Testimonial letter from Ivonne Escarfail and Manuel Schoch

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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 Ivonne Escarfail and Manuel Schoch. It is "Exhibit A-1229" 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.

tune-in
human growth center CH-6984 Pura, Tel. 091/71 43 81

Rinzai Rajneesh Hotel
1115 SW ll'Avenue
PORTLAND Oregon 97205
USA

Pura, l6.Juli 1983

To whom it may concern -

As leaders of a human growth center in southern Switzerland, we use meditation techniques of Bhaghwan Shree Rajneesh in our development workshops and training programms.

We are trained certified psychologists and consider many aspects of Bhagwan's work and teaching as very useful in our own work with people in therapeutic and teaching areas.

We got acquainted with Bhagwan's work when meeting him in Poona in 1976 and 1977. Although we do not consider ourselves as sannyasins and hold our workshops and therapies independecently from Rajneesh Centers, we still look at Rajneesh as one of the most skilfull spiritual teachers, whose influence on our lives and work has in many ways been considerable.

With much regards
[signed by both]
Yvonne Escarfail
Manuel Schoch


(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.)