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Director David Lynch to raise $7 billion for taking TM to schools

 

Arthur J Pais in New York | September 14, 2005 21:02 IST

 

 

David Lynch, the Oscar-nominated, director of Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead,

Dune, Wild at Heart and Lost Highway -- movies that have a cult following

worldwide -- plans to raise $7 billion over the next several years to facilitate

the teaching of Transcendental Meditation to American school children.

 

Raising the money, says Lynch, is no problem; it is easier than raising finance

for a film. The estimated six million TM practitioners -- including Lynch, his

partner and three children -- will chip in.

 

The $7 billion will go toward forming 'peace-creating super groups of 8,000

meditators each' across the globe, he says.

 

The director (who has also produced the acclaimed Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man

and the popular American television programme Twin Peaks) and his TM associates

have set apart $200,000 for after-school TM programmes in eight US cities,

including New York. It is aimed at students ranging from 10 to 25 years in age.

 

Lynch, 59, plans to tour North America over the next year, visiting schools and

universities to espouse the educational purposes of TM.

 

Having benefited from TM over the decades, Lynch has been thinking for many

years of getting younger children to start on meditation, says Foundation

spokesperson Robert Roth. " What TM has given him is the clarity of mind and

creativity to present the world as he sees it, even if it is very dark. "

 

The David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness Based Education and World Peace

will be an independent entity, which will work with meditators associated with

the Maharishi. It will first focus on children in North America, before moving

on to Europe and even India.

 

Lynch turned to TM or has been 'diving within' for 30 years now courtesy the

Transcendental Meditation method pioneered by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The mind is

a beautiful place but it can also be pitch dark, Lynch said not too long ago.

'Sometimes ideas come to my mind that make me crazy,' he confessed. Going to a

psychiatrist only leads to the reopening of emotional scars and wounds. 'So it

is a double whack,' he says in the book Lynch on Lynch. Meditation, on the other

hand, 'eventually clears those stresses and terrible things.' In TM, he said,

'the twisted stress becomes like water in the sun on a hot pavement. It just

evaporates.'

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dear Friends,

Many Osho people who do all sorts of meditation have

tried ATBSNR technique and have found " instant

meditation " . I wish Mr. Lynch does it so that he

forgets TM and takes to this simple spinal yoga that

neither takes times, nor money nor even an iota of an

effort. It is effortless and one goes into meditation

automatically and starts enjoying the ultimate bliss

beyond which there is nothing further. You stand face

to face with truth and Truth is God (Of course, no one

would believe unless one realizes that oneself. If any

one is serious, please do get in touch for the actual

experience).

S. M. Acharya,

91-20-26870204, email: smacharya Website:

www.atbsnr.com

PS: A senior coach at the Army Institute of Physical

Training (AIPT) has found an additional side benefit.

His wife who had backache started doing ATBSNR and got

well in no time. Now both husband and wife are doing

it together and found that their mutual bonding has

strengthened as never before. I shall soon circulate

it so that all husbands and their wives can benefit

likewise-sma

 

--- Jane MacRoss <HIGHFIELD wrote:

 

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David Lynch to raise $7 billion for taking

> TM to schools

>

> Arthur J Pais in New York | September 14, 2005 21:02

> IST

>

>

> David Lynch, the Oscar-nominated, director of

> Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, Dune, Wild at Heart

> and Lost Highway -- movies that have a cult

> following worldwide -- plans to raise $7 billion

> over the next several years to facilitate the

> teaching of Transcendental Meditation to American

> school children.

>

> Raising the money, says Lynch, is no problem; it is

> easier than raising finance for a film. The

> estimated six million TM practitioners -- including

> Lynch, his partner and three children -- will chip

> in.

>

> The $7 billion will go toward forming

> 'peace-creating super groups of 8,000 meditators

> each' across the globe, he says.

>

> The director (who has also produced the acclaimed

> Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man and the popular

> American television programme Twin Peaks) and his TM

> associates have set apart $200,000 for after-school

> TM programmes in eight US cities, including New

> York. It is aimed at students ranging from 10 to 25

> years in age.

>

> Lynch, 59, plans to tour North America over the next

> year, visiting schools and universities to espouse

> the educational purposes of TM.

>

> Having benefited from TM over the decades, Lynch has

> been thinking for many years of getting younger

> children to start on meditation, says Foundation

> spokesperson Robert Roth. " What TM has given him is

> the clarity of mind and creativity to present the

> world as he sees it, even if it is very dark. "

>

> The David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness Based

> Education and World Peace will be an independent

> entity, which will work with meditators associated

> with the Maharishi. It will first focus on children

> in North America, before moving on to Europe and

> even India.

>

> Lynch turned to TM or has been 'diving within' for

> 30 years now courtesy the Transcendental Meditation

> method pioneered by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The mind

> is a beautiful place but it can also be pitch dark,

> Lynch said not too long ago. 'Sometimes ideas come

> to my mind that make me crazy,' he confessed. Going

> to a psychiatrist only leads to the reopening of

> emotional scars and wounds. 'So it is a double

> whack,' he says in the book Lynch on Lynch.

> Meditation, on the other hand, 'eventually clears

> those stresses and terrible things.' In TM, he said,

> 'the twisted stress becomes like water in the sun on

> a hot pavement. It just evaporates.'

>

>

>

>

>

> [Non-text portions of this message have been

> removed]

>

 

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