Testimonial letter from Roswitha Seibt
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 Dr. Roswitha Seibt. It is "Exhibit A-157" 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.
 Dr. Roswitha Seibt TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN I’m a medical doctor since 1977. Since then I’m working in Munich in a hospital for internal medicine. I get to know about Bhagwan’s teachings four years ago through his books and tapes-lectures before I met him personally in 1980. I experienced him as an exceptional person in many ways. He has an exceptional ability to understand the relationship between man’s consciousness and science. This applies particularly to his approach to medicine. This understanding is not available in our medical schools. For me and many colleagues in Germany and other countries Bhagwan is the only person who has that deep understanding, that man cannot be medically treated as a being separated from nature. As I work mainly with old paople and patients dying of cancer, death is the central issue. Bhagwan has taught me that death is a part of life, not an enemy but a fiend. This helps me and my patients. I also could enrich my medical experience and practice by learning new body therapies, which were developed under Bhagwan’s guidance. I experienced how my patients benefit from Bhagwan’s teachings and I’m sure this mystic is making very precious contributions to medical science. Very truly yours, |
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