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> Lynch speaks on mind matters
> David Lynch visited campus to raise money and spread awareness about
> meditation
> By Emily Smith
> News Reporter
> November 09, 2005
> David Lynch, the director of dark films that often leave audiences in a
> disconcerted state, has found inner peace through transcendental meditation
> for 32
>
> years.
> This is why he has started a foundation that raises money to provide college
> students with scholarships that will help pay the costs of learning
> transcendental meditation and why he came to speak to University students
> Tuesday
> night
> in Columbia Hall.
> The talk in Columbia 150 was not only sold out, but had a large audience
> overflow in the EMU Ballroom, where people watched a live broadcast of the
> talk.
> People at Oregon State University and Western Oregon University also saw the
> broadcast.
> The concept that two audio speakers, when close together, produce four times
> the sound of one, is the same concept that when applied to groups of people
> practicing transcendental meditation will usher in world peace, Lynch
> believes.
> Lynch did not prepare a speech, but asked audience members to get things
> rolling by asking questions.
> When asked if he would consider re-releasing some of his films with a director
> âs commentary, the answer was âno.â?
> âYou work so hard to get a film a certain way. ... It should stand
> alone,â?
> Lynch said.
> Other audience members asked for some clarification on the meanings and
> messages of his films, but he did not give answers to the questions they
> asked.
> One spectator brought up the cost of learning transcendental meditation â
> classes cost about $2,500 â and asked Lynch why he wasnât trying to do
> something
> to lower the price. Lynch said that if someone wants it bad enough, they will
> find the money to pay for it, and the high price is why he is raising money
> for meditation scholarships.
> Lynch said it makes sense to start the spread of peaceful consciousness in
> Washington, D.C., where 500 students are about to embark on transcendental
> meditation classes available through scholarships provided by the David Lynch
> Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace.
> Lynch was joined by quantum physicist and president of his new foundation Dr.
> John Hagelin, who was recently featured in the film âWhat the Bleep Do We
> Know?â?
> Hagelin explained how the coherence of electrical activity in the brain
> directly affects memory, emotional maturity, creativity and IQ levels and how
> transcendental meditation helps to build patterns of that activity.
> âEverything good about the brain relies on electrical synchronicity,â? he
> said.
> He said that when a personâs brain doesnât operate in this fashion, the
> person is living in bondage, a bondage that has that person completely bound
> to
> the object or problem in front of them. Whether they like the object of their
> attention or dislike it, that bondage controls the personâs entire reality
> at
> that moment.
> Neuroscientist Dr. Fred Travis, director of the Center for the Brain,
> Conscioussness and Cognition at the Maharishi University of Management, in
> Fairfield,
> Iowa, showed what happens to the brain during transcendental meditation by
> measuring the brain waves of a student on the overhead as the student
> meditated
> in front of the audience.
> People watched as his brain waves went from being erratic and unsynchronized
> to more even and synchronized in a matter of seconds.
> Travis said that the frontal executive system, the âCEO of the brain,â? is
> extremely important in decision making. He showed a scan of a violent
> criminalâs
>
> brain and the frontal lobe was inactive. He said that when a person, like a
> college student, is under constant stress, they arenât using their frontal
> executive systems. He said transcendental meditation strengthens this part of
> the
> brain.
> Travis said the way a person uses his or her brain today affects the brain
> they will have tomorrow. He left students with an image from the âWizard of
> Oz,â?
> in which the Scarecrow is being handed a piece of paper by the wizard after
> enduring a perilous quest for a brain.
> He told students, âDonât be content with just getting a piece of paper
> from
> college.â?
>
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