Testimonial letter from Sw Ramses Shaffy
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 Ramses Shaffy (Ramses Shaffy). It is "Exhibit A-1014" 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.
 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN My name is Ramses Shaffy, working and living in Holland as an actor, singer, songwriter and composer. For twenty-five years I have been on the stage, in films, on television, and made seven longplaying records of my own songs. I got an 'Edison Award' for one of my albums, and am preparing a new one, containing the songs I wrote since I have been initiated by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in 1981 in Poona, India. He is my master, and we are in a deep love affair. He creates a revolution of the heart, and may His love and vision shine through my work and being. He said: 'You don't have to listen to my words, but inbibe my silence and look at my works'. That fabulous experiment, His new commune, Rajneeshpuram in Oregon, can show the world how a new kind of man can perform a way of life, which may prevent a global suicide, and the source is the inexhaustible force: Love. And so I became His disciple. I feel it as the deepest urge in me, to convince you that this utter seldom oppotunity to let a living enlightened Master live in America, should be understood. Dated: July 18, 1983. |
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