Testimonial letter from Patricia Hayden
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 Patricia Hayden B Ed. It is "Exhibit A-376" 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.
 DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Re. Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh I an happy to support the current movement from many parts of the world to support the application of Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh to remain as a permanent resident in the United States. I am not an adherent of his religious philosophy, having too little acquaintance with it. I have, however, during the past year had considerable contact with some of his followers in Perth, Western Australia, and have been very impressed by the impact of his teachings upon them and their way of life. I hope to become better acquainted with his teachings in the near future since I have become persuaded that his loving concern for life and his practical approach to teaching individuals how best to use it could prove to be of crucial importance to this planet. As a school principal I believe that his therapies could be incorporated into any school system with great profit to the children in it at a time when all over the world we are asking schools to find ways to counteract social malaise at crisis Levels. On a personal level I have derived great physical and emotional benefit from my brief contact with his followers end would think that any government in the world should be proud to endorse his presence in their country. [signed] |
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