Acclaimed film director David Lynch (Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Mulholland Drive) released a 17-track charity compilation on March 8 to support his foundation, which encourages healing through meditation. The album features exclusive tracks by Tom Waits, Iggy Pop, Peter Gabriel, Moby, Ben Folds, and others.
In exchange for a pledge of $18, the David Lynch Foundation, founded in 2005, will provide all of the tracks in digital format over the course of the next six weeks. Proceeds go to the organization’s global effort to teach meditation to 1 million at-risk youth and 10,000 veterans of war with post-traumatic stress disorder.
A supporter of transcendental meditation, dubbed TM for short, Lynch believes that it is the cheapest, most effective, and medication-free way of healing people who have suffered severe stress in war and any other extreme experience.
Waits’ track is a live recording of “Briar & the Rose,” composed…
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I was a Transcendental Meditation instructor for 15 years. Readers of this web site dedicated to Buddhist meditation should know that TM is the *polar* opposite of mindfulness meditation. The goal of TM meditation is not to *gain* mindfulness, it is to *lose* mindfulness by blanking out.
Furthermore I’m sure that readers here know that there are many predators in the field of spirituality and that it is important to discern the good teachers from the bad. I assert that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was one of the bad teachers as I explain here: http://www.suggestibility.org.