Ah, YES! The GREAT FEAR of cultism!! Similar to every radical preacher telling us what to believe, how to believe it, and why we should be very AFRAID to deviate from THEIR thinking without giving them money, right? Let's see, who do we blame? We could blame Martin Luther, Pastor HAGEE, Fathe Flager, Jerimiah Wright, G.W. Bush, Ron Parsley, Mohammed, Jesus Christ --- YES HE was a RADICAL for His time also!! Read up on it.
But to condemne something that has been around 4 times longer than Christianity, that has worked for millions of people in various forms, and cultures, to deny theright of children to be at peace with themselves and confront the STRESS of growing up and learning at the same time---this is ROVIAN, Republican, and fascvist thinking.
Understand this: TM is not a cult, any more than is Christianity. It works, this is an established fact; ask any hypnotherapist. It makes every one aware of their weak points as well as their strong points (therefore able to create remedies). It also will help children take care of their parents in GRATITUDE, when parents grow too old to help themselves.
Now, if you will kindly excuse me, I have some GI's to take care of -- they need something to believe in, since their govermnent abandonded them....
Respectfully,
David Bozek
Angel
The Magic of Meditation
Director David Lynch discusses how to find inner peace and change the world 'to a good one.'
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At 59, David Lynch is already arguably America's best-known avant-garde filmmaker. His directing career has spanned more than three decades, including films like "Eraserhead" (1978), "Blue Velvet" (1986) and "Mulholland Drive" (2001), as well as the early 1990s TV series "Twin Peaks." But he's hardly resting on his laurels now. Lynch is directing a new movie, "Inland Empire," which stars Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Harry Dean Stanton and Justin Theroux. And at his Hollywood home on July 21, the father of three officially launched the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education. His goal: to raise enough money to train any U.S. child who wants to learn how to practice Transcendental Meditation (TM). Lynch talked with NEWSWEEK's Karen Springen about his latest project. Excerpts:
NEWSWEEK: I understand your sister introduced you to Transcendental Meditation while you were making "Eraserhead" in the 1970s and you've been practicing it ever since. Why?
David Lynch: When you start TM, you just sit down comfortably in a chair with your eyes closed, repeat a mantra, and away you go. Mostly I meditate on my own. Anywhere I am, twice a day I go off and meditate. Twenty minutes in the morning, 20 minutes in the evening is the deal. And things start getting better. That's the reason you do it. All the stresses and fears and anxieties begin to recede and a really beautiful inner kind of energy and happiness grows, and you enjoy the doing of things so much more, and those things that used to knock you out don't have the same power any more. Things get smoother and way more fun.
You've said you'd like kids to learn TM so they can reduce their stress level in school. Did you feel a lot of stress in the classroom as a kid?
It was less stressful then than it is now. My schooling was a total waste of time, even though I went to what was a very good high school. I wish that I'd had consciousness-based education. I would have been a lot further down the road. The problems and the stress at younger and younger ages--it's getting worse instead of better.
How do you plan to raise $1 billion for your new foundation?
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