NEWS: David Lynch Transcends

CELEB: David Lynch Transcends

About a week ago, just as 2006 was coming to a close, David Lynch published a book called Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity. For over thirty years, Lynch has practiced and utilized Transcendental Meditation as a path toward greater creativity and inner peace, and the book "provides a rare window into his methods as an artist and his personal working style."

Lynch is invested in sharing Transcendental Meditation with as many people as possible. In July 2005, Lynch created his own foundation, the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace. The foundation is focused on reducing stress in schools by teaching students how to meditate. This month Lynch will do a series of readings and discussions at Lincoln Center in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington and the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles with Donovan, who will celebrate David’s new work with a live concert showcasing his greatest songs from the 1960s and ‘70s.

im there

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Will definitely pick up the book. Thanks.

Very very very very very very
interesting.

i find his hand gestures to be strangely hypnotic

I got an advance copy of the book several months ago...really interesting stuff

I will try to make the dc appearance. The LA will event be fucked.

i got the book

sort of Sun Tzu's Art of War for pussies

Then you'll love this:

I saw him on speaking tour last year, when he came through Seattle.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of his movies and also a huge advocate of meditation (although in the interest of full disclosure I'll admit I'm a bit more into Buddhism take than TM), but I thought his talk was boring, preachy, and at its worst, a bit deceptive. It was complete with a pseudoscience dog and pony show, with one of the people from What the Bleep Do We Know, where they got a college kid to sit on the stage with his head wired up so you could see his brain waves change when he started meditating. (Again, I'm very interested in science studying the physiological effects of meditation, for example, but what these guys were showing us was bullshit.) Nothing happened to his brainwaves and they're like, "well, it takes a trained eye..."

Sort of a disappointment, but then again, Lynch is such a weird guy, it's sort of entertaining just listening to his voice anyway, even if he's just rambling about nothing in particular.

Also entertaining were the audiences questions (mostly about his movies and Twin Peaks) and his often hilarious responses.

It should also be noted that he does the morning weather reports for Indie 103.1


No really, I'm serious.

i didnt know they were doing it on indie 103, but i used to watch them on his website every day

its like the return of dale cooper.

with no appologies i must say that this man has his head up his ass.
i enjoy his films (to a certain degree) but that doesn't mean i'm going to go out and listen to all his interviews and read one of his books on TM . if you worship the man maybe you should ask yourself if your own head resides within your own instentine. By the way my name really is Michael Dinwoodie however i am not actually a goat.