Testimonial letter from Robert Michael March
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 Robert Michael March. It is "Exhibit A-136" 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.
 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Preamble. This is a sworn statement concerning the religious leader, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, of Rajneeshpuram, Oregon State, made by Robert Michael March in his professional capacity as teacher, psychologist and human resource trainer. Description of the writer. I, Robert Michael MARCH, B.A., M.A., PH.D., am a tenured Professor of International Business in the School of International Politics, Economics and Business, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan. In addition, I practice regularly as a crosscultural communications and negotiation skills trainer, and am a licensed psychologist. I am founder and executive director of Saburo Culture Access Inc., Tokyo, an organization specializing in crosscultural communications and negotiations skills training courses, whose clients include well known Japanese, American and European organizations such as Pepsicola, Lever Bros., McCann Erickson, Ministry of Transportation ( Japan ), Matsushita-National Electronics, Abbott Laboratories, J. Walter Thompson, Ciba Geigy, Marubeni. In addition to designing and conducting such training programs I have published articles and monographs dealing with these and related topics in California Management Review, European Journal of Marketing, Winds, Marubeni Business Report, and have been a visiting lecturer on these topics at London Business School, University of Southern California, Hofstra Australian National University. I am a member of the Japanese and Australian Psychological Associations, and the American Marketing Association. 2. Knowledge of Bhagwan Sree Rajneesh I have known of Bhagwan Sree Rajneesh for the past 4 years, initially from cassette tape recordings of his lectures, then from his published books, video cassettes, and more recently from occasional exchanges of letters. 3. Bhagwan Sree Rajneesh’s International Renown and Ability I regard Bhagwan Sree Rajneesh as a truly universal genius who has cast new light on the special psychological problems of crosscultural communication and human development. Personally, I have received continuous inspiration and intellectual and spiritual challenge from him, which have been material in raising the quality of my own thought as well as the quality of the training programs that I design and execute. It is no exaggeration to say that the programs that I conduct are helping to contribute to a world of fuller understanding and international friendship, and that Bhagwan Sree Rajneesh’s influence on these is considerable. [signed] |
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