Testimonial letter from Rose Marie Muraro
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 Rose Marie Muraro. It is "Exhibit A-352" in the Noles collection.
The original letter was handwritten in Portuguese, a text transcription has not yet been created. A text version of its translation 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.
The image in the text box links to a pdf file with the original letter, the translation, and a notary statement attesting to the validity of the translation. It has 3 pages.
 translationTo Who It May Concern I, Rose Marie Muraro, writer, feminist, author of several books, among them "Sexuality of the Brazilian Woman", one of the top 10 best sellers in Brazil since its publication, consider the permanence of Shree Rajneesh in the United States essential for the integration of the Oriental and Occidental cultures. And I also feel that the integration of these two cultures is the only factor necessary to stop the human species from perishing to greater catastrophes. To him all my support |
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