Testimonial letter from Marilu Cicolella
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 Marilu Cicolella. It is "Exhibit A-1833" 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.
 RATEO VIAGGI TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN My name is Cicolella Marilu. I am Italian, 37 years old. After the middle school, I have attended a secretarial school for 4 years. I have worked for 10 years for the Hilton Hotels Corporation in several countries as Head of Department. I also worked for 2 years for the American Consulate in Stuttgart, Germany, as employee in the visa section. In the last 2 years I have been working for an Italian Travel Organization as sales promoter and tour organizer. Since one and half year I am a disciple of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, an enlightened spiritual master. I got to know Him through His books and that has been a revelation for me! His words were what I had been looking for all my life! Since then I have been reading all His books and I have found an answer to all my questions in any field. How grateful I am to have found such a beautiful master to guide me. I can go now into all situations in life with more awareness, Joy, playfullness that I communicate to all the people I get in touch with and there is such a need in our days for more positivity. Our master is creating with His work on us disciples, spread all around the world, such a beautiful energyfield that is going to affect always more and more people. To be close to my master I came here in Rajneeshpuram for a meditation program of 3 months. Those 3 months here have been the greatest experience of my life. The atmosphere here in Rajneeshpuram is absolutely marvellous; the silent presence of the master affects all o- us in such a positive way that I feel that I have grown up in these 3 months more than in the last 20 years. How to express all the love I felt for the entire universe, the joy of being alive, of feeling accepted and loved from all these beautiful people who live here. Only an extraordinary, beautiful master as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh could create such a paradise on earth to give us disciples the possibility of living in peace, love and in harmony and respect for the nature and help us to get in touch with the divine that is within us. Let Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh stay in America and give your country the chance to have such an extraordinary and precious man, a living Buddha, let enrich your beautiful country with His divine presence. With love and gratitude, |
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