> > http://www.dailyemerald.com/vnews/display.v/ART/4371d4d0ef927 > > Lynch speaks on mind matters > David Lynch visited campus to raise money and spread awareness about > meditation > By Emily Smith > News Reporter > November 09, 2005 > David Lynch, the director of dark films that often leave audiences in a > disconcerted state, has found inner peace through transcendental meditation > for 32 > > years. > This is why he has started a foundation that raises money to provide college > students with scholarships that will help pay the costs of learning > transcendental meditation and why he came to speak to University students > Tuesday > night > in Columbia Hall. > The talk in Columbia 150 was not only sold out, but had a large audience > overflow in the EMU Ballroom, where people watched a live broadcast of the > talk. > People at Oregon State University and Western Oregon University also saw the > broadcast. > The concept that two audio speakers, when close together, produce four times > the sound of one, is the same concept that when applied to groups of people > practicing transcendental meditation will usher in world peace, Lynch > believes. > Lynch did not prepare a speech, but asked audience members to get things > rolling by asking questions. > When asked if he would consider re-releasing some of his films with a director > âs commentary, the answer was âno.â? > âYou work so hard to get a film a certain way. ... It should stand > alone,â? > Lynch said. > Other audience members asked for some clarification on the meanings and > messages of his films, but he did not give answers to the questions they > asked. > One spectator brought up the cost of learning transcendental meditation â > classes cost about $2,500 â and asked Lynch why he wasnât trying to do > something > to lower the price. Lynch said that if someone wants it bad enough, they will > find the money to pay for it, and the high price is why he is raising money > for meditation scholarships. > Lynch said it makes sense to start the spread of peaceful consciousness in > Washington, D.C., where 500 students are about to embark on transcendental > meditation classes available through scholarships provided by the David Lynch > Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace. > Lynch was joined by quantum physicist and president of his new foundation Dr. > John Hagelin, who was recently featured in the film âWhat the Bleep Do We > Know?â? > Hagelin explained how the coherence of electrical activity in the brain > directly affects memory, emotional maturity, creativity and IQ levels and how > transcendental meditation helps to build patterns of that activity. > âEverything good about the brain relies on electrical synchronicity,â? he > said. > He said that when a personâs brain doesnât operate in this fashion, the > person is living in bondage, a bondage that has that person completely bound > to > the object or problem in front of them. Whether they like the object of their > attention or dislike it, that bondage controls the personâs entire reality > at > that moment. > Neuroscientist Dr. Fred Travis, director of the Center for the Brain, > Conscioussness and Cognition at the Maharishi University of Management, in > Fairfield, > Iowa, showed what happens to the brain during transcendental meditation by > measuring the brain waves of a student on the overhead as the student > meditated > in front of the audience. > People watched as his brain waves went from being erratic and unsynchronized > to more even and synchronized in a matter of seconds. > Travis said that the frontal executive system, the âCEO of the brain,â? is > extremely important in decision making. He showed a scan of a violent > criminalâs > > brain and the frontal lobe was inactive. He said that when a person, like a > college student, is under constant stress, they arenât using their frontal > executive systems. He said transcendental meditation strengthens this part of > the > brain. > Travis said the way a person uses his or her brain today affects the brain > they will have tomorrow. He left students with an image from the âWizard of > Oz,â? > in which the Scarecrow is being handed a piece of paper by the wizard after > enduring a perilous quest for a brain. > He told students, âDonât be content with just getting a piece of paper > from > college.â? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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