Testimonial letter from Lorenz Witt
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 Lorenz Witt. It is "Exhibit A-1564" 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 3 pages.
 Lorenz Witt, Architect TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN... I was already doing yoga and some meditations on my own when I came to read a book of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. I was already searching for something unknown. I had so many questions how to approach life in all kind of situations. After reading some more of his religious books I found this man is the only one who can give me real answers -fundamental religious answers. I did a 10 days meditation camp in a Rajneesh meditation center, I was surprised what was happening to me, so much joy was arising; I became full of energy it was overwhelming, overlflowing - my whole life started to change. I went to the Anurag Rajneesh Meditation Center in Frieburg and did continuously Bhagwan meditations and listened joyfully to Bhagwan tape discourses. My work received a new dimension. He is inspiring my creativity in a joyful relaxed way. I feel an opening which is overflowing to other people, it has a new quality. It is something of the heart, it is the language of the heart, it is a heart-to-heart communion. Since he moved to America I was even more impressed. Now I could see how he started to make his vision real He is creating a new commune - the East is melting into the West. The dream being one with nature becomes reality. The human consciousness can be transformed. In my opinion he has the exceptional ability of doing it. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh is internationally recognized as a great spiritual leader. American can be proud of having him in the country. As an architect, I appreciate the excitement of building the new City of Rajneeshpuram. The speed the city is growing shows what his love can do, it is amazing. America is a free country just the right place for such a great experiment. [signed] |
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