Testimonial letter from Ma Gyan Yuthika
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 Ma Gyan Yuthika (Robin Ann Juniper). It is "Exhibit A-1714" 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 2 pages.
 Robin Ann Juniper/ Ma Gyan Yuthika I, Robin Ann Juniper, Media Consultant and Communications Co-ordinator for the 1983 Congress of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, with 30 years of professional experience in journalism and radio and television production and presentation, former programme officer of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, board member of the Lance Holt School, programme advisory committee member of Radio 6NR, founding producer of Radio 3ZZ Community Access, founding member of the Perth Institute for Film and Television, B.A., and Associate Australian Music Education Board do hereby acknowledge and respectfully submit that: I have specialized in my profession in issues and advancements in Education, Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy and Religion, and in the inter-relationships of these disciplines with Science and Technology. I have worked in India and Germany as well as Australia. During the course of my work in 1976 for religious broadcasts, I contacted students of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and ultimately read his books. I was -and still am - vastly impressed with his spiritual teachings, his insightful commentaries on the psychological and sociological problems of the East and the West, and his analyses of the relationship between Science and Religion, and the compatibility of Mysticism and Materialism. I felt that he provided unparalleled answers to the major questions of the High Tech societies and the Fourth World. Since then I have observed the boom in his books: He is recorded in 350 titles published in dozens of languages by scores of publishers around the world. He is readily available also through specialist outlets on audio and video tape. I have been interested to verify personally that his books are on the library shelves of every tertiary institution in my home state, Western Australia, with 30 titles catalogued by the major university. Bhagwan has performed an unparalled feat as a religious communicator in the last decade. In the past year, his work as a spiritual teacher has advanced to an extraordinarily innovative phase: His disciples have demonstrated how a contemporary working and social life can be interwoven with spiritual practise and recollection. He has established in religious education the principle of general education - that learning is most profound when it derives from experience. The extraordinary vision and scale of Bhagwan’s venture in Oregon is attracting widespread attention throughout the world. In the recent National Congress of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, his work stimulated considerable discussion amoungst specialist writers and broadcasters in the fields of Education, Psychology, and Sociology, and it was the subject of a paper delivered in the Sociology section of the congress. And in my contact with a broad network of professional, political, academic and creative Australians, my personal experience of Bhagwan has been noted with respect. Few people have missed the opportunity to question me extensively about Bhagwan and his work. My report is that Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh is an exquisite man of profound love, grace and wisdom - a luminous mystic, an outstanding visionary. [signed] |
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