Testimonial letter from Ute Johanna Seekatz

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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 Ute Johanna Seekatz. It is "Exhibit A-493" 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.

UTE JOHANNA SEEKATZ
Diplompädagogin
VincenzstraBe 21
6238 Hofheim
Tel. 06192-23832
15th July 1983

To Whom It May Concern

As a diplompädagogin I studied psychology, sociology and educational science from 1970 to 1976 at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main. Here I obtained a diploma in educational science (M.A. ) in 1976.

I have been working with children and their oarents in different institutions e.g. the Protestant Church of Frankfurt/Main. 1 have always been confronted with the question: how to guide and bring up children in such a way that they find their way through society and are able to work for a more peaceful world?

This is exactly the point where Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh is of outstanding importance for those doing social and educational work either working out new projects or doing their job in traditional institutions where it is so difficult not to lose courage and love in the everyday work.

I went through a lot of seminars, workshops etc. led by well-known German professors and psychologists, but no other teacher has been of such enormous help to me personally andconsequently also to my work and my clients as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. This happened through books, tapes, video and most of all through personal contact with him.

The concept of education in Rajneeshpuram and the environment in which children are able to grow there I can only describe as extremely positive from my experience of what is good for the growth of children. I was in Rajneeshpuram for the First and the Second World Annual Celebration and each time I learned more about this warm and loving climate in which children are really helped to grow up as free individuals and are helped to develop their talents not without discipline but without the pressures of those structur that do not really support their vitality and joy of living.

The work that is done in Rajneeshpuram gives us an example, more than that it gives us courage and inspiration to do our own work in a better way. And what makes this work happen in such an impressive and encouraging and overwhelming way is the presence and support of the spiritual master Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. In my country more and more experts in the fields of modern psychological techniques, counselling and inner growth have recognized Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh’s outstanding significance for their work and I belon to this increasing group of people.

Kind Regards
[signed]


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