Testimonial letter from Hans Jørgen Ibsen

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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 Hans Jørgen Ibsen. It is "Exhibit A-1384" 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.

Hans Jørgen Ibsen
Gl. Krovel 9 - Årslev
8900 Renders • (06) 49 12 22
Årslev den 20 juli 1983.

To whome it may concern.

Mr. Bhagwan Rajneesh is a person who is of great importance to very many people.

My acquaintance with Mr. Rajneesh is through books and other publications and through talks with people who has met him.

He is a person with a highly developed spirituality.

For the past 8 years I, Hans Jorgen Ibsen, have worked with psychical development and healing as well as with courses and individual healing from centres in Denmark.

Youis sincerely
[signed]


(Please note: We assume that the above letter is still copyrighted, but we regard its historical interest to constitute a Fair Use exception for publication in this wiki.)