Celebrated Film Director David Lynch at Yale on September 30 to Speak on "Consciousness, Creativity, and the Brain" To Launch New Foundation to Help Students Overcome Stress through Transcendental Meditation
Award-winning director David Lynch (Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive) will speak at Yale on "Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain" on Friday, September 30, at 7:30 p.m. Lynch's talk will be held at the Battell Chapel (Elm and College streets). The talk is free and open to the public. Lynch, who is in the midst of directing his new film, Inland Empire, will speak and answer questions on his films. He will also launch the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace-a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing the benefits of stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation to students (www.davidlynchfoundation.org). Lynch's foundation recently partnered with other foundations in an unprecedented $1.2 million research grant to study the effects of meditation on brain functioning, academic performance, learning disorders, anxiety, depression, and substance abuse among students in nine schools and colleges. The celebrated yet reclusive film maker admits to his aversion to public speaking, but said he is coming to Yale to highlight the need for students to overcome the epidemic of stress that pervades colleges and schools. "Students experience fear, anxiety, depression-their life is not what it should be. I know from my own 30 years of experience that meditation can work. I am coming to Yale to tell students that my foundation is available to help them develop their consciousness, creativity, and brain through Transcendental Meditation," Lynch said. Lynch will be joined at the talk by quantum physicist Dr. John Hagelin, who was recently featured in the hit documentary "What the Bleep Do We Know?" and neuroscientist Dr. Fred Travis, director of the Center for Brain, Consciousness and Cognition at Maharishi University of Management. Lynch's talk is sponsored by the Yale Film Studies Program, Cinema at the Whitney, The Yale Film Society, and the University Chaplain's Office. For more information, please call 203-436-4668. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
