Testimonial letter from Peter Thassilo Egmond von Tresckow
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 Peter Thassilo Egmond von Tresckow. It is "Exhibit A-1305" 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.
 Peter Thassilo Egmond von Tresckow To whom it may concern My name is Peter von Tresckow, I was born in Berlin in 1936. I studied 2 years graphic arts in Kassel / West Germany at the "Staatliche Akademie für Bildende Künste" with Professor Leistikow. After completion, I worked for the American Information Center in Frankfurt as a graphic artist and exhibition supervisor for the area Hessen for a period of 2 years. At the age of 25 I started my own business as illustration designer and graphic artist. Four years ago I was appointed university lecturer for illustration and caricatures at the "Hochschule für Graphik Offenbach". When I was 23 I became interested in spiritualism and got intensively involved in the scientific and practical approach for it. For example, I went to Japan where I was engaged with Zenbuddhism and studying literature of the Indian spiritual master Raman Maharshi, Meister Ekkehard and Laotse from China. During this time I came also accross books of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and I see him as one of the few rare beings who is living the spirit of transcendence. I was especially impressed by the book "Hammer on the Rocks". My involvement in the spiritual field has deeply influenced me in the creativity of my day to day life. Sincerely, |
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