Mike Handcock
// author, innovator & keynote speakerMIKE HANDCOCK is an author, innovator, keynote speaker, musician, and spiritual entrepreneur from Auckland, New Zealand. His books “Your Empire Strikes Back”, “Meet Joe Sample”, “Eyes Wide Open”, “Can You Teach A Goat To Dance?”, and “Global Gypsy: Inspirational People Leading Extraordinary Lives” are all available from MDH. His albums “Carolynn” (1993), Tohjo’s “Let The Craziness Continue” (1996), “Night Of The Dancing Shadows” (2001), “Caterpillar Swimming” (2003), and coaching CDs “Ultimate Wealth Week: How To Create Wealth” (2006), and “Rock Your Life: Lead An Extraordinary Life” (2006) are all available from Rock Your Life. Mike Handcock received the NSANZ Inspirational Speaker award in 2006, the NSANZ Business Person Of The Year award in 2007, and has been nominated for three Extraordinay Lives awards. He is currently working on a movie and television project, and was applauded by President Bill Clinton for his charitable work in India and Cambodia at the Clinton Global Initiative.
Website: www.rockyourlife.net
Photo: Mike Handcock / RockYourLife.net
Interview:
What are you made of? Stellar stuff, I’m sure, but what are you really made of? You are flesh and bone, which is made from cells, which contain mostly water, which is just hydrogen and oxygen, which is made up of atoms, which have electricity in them, which is energy. When you come down to it, you are just a big ball of energy lying on the couch reading this book. So if you are energy, what is the couch made of? Energy… well done, you are getting the idea. So everything is energy. So when I pick up my guitar and hit the string that creates vibration, what is that? You guessed it… energy! It’s known and named in every culture: Ankh in Egyptian, Prana in India, Tane in Hawaiian, Rush in Hebrew, and Arunguiltha in Aboriginal. So music is energy… you are energy… therefore you must be… Music! Well done. You are Music.
So if you are music, then you must be a note, a chord, a scale, or something. More about you later. What about the earth? The earth revolves around the sun at 136Hz. That makes it resonate at C# minor. This is the same key as Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata”, arguably one of the most popular pieces of music ever written. Perhaps this is more than just coincidence. Perhaps the reason is because we, the listening public, are in tune with the earth? Beethoven was virtually totally deaf. Did he get the key not from what he could hear, but from what he could feel _ the vibration of the earth’s orbit? The significance of music is that it links us the mortals, with our planet, everything on it and we resonate at a variety of levels and keys, which either see us in or out of harmony with our world and the people on it.
Excerpt taken from Mike Handcock’s new book “What If You Were God?” (2009) available from Rock Your Life © 2009 Mike Handcock. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission.
“The significance of music is that it links us the mortals, with our planet, everything on it and we resonate at a variety of levels and keys, which either see us in or out of harmony with our world and the people on it.”
– Mike Handcock, author of “What If You Were God?”
