Testimonial letter from Lasse Englund
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 Lasse Englund. It is "Exhibit A-2201" 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.
 To whom it may concern. I’m a Swedish musician who’s been working professional for almost fifteen years now.I’ve been backing up severals of artists on tours ans records here in Sweden. I’ve also recorded three albums of my own and for the time I’m a member of a wellknown group, touring all over Scandinavia. I have a great respect for Baghwan and his work. I’ve listen to many tapes and red some of the books and it has inspired me a lot in my work. He is really a person with exeptional abilities and I know that he is of great importance to many creative persons With kind regards |
(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.)
