#20 Remembering David Lynch

This time in english and without drawings, because it came like this.

Last November I found this book in the bookshelf of Guru Vigneshwar, while I was in India for a Yoga retreat. I’ve always been fascinated from the meditative side of David Lynch but I never considered reading it.

So I took it and I read it in a couple of days and I found it very deep and very funny - exactly how Lynch was.

I always thought that meditation was a tool to calm the mind and going away from the world - to go nowhere, or at least not in a place you can create something.

But Lynch taught us that with meditation you’re not going nowhere - you’re digging deeper.

In meditation you can find other worlds - you don’t create them - you find them.

And then they are yours forever.

It’s not always an “happy place” with bright skies and green soft grass.

It can be very dark. It can be very scary.

But it’s a world where the magic happens.

In front of the atrocities of this late capitalism stage, with all this racism and fascism taking place, we tend to forget these worlds.

Now that he passed away I feel that I forgot about these worlds for many years.
But it’s so important to not forget these worlds. We should dive into them as much as we can.

Read this book. It’s free on Internet Archive and it contains so many anecdotes and they are so funny and deep, exactly how Lynch was. Here’s some takes about painting (he was a painter before he became a director).

If you want to cry a bit more, here’s not one not two but three radio shows dedicated to him. If you’re not still crying, you can read the beautiful elegy Kyle Maclachlan wrote for David Lynch.

If you want to talk about Lynch/related topics my dms are always open.

I’ll get back with my work updates etc. in February.

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