Testimonial letter from Kim Anderzon

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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 Kim Anderzon. It is "Exhibit A-731" 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.

Kim Anderzon
Dalagatan 22
S-113 24 STOCKHOLM
Sweden
15-7-83

To whom it may concern.

I am a Swedish actress who has been working in the profession for 15 years.

I have played in a variety of theatrecompanies, Swedish TV and in films for different filmcompanies.

I first came to know Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh about five years ago through contact with some of his disciples here in Sweden, I also read some of his books and started to practice meditation-techniques he has devised.

I had a very exacting role in a play running in a very renowed theatre here in Stockholm a couple of years ago. It was a one-woman play and it ran every evening for almost 3 years. The production was very successful.

One thing that helped me very much during this period was that I prepared myself by doing one of Rajneesh’s meditation-techniques before each performance.

It certainly helped me to be much more relaxed and to get in touch with myself and my creative, performing abilities.

To me, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh is a remarkable person with a deep understanding of the mind of modern man. He is teaching his message and putting it into practice in a significant way and it has helped, and is of great benefit for, many people.

The only deep experience I have had of him and his teachings (the meditations mentioned earlier) have been of immense value for me and I do know that he is a great inspiration to many people with creative professions.

Yours faithfully
[signed]
Kim Anderzon


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