Testimonial letter from Mario Montano
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 Dr. rer pol Mario Montano. It is "Exhibit A-226" 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.
 Dr. rer. pol. Mario Montano To whom it may concern I am deeply familiar with the books and taped discourses of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and I must say that my respect for this exceptional man has been increasing the more acquainted I have become with the depth and the range of his scholarship and insight. I rank him among the top psychologists of this century,--with one important difference: while Freud, Jung, James, Perls remained most of the time within the domain of a specialized discipline, Rajneesh has the amazing capacity to include insights from other disciplines and traditions, thereby contributing uniquely and originally to Western culture at large. Heidelberg 19, Juli 1983 |
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