David Lynch to make film about The Beatles’ meditation guru
Based on the last year alone, we know that David Lynch likes to involve himself in a rather creative projects. So, with that in mind, the following news should come as little of a surprise:
As NME reports, Lynch has announced that his next project will be a film about The Beatles’ meditation guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The India native gained worldwide fame in the 1950s for his Transcendental Meditation technique and work with numerous high-profile. He died just last year in at the age of 90.
“It won’t be a so-called David Lynch film, really; it will be about Maharishi and the knowledge he brought out,” Lynch explained to Nymag.com. “It’ll hold a lot of abstractions. We’re on our way to India in December to start the India part of it.”
Lynch went on to add that the film will likely come in the documentary form.
“I don’t think it’ll be a talking heads kind of thing, but we’re going to do a lot of interviews with people. We’ll interview — I hope — in India, a 97-year-old man who was with Maharishi from the beginning and get stories of times that weren’t so well recorded.”
Hopefully this one actually does see the light of day.
Lynch might want to find a copy of “The Cynical Idealist: A Spiritual Biography of John Lennon,” which was just published by Quest Books.
Author and artist Gary Tillery credits Lennon with significant contributions to spiritual movements such as meditation, men’s liberation, creative visualization, and the peace and nonviolence movements.
There’s an excerpt from the book at Amazon that ponders, “What would John Lennon do?” in response to current events.
Lynch actually practices TM (not Tranny Medication) himself, so that might be the source of his interest in MM Yogi. On the set of Blue Velvet, he attempted to shorten Laura Dern’s neck with his mindbeams, but wound up only lengthening her already prodigious proboscis. The Dern agent just upped her kleenex per diem to avoid controversy. She later had relations with that Sling Blade. Coincidence? Rama Rama Banana Rama Om