Testimonial letter from Thomas Schneider
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 Thomas Schneider. It is "Exhibit A-268" 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.
 Dipl. Agr. Ing. Thomas Schneider To whom it may concern, as a diplom - engineer of agriculture I am dealing with the various problems of growing crops and producing food for the increasing population in the third world. Since I had been studying at Justus - Liebig University in Giessen, West - Germany, I was in touch with the teachings and the philosophy of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. In his books I found many solutions for the grave problems humanity is facing. His help for our work to prevent a desaster in the near future by finding a way free of ideologies and adapted to the fundamental needs of the population in the less developed countries is really immense, because his philosophy helps me to get a clear view at the problems and to find the essential points of my work. A few weeks ago ray workteam was invited to a center of the Rajneesh religion to watch a video-tape about the agriculture which is developed in Rajneeshpuram, Oregon. The most impressing thing for me was, that ancient-known methods of biological agriculture are combined with highmodern technology, which is making agriculture more effective by lowering the input of chemicals and fertilizer. For America has the key-position for the resolution of the worldwide agriculture problem I highly recommand to the United States to accept the help which Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh is offering. Yours sincerely |
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