Testimonial letter from Juan José Torregrosa
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 Juan José Torregrosa. It is "Exhibit A-1264" 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.
 Juan José Torregrosa TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN I, Juan José Torregrosa, graduated on Architecture by the University of Madrid, have got to know Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh through his books, tapes and videos which I find very creative, wise and encouraging to whatsoever means a better living. Particulary on his inspiration in the planning of the City of Rajneeshpuram in which I find the vision and level of Utopia architects becoming reality. I could say that the only precedent of it could be Frank Lloyd Wright's work. The architects of the City of Rajneeshpuram working on the inspiration of his Master are contributing to the world a new model of city, in harmony nature and man's work. Their respect and care of the environment is extraordinary. For all this I support Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh as a man of exceptional ability in both Science and Art. Juan José Torregrosa |
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