Testimonial letter from Mathilde Niemeyer
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 Mathilde Niemeyer. It is "Exhibit A-951" 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.
 Rajneesh Psychologische Praxis To whom it may concern. I am a graduated psychologist, got my education at the universities of Göttingen and Hamburg. I am trained in client - centered therapy, behaviour therapy, and Familytherapi at the Institute for Familytherapie in Weinheim, W.-Germany. I worked as atherapist with handicapped children and their families for the last 7 years at the Institute for Handicapped Children in Hamburg. Now I am working in my own praxis, doing therapy with individual persons, couples, families and groups. I got to know Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during my development in 1980. Since I became acquainted with Him as a man of exceptional abilities, who developed therapeutic methods internationally recognized in humanistic psychology. His sight of human being and His development of new therapeutic starts-including meditative elements in therapy - has influenced and changed all of my work as well as the work of humanistic psychotherapists all over the world. I am absolutely sure, that Bhagwan is the greatest and most beautiful living master we got nowadays. [signed] |
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