Conscious David Lynch

I just saw the movie Mulholland Drive. It was on in the middle of the night and I’d never seen it before. I’d remembered that there was either a good director or stars I liked in it, so I decided to watch. I missed the first 20 minutes and I did not know it was a David Lynch film, but another 20 minutes in to it, I figured that out.  I was going to Google it and see what I’d missed, but I wanted to stay in the mystery and enjoy the unfolding so I didn’t.  I did however, Google “David Lynch” “Mulholland Drive” just to see if I was right, and saw: “Written and directed by David Lynch. After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic…”  and I also saw “Along Mulholland Drive nothing is what it seems.”  I figured if it was a David Lynch film, those two lines gave me as much background as I needed.

When I first sat to watch, it seemed disjointed and particular scenes very over-acted. Until I figured out it was a Lynch film.  I enjoy his work because everything is massively symbolic.  David Lynch is a well known practitioner of Transcendental Meditation, and I am always interested in what creative ideas come forth from artists who meditate.

The first scene that I really knew it might all be a dream sequence was where Betty had an audition for a part and there is an entire crew there, encouraging her, making sure she is comfortable, can I get you coffee?  LOL  Anyone with a SAG card knows yes, that is exactly how all the auditions go 🙂

I had just written yesterday’s blog post Programming Your Inner Dialogue To Propel You Forward when I turned the movie on, so I pretty quickly picked up that the plot was likely in the same vibe.  I quickly realized that if what I was seeing was actually someone’s dialogue that they had scripted for themselves, then each character would have multiple roles.  So I threw out any idea of who I thought the characters were as so far presented, and just thought, “what might someone cast this person and this part to typify and why?”  It fell into place from there.

I mean, it was weird and bizarre and a lot of the symbolism I am sure I missed, but – as with anything – if I accept the premise, the logic follows.  One of the things I most like about David Lynch is that he gets it – and his movies portray this – that the people and events that come into our lives are on some level of our own making.  It is all – ALL of it – on a very deep level – a projection of our own consciousness.  There is no evidence anywhere to the contrary.

I think of the goofy characters Lynch employs, dumb hit men who can’t get it right, the pool boy saying to the husband who just found him in bed with the wife: “Just pretend it’s a dream.  It’ll feel better that way.”  All just fumbling around, half sleepwalking and I think that’s – on some level – simply an exaggerated caricature of so many people we all know.  And I recognize that for those I recognize, I know I have a hand in it somehow, so I need to look at myself as well.  I need to look deeper and see what is being mirrored back to me.

And that’s what the practice of meditation is all about as well.  We spend part of the time, as we sit to meditate, in releasing thoughts and focusing on our breathing, to relax ourselves into releasing even more thought.  After we’ve done that for some time, we can bring to mind the events of the day to contemplate what deeper meaning they might hold for us.  To contemplate what our projections are telling us.

Here is a review and another review of the movie and here is a really good Plot Explanation *Spoiler Alert*

Here’s more on David Lynch. He’s far more than merely a script writer and director. David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace provides funds for students to learn Transcendental Meditation.  The Foundation also provides funds for independent research institutions to assess the effects of the program on creativity, intelligence, brain functioning.

A video:  David Lynch: Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain The inside story on transcending the brain, with David Lynch,  John Hagelin, Ph.D.,  and Fred Travis, Ph.D.

David Lynch message:  In today’s world of fear and uncertainty, every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience the field of silence—bliss—the enormous reservoir of energy and intelligence that is deep within all of us. This is the way to save the coming generation.

I could not agree more.

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