NP Twin Peaks Return, season 1

[Smoke Teff]

There is a wealth of material out there by and about Lynch regarding his
experience with Transcendental Meditation. He has a book of short essays
which is very good, called *Catching the Big Fish: Meditation,
Consciousness, and Creativity*.

There's also a doc (free on Youtube, ~70m) called *Meditation, Creativity,
Peace*. Maybe most relevant is a snippet of it that's a few minutes long in
which he constructs a kind of cosmological vision (complete with whiteboard
and pen), his notion of a 'field of unity.' It starts about 12:20 in the
Youtube vid. The rest of it I really like, largely clips of him on a
lecture tour, answering questions on the subject, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH4qD5Fzyjk

On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 9:37 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 9:36 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I  thinthink before vibration and then form there has to be a space for
>> that.  Space is the 1st stage for everything.  Before iHave been nothing.nn
>>  Before space, nothingness.
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 8:36 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think Lynch is a longtime Trans Med practioner, I think a tantric
>>> path.  The ancient roots of tantra is Kashmir Shaivism, which posits that
>>> the most basic element of the Universe is a vibration, not a form.
>>> Vibrations thicken, and become form.  Lynch's fascination with forms of
>>> energy, vibrations all, seems a part of this cosmos.
>>>
>>> Kashmir Shaivism is Hindu, and long predates Bhudism.  It's wave-v-ness
>>> seems a precursor to quantum physics.  It posits wave first.
>>>
>>> David Morrir
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 5:49 PM John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> After Eraserhead, Lynch spent years planning a film called Ronnie
>>>> Rocket of which he said: "It's an absurd mystery of the strange forces
>>>> of existence. It's about electricity... coal and oil and electricity."
>>>> He also described one of its characters as "60-cycle alternating
>>>> current electricity".
>>>> I think a lot of that must have bled into his other work. Someone in
>>>> The Return explicitly mentioned how fire and electricity are similar
>>>> forces in the TP cosmos and various spirits and characters have
>>>> physically travelled on electric currents. Plus there's the light
>>>> spectrum - blue and red have particular meanings in Lynch's work.
>>>> I feel the symbolism and choice of imagery in both Lynch and Pynchon's
>>>> stuff is more loose and instinctive, though. Both tease the reader who
>>>> wants to look for rigid codes that will 'decipher' the work.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 2:42 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Yes. Lynch's electricity in TP:TR not unlike TRP's electric light in
>>>> AtD.
>>>> >
>>>> > The [spoiler?] phantom miner types in TP:TR, for one thing. The
>>>> multiple
>>>> > overlapping, intersecting planes of being.
>>>> >
>>>> > Lynch is generally more overtly personal and less
>>>> systematic/historical than
>>>> > Pynchon, but I think the nature of the project brings out some
>>>> affinities.
>>>> > Lynch is bridging three decades in this quasi-real space--Twin Peaks
>>>> being
>>>> > more a Pynchonian kind of space than most of Lynch's other worlds, in
>>>> my
>>>> > opinion--where extrahuman forces effect a losing of something like
>>>> > innocence.
>>>> >
>>>> > On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Anybody else feel Twin Peaks: The Return bears certain parallels with
>>>> >> Against The Day?
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On Sunday, August 6, 2017, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> There's talk that it's the last TV/film thing he'll do (I imagine
>>>> >>> he'll keep painting).
>>>> >>> I'm struck by how self-reflexive the show is now. The movie Fire
>>>> Walk
>>>> >>> With Me opens with a TV screen being destroyed but this season has
>>>> so
>>>> >>> many moments that seem to be speaking directly to the expectations
>>>> >>> people have of Lynch himself.
>>>> >>> From the radio signal in part 8 to the New York box, there's lots of
>>>> >>> meta-commentary on the insidious possibilities of media injure or
>>>> >>> corrupt, but now we have the auteur himself appearing early on to
>>>> say
>>>> >>> "I don't understand this situation at all"!
>>>> >>> There's a great recap of the last episode that notes how the
>>>> extended
>>>> >>> exit of Lynch's French lady-friend is so deliberate:
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> "Watch the look of pure joy on Lynch-as-Gordon’s face as Gordon’s
>>>> >>> French date sloooooowly makes her exit: She puts on her shoes, shows
>>>> >>> off her legs, straightens her clothes, checks her makeup, reapplies
>>>> >>> her lipstick, takes another sip of wine, and kisses him goodbye,
>>>> >>> dragging everything out as long as humanly possible. And Gordon is
>>>> >>> just thrilled to pieces.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Albert, watching, is less pleased. He wants to sit down with Gordon
>>>> >>> and talk business. When Gordon suggests that he get back to his date
>>>> >>> and his glass of wine, Albert is stonefaced.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Gordon puts a comforting arm on his shoulder. “Albert,” he says,
>>>> >>> “sometimes I really worry about you.”
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> The idea of talking business on this show is worrying. It’s as if
>>>> the
>>>> >>> show itself is asking why the audience is so invested in the idea
>>>> of a
>>>> >>> resolution. Why devote so much emotional energy to trying to solve
>>>> the
>>>> >>> mysteries when, after all, there is good wine to be drunk, and when
>>>> >>> there are beautiful women to chat up? Twin Peaks wants you to relax.
>>>> >>> Enjoy yourself."
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 7:42 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >>> > Very happy to read this message. Glad other people are
>>>> experiencing
>>>> >>> > this
>>>> >>> > similarly.
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> > I was thinking today that one of the most distinctive things
>>>> about the
>>>> >>> > return, to me, in addition to how good it is, is the prominence of
>>>> >>> > Lynch on
>>>> >>> > screen. His character is probably eclipsing Cooper as the closest
>>>> thing
>>>> >>> > we
>>>> >>> > have to a protagonist/hero we have--at least through the first
>>>> dozen
>>>> >>> > episodes or so.
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> > On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 10:15 PM, Ian Livingston
>>>> >>> > <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>>>> >>> > wrote:
>>>> >>> >>
>>>> >>> >> Absolutely.
>>>> >>> >>
>>>> >>> >> On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 7:40 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
>>>> >
>>>> >>> >> wrote:
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> I love the last half of episode 8.  The Kubrick reference to
>>>> the post
>>>> >>> >>> Bomb couldn't have bee more literal.  Then things get freaky.
>>>> Pure
>>>> >>> >>> Lynch.
>>>> >>> >>> Such a treat.
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> David Morris
>>>> >>> >>
>>>> >>> >>
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> -
>>>> >>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>
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