david lynch and transcendantal meditation

the second highligt of my trip was david lynch's talk on brown. the first 20 minute section was a q&a session. a funny guy asked him if he could explain mullholland drive. of course lynch laughed and said that he could not simplify his abstractions and ideas.
when asked if he ever compromised his ideas he answered with a definite no. "because if i compromise and the film turns out to be a failure that's a double death, but if i don't compromise and put myself out there as i want, then even if the film flops i still have that."

the next part of the talk was devoted to the transcendental meditation as a source of creativity and peace not only for he individual but also for the world. lynch is now the founder of an organization to spread the meditation, which he has been practicing for 33 years, to help the world peace. a nerologist and a renowned quantum physicist who were also founding members of the organization spoe about the mediatation. the neurologist even demonstrated the effects of meditation on brain live with a experienced meditator student.

well of course the scene in itself was very out of a lynch film. but it was pretty convincing. i really believe that meditation could change an individual, if not the world. once i learn how to practice it i will definitely start meditating. and they ket saying that trascendental meditation was really easy.

the really annoying moment of the conference was when at the end a student made his derridean commentary about this meditation. he said that although he liked lynch's films he didn't really like what went on there that day because lynch and the other professors used conservative terms like subjectivity, unification, transcending and stable individuality and seemed to prefer presence over absence, stability over difference etc. he spoke right out of a textbook and proved once again that artists are beyond and above theory.