) is a former successful musician (bass player) of the British-American Soul and Funk-Band "Heatwave

Heatwave (band)

Heatwave was an international funk/disco musical band featuring Americans Johnnie Wilder, Jr. and Keith Wilder of Dayton, Ohio, Englishman Rod Temperton , Swiss Mario Mantese , Czechoslovak Ernest "Bilbo" Berger , Jamaican Eric Johns and Briton Roy Carter .They were known for their successful...

" and an author of spiritual books.

In 1978, after leaving a gala night in London, he was stabbed in the heart by his girlfriend. For several minutes he was clinically dead, before he could be reanimated

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 and operated. When, after several months, he awoke from coma, he was blind, mute and paralyzed in his entire body. He could never play bass again and had lost his singing voice. He didn't file charges against the attacker and moved back to Switzerland where he started to write down his long journey in the beyond.

In his autobiography, he describes how he managed to cope with that: "My consciousness

Consciousness

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 was luminous, powerful and clear. At the same time, I was lying there in a paralyzed body, without any possibility to communicate with the outer world. By being blind, I learnt to look inside and became able to see in a special way. Being mute taught me the active power of silence and by being totally paralyzed, I learnt patience and within it, deep contentment ["Zufriedenheit"].

By this change, currents of light revealed themselves to me, which took me deeper and deeper into the universe and opened up for me entirely new understanding of life in the universe. A spiritualization of the senses happened and I realized, that man, indeed, is a cosmic, multidimensional being. ..."

He realized, that man continues to live even without his physical body, and that life is, in reality, never an occurrence bound to the body. So he realized, that he is time- and boundless.

Since after his recovery he shares his insights in his darshan

Darshan

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s and gatherings - now as Meister M (Master M).

He says himself: "What I exemplify through my life is the following: One can live here with a family, with children, work and responsibility and nevertheless be perfectly boundless and free in the world. In the world, but not from the world. With both feet on the ground and the head in the universe. The awakened man is inconceivable and at the same time conceivable. However, these are not two different things, but one and the same, as the light, depending on the view, appears either as a wave

Wave

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 or as a particle

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Approximately one year after the accident, Mantese regained his eyesight, some time later the paralysis vanished and he could speak again. On his website, he is referred to as a spiritual teacher. He writes books, hitherto two of which have been translated into French, and one in English. He holds lectures and seminars in Switzerland in the cities Zürich and Winterthur in German. In Biel (French part of Switzerland) he talks French.

Works

• Im Herzen der Welt, [Autobiographie] Hammelburg 2007, Drei Eichen Verlag ISBN 978-3-7699-0598-4.
• Im Land der Stille, Hammelburg 2005, Drei Eichen Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7699-0585-4.
• Die Welt bist du [Aphorismen] Hammelburg 2007, Drei Eichen Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7699-0547-2.
• Licht einer großen Seele, [Biographie, div. Autoren] Hammelburg 2006, Drei Eichen Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7699-0595-3.
• Aufbruch in die Ewigkeit [Roman] Hammelburg, 2006, Drei Eichen Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7699-0522-9
• Vision des Todes, Hammelburg 2005, Drei Eichen Verlag, ISBN 3-7699-0533-4
• Das Geheimnis vom Weissen Stein [Ein märchenhafter Roman] Hammelburg 2005, Drei Eichen Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7699-0476-5.
• In Touch with a Universal Master (Encounters with Master M) Hammelburg 2009, Drei Eichen Verlag ISBN 978-3769906264

External links

• Mario Mantese's Homepage including interviews published elsewhere (see site for further reference).
• Website of Heatwave