The 'Self-Moving Mountain'
My proposed talk/performance at the Design In Mental Health Show and Exhibition, Manchester Central, 4-5 June 2024
Here’s my proposed talk/performance for a major annual event in the innovation of mental health design, moved for 2024 to the bigger venue at ‘Manchester Central’ after ten years at the Coventry Ricoh Arena.
This is essentially my proposal submitted early Sept 2023, to which I’ve added a bit more information and clarification for this Substack.
The Self-Moving Mountain
You will experience the awesome power of the ‘self-moving mountain’.
Alan uses story-songs and musical vibrations, dance and movement, silence, breathing and breathwork, smiling and laughing, eye-gazing, zeitgeist, daydreaming, and:
combinations of conscious energies of empirical evidence, notably nutrition and lifestyle,
with the far more incredible energies of the subconscious/unconscious, to prove that we can actually alter our 'realities' individually and collectively.
Terminology that describes these phenomena include metaphysics, neuroplasticity, quantum and especially ‘plasma energies’, as featured in the work of Robert Temple and his 2022 book ‘A New Science of Heaven’.
Love and compassion,
cooperation and relationships,
forgiveness and abundance,
are among many significant infinite energies, which interestingly have zero ‘mass’ in terms of conventional physics, which for many people then can cause us to question Einsteinian interpretations of energy, notably e=mc2, being Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.
Time, space, gravity, ‘matter’ and what anything and everything actually is, are in Alan’s opinion and experiences, all ‘human constructs that attempt to explain the inexplicable’.
Ancient and aboriginal wisdoms might be much nearer to our evolutionary origins, and also clues to our future transcendence, as a species and life form.
Alan is now 66, extraordinarily and increasingly fit, strong and healthy, continuing his powerful recovery after prolonged lived-experiences in suicide loss, suicide prevention education and innovation, and grief healing.
Alan's 're-birth' followed several years of life-threatening traumas, especially 2015-21, including surviving a very determined suicide attempt in autumn 2015, after the suicide of his partner earlier that year.
Alan’s suicide attempt would likely also have been a homicide or multiple homicide.
Alan is grateful beyond words for the higher powers and intelligences that intervened and averted another devastation, of the sort that blights so many other lives, every day.
Alan is now, amongst many other things, a self-funded metabolic health coach, musician, entrepreneurial educationalist, 'positive disintegrationalist'* and 'extreme gardener' and ‘high ladders worker’. This is aside from very many past and necessary re-inventions.
Join Alan for this uniquely uplifting joyful optimistic self-discovery event.
Feel and be the rhythm of the ‘Self-Moving Mountain’.
*See PositiveDisintegration.com and Alan's 'infinite universes' Substack writings and podcasts at https://substack.com/@alanchapman
At the time of writing this submission (September 2023), and writing this Substack article, Alan is also intending to stand as Independent MP in the next UK General Election.
Alan was born in London in 1957 to humble self-made parents. He left school at 18 to be a salesman. His employed career transitioned in the 1990s via multinational corporate leadership, including nuclear defence sectors, to self-employment, consultancy and executive coaching. He moved to Leicestershire in 1991, raising three children, extending now to several grandchildren age 4-20. He founded the world-leading educational website Businessballs.com mid-1990s, which at the time of writing this he no longer controls nor wholly owns, although this is a fluid situation under negotiation.
After multiple suicidal traumas 2015-21 Alan's focus is now mainly health education and suicide prevention: understanding the complex energies of traumas, addictions, grief, nutrition, sleep, etc., and their many interdependencies, causes and effects, individually and societally.
More positively and optimistically - because Alan is at heart an optimist in the extreme - Alan works via energies of consciousness and subconsciousness, so as to alter our collective realities, towards the highest good for all.
That’s the proposal, including some clarifications added for this article.
This concept is organic.
Accordingly the ‘self-moving mountain’ is growing and taking shape in its own way, guided - and followed - by me; crucially also drawing on energies of us all and beyond.
Importantly here I detail more about this immersive participative experience:
Breathwork and vibrations inspired by the work of Wim Hof and Nikki J Owen, and by various teachings from yoga, pilates, sports, exercise, strength-work and fitness.
Mindfulness and walking, and other ways to ‘rewire our limbic systems and neural networks’.
Our regeneration at a cellular level - so that basically we are reborn every few weeks, and some of our organs regenerate and renew themselves much faster than this.
We ‘die and are reborn’ in our thoughts and feelings every day, and probably every moment.
The notion of a ‘soul’ is one of timelessness, and probably continuous rebirthing.
As human souls we tend increasing to focus on metaphysics and plasma energies, manifesting and altering realities, even if we use different terminology to consider these phenomena.
Re-imagining ourselves and our pasts positively, so that we switch what caused harm and damage, to being healed already… this is a very big aspect of the ‘self-moving mountain’.
‘As if’ is a big aspect to the re-imagining of who we now want to be. So that we act and think and feel ‘as if’ we already are.
‘I am’ is also a significant aspect of stating that we are thankful for our abundance and gifts and what is now coming to us, and who we now are; reborn.
There are also very interesting metaphysical correlations between the wisdoms and stories of most religious and spiritual texts, and how our conscious and subconscious brain energies work, towards manifesting realities that are powered by love and compassion, and by and towards all the good things in our natural ways of living, at the level of our souls.
I plan to preview and ‘showcase’ the ‘self-moving mountain’ - ostensibly as a ‘metabolic health talk’ at the Bradgate Park ‘Coffee Company’ team rooms (Newtown Linford in Leicestershire, UK) in the next few weeks, and the photograph in this substack is me performing my music at that wonderful venue on 24th September 2023. My thanks to the photographer who happened to be there, who gave me his picture of me to use.