Testimonial letter from Norbert S. Relenberg
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. Norbert S. Relenberg. It is "Exhibit A-955" 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.
 Justus - Liebig - Universität Giessen To whom it may concern Since various Years, I am Professor of sociology at German universities: Hamburg first, now Giessen / West Germany. My special field is sociology of underdevelopment, social and urban planning. I published a lot of books, articles and papers, and i am travelling every year to various countries, especially in Asia and Latin America for giving lectures at universities and for making field research. Since many years I am also studying and researching philosophy and religions. In this way I got to know of the writings of Bhagwan Shree Rajnesh and I was very interested to becom more acquainted with his philosophy and methods of cognition. So I studied important works of him und about him, an I am convinced that his philosophy attributes in a great and important dimension to the explanation of world process and to the methods of survival in freedom, as personal as collective, and in peace. All over the world Bhagwan is known as a person of extraordinary qualities and abilities - as philosopher, as analyst of social and political processes and, most of all, as philosophic and religeous teacher. [signed] |
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