Filmmaker David Lynch — whose interest in transcendental meditation is well chronicled, and the subject of a documentary film he’s working up — talks about his experience with the technique in a first-person piece penned for The Guardian, writing, “I sat down, closed my eyes, started this mantra, and it was like I was
in an elevator and they cut the cable. Boom! I fell into bliss, pure
bliss. And I was just in there. …It takes you to an ocean of pure consciousness, pure knowingness. But
it’s familiar, it’s you. And, right away, a sense of happiness emerges — not a goofball happiness but a thick beauty.” That was 1973, and he hasn’t missed a meditation in 34 years, says Lynch, which in its own way is easy to believe, given his love of rituals. For the full read, click here.