Vaj wrote: > On May 24, 2010, at 6:00 PM, Bhairitu wrote: > > >> Vaj wrote: >> >>> On May 24, 2010, at 2:30 PM, Bhairitu wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Vaj wrote: >>>> >>>>> If David Lynch talks about invincibility – he’s an artist. And he’s >>>>> known for being quite weird – you don’t associate this with something >>>>> military. When Maharishi says, “I want to make every nation >>>>> invincible” – he’s a guru from India. It’s like a metaphor. But if a >>>>> German guy says he wants to make this country invincible, you can’t >>>>> help thinking of the Nazis. His speech was completely insensitive to >>>>> German history and the audience. >>>>> >>>> Creative people can be very isolated. They tend to want to protect >>>> their creativity from external influence. Tell me about it, as a >>>> college trained musician with knowledge of composition and music theory >>>> I used to try to make some suggestions to other band members that might >>>> help their tunes I would get a "fuck off, it's my song!" I finally just >>>> slipped them a copy of Gordon Delamont's "Modern Melodic Techniques" to >>>> them and wait a few days or a week and then hear much improvements to >>>> their works. :-D >>>> >>>> That said, I suspect Lynch built up walls around himself for the same >>>> reason after having heard accolades from colleagues about other gurus. >>>> >>> I suspect with Lynch his inner, subjective world is just the type of >>> weird inner world that creates quirky, catchy, out-of-the-ordinary >>> films which people like precisely because of that quirkiness. At the >>> same time, his inner life is so odd, it disconnects him from others. >>> TM was something he found that would let him connect to others and >>> still share a part of his inner life. >>> >> A Seattle artist friend also attended the Philadelphia Art Institute and >> my impression is that school really brought out the individuality of the >> artist more so than maybe other schools. I've also heard the story from >> a friend of Lynch's that was attending that school with him and it was >> just a case of him taking in a TM lecture at the time which lots of >> people were doing. He stayed with it while others may have dropped it >> or changed paths later on. >> > > > I think Dr. Pete "nailed it" on another list when he described Mr. Lynch as > "Mr. Asperger's". > > While not meant to disparaging, it does seem factually correct and apropos. > Of course the upside is that someone, anyone, can leverage their > circumstances towards something of benefit to others. Perhaps some shanti > mantra is what helped him? That's still a bad excuse for being unable to > discriminate between a toxic org (e.g. the TMO) and one which is generally > beneficial to humans. > > I'm still taken aback by Eraserhead, the most karmically leaden movie in > history. I literally had to stop watching it at night, and only finished it > at high noon the following day. It truly embodies another realm. >
I think I may have Eraserhead on Laserdisc somewhere. Generally creative folks are right brained. Left brained folks are more rule based and not very creative. Sometimes creative folks get so right brained they never finish anything so need to ground out a bit to finish something. Balance is the key. I suspect most right brained folks would appear crazy to the left brained analytical types. Left brained analytical types appear rigid and almost psychopathic to the right brained folks. My question the other day was a loaded one. Willy didn't know how to answer my retort when he asked why my hand wasn't up and I asked "for the same reason yours isn't up?" According to a friend to is a psych prof you may not want to be considered "sane" because in many academic circles "sane" means the "norm." I don't know about you but I sure don't want to be the "norm." Back in the 1970s Maslow's "Self-actualized man" was considered the definition of "sane" but that meant that the majority of the public was insane (probably true too). I sure recall news articles back then claiming the majority of the public was not sane. That's probably why they made the "norm" the new definition. Now I should ask how many here have had "psychotic breaks" or what used to be called "nervous breakdowns" and there is even a newer more PC term for it too which I don't recall. Those that have had them may look at those who "believe" they are sane as fools because unless you've had the experience you may not know what sanity really is. ------------------------------------ To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
