Testimonial letter from Maria pia Giaccone
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 Maria pia Giaccone. It is "Exhibit A-1475" 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.
 Maria pia Giaccone To whom it may concern I come from a noble Sicilian family and my occupation is of antiques and art-dealer in Palermo, Sicily. In one of my trips around the world, I came to know the teachings and the extraordinary personality of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. I stayed four years in Poona, completely fascinated by the energy field present there - I attended to therapy groups and meditations, the whole experience there was unique and it gave me such a peace of mind and clarity whose effects are still present in me and have an enormous influence on my work and on my private life. In the work he gave me the serenity to deal with the day to day routine and gave me glimpses of the beauty that I was looking for in paintings and antiques - Personally he gave me, and is continuously giving me, his love and the strength to look at myself without any mystification. I was also studying psychology and I was very much interested in all the forms of psycho-therapy, but no one of these methods gave me the peace and contentment that I feel now in Bhagwan’s presence. I am now in Rajneeshpuram, Oregon for the last world festival and I was amazed by the incredible amount of work happening here and by the love and the sharing among all the people -you can feel love, you can breathe love. For my personal experience and because of his positive influence on me and on so many people I know, there is no doubt that he can only be of immense value especially in the fields of Art and Psychology, as much as an opening of new horizons in every field of human growth. Best wishes |
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