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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Recorded on: 3/22/2007
Meditation
Arts and Creativity