Testimonial letter from Karl Gerz
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 Karl Gerz. It is "Exhibit A-1096" 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.
 KARL GERZ TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN I am a psychologist, carrying a diploma of the Friburg-University in W-Germany, member of the German Association of Psychologists and Client Centered Therapist. I have been working for 5 years as a co-ordinator in a social welfare institute in LORRACH, West Germany. The main part of the work was prevention, therapy and rehabilitation of adolescent drug addicts. There are two articles published in scientific papers about my work. The therapy of drug addicts includes ar. intense need of well-skilled therapists, finances and crganisat The success rate is tiny. Mostly after a short period of time the therapists feel helpless. When my work reached this conclusion I became acquainted with the teachings of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh They became an incredible source of wisdom and helped me to understand the roots of the problem. His books, His guidelines of meditation and His incomparable insig helped me and my colleagues to go deeper into our own work and to change the character of other social welfar institutes we have been working with. The main point, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh taught us was first to look inside which is meditation. Out of that love can arise. That is, as Bhagwan says, the most important healing force. All our scientific discussion all our self-exploration groups, couldn't hit this point. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's view over the whole problem led our work to totally new dimensions with remarkable results for our clients. [signed] |
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