Testimonial letter from Jean-luc Boesch

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 Dr. Jean-luc Boesch. It is "Exhibit A-1333" in the Noles collection.

The original letter was handwritten in French, a text transcription has not yet been created. A text version of its translation 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.

The image in the text box links to a pdf file with the original letter, the translation, and a notary statement attesting to the validity of the translation. It has 3 pages.

translation Dr. Jean-luc Boesch General medicine acupuncture, homeopathy 34100-Montpellier-la-paillade 57 Residence l'hortus avenue de louisville FRANCE I, the undersigned Jean-Luc Boesch, doctor of general medicine, declare knowledge of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh as an exceptional personality. I know him by the intermediary of friends who have come back transformed after a stay in Rajneeshpuram, and who have brought me lots of love as well as some books of Bhagwan which have helped me to know him better; and to see that his work is indispensable to the flowering of the human being as well as to the deeper knoweldge of the sciences such as medicine and the energy of the physical body. Of international reknown, the presence of Bhagwan is indispensable at Rajneeshpuram in order that his research that permits man to evolve can continue.

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