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July 20, 2005

David Lynch Launches Foundation for World Peace

I love David Lynch, probably more then any other artist in history, save the Beatles. When I read that he was promoting the art of meditation, I thought it was the weirdest thing to try to wrap your head around. If you've seen his movies, you know he travels pretty far into the depths of depravity, the dark side of the human soul, etc. - the conclusion that one might reach is that he's probably a guy with some skeletons in his closet, or at the very least, some "issues". But I'm willing to bet he's more mentally stable then a lot of us. I, for one, would love to be part of a global "peace creating super-group", as crazy as that might sound. Sign me up.

Here's the story, courtesy of the SF Gate

Director David Lynch is launching the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace tomorrow which will fund transcendental meditation classes and research into the effects of yoga on body and mind.
The "Blue Velvet" filmmaker is convinced he can alleviate the world's suffering by teaching society about the 47-year-old Hindu chanting technique and its founder Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

The 59-year-old hopes to raise $7 billion within a year, which will go towards forming "peace-creating super groups of 8,000 meditators" around the globe, to make people calmer, less anxious and more intelligent.

He tells Web site Page Six, "This is not a pretend thing. 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.

"But today's students are even more stressed out. Their schools are hellholes. They're getting pathetic educations. They're not going forward with full decks of cards.

"But when they meditate, they 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."

Posted by dsr at July 20, 2005 08:07 PM