(wind howling) - This is a donut. It is very sweet and very good. But if you've never tasted a donut, you wouldn't really know how sweet and how good a doughnut is, if you've never had that experience. Transcendental Meditation is like that. Transcendental Meditation gives
an experience much sweeter than the sweetness of this donut. It gives the experience of
the sweetest nectar of life, pure bliss consciousness. As Maharishi says, "Those who
don't know, they don't know. Those who know, they enjoy." I hope this following documentary
gives you some good news about the sweetness of life. (woman and man speaking foreign language) - [Interviewer] So David,
the Maharishi teaching in your life- - Are we rolling? - We are rolling.
- Oh, okay. Okay. - [Interviewer] The Maharishi
teaching in your life, how did it all start? Can you tell us the story? - Yes. (relaxed upbeat music) (crowd cheering) (relaxed upbeat music) (plane engine roaring) (crowd cheering) (relaxed upbeat music) (audience applauding) (relaxed upbeat music) - And if you just kind, just to, sign and draw a picture of yourself. - Oh, I gotta draw a picture of myself? - No, you don't have to do it. He's gonna follow you up there. So, just let's do that. Fabulous. - Is this gonna um- - You like a felt tip?
- Would you like a felt tip? - [David] Yeah. (crowd cheering) - [Man In Audience] I am
interested in hearing your opinion about the presentation of woman
and motherhood in your film. Can you explain? - No. (audience laughing) I don't think about women and motherhood. I get these ideas, and maybe later I say, "Oh, there's a woman here.
And this woman is a mother." The idea comes first. It's not like you set, I
don't set out on a theme. I don't set out to show something. I'm surprised as anybody,
when the idea pops in. - When you settle down
your mind and transcend, where goes emotions? What happens to emotions? And are they beneficial in this life? - Yeah, when you transcend,
you go beyond thought. You just experience pure consciousness. It's like silence, but lively silence. It's like, dynamic. And when you come out of there, the dive in is like that,
but when you come out, the splash of that diving in is bliss. (exhales deeply) Bliss. Bliss is also intelligence. Bliss is love. Bliss is energy, because it's one thing, but you feel it as intense happiness. And in the mind you can sing with bliss. So it's two things. It's emotion and intellect. You know, it's just sort
of singing in bliss. And, all these emotions
that are positive in life just get more intense. But negative emotions,
like sorrow, for instance, everybody knows some
people that are just sad, and they hold on to sorrow. Let 'em start diving within and experience the big
ocean of bliss, happiness, and that sorrow will lift away. - Could you just describe
in whichever way you like, your creative process? - Yeah. (audience laughing) - Ideas. We're nothing without an idea. So, I say that a desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook, and you're desiring an idea, and you have to have patience
just like you do in fishing. How deep that hook goes depends on the size of
that ball of consciousness. And desire, another word
for it is like focus, just focus on some... And it's a little bit like daydreaming, thoughts come and thoughts
come and thoughts come. And maybe, boom, an idea
comes that is so thrilling. You've caught a little
purple fish with red fins and little dancing, speckled eyes. And this little fish
could be just a fragment of the final film, but
you love this fragment. You love this fish. And that idea, you write it
down so you won't forget it. Then, now that you have that
fish, even more powerful bait, and soon others will
swim in and join to it. And a thing will start
emerging called a script. And it goes like that,
for me anyway, fragments. But it's all ideas coming, ideas that we, that I fall in love with. And I'm gonna fall in
love with different ideas than you will, but there's billions, trillions of ideas coming,
ideas for everything. So, that's how it goes. Then you get the ideas
organized in a script, and then you translate
those ideas to cinema. And along the way you stay open, because the thing isn't
finished till it's finished. There can be happy accidents. You say, "How did I get so
lucky to get this thing? I thought this was complete." But this is beyond the
beyond fitting in here, and jumping it. Stay on your toes, and don't
walk away from any element until it feels correct, because it's built out of
many, many, many elements. Stay true to the idea all along the road, and then you have some
hope of the whole working. (audience applauding)
- Thank you very much. - Thank you. - [Man In Audience] What
is your feeling between the awake dreams and the sleeping dreams? - The one that's awake, you're awake. And the ones you're
sleeping, you're sleeping. (audience laughing)
(audience applauding) - So, yesterday you said in our news that you want to create
Invincible University here. - Mm-hmm. - What does that mean, actually? - I'll tell ya. Invincible, in this case, has
nothing to do with military. Zero. It's invincible. Another word
you could say, dynamic peace. A kind of a peace that
means no harm can come from within Estonia, and
nothing bad, nothing negative, can come from without to harm Estonia. - Oh, okay. - Yes. Now, will you help support
this university for Estonia? - Yeah, I think. - Put her there. That would be so beautiful. - Okay. Thank you.
- Fantastic. - Thank you.
- We'll do it. (reporter laughs) (gentle music) Okay. This here, represents the surface of life. Surface. And we see
surfaces, you know, surfaces. And about 300 years ago,
scientists, they started wondering, what was this wood, and what was this metal,
and what was it really? So they start looking into
matter. So this side is matter. And this side is mind. Mind and matter. And the scientists, well,
they discovered molecules. Deeper they went, and they
discovered these atoms. And like I say, they thought that was the
smallest particle for a long time. All these things we
learned about in school. They went deeper, and they
find inside the atoms, these little electrons,
and neutrons and protons. And they went deeper
and deeper and deeper. Smaller and smaller particles. Smaller and smaller particles. They found four forces. On a deeper level, the four became three. And on a deeper level,
the three became two. And then about 30 years
ago, modern science, quantum physics, discovered
the unified field. The unity of all the
particles and all the forces of matter, of creation. Not only did they discover
the unified field, but they found that
everything that is a thing emerges from this field of no thing. Unmanifest, it is. Unmanifest. It is no hyphen thing, but
all things come from it. Anything that is a thing has emerged from this field of unity. It's oneness. The scientists know this exists, but if they wanted to get there, you can't get there, it's unmanifest. You can't walk into this field. But any one of those scientists
could practice a technique, Transcendental Meditation, which, remember true
happiness is not out there. You're given a mantra, a mantra, a very specific sound vibration thought. Very specific. It needs to be life supporting
at all deeper levels. And that mantra that you're
given, that Maharishi gives, the key that opens the door. The mantra turns the mind within, turns the awareness within,
and you naturally dive. Why is it natural? Because each deeper level of mind, and each deeper level of
intellect, has more happiness. And the deeper levels of mind
and deeper levels of intellect correspond to deeper levels of matter. At the borderline of
intellect, you transcend. Transcend is the key word. It means to go beyond. You're going beyond field
of relativity, duality, experiencing oneness. Pure, unbounded, infinite consciousness. (relaxed meditative music) Yes. - I'm sorry to everybody because
this is somewhat personal or eccentric, but, I love you movies, and they somewhat brought me to study psychology and scriptwriting, and I would very much
like to work with you, and no matter which way. (audience chuckles) And, I think I understand
what you're doing and what you're thinking,
and I would be very happy- - Well thank you very much. Listen, young lady, I'd
like many, many women would love to work with me. (audience laughing) (audience applauding) (man in audience speaking off mic) - That's a very great
question, very great question. The analogy for that
is, they say negativity is just like darkness. And so you look at darkness and you say, "Wait a minute, darkness
isn't really anything. It's the absence of something." So it doesn't matter how
dark the night has been. When the sun comes up,
automatically, without trying, the sunlight removes the darkness. Sunlight doesn't remove negativity, but this light of unity
removes negativity, just like sunlight removes darkness. Negativity is just the absence
of that all-powerful bliss and all-powerful love,
all-powerful energy, dynamic peace, harmony, coherence. You enliven that, and
negativity lifts away. It can't live in that light. - [Man In Audience] Will we
ever get to meet Ronnie Rocket? - "Ronnie Rocket" is a script
I wrote after "Eraserhead." I really, really tried
to get that thing going. You know, "Eraserhead" was
not setting the world on fire in terms of money. So, but I did get one
meeting from a studio. A guy invited me in and after he saw, or, he didn't see "Eraserhead,"
he heard about it. And he invited me into
his office and he said, "What else you got?" And I
said, "What do you mean?" He said, "You got anything you wanna do?" And I said, "Yeah, I wanna make this film called Ronnie Rocket." He said, "What's it about?" I said, "It's about a three
foot tall man with, you know, a red pompadour, fake red pompadour, that runs on alternating
current electricity." And he asked me to leave his office. (audience laughing) - Do you think everyone here is an artist? - Everyone is an artist in their own way. I say, you know, if you
were a toilet cleaner, if you're a toilet
cleaner, cleaning latrines, that could be a horrible
job, drudgery, a nightmare. But you start, boo, building
up this inner happiness, creativity, intelligence, and
you're suddenly going to work in the most worst conditions, and you start seeing it differently. And you start gettin' into cleaning. And maybe you get your boss
to get some disinfects, or maybe you invent a new
brush or a new vacuum. And pretty soon you're kind
of enthusiastic about it. And you're cleaning toilets
faster, and more shiny they are. And it's really going good, and you're finding happiness in your work. And your boss takes notice. The boss takes notice and comes to you and gives you a raise. And not only that, he
invites you home to dinner. It goes like that.
Everyone has creativity. You can just get more
and more and more of it. Everyone knows about catching ideas. You can just catch more. And everyone knows about stress. Everyone can see that stress lifting. Everyone knows of some kind of suffering, and they can see that
suffering start to go, or it become less and less and less. - [Woman In Audience]
I would like to ask you about your failures. - About failures?
- Yeah. - Failures are so incredible. (audience chuckles) A failure is a big, big
sadness and a horror, but, there's nowhere to go but up. So, it's a freedom as
a result of a failure. A huge, euphoric freedom. There's no way you can lose
more. You just can gain. A success is so beautiful, but then, oh my goodness, what if I fall? The next thing better
be very, very special or the whole thing's gonna crumble. You get tense. You start worrying. A success can be a nightmare. Both things have the good and the bad. - [Man In Audience] What
is, in your opinion, the role of the artist or
filmmaker in this world? - In my mind, have the great privilege and euphoria of translating ideas. And, you know, ideas
that can create a world that people can go into
and have an experience. You know, here's a theater
and you're going along in your world and you
stop in, and you sit, and this screen is giant
and the sound is good. But the lights are on now
and people are still seating. And then suddenly the lights
dim and the curtain opens. And, the thing begins, and
we can go into another world, and only exist there because of that film. It's a magical, beautiful thing. Take people into another world
and give them experiences. Take yourself into that other world and give yourself an experience. It's a magical medium. That's the role, make new worlds. - [Man In Audience]
Will you kindly reveal, how did you create the baby
pictured in "Eraserhead?" - You must know, I never
talk about the baby. (audience laughing) This consciousness has qualities. Infinite creativity. Intelligence. Energy. Love. Power. And bliss. Dynamic peace. Always been there. Never had a beginning. It is, and it will be forever. Unbounded, infinite,
eternal, immutable, immortal. Consciousness, fullness. Any human being can experience
this easily and effortlessly with Transcendental Meditation. Transcendental Meditation is
just a vehicle to get you here. When you experience this level, you enliven it, and it
grows in the individual. So if you started with a ball
of consciousness this big, everyone has consciousness. Consciousness is, the way
to understand consciousness, if you took it away, you'd
see what it really is. If there wasn't any
consciousness we wouldn't exist. And if we did exist, we wouldn't know it. It's the I am-ness of
life. It is life itself. (tires squealing) (deep adventurous music) - [Interviewer] Can you
tell the Finnish TV audience why you are visiting here? - I'm visiting here to establish Invincible Finland University, and I'm also here to talk about films born through creativity,
meditation, and peace. - What do the works of
Franz Kafka mean to you? - Franz Kafka?
- Yes. - I love Franz Kafka's
"The Metamorphosis." That piece of writing
does something to me. And I love the character, Gregor Samsa. I love what he seemed to be going through. I love that kind of humor and absurdity, and yet big truths swimming through it, and the way the story is told. I love it. It thrills me. (audience chuckling) (audience applauding)
Thank you. - Do you have a repeating dream, or have you ever had a repeating dream? - Yes, I did have a repeating dream. (audience applauding) (woman speaking indistinctly) Pardon? - [Woman In Audience] Would
you like to tell us about it? - You have to come close to me. Okay, now you stand, you know, right, right about, right there. Okay, I had this repeating dream. And, I'm in the desert, and the desert is
completely empty and flat. And way in the distance, I see my father start walking toward me, and there's the heat waves. And I know that I have a
good father and a bad father. And I don't know which one this is. And he's walking closer
and closer and closer, and all of a sudden, whoa! (woman gasps)
(audience laughing) (audience applauding)
(woman laughing) - Thanks. (laughing) - And, that was my good father. (audience laughing) (audience applauding)
Thank you. (speaking foreign language) (audience chuckles) This is a very beautiful
important question. And this is part of the myth, I think. Van Gogh did suffer, he suffered a lot. But I think, he didn't
suffer while he was painting. He went out to paint
because he loved to paint, and it might have been
one of the happiest, only happy times, in his
life when he was painting. It was so thrilling
for him to be painting, but he didn't need to be suffering to do those great paintings. And I know van Gogh
would have been happier if he'd been able to
transcend, dive within. And I know his work would
have been as good, better, or even better than good. It stands to reason, the more you suffer, the less you wanna create. If you're truly depressed,
let's say you can't even get outta bed, let alone create. If you're truly angry,
occupies the whole brain. Poisons the artist,
poisons the environment, little room for creativity. And I use this example. If you have a splitting
headache, splitting headache, and you have nausea, you're vomiting, and you have diarrhea on top of that, how much work are you gonna be doing? And how much are you going to enjoy it? Give the person a technique
to lift that sickness, lift that negativity, and enjoy life. (audience applauding) (deep rhythmic music) Tied to consciousness is all this. Creativity, intelligence, energy, love, power, bliss, dynamic peace. All positive, light of
unity, all positive. You experience this
level and you enliven it, and this ball of
consciousness that you thought was just gonna stay the same
for the rest of your life, starts expanding, and
these qualities expand. So, day by day, you're growing creativity, intelligence, love, energy. And, this ball of
consciousness is now expanding and you're owning
unconscious, or subconscious, more and more and more. Side effect of the growth
of this consciousness is negativity starts to recede. Tension. I'm gonna write all these things. Stress. Anxiety. Sorrow. Depression. Anger. Hate. Fear. All starts to go. Can't live in the light of this. In schools, when they're stressed anxiety, horror stories, depression. So many people on pharmaceutical drugs. Suicides, shootings, stabbings. You give a student this
technique, it's easy to do. It's not concentration. It's not contemplation. Concentration, contemplation
keep you right on the surface. You're not transcending. It's this field that does
everything for the human being, this field. And, you experience this field
when you really get there and transcend, this is
transcendental consciousness. It's, you know, there's so
many names for this field. The Tao, kingdom of heaven, all these names for this one
field. The absolute, totality. In Vedic language, this
field is called Atma. A-T-M-A, means, the
Self, with a capital S. Know thyself. Get there, know it by being it. Unfold it. And what you're doing is
unfolding your full potential as a human being. Your full potential of
the beautiful human being is called enlightenment. And people can unfold their enlightenment. (gentle music) (man in audience speaks indistinctly) Yes? - I heard what you told
us about meditation, I believe all of it. And I have a question. What do you think, can
religion be fully a substitute of meditation with all
the effects you told us? - Can religion be the
same thing as meditation? Is that what you're saying? - Yeah, and all the same- - [David] A substitute? - To have the same effects,
not from the meditation, but from religion, can it be possible? - That's a tricky question. I think all the great religions, all the great religions
had in the beginning, keys to unfold, you know, enlightenment, to unfold a spiritual
enlightenment, God realization. I think in time, things drift, and in time keys get lost. It's totally possible to find
something in the scriptures, these truths. So many scriptures are written in codes, and it's hard to find the thing. It's real hard to find the thing that opens that door to the transcendent. Prayer, they say prayer,
prayer on the surface of life is like sending a letter
with no stamp and no address. The deeper you can pray,
the more power it has. And the deepness of a prayer depends on that ball of consciousness. If you have a ball of consciousness here, you can pray this deep. If you open that up, you can
pray, or desire, this deep. You open it up more, you
can pray at a deeper level. And they say on the
deepest level, your prayer will be answered before you
even get it out of your mouth. It goes, it's a tricky thing, but all the great religions,
I think have as their goal, God realization, God realization, total spiritual fulfillment,
liberation, salvation. And I think all the great
religions flow to the one ocean, and that one ocean is totality. Totality is consciousness. There is nothing else but consciousness, and that consciousness you could say is the light of God, is divine being. All of creation, they say, comes from this ocean of consciousness. Unbounded, infinite, eternal, immortal, immutable consciousness. How does something come out
of unmanifest consciousness? Quantum physics says it
comes out in a process called spontaneous sequential symmetry breaking, whatever that means. But there's Vedic, you know, science, science of consciousness, many, many, many, many,
many, many, many steps. How unmanifest pure
consciousness manifests everything that is a thing. And any human being with this technique can open the door to
that unbounded, infinite, divine being, light of God, pure consciousness, creative intelligence, the absolute, totality,
self, and expand that. So there's no problem with any religions, people from all religions
practice this technique. And because understanding grows, they understand their religion more. And because appreciation grows, they appreciate their religion more. And another thing, when
that ball of consciousness gets bigger and bigger and bigger, they say that if like, if
you're reading the Bible, the code, under incandescent light, looks just like a code. But under more and more
of that light of unity, that spiritual light, boom,
the meaning leaps off the page. Strange thing, you're unfolding
infinite intelligence, infinite understanding, the
whole thing comes clear one day. - Thank you.
- Thank you. - I know that you don't
like to go on, you know, analyzing your movies,
and you want to hear what has been said,
leave that to the viewer to take from it what they want. - Right. - Is that in any way influential
to something which I see as being quite central to
both "Mulholland Drive" and "Inland Empire,"
which is the statement, actions have consequences? - Sure. But I, it's not a message thing in there, but there are, when you make an action, there's consequences,
everybody knows that. And so they say, "What you
sow, is what you reap." If you plant wheat, you may
wish corn was coming up, but wheat is gonna come up. The question is, when is it gonna come up? And that's the thing, like
with OJ Simpson, you know, OJ Simpson walked out free. Everybody knows he did that thing. (audience laughing) He said he was going- - Keep that quiet. - Yeah, we're here to keep it quiet. (audience laughing) So, when is it gonna
come back and bite him? Any everybody says, "Well,
it must not be what you sow is when you reap, OJ Simpson walked out." But, it will come back and bite him. - How would that make a difference
between real experiences and imaginary ones in meditation? - Ah, that's a good question. It's like you could sit,
like the thirsty man. You can sit with your empty
glass and imagine water, and it will not quench your thirst. You can sit and wish for water, but it won't fill that glass up. But if you dip that glass in
the cool water of the well and bring it up and drink it,
it will quench your thirst. There's no denying this
experience of transcending. - [Interviewer] And then
you are not angry anymore? - I told you that anger
lifted away, without trying. Poison to the artist,
poison to the environment, poison to the human being,
lifts away without trying. But it's not that you
become numb and sleepy and don't wanna work. You get more energy, more enjoyment of the doing. And negativity lifting means that conduit of the flow of ideas,
the flow of creativity, it's not cramped by that. Negativity restricts that flow. So, you know, and you can
still have a righteous anger, being very strongly for something or against something, beautiful. But the kind of anger that is just bitter, just like selfish kind of anger, no one wants to be around
this kind of person, and the person's poisoning himself. The person can't work so good. That's mind control. Negativity
is really mind control. Depression controls the
mind now, can't work. Anger controls the mind, you can't work. Sorrow, some people hold sorrow for years. And you want to visit
them and cheer them up, but it doesn't do anything. You get 'em the chance to
transcend and watch what happens. Sorrow'll lift away.
They'll be back on the road. (gentle music) My dreams do not influence my movies. But I love, as I say, dream logic. Dream logic is so beautiful. I like daydreaming. And I love what cinema
can do with abstractions. Dreams are very abstract,
and this dream logic is something that cinema can say. Cinema being sound and picture
flowing together in time. Such a beautiful language,
can say concrete things, and it can say many, many
beautiful abstractions that can only be said through cinema. Things that conjure a thing and a person that is only conjured from
this beautiful language. - How did monkeys become humans? - How did the monkeys become human? - Yeah. - This is what I've heard, they graduate. (audience laughing) (audience applauding) - [Man In Audience] What would you say the meaning of life is? - The meaning of life, so cool. (audience chuckling) The meaning of life is totality. Everything, more than the most, smaller than the smallest, larger than the largest, totality. The human being is an exquisite being, and we have a potential. And that potential is called
enlightenment, fulfillment, total fulfillment, liberation, salvation, and it's huge, supreme enlightenment. That's the meaning of life, the meaning. Know it by being it. - My name's Damian. I'm a film student. Today was my first day. - Fantastic, best of luck to you. - [Damian] Yeah, that's why
I want, maybe you can give me a good tip or advice, to
someone just starting. - Yeah, I'll tell you what-
(Damian speaks over David) I'll tell you this real good advice. Be true to yourself. Have
your own voice ring out. Other things can inspire
you, but find your own voice. Be true to that voice. Don't
let anybody fiddle with it. Never turn down a good idea,
but never take a bad idea. And be true to the ideas, all
the way along, every element. And then start your
Transcendental Meditation. (audience laughing)
(audience applauding) (light pulsating music) - I've just read the little leaflet that has been given around, and it says that you've just returned from
a five-day visit to Israel. - [David] Right. - Well, I'm sorry, and I don't
wanna be a damper on things but I'm appalled. I mean, it's like, I mean, Israel, David, and this point in time,
how could you possibly, and what you have to say about, I mean, how can Palestinians possibly get anything from the meditation? And what did you do there? And what do you feel
about the situation there? To be a guest of the
apartheid state of Israel. (sparse applause) - I feel real good about it. (audience laughing) Had a great time in
Israel, went to Jerusalem, Haifa, and Televiv. Met about 3,500 film students. Met the president of
Israel, the mayor of Haifa, and a lot of really great people. Transcendental Meditation
is for human beings. Doesn't matter where you
live, it's for human beings. (audience applauding) - [Man In Audience] Hello, sir. While I was watching "Inland
Empire," at the beginning, I felt that I was struggling
to understand the movie. - Yeah, yeah, a common occurrence. (audience laughing) - And then I felt that it was because I was trying to make it understandable for my conscious part of the brain. And then I thought, well, I'll quit that, and I'll just let it through, into my unconscious part of the brain. And suddenly, it all made sense. It was like a passive
way of watching cinema, instead of an active, trying to understand with a rational-
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's beautiful, so beautiful. - [Man In Audience] What do
you have to say about that? - I, okay- - [Man In Audience] Are you making movies for the unconscious from now on? - No, if it's unconscious,
you don't know it. (audience laughing) And, so, you know that's
where meditation comes in because we're all on the surface of life, and we all have consciousness, but we don't all have the
same amount of consciousness. The potential for the human
being is infinite consciousness. Enlightenment. If you take this mental
technique, you get a mantra. Maharishi's mantra turns
the awareness within, and you naturally dive through
subtler levels of mind, intellect, and you reach
the border of intellect, and you transcend, and you
experience the unbounded, infinite, eternal ocean of consciousness. When you transcend,
boom, you're there, pooh. It's a field of infinite
happiness, bliss, they call it. Infinite intelligence,
infinite creativity, infinite love, infinite energy. You experience this, and
the experiencing of it enlivens it, you infuse it. And whatever ball of consciousness
you had at the beginning starts to expand. And all those positive
qualities start to expand. And when consciousness expands, you're literally making
the unconscious conscious. Now when thoughts come up, you can catch them at a deeper level. Expand the consciousness,
catch thoughts, ideas at a deeper level. Huge thing for the artist. Ocean of all knowingness, you infuse that. Intuition grows. What was happening to you,
I think, in the thing, is that you just started feel thinking. Not intellectualizing, but
feel the, intuiting a thing. So experience comes, you don't get, the intellect will take you only so far. You were intuiting. Now, for the artist, intuition
is the number one tool. If it was just intellectual,
you could get it in a book. But intuition is a thing. It's more than emotion, it's
more than just a gut thing. It's a kind of knowing, knowing when something isn't correct, knowing how to make it correct. Taking in information and
knowing, knowing somehow, knowing what it is, so beautiful. - You practice Transcendental Meditation. - Right. - And you're a proponent,
you know, you support that. Do you think that other
forms of meditation are just as valid as well, to anybody who's interested in meditation? That just meditating is in
itself, the most important thing, rather than what type of meditation it is? - I'd like to say they're all
the same, and any one is fine, but I don't believe that. The key to me is transcend. Transcend, experience the
deepest level of life. All forms of legitimate meditation have as their goal, enlightenment. Like they say, all roads lead to Rome, but some are dirt roads. Some are two lane highways,
some are stone roads. And there may be a superhighway to Rome. The thing is, it's not
Transcendental Meditation, it's this field that does everything. But Transcendental Meditation,
from the first meditation, will get you to this field. Now, there's brain research. And this is what's gonna
separate, you know, the different forms, because
you can hook yourself up to an EEG machine, start your practice, and see what it does to the brain. Because, the only experience in life that lights up the full
brain, is truly transcending. If you're meditating a
form of concentration, that part of the brain will
be lively and bright and fine, but no transcending. Maharishi gives entry to
the transcendent easily, effortlessly, it's not
a trying meditation. You will transcend your first meditation, and every one after that. It's a miracle. It's a blessing. (gentle music) - You started 34 years ago
to go deeper and deeper into that spiritual journey. But, it's lately only that
you decided to go public about it more and more. What was the ignition
point, or in your life, or in the world, that made
you want to talk about it? What happened? - This, this right here. Water the root, peace creating group. This one here, I don't know where my- - [Interviewer] Over there. - This is the individual here. And the same phenomenon
happens with a group. Lots and lots of people. Square
root of 1% of a population. So, like I said, for
France, 750 to a thousand, do the thing. A group, quadratically more powerful than the same number scattered about. And this is a thing, like my
friend, Dr. John Hagelin says, if you have two loudspeakers
and they're separated, you have one volume. You put the two next to each other, and you got the equivalent
of four loudspeakers. You put three, you've got suddenly nine. It's called constructive
interference. It's a real thing. A group. Close. Doing the program,
advanced techniques. (imitates exploding) Day by day. Just like when you wanna get
electricity to the people, you build a power plant,
generate that electricity, and they get it. And you want that power plant to stay. They got their computers
running, their TVs running, the whole kitchen's running. And, day by day by day,
you're generating electricity. Day by day by day, you're
generating dynamic peace. Beautiful thing. Human
being's like a light bulb. And, we enjoy that light
inside, but we also radiate it. We affect our environment. Everybody knows that. You go into a room where
there's been a bad argument. The arguments over, but
you can feel that thing. You go into a room filled
with felicite, bliss, and the power of that is
so beautiful to be in. And, this group radiates that. Side effect, negativity goes. Enmity in the enemy goes,
without trying, without trying. Unified field. That's our big, big, big friend. (slow haunting music) - Many people, especially here, connect this kind of movement,
or this kind of meditation, with the word sect. - This is the old way of thinking. I don't wanna belong to
any sect. I'm an artist. I don't wanna be part of any kind of sect. It's not a sect. It's a technique that
fuels all fantastic things. And, I don't want another religion. This isn't a religion. It's a technique that opens
the door to the transcendent, and it can be proven now that
it does open the door to that. All these misunderstandings, you know, nobody is getting rich. Huge amounts of money are
being spent to help humanity. Maharishi has two goals,
enlightenment of the individual, peace on earth. Unbelievable. Works 22 hours a day for 50
years now to make this happen. It's absurd to think about
it any other way, absurd. It's just lack of knowledge. - [Man In Audience] What are
your feelings about Quakerism? - Quakers are beautiful. (audience laughing) Mel Brooks once said, "Do you know David, what the difference between
a Quaker and a shaker is?" And I said, "No, Mel, I don't." He said, "Well, a Quaker will
come into a room like this. (audience chuckling) And a shaker will come
into the room like this." (audience laughing) My first wife went to a Quaker school, a Friends school in Philadelphia. Probably the only peaceful
place in Philadelphia. Yes. - [Man In Audience] David,
glad you're here. Thank you. - Thank you. - I just have one question. I think I understand the
point about transcendency. Just before, you were
talking about consciousness. - [David] Yes. - And that, without consciousness,
you were truly saying, there is no life. That is true, indeed. But on the other hand, you're
saying we have to transcend. And as you very well know, probably, transcendency is the
opposite of consciousness. - [David] No, no, no. When you transcend,
transcend means to go beyond. - Lose yourself. - So, okay, you're talking about words. Transcend, in the way
I'm talking about it, means to go beyond. You go beyond the thought to pure- - Beyond what?
- No thought consciousness. - Beyond what? - Beyond the field of
duality, experience oneness. Beyond thought, pure consciousness. Beyond the field of relative
to non-relative absolute. That's what you go beyond. - That's exactly beyond consciousness. - No, it's pure consciousness,
pure consciousness. And you get wet with that, infuse that, and grow that consciousness. - Now I got it. - [David] Okay. Bless your heart. - [Man In Audience] Hi, David. - How you doing? - [Man In Audience] Good. I just wondered, sort of a
general filmmaking question. What drives you to make a film? What makes you go from one particular idea and make a full feature film out of it? - You're goin' down the street, and girls are passing by,
pretty, nice-looking girls. It's not doing it though. You round a corner and boom, there she is. No question about it. And you are in love. This is the thing. That's what drives ya. (audience laughing) (audience applauding) - [Man In Audience] Thank you. - You bet. And this is all the thing tied to peace. It gets to the point
where you couldn't hurt another human being. It would be like hurting yourself. This is the way it is supposed to be. It's not the way it is, but
it would be so beautiful. But the key is there, this
feeling, it just grows. And it's real. It's a much more real
feeling than our world, which is pretty much an absurd joke. When, you know, somebody is
blowing children's heads off in the name of peace. It's a sadness. It's the old way. And now there is a new way,
a new way to real peace. Has nothing to do with killing. And so it'd reach a
point where you couldn't, you just wouldn't ever think
to hurt another human being. And you travel in real peace. You travel and you meet
friends, not enemies. The light of unity destroys
the enmity in an enemy, destroys negativity. There's no more enemy. (gentle music) ♪ How blessed the forest with birdsong ♪ ♪ How neat the cut peat laid so long ♪ ♪ I felt like a grain on your sand ♪ ♪ I felt like a seed on your land ♪ ♪ I felt like a tide left me here ♪ (audience cheering) - And I wanna say one more thing, 'cause it's a nice thing to think about. If you hear of a light bulb
that does not remove darkness, you have not heard of a light bulb. If you hear of a peace plan
that does not remove negativity, you have not heard of a real peace plan. This removes negativity. Real peace is not just the absence of war, it's the absence of the
seeds of war, negativity. You want real peace,
enliven this field of unity. There's an analogy. If the world is like a tree, we see that the tree is
not in the greatest shape. The leaves are turning yellow
and they're turning brown. The branches are drooping.
The tree is not healthy. Up till now, we've been trying,
we chase one leaf at a time, try to make it green. Surface cures, surface cures. As soon as maybe we get one leaf green, six more leaves behind
us are turning yellow. It's a never-ending horror story. They say the experienced gardener doesn't worry about the leaves. Get it from the source. Get it to the roots, the deepest level. Bring that nourishment
from the deepest level. Unified field, always been
there, infinite, eternal. Get it from there, bring it up. Automatically, the whole
tree comes up to perfection. It's a never-ending story
because a peace on the surface, it doesn't address the seeds of war. All that hate, all that anger, all that sorrow, despair, tension. It's a piece of paper. But underneath, you enliven that, the thing changes. The hate goes, the hate lifts. A man goes to bed filled with anger, wakes up and wonders where it went. This is a true phenomenon. The technologies exist to
enliven this deepest level, and watch what happens. (wind howling) This wind represents ancient and eternal. (wind howling) This ocean represents the
ocean within every human being. And this ocean is an
ocean of consciousness. And it is a big ocean. It is unbounded and infinite. And this ocean of consciousness
within has qualities. So it is an ocean of
infinite intelligence, creativity, happiness, known as bliss. Infinite, universal love,
energy, dynamic peace. When a human being, any human being, dives within
and experiences this ocean, swims in this ocean, life gets
better and better and better. This is the within that they've
always been talking about, throughout time. Ladies and gentlemen,
change truly begins within. (audience applauding) (wind howling) (gentle digital music) - Cappuccino time. - [David] Wow, it's here? - Yeah.
- Yeah. - Wow, that was fast. Thank Patrice. This is a beautiful moment, come on. (both chuckle) - Yeah, we brought three. - Oh my god, it's heaven. - No, it's hot. No cream, you said. - [David] Thanks a lot, Patrice. - [Patrice] You're welcome. (gentle digital music) - I hope you enjoyed this documentary. Thank you very much. And I wish you all the very, very best.
Meditation, Creativity, Peace (2012)
Documentary [1 h 11 min]
David Lynch
IMDb rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 7.0/10 (97 votes)
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