I love his movies. But the guy is a nut job. Is this the best we can do?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "benjaminccollins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > July 20, 2005 -- IF you think Tom Cruise is wild about Scientology > and Madonna is crazy about Kabbalah, eccentric filmmaker David Lynch > is about to give both of them a run for their money. > > Tomorrow, the Oscar-nominated director of such graphically violent > movies as "Blue Velvet" and "Mulholland Drive" is announcing the > formation of the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based > Education and World Peace. > > Lynch has been a devotee of transcendental meditation and its founder, > Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, for 32 years. The foundation he'll launch with > his own money will fund schools to set up transcendental meditation > (or "TM") classes and pay for research on the effects of the yoga > technique on the "brain and body." Lynch hopes to raise $7 billion > within a year. > > "This is not a pretend thing," Lynch told PAGE SIX's Steve Garbarino. > "Our government spends seven times that on killing, calling it > defending, and making machinery and technology to kill human beings in > the name of peace." > > Despite "hating speaking in public," Lynch, 59, says he decided "to > stop being quiet" about his passion for the 47-year-old Hindu chanting > technique after observing the sad state of education in U.S. schools. > > Today's students "are even more stressed out. Their schools are > hellholes," he goes on. "They're getting pathetic educations. They're > not going forward with full decks of cards." > > Students who meditate, he says, "will start shining like a bright, > shiny penny, and their anxieties will go away. By diving within, they > will attain a field of pure consciousness, pure bliss, creativity, > intelligence, dynamic peace. You enliven the field, and every day it > gets better. Negativity recedes." > > Lynch eventually hopes to organize "peace-creating super groups of > 8,000 meditators" around the globe, all chanting simultaneously. Why > 8,000? "It's the size of the square root of one percent of the world's > population." > > Quick to point out that "TM" is not a "religion" of "clones" but a > "mental technique to dive within," he'll only say of Scientology and > Kabbalah, "I don't know enough about either to comment. People believe > in what they believe in, and that's a beautiful thing." > > Happily, Lynch hasn't given up his day job: He's working on his next > flick, "Inland Empire," starring Laura Dern. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
