Testimonial letter from John C. Pierrakos

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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 John C. Pierrakos. It is "Exhibit A-631" 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.

John C. Pierrakos, M.D.
45 EAST 78th STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. 10021
(212) 737-6579
July 18, 1983

To Whom It May Concern,

I am a practicing psychiatrist in New York City and at the present time, the Director of the Institute for the New Age at 45 East 78th Street, NYC.

I have known Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh through his followers with whom I have worked professionally and I also know of him through his writings. I consider him to be one of the greates religious leaders of our age who has brought a living religion to humanity and has contributed significantly to many people finding the God within themselves.

Sincerely,
[signed]
John Pierrakos, M.D.


(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.)