Testimonial letter from Jena Bruer-McKay
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 Jena Bruer-McKay. It is "Exhibit A-527" 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.
 Jena Bruer-McKay To whom it may concern: I am writing this letter in support of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh’s application for resident status. After studying for several years at Wayne State University and the University of Michigan, I completed the degree of Dipl. Psych, in Clinical Psychology in Munich, Germany in 1976. Thereafter I had my own practice in psychotherapy in Munich and was also functioning as an associate of Count Karlfried von Duerckheim’s organization, renowned for his integration of Zen-Buddhist approaches and practices with Western Psychotherapy. In 1979, I began to study the written works of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and realized that his highly sophisticated and innovative approaches towards the mind and mental problems are not only of immens value and practicability in my own work in the field of clinical psychology, but furthermore represent a contribution to the understanding of human psychology of a magnitude, which can only be compared to that of S. Freud and C.G. Jung. Having visited the center at Rajneeshpuram, I am convinced that even while keeping silence, his presence, his work and his writings are of major value for a flourishing in the understanding of human psychology in the United States and the world. [signed] |
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