Testimonial letter from Ib Planch Larsen
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 Ib Planch Larsen. It is "Exhibit A-1159" 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.
 IB PLANCH LARSEN TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Having come to know Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh through my daughter, through the Rajneesh Meditations Center in Copenhagen and through his books and speeches I must say, that I look upon him and his work as a very important and positive part of the ideologic supply, which is accesible for the youth to day. In America as well as here in Europe we have the last 20 years seen some very powerful attitudes among young people. These attitudes are on the whole running two ways: one negative and violent and one positive, accepting and peaceable. I have always seen the youth of Bhagwan as the latter and I find it very wise and foresighted - especially in the free part of the world - that we support a work like that of Bhagwan. Teaching and organizing music and other bran ches of art I have become a great inspiration and better understanding of many subjects from his texts, and his interpretation of art and creativity has highly enriched my own work within these subjects. It is therefore very easy to me to express my appeal to support of the exceptional ability of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. [signed] |
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