Testimonial letter from Jayden Harman

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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 Jayden Harman. It is "Exhibit A-181" 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.

ENERGY RESEARCH GROUP Pty Ltd.
Trustee for the Energy Research Group Unit Trust
Technology Development and Marketing
15th July, 1983

Rajneesh Hotel,
1115 SW 11th Avenue,
PORTLAND OR. 97205,
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

I writs in support of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.

I am Managing Director of Energy Research Group Pty. Ltd. of Australia - a company dedicated to Research, Development and marketing of high technology internationally.

I have qualifications in economics, commerce, pshycology and environmental management. I have been director of numerous companies and a member of several government advisory and administerative boards.

For twelve years my career centred around environmental issues and included supervision of general ecology research and protection programs and the interaction between man and his environment.

In 1980 I was introduced to the philosiphies of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and have found him to have a unique and most advanced, balanced and practical approach to environmental care, and human pshycology.

I have no hesitation in saying that Bhagwan presents the most sensative and workable approach to a harmonious relationship between mankind and his environment that I have encountered.

He has my full support in his efforts and I urge all authorities to recognise and endorse him as a man of exceptional vision and capability.

The United States is indeed fortunate to have the contributions of such a man.

It would be an error of the gravest nature not to foster his work.

Yours sincerely,
ENERGY RESEACH GROUP PTY. LTD.
[signed]
Mr. Jayden Harman
(Managing Director)


(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.)