Testimonial letter from Sw Prem Sambodh
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 Sw Prem Sambodh (Rudi Militzer). It is "Exhibit A-1012" 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.
 BEWÄHRUNGSHILFE FÜR JUGENDLICHE Rinzai c.o.Rajneesh To whom it may concein. For 20 years I have been working as a graduated social-worker in social affairs. I come to know Bhagwans teaching by reading books and listening to tapes. I get er personal contact to Bhagwan in Oregon. I can confirm that the content of my social work was changed by this time. It is not also limited to methodic work but thous other dimensions. It is possible with Bhagwans influence and because of his teaching to give more experience to the clients and to had them out of personal closeness into another wider reality without tension, with more tranquility. [signed] |
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