The O Manuscript by Lars Muhl

Today’s drawing of Mary Magdalene

This is the most difficult part of the year for me. There are all the events at the school, the preparations for the summer, the many little things that happen every day as part of the job and as part of life. It’s exhausting, and it reminds me of why I couldn’t write or paint or do anything but lists for so long. I am left with no deep thoughts and empty of ideas. I end the day in disconnection. It’s a little bit like the situation Lars Muhl was in when he found the Seer.

I’ve been rereading the The O Manuscript, a book that is really a trilogy in which the second book is titled The Magdalene. It is the autobiographical writing of Danish writer Lars Muhl:

“Lars Muhl was for many years a successful singer/songwriter who, concurrently with his music, studied the world’s religions and esoteric knowledge. Then in 1996, he was struck down by an unexplained illness, which neither doctors nor alternative therapists could diagnose. For three years he lay in bed without being able to move or think straight. Through a close friend’s intervention, Lars was put in touch with a seer who, via the telephone, brought him back to life. That was the start of a completely new existence and the beginning of that quest he so grippingly describes in The O Manuscript.” (Google Books)

It’s a book full of wisdom. The mysterious character of the Seer, who helps him both heal and develop spiritually, is so strange and fascinating that it’s hard to believe he could be a real person in Lars life. But as this is a biographical text, I understand that he is a real person.

I have always dreamed of meeting a real healer. Someone who can transform energy and help bring balance to someone else. In texts, they are always such contradictory beings, and in this book, the Seer is such a character, who through his words and ideas challenges the author to grow and leave behind his fears and chains.

I look forward to completing the reading of this book once again, and see what new ideas come accross this time.