Testimonial letter from Sigrid Marz
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. Sigrid Marz MD. It is "Exhibit A-284" 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. Sigrid. Marz, M.D. To whom it may concern: Just before finishing my studies of medicine and my thesis at the University of Berlin (Germany) in 1976, I came upon some books written by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. His teachings, and also meeting him in India, initiated a completely new outlook on life itself and on man. Especially his teachings on compassion are having an important impact on my present work as a general practisioner, Gestalt Therapist and acupuncturist. Compassion being no more a function of a conditioned super-ego in the Freudian sense but a growing attitude resulting from the experience of love. Through various meditation techniques designed by Bhagwan, I had the opportunity to realize that there is more to men than had been taught at medical high schools and that man is a unity of spiritual, psychological and material body. Bhagwan's vision of man and the causes of disease changed my therapeutic concepts and praxis drastically. Admitting that there is a multitude of so-called wholistic therapy concepts, it is my everyday experience that through Bhagwan as a Master and spiritual leader, some beautiful, fresh and unique quality is added to my work. It therefore is not surprising to me that especially within the world-wide growing wholistic health movement more and more attention is given to Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh as a source of inspiration. Dr. Sigrid Marz, M.D. |
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