David Lynch, filmmaker, painter, and author, has received three Academy Award nominations for best director and is unquestionably one of today's most respected and original film auteurs. He is also a serious spiritual seeker, a veteran of Transcendental Meditation (as taught by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi) who claims to have not gone a day in thirty years without meditating. Through his nonprofit organization, the David Lynch Foundation, he is raising money to promote the teaching and practice of what he calls, “consciousness-based education” in schools across America. In this exclusive interview, Lynch speaks with WIE editors Maura O'Connor and Igal Moria about his book, Catching the Big Fish, the author's personal exploration of the artistic and the creative process in light of meditation and enlightenment.

Lynch responds to the question, “What would enlightened filmmaking be like?” with a passionate monologue on the fundamental underlying unity of all creation in which, he states, one's full human potential is revealed and out of which one's work would engage people on all levels of reality, from the superficial to the transcendent, from the dark corners of the psyche to the infinite bliss of oneness. So next time you rent a DVD of Blue Velvet, think of its creator sitting upright on his meditation cushion, bathing in the unlimited, powerful “electric gold” of enlightened energy.

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