Testimonial letter from Harald Drobe
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 Harald Drobe. It is "Exhibit A-1185" 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.
 Hornblower Fischer & Co GmbH TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN July 20th, 1983 My Name is Harald Drobe, born July 27th 1948 in Bad Vilbel, Germany. After studies of sociology and economics I worked as financial journalist. In 1975 I joined a US-Brokerage firm, founded in 1888, where I worked as a Registered Commodity Representative, approved by the CFTC, later also as a Stock- and Options-Broker with SEC-approval. Untill 1983 I managed the Commodity Dept. of Hornblower as a director. Today I am a nonactive partner (GmbH) of the company. Through my business I am in contact to all major US-exchanges, had several trips to the States where I met real friends. So I am familiar with the way of living and thinking of America's "active ones", not only from a business aspect. I allways tock this job as an opportunity to be creative, to be aware. I allways felt great satisfaction in contributing to economic efficier cy and balance beyond the coverage of individual needs. For my feeling the importance of beeing successful as an individual, but also as a state or system only makes sense if there is an "inner success" too; if there is a balance between the physical and the spirituell needs. In this way I was a searcher all my life, met a lot of crooks but also many helpful phenomenons either side. It might have been our "western speed" which made us ignore the aspect of inner experience -which made us feed our body but pine our soul. My way of searching was peaked when I met BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH. In many of his meditations I experienced all my conditionings which made me live the life of others; I felt my hungry heart which remained unsatisfied so far from all the words about love. Through BHAGWAN's abilities I found myself, my very personality. Through Him my heart and my consciousnes have been connected. But His greatest gift upon all this is the experience of tremendous love - pure love like godliness, coming like a shadow. Only as a "complete" human beeing I feel ready to cope with reality, feel able to manage the problems of our today's world. Just look how the disciples of BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH are dealing with reality -how they live and celebrate life. The struggle of thousands of others will hardly succeed. The new age calls for a new man; less than that won't do. Don't let us miss this chance: BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH ! [signed] Geschäftsführer: Norbert Fischer. HRB Frankfurt 14348. Kundenzahlungen: Chase Bank Frankfurt, Konto 616-14-11357 der Bear Stearns & Co. New York (BLZ 501 10800). Oder bei Londoner Geschäften Chase Bank, Frankfurt. Konto 616-14-00186 der Gill & Duffus Ltd. |
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