Testimonial letter from Kuno Bachbauer

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 Dr. Kuno Bachbauer. It is "Exhibit A-1983" 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.

Dr. med. Kuno Bachbauer Sieberbrunnenfeld g. 4 1050 VIENNA, Austria July 18th, 1983 To whom it may concern. I have graduated at Vienna University 1977 as a medical doctor and worked since then in different therapeutic institutions for Drug-Rehabilitation. This has forced me to look deeply into the psychological and social backgrounds of this kind of illness. In my search I came across Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and His teachings and I consider these to be the most important contributions to Human Psychology in our Age! His vision and methods are incredibly powerful and radical, and tailored perfectly to the needs of this century. In my work I and my colleagues could experience new exciting dimensions all the time, and we could observe unexpected success in many, many cases. His methods - since they are more known and available to the public -find more and more approval in Psychology, Medicine and Education. Many University Institutes start using His knowledge and techniques as part of their programmes. Since two years now this extraordinary mystic and scientist has been in America, and His vision becomes reality in form of the City of Rajneeshpuram, Oregon. Hundreds of thousands of disciples and friends from all over the world help in this exciting experiment of building a religious commune based on the Teachings and Guidance of this great Spiritual Leader. [signed] Dr. Kuno Bachbauer

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