Testimonial letter from Jürg D. Ueberwasser

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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 Jürg D. Ueberwasser. It is "Exhibit A-1090" 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.

Jürg D.Ueberwasser
lic.phil.Psychotherapeut
Piamenat
CH 2801 Montsevelier
Switzerland

To whom it may concern

I have been working now for seven years in Swiss psychiatric an psychosomatic hospitals as a group-psychotherapist.

Mainly in the fields of Music-, dance-, relaxation- and breath-therapy Bhagwan Shree Rashneeshs methods were of incredible help for my work and the wellbeing of the patients,

A few years ago I came across Rajneeshs writings and was seeing him in India and later on in the US.

To understand and help a patient, I can say that I learnt more from Rajneesh than was possible in all my years of studies at the university of Basel.

The way this man teaches meditation and love is not only the way of an indian guru. His methods help the modern man in a welfare society.

So it is not a surprise, that Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh is more an more known in Switzerland - specially amongst well educated people.

Basel 7/17/83
[signed]


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