Testimonial letter from Helene Schofield
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 Helene Schofield. It is "Exhibit A-1982" 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.
 Helene Schofield To whom it may concern I heard of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in 1979 through my eldest daughter and reading His books I was fascinated of His outstanding competence in education and psychology. Being a teacher in the vocational education field since 24 years with a diploma from the Art-Academie in Zunich, my professional experiences include also working as a fashion-designer for newspaper and factories, and devising vocational training programs in Turkey. Learning from Bhagwan's excellent lectures and inspired by His spiritual vision my work with students improved very much and their ability to be creative increased. For me Bhagwan's teachings and insights offer much more than any scientific research in that field could give me. [signed] |
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