Originally published July 31 2005
Filmmaker starts foundation to raise money for meditation training
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Oscar-nominated filmmaker David Lynch plans to launch the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-based Education and World Peace; a foundation he says aims to raise $7 billion to promote the teaching of meditation in schools and across the world as a way to promote peace and ease global tensions.
United States film director David Lynch said on Wednesday he is seeking to raise $7-billion to fund a giant programme of transcendental meditation which he says will foster world peace.
The Oscar-nominated movie-maker famed for dark and disturbing films including Blue Velvet, Eraserhead and Twin Peaks on Thursday will launch the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-based Education and World Peace.
The foundation's goal is to raise money to allow meditation to be taught in schools and eventually spread across the world by practitioners, easing global stress and tensions and promoting harmony, he said in an interview.
"I want to raise seven billion dollars," he said of the launch of the foundation that aims to propagate what Lynch says is a proven method of improving health, banishing stress and tension and reducing violence.
"People laugh about that, they have a really good time with it.
But the real joke is that we don't laugh when the US government develops a bomb for two billion dollars that only serves to kill people.
"They spend billions of dollars on military projects and people don't bat an eyelid.
The teachings that Lynch, a Hollywood outsider and free-thinker who also paints and plays the guitar, bases his beliefs on are those of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who became a guru to celebrities including the Beatles.
The Netherlands-based Maharishi, who became controversial in the 1960s and 70s, developed transcendental meditation 50 years ago to develop the "full creative potential" of a person and to "promote a peaceful world".
With a corps of 8 000 people dedicated to meditating and pumping out positive waves, peace will gradually settle on earth, Lynch explained, citing the quantum physics theory of a "unified field" as the basis of the argument.
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