Testimonial letter from P. Gunnar Söderbaum
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 P. Gunnar Söderbaum. It is "Exhibit A-2216" 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.
 ULLERÅKERS SJUKHUS To whom it may concern I am a medical doctor , MD, from Sweden. I am assistant chef of a dayward department of Ulleråkers sjukhus Uppsala Sweden. We work there with groups in various forms: talking groups, psykodrama groups, artterapi groups, and more groups. My license is for adult and child and youth psychiatry. I Have earlier been head of a child and youth care center in Stockholm for 3 years, and assistent chef in a hospital for child and youth in Ulleråkers sjukhus Uppsala before that. In my daily work as a psychiatrist Bagwan hag been a wery important teacher for me. Both in my work with individual s and groups. Especially in all those patients with existential problems has his teachings been of special importens . In the individual groups his meditations has made itt possible for me and others to experience the grouth process , and to do it under a short period , seen relativly. More than that has the group process been understandable under his guidiance. He has around himself a staff of psykoterapeuts all of eit witch he has educated in group terapy among other tings. These terapists a re the best group terapists in the world. His education is so outstanding that I alredy met many terapists who are planning to stay one or more years with him to learn therapy. I am even planning to do so. But Bagwans most importent work is about the extensiel problematic of life. He is here , as I see it, one of our times geatest teachers. He is in the real meaning a great religios teacher and spiritual leader. He has for us expained the teachings of the old religios leaders and masters. To that has he given his own explanations . It has been possible for me to meet people with religios plroblematic and help them, thanks to Bagvan. I Have learnt to know Bagwan by meditations, tapes , videos and at last by wisiting him . I have done three groups with some of his best groupleders. In the terapies he has mixed western new terapies with old eastern knowlidge together with both old estern meditations and meditations of his owvn. Around hemself has he gatherd the best of the terapeuts of the world He is guiding them all to do more then they eralier have done. It is possible for people to be helped frem their neurotic problems in a much cheaper way through his terapies then athers. And I am convinced that if we search new ways of therapy or will do research in tearapy we will have the best guidiance by Bagwan. Uppsala den 15/7 83 |
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