Testimonial letter from Gunther Wolf
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. Gunther Wolf. It is "Exhibit A-619" 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 2 pages.
 Note: Some small parts of this letter may be difficult to read, as the image was not centered and most lines are cut off Prof. Dr. G. WOLF To whom it may concern Declaration About my person please see”Who is Who in World(4th.ed.1978/79, p.1009). It is to confirm an to declare, that Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh is one of the most important spiritual leaders and religious teachers of our ag Based on the ancient sayings of e.g. Lao-tse, Buddha and Jesus Christ he is teaching by lectures, books(now more than 50 sprea all over the world in many languages), an by his own example, that love instead o hate must rule human life. I first met him in 78 and he convinced m I know him as one of the best educated m I ever met, not only in religous affairs, but also in philosophy and history -and I it very well, because I spent all my studies in about 30 years in this field. Sincerely an truly |
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