the Reichian and Lowenian methods practiced and developed by therapists who are disciples of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh have been extremely effective for psychologically disturbed persons. The staff of the Institute has found the religious teachings of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh extremely interesting, so much so that some of them have been translated and published in our review "PULSAZIONE" In Witness: |
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