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David Lynch makes two things: great movies, and me want to throw bricks at him. You may disagree with the first thing, but I imagine you understand it, so I'll move right to the second thing. Months ago, maybe a year ago, I went to see David Lynch speak at American University. The topic wasn't cinema, it was something called transcendental meditation (TM). Appearing with Lynch was Dr. John Hagelin, former presidential candidate of the Natural Law Party among other things. Both are big, even leading, proponents of transcendental meditation (pop over to Wikipedia for some concise info on the practice). The majority of the TM movement's claims, as loyal MA readers will discern, is nonsense. Their rhetoric is full of vapid, evasive new-ageisms. I attended the talk knowing that it would be as stupid and infuriating as it turned out to be. And then David Lynch and his goofball spirituality slid off my radar. Probably the sign of a healthy radar.
Well, he's back. He returned to AU last Tuesday with his ubiquitous sidedick Dr. Hagelin to announce that the university would be part of a two-year research project studying the effects of TM on college students. The Eagle, the AU newspaper, provided this write-up of his visit. (All you conspiracy theorists take note of the part of the URL that says /paper666/... oooo, spooooky...) The article is naively deferential, as evidenced in this passage:
Transcendental meditation is the most thoroughly researched and widely practiced program in the world for developing the full creative potential of the brain and mind, improving health, reducing stress and improving academic outcomes, according to the David Lynch foundation website.
Oh, really? Well this website thinks that transcendental meditation is the metaphysical equivalent of dog diarrhea. Why not print that? It's just as relevant.
Lynch himself offers up some choice quotes, such as, "Real peace is not the absence of war, it's the absence of negativity." Hmm. So, would such a state be all yin or all yang? The spermy part or the oily part? Since negativity is usually associated with darkness, I'm guessing we'd lose the black half. Now, I prefer the aesthetics of black to those of white, but the image of us all oozing through life as so many dollops of happy ejaculate is certainly one worth conjuring.
According to the article, the study is being funded by a partnership of foundations; there's no mention of official university endorsement, financial or otherwise. But I encourage those of you closer to the ground up at Ward Circle to make sure of that. In the meantime, mind Mr. Lynch's erudite dissection of the poo-puddle he's peddling:
"True happiness isn't out there. True happiness is within. But where is this within and how do you get there? This is transcendental meditation. There's an ocean of it. It's called bliss. Bliss takes where happiness leaves off. If students can feel this bliss then that's all you need to know."
True happiness may not be out there, David. But you sure are.
Well, he's back. He returned to AU last Tuesday with his ubiquitous sidedick Dr. Hagelin to announce that the university would be part of a two-year research project studying the effects of TM on college students. The Eagle, the AU newspaper, provided this write-up of his visit. (All you conspiracy theorists take note of the part of the URL that says /paper666/... oooo, spooooky...) The article is naively deferential, as evidenced in this passage:
Transcendental meditation is the most thoroughly researched and widely practiced program in the world for developing the full creative potential of the brain and mind, improving health, reducing stress and improving academic outcomes, according to the David Lynch foundation website.
Oh, really? Well this website thinks that transcendental meditation is the metaphysical equivalent of dog diarrhea. Why not print that? It's just as relevant.
Lynch himself offers up some choice quotes, such as, "Real peace is not the absence of war, it's the absence of negativity." Hmm. So, would such a state be all yin or all yang? The spermy part or the oily part? Since negativity is usually associated with darkness, I'm guessing we'd lose the black half. Now, I prefer the aesthetics of black to those of white, but the image of us all oozing through life as so many dollops of happy ejaculate is certainly one worth conjuring.
According to the article, the study is being funded by a partnership of foundations; there's no mention of official university endorsement, financial or otherwise. But I encourage those of you closer to the ground up at Ward Circle to make sure of that. In the meantime, mind Mr. Lynch's erudite dissection of the poo-puddle he's peddling:
"True happiness isn't out there. True happiness is within. But where is this within and how do you get there? This is transcendental meditation. There's an ocean of it. It's called bliss. Bliss takes where happiness leaves off. If students can feel this bliss then that's all you need to know."
True happiness may not be out there, David. But you sure are.
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