Science and technology has made a WORLD of plenty in harmony a reality, however the dominant minority interest has created the MARKET MECHANISM OF ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY and THE WAGE SLAVERY of the working men and women for the abstract process of capital accumulation and concentration. If you can not comprehend these few words then your life journey is utter waste and distortion. A democratic majority political movement to transcend the dehumanising power structrues of the ruling elite.
i love how he moves his hand like that when he describes conciousness and abstract ideas as if he's trying to grasp at something. i love how he goes off on a huge thing about the amazingness of enlightenment and then admits "i am totally not there." i love his midwestern robot-like voice, i love his movies and most of all i love David Lynch
@normansmother1 'i tell u im art college in london' - no wonder you fear the intellectuals. So which art college are you? I'm only asking so I can avoid it, thanks. By the way you sound like a pissy spoilt wanker.
Omg, she took about a minute to ask something that was so simple!! And made it sound like something so complicated too.I love how David responds with such patience... he's so cool.
I like this, very clear and very true answer, that consciousness is a train of thought. I also like how he notes everyone has different amalgamations of their consciousness and to what extent they've followed their own trail of breadcrumbs per say, and how to really clarify your own ideas into reality all you need to do is connect which palpable ways your idea attaches to reality and why it remains that way. ideas are objective, which means you are probably not the first to see it that way.
@normansmother1 i don't know man, you sound kind of ignorant. she sounds like english is her second language and she's talking about something that people who want to devote their lives to something often have to deal with. it saddens me that your comment is top rated... but it doesn't surprise me. it is not a bullshit question and he isn't telling her off. they're talking about serious shit.
@WeAreCameron I don't think it's her second language, I think she's british hahaha. I'm not generalizing the british, I'm just trying to pinpoint the accent.
@SkyFortStudios Being British can mean anything. I am English and generations of my family are and I can speak and write fluently which is more than what can be said for a lot of supposedly "English" people. All you need is citizenship. Might as well come from outer space. Anyway, Lynch is a great intellect with some real Nietzschean ideals. We could be better as a unified human race which I'd love but too many idiots in the world rule it out. And war, overpopulation, chaos!
Seriously?? If I were David Lynch right then, I'd have said "Ma'am, when your question makes less sense than the rabbit scene in Inland Empire, you need to shut the hell up."
Girl: "uh uh uh they got all these big fish, and they can't cook it! uh uh uh uh they uh they what if they uh can't uh uh uhhhh reach their full potential"
If they can't reach their full potential, so what? Who the fuck cares if Berry can be a Ph.D. researcher for cancer or just a nurse or work in a hotel. Who the fuck cares about other people?
@normansmother1 Ugh, I feel ya' . She probably had a bad case of word diarrhea--I know if I ever had a chance to even SEE David Lynch, I'd probably vomit blood and drool everywhere. It'd just be so darn humbling to be in his presence that I probably couldn't help but babble.
the funny thing about lynch though is that he always talks about transcedental meditation. I remember the lecture he held in one film school in germany. he spoke 2 hours just about the transcedental meditation. not quite the thing u would expect in such a venue. hilarious.
I was sitting at a book store and I found his book. I had to sit down and read it, at least a bit. I finished it in one hour and also read a bit of bukowski after that! Its a pretty simple book but its worth reading.
@normansmother1 I just think the girl is extremely nervous and had trouble formulating her question. I don't see why you immediately interpret this as her being an art snob. What you consider is a clear and simple truth (do or don't) isn't as clear to others. Relax guy...
Again a nice response. This world would be a better place if all of us just gave people the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise, but being cautious while doing so. I suppose I can't say I'm 100% positive about whether Lynch is projecting a typical artist persona or not, but everything in my experience and dealings with similar characteristics strongly points to it. Believe me, I'm not putting myself above Lynch here. I suppose it doesn't matter, it just annoys me. Hoping for a new film!
I love you David Lynch. I love Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway because of your clever ideas. I enjoyed solving what I saw and picking out how none of it actually contradicts each other. I dig Inland Empire, The Elephant man, Twin Peaks FWWM & Eraserhead, but please stop being portentous... Your the real deal. There's no need to be showy. The things you say makes sense, but please stop going off about how enlightened you are and how everyone needs to meditate to reach there. Thumbs down, right?
Yes, I caught that. Did you catch the entire rest of the video starting at 1:30? It's easy to make one comment on your humility, but tell me that he doesn't feel a little showy? Again, I love David Lynch, I really love his films, and I think he's a great human being and I'm a big fan. When it comes to his work he is no phoney but publicly he's definitely got some magician act going on. Ever hang out at a college for art? The more knowledgeable than thou artist act is pretty cliche.
@ChesterAsucka Yes, I'm at art college in the third year of my second degree, although I know I can't prove that to you. I don't like pretentious people, they talk more about things that are designed to make themselves feel bigger and impenetrable - rather than sharing something they sincerely care about. Lynch's 'Foundation' is doing some really nice work. And his creativity is tied into meditation practice. What you perceive as showiness seems to me to be based on sincere intentions.
Very nice reply. So different than what I'm used to on youtube. I believe you and you make a fine point. It only matters what your actually doing I suppose. You see, I just have hands on experience with the kind of portrayal I'm talking about. Wouldn't you agree it's possible to be showy without even realizing it? My father (who is also an artist but nowhere near as good) has got a remarkably similar thing going on as David Lynch here. Probably why it bothers me (even embarrasses me).
Wouldn't you agree that great intentions doesn't make a person any less deliberately charismatic? I'm sure you've noticed that it is a typical trait in artists to have a strong desire for not only acceptance but even a wide public love of themselves. Nothing wrong with that, perfectly healthy, but often it may overtake their sincerity without them even realizing it. I believe he is a very self-conscious individual, but with much respect to him, I don't think Lynch is conscious of this.
@ChesterAsucka There's every degree of possibility when it comes to individual artifice/sincerity. I'm not being pointed here but there's also the potential for projection, or as with your father, maybe association, so perhaps your experience does inform you more clearly of things I wouldn't recognise in a person. Maybe I'd just like to think that because he's been doing hardcore meditation for a long time, that he'd be less ego-based by now! Maybe the charisma is natural? I just hope so.
He's a great filmmaker with great advice. I recently began a 5-month-long series of article on my blog analyzing the films of David Lynch. You can check it out by searching "35 Years of David Lynch"
I don't understand how he can so directly tell someone what enlightenment is...with the coat thing...then admit he's not there...and everyone in the room smiles.
thank you. I am a HUGE Lynch fan.I saw him give one of these talks. I understand, do the thing grow the consciousness yeah yeah. But he never gets at what he means by CONSCIOUSNESS. Since I saw him 6 years ago talking about this I have thought a lot about what consciousness is. I thought, my girlfriend has a bigger consciousness than I because she has been around the world and I haven't. What he is talking about is something different and he is not articulating it.
@peterphilip lol being outside doesn't necesarilly expands your consciousness :P. consciousness is more like what are u aware of? are u aware of ur heart rate? ur breathing all the time? maybe images from ur imagination when u imagine? the volume , the tonality of your internal dialogue? the temperature of ur hands? the feeling of the chair where u are sitted? ur unconscious mind makes lots of things for u for example breathing functions, but if you bring it to conscious you can control it!!
@strokedude ment to say this a while ago, thanks, never ever thought of that, I feel dumb for not having thought of all that. Don't get me wrong, I would have learned it by now if I had the chance and $.
Yes yes... done that. That is not what it is about. The idea of LSD and mushrooms is an idea not unlike travel. To enter into a world you haven never seen yet exists, to experience a language of existence unlike that of everyday experience. Its all good. But what I do think he is talking about is having your conscious mind tune in to living. Like enlarging every experience you have so that you are hyper alert to them. Obviously a good thing for someone who is not psychotic.
also, on ideas, he has said that he realizes ideas while meditating. I don't understand. He seems adamant that he is growing his consciousness, yet, his best film hands down was Eraserhead. Hmmmm.
when he speaks of "consciousness" i think he is meaning your deeper awareness of yourself and the world around you. he is talking about thinking on a more existential or philosophical level.
Eraserhead disturbed me more than any of his other movies. it was also less interesting to me (i need to re-watch and re-evaluate it though). i like Lynch's films, but i just don't understand how so many people idolize him. just because his films are weird, and different from the standard "hollywood film" doesn't mean they're brilliant.
as a drawing and painting artist I can second this. the more you have doubts you can draw something, the worse it will get , especially when you have the urge to give up. even when you suffer and hate yourself but already have the strength to keep calm and keep at it , you get better already. when you start to love yourself and forgive yourself while being in focus, you will start to see more and more potential and working skills getting up. dont stand in your own way, but challenge yourself.
Okay, that was a lot of what it feels like to "expand yourself" and stuff about "opening your consciousness" or whatever, all I'm saying is this guy should not write a practical guide to making films. I want to talk to his accountant. Or maybe his producers. I'd bet they'd have some pragmatic advice about how to translate ideas into reality.
@99Sorc Ironically, you are saying that you call him arrogant based on what he said... and what he said was that you are arrogant... and he probably drew that conclusion based on what you said.
Perhaps we can generally agree that if you find it prudent to refer to someone as arrogant based solely on a few YouTube comments, you're... arrogant?
Or perhaps that publishing your opinions on a YouTube page is arrogant to begin with?
Elaborating a bit more, she's making reference to the old Pygmalion ethics of taking an unenlightened guttersnipe, if you will, out of ignorance and into a new awareness by pointing out her true potential just to toss her back out into the street. He reminds her that fulfillment should be sought in awareness of one's own potential, not in any reward or celebrity that may come from exercising that potential. It is enough that the guttersnipe knows within herself she is a lady-even in squalor.
Sadly, it seems she is the type of person who sees herself with a victim's mentality. Essentially, she's asking his opinion on the ethics of denying a talented, ambitious and attractive person the celebrity and success she is seeking--"having fish but not being able to cook it." She regards her fate, so to speak, as being in the hands of others. Lynch refuses to address the idea of realizing potential in her terms and reminds her that fulfillment will not be found by looking outside herself.
1. she's asking him to provide her with some sugar-coated reassurance that society will satisfy everyone's [read: her] potential, which it doesn't; life is unfair.
2. society doesn't expect "so much" from us (see LucasSumtimes' response); society "expects" nothing from us. It takes rebellion, audacity, research, ego and luck to get yr creative visions out there for other people to see.
Saying life is unfair is to be relative. Fairness means one thing to one person and another to another person. Enlightenment is simple - change ur idea about a thing and you change the thing itself. u view the world as unfair because of a though that was created in error - aka Fear or the idea that life cant possibly be fair for everyone. Your beliefs literally shape ur physical reality. When you start believing that everything you experience is the result of YOUR desire - your life transcends.
Yes, to Bernie Madoff and his cronies fairness means something different than it does to me. But life is indeed unfair. Injustice is the norm. Nothing is simple, except deceit.
You only believe that because your idea about fairness is in error. Fairness is entirely relative. For example, I believe Life IS fair - and you believe it isnt. There is no solid answer whether it is or not. In truth, fairness or unfairness do not even exist - things just ARE. The reason people believe in the idea of fairness because they cast judgment on situations. Judgement does not exist either - in truth - it is a false belief created by fear in the human mind. Fairness does not exist.
Well, um, right, yes, ideas don't exist except in the human mind. I thought that was understood. They are abstract things called thoughts. But you are taking that truism to a reductive (and meaningless, in my subjective opinion) extreme. Try reading Marx as well as Freud w/o knee-jerkedly dismissing them. And things do exist with values attached to them: Better a live dog than a dead lion, but better a live lion than a live dog. Chew on that this Xmas Eve.
You can believe whatever you want - dismissing the truth like you are is understandable, 90% of the world does. If it makes you happy to do so then by all means continue - just see where that takes your life.
Well, I'm lucky that you, of the elite 10% of the Earth's population who do not dismiss the truth, deigned to reply to my comment. And how lucky YOU are to have an inside track on "the absolute nature of what is" while the rest of us struggle with our "false beliefs", as you dub the silly little thoughts we have down here on planet earth. Those things like ideas that don't REALLY exist. Yes, things just ARE. Wow. You're so awesome, but, wait, that's a judgment, which doesn't exist, right? Huh.
@billjomes Actually yes. Except for the fact that saying "things just ARE" is not a judgement... Just because I know things others dont doesnt mean I think of myself as superior - although I can see you've made that ASSUMPTION.
Well, that's YOUR subjective opinion that my assumption is incorrect, and, according to your ideas, your opinion doesnt exist except in your mind, so I can dismiss it. Your subjective opinion has no meaning for me, becuse I've taken your advice and decided to see my world only according to the things that will bring me to happiness, and you're not included. Sorry and thanks for the advice, you non-existent abstraction, you!
@Ieatbabyseals Well im sorry to let you down but I ampretty much the exact opposite of arrogant. Anyone who would assume otherwise is themselves arrogant because they believe that their view is superoir to mine - which is what they are accusing ME of in the first place. So you see, I am not the arrogant one, YOU are.
I think she's asking if its fair that society expects so much of the individual and then does everything it can to prevent them from achieving those goals.
What would be funny, was if he would suddenly ask the woman, in good Gordon Cole fashion, to speak up.
And for those of you who don't know, Gordon Cole is a character from Twin Peaks who is hearing impaired, and thus talks a little bit louder than usual--though that's an understatement.
He's talking about letting go of your fears and doubts. The stuff that holds everyone back from living up to our fullest potential. If you can do that then the skys the limit.
Transcendental Meditation is a form of mantra meditation introduced worldwide in 1957 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. TM is not a cult.
"Maharishi Mahesh Yogi introduced the Transcendental Meditation technique (also known as TM) and related programs and initiatives, including schools and universities with campuses in countries such as India, the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom and China."
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TM is just another Indian based trick to try and control the West's spiritual development. The West is developing its own spirituality right now ourselves we dont need Indian's involvement in it frankly.
He's actually makes a lot of sense, so I don't think he's "so f#kd up." He just expresses his thoughts, which are fascinating, in a very unique way. He think about life and how it works, from a philosophical pov. What's so weird about that?
that woman... asks loooooooong questions.... she likes to hear her voice...
if I was asked such a question... I would say: stop asking . get undressed.... zero worries... zero problems... fullfilment of any desires... a beautiful beautiful thing...you will stay with a certain amount... of ...... a ... cooking the fish... thank you..
I wouldnt say he is a lousy thinker, that's a subjective statement, I think he thinks about film and art in a different way, which doesn't make him a lousy thinker...
the shadows on his ear make it look like a little face
nobauhaus 1 week ago
his hand has reached it's full potential
Canadionfool2 3 weeks ago
Blah, blah, blah...
strugglebuggietv 4 weeks ago
3:30 STOP SNEEZING, I'M TRYING TO LISTEN TO DAVID LYNCH
LegionAnon 4 weeks ago
Totally true
BeelaTeismar 1 month ago
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arzoyan 1 month ago
so, what did normansmother1 actually say?
MrAlfred1995 2 months ago
i love how he moves his hand like that when he describes conciousness and abstract ideas as if he's trying to grasp at something. i love how he goes off on a huge thing about the amazingness of enlightenment and then admits "i am totally not there." i love his midwestern robot-like voice, i love his movies and most of all i love David Lynch
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epsoff 2 months ago
@normansmother1 'i tell u im art college in london' - no wonder you fear the intellectuals. So which art college are you? I'm only asking so I can avoid it, thanks. By the way you sound like a pissy spoilt wanker.
epsoff 2 months ago
@normansmother1 They feel the need to prove to everyone that they are the smartest person in the room. "Please be impressed by me!"
rodeocyclone 2 months ago
@normansmother1
Love what you said, but don't apologize.
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artofthepartydjs 2 months ago
@normansmother1 your ignorant she wanted "his" view on her question and noone can answer that but him
DJRoadkill18seven 2 months ago
@normansmother1 Do or do not. There is no potential.
rodeocyclone 2 months ago
Omg, she took about a minute to ask something that was so simple!! And made it sound like something so complicated too.I love how David responds with such patience... he's so cool.
fez287 3 months ago
Ugh. Shut up woman.
mootbooxle 4 months ago 4
telling me the idea of cooking a fish is imaginary till you eat it i hurt my brain
dand3100 4 months ago
That girl needs to learn about basic communication. What a fuck up.
Nautilus1972 4 months ago
it was like siddharta gautama is speaking
gnash69 4 months ago
I like this, very clear and very true answer, that consciousness is a train of thought. I also like how he notes everyone has different amalgamations of their consciousness and to what extent they've followed their own trail of breadcrumbs per say, and how to really clarify your own ideas into reality all you need to do is connect which palpable ways your idea attaches to reality and why it remains that way. ideas are objective, which means you are probably not the first to see it that way.
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he's right, enlightenment is nothing more than fulfillment
rhombusskullvsteal 4 months ago
This guy always gives me a headache... I'm gonna go watch some Rambo now.
JDBCreations 4 months ago
@normansmother1 Your a fucking idiot.
Misri83 5 months ago
3:20 bless you!
dolunaydainsanolan 6 months ago
@normansmother1 i don't know man, you sound kind of ignorant. she sounds like english is her second language and she's talking about something that people who want to devote their lives to something often have to deal with. it saddens me that your comment is top rated... but it doesn't surprise me. it is not a bullshit question and he isn't telling her off. they're talking about serious shit.
WeAreCameron 6 months ago 23
@WeAreCameron thank you! i was thinking it, and you typed it.
stoopidryan8 4 months ago
@WeAreCameron
Maybe the question is not bullshit, but she tried too hard to sound "complex". Oh yeah, don't be sad.
artofthepartydjs 2 months ago
@WeAreCameron Either that or she's a pretentious pseudo-intellectual.
rodeocyclone 2 months ago
@WeAreCameron I don't think it's her second language, I think she's british hahaha. I'm not generalizing the british, I'm just trying to pinpoint the accent.
SkyFortStudios 1 month ago
@SkyFortStudios Being British can mean anything. I am English and generations of my family are and I can speak and write fluently which is more than what can be said for a lot of supposedly "English" people. All you need is citizenship. Might as well come from outer space. Anyway, Lynch is a great intellect with some real Nietzschean ideals. We could be better as a unified human race which I'd love but too many idiots in the world rule it out. And war, overpopulation, chaos!
wandererlain 3 weeks ago
@normansmother1 Dude, it takes a lot of work, for some of us, to simply get to the point. Have some compassion for the less enlightened of us!!!
nealezumm 7 months ago
I love the thing he does with his hand.
hark2e 7 months ago 16
@hark2e i would say it´s becouse he took too much acid in his life, but with Lynch, i guess it´s becouse his brain is in a eternal psychedelic state.
sanacido2 3 weeks ago
@normansmother1 not really. there is more to her question. goes to show you're jaded in art college because you don't understand what anyone says.
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@normansmother1 you're a long winded snob, English is her second language
angryconductor 7 months ago
@normansmother1 you're long winded, and English is her second language, the only snob is you.
angryconductor 7 months ago
@normansmother1 : I agree with you.
JM13121 7 months ago
Genius
JM13121 7 months ago
wow
ChoiceMusic1 8 months ago
Seriously?? If I were David Lynch right then, I'd have said "Ma'am, when your question makes less sense than the rabbit scene in Inland Empire, you need to shut the hell up."
philbateman1989 8 months ago
Girl: "uh uh uh they got all these big fish, and they can't cook it! uh uh uh uh they uh they what if they uh can't uh uh uhhhh reach their full potential"
If they can't reach their full potential, so what? Who the fuck cares if Berry can be a Ph.D. researcher for cancer or just a nurse or work in a hotel. Who the fuck cares about other people?
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David lynch is able to explain conscience righteously but who is to put depth vs value vs potential??
SCALLYWAGZ1 9 months ago
David lynch is able to explain conscience righteously but who is to put depth vs value vs potential??
SCALLYWAGZ1 9 months ago
@normansmother1 Ugh, I feel ya' . She probably had a bad case of word diarrhea--I know if I ever had a chance to even SEE David Lynch, I'd probably vomit blood and drool everywhere. It'd just be so darn humbling to be in his presence that I probably couldn't help but babble.
hoodyhoowho 9 months ago
Am I the only person who would ask how his day was?
StantonK 9 months ago 4
skip to 1:06
kimmay1160 10 months ago 4
the girl asking the question is hot...
iheartkidholden 10 months ago
the funny thing about lynch though is that he always talks about transcedental meditation. I remember the lecture he held in one film school in germany. he spoke 2 hours just about the transcedental meditation. not quite the thing u would expect in such a venue. hilarious.
TheDusandusan 10 months ago 3
This is genius, Love it. I love Lynch!
Spencerthemam17 10 months ago
I was sitting at a book store and I found his book. I had to sit down and read it, at least a bit. I finished it in one hour and also read a bit of bukowski after that! Its a pretty simple book but its worth reading.
TheBallhead20 10 months ago
@normansmother1 I just think the girl is extremely nervous and had trouble formulating her question. I don't see why you immediately interpret this as her being an art snob. What you consider is a clear and simple truth (do or don't) isn't as clear to others. Relax guy...
borowczyk76 10 months ago
David Lynch is the Chuck Norris of intellect.
philbateman1989 10 months ago 4
@normansmother1 this might be the best comment on youtube
LukeLegere 10 months ago 3
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TheCannabisKing 10 months ago
your preachin' to the quire dude...
TheCannabisKing 10 months ago
Um, Um, Um, Um X 100!!!!!!!!!!!
apacheangel007 11 months ago
@normansmother1 man, that's sooooo true :))
Fiksic1 1 year ago
Again a nice response. This world would be a better place if all of us just gave people the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise, but being cautious while doing so. I suppose I can't say I'm 100% positive about whether Lynch is projecting a typical artist persona or not, but everything in my experience and dealings with similar characteristics strongly points to it. Believe me, I'm not putting myself above Lynch here. I suppose it doesn't matter, it just annoys me. Hoping for a new film!
ChesterAsucka 1 year ago
I love you David Lynch. I love Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway because of your clever ideas. I enjoyed solving what I saw and picking out how none of it actually contradicts each other. I dig Inland Empire, The Elephant man, Twin Peaks FWWM & Eraserhead, but please stop being portentous... Your the real deal. There's no need to be showy. The things you say makes sense, but please stop going off about how enlightened you are and how everyone needs to meditate to reach there. Thumbs down, right?
ChesterAsucka 1 year ago
@ChesterAsucka 2:24
mskj444 1 year ago
@mskj444
Yes, I caught that. Did you catch the entire rest of the video starting at 1:30? It's easy to make one comment on your humility, but tell me that he doesn't feel a little showy? Again, I love David Lynch, I really love his films, and I think he's a great human being and I'm a big fan. When it comes to his work he is no phoney but publicly he's definitely got some magician act going on. Ever hang out at a college for art? The more knowledgeable than thou artist act is pretty cliche.
ChesterAsucka 1 year ago
@ChesterAsucka Yes, I'm at art college in the third year of my second degree, although I know I can't prove that to you. I don't like pretentious people, they talk more about things that are designed to make themselves feel bigger and impenetrable - rather than sharing something they sincerely care about. Lynch's 'Foundation' is doing some really nice work. And his creativity is tied into meditation practice. What you perceive as showiness seems to me to be based on sincere intentions.
mskj444 1 year ago
@mskj444
Very nice reply. So different than what I'm used to on youtube. I believe you and you make a fine point. It only matters what your actually doing I suppose. You see, I just have hands on experience with the kind of portrayal I'm talking about. Wouldn't you agree it's possible to be showy without even realizing it? My father (who is also an artist but nowhere near as good) has got a remarkably similar thing going on as David Lynch here. Probably why it bothers me (even embarrasses me).
ChesterAsucka 1 year ago
@mskj444
Wouldn't you agree that great intentions doesn't make a person any less deliberately charismatic? I'm sure you've noticed that it is a typical trait in artists to have a strong desire for not only acceptance but even a wide public love of themselves. Nothing wrong with that, perfectly healthy, but often it may overtake their sincerity without them even realizing it. I believe he is a very self-conscious individual, but with much respect to him, I don't think Lynch is conscious of this.
ChesterAsucka 1 year ago
@ChesterAsucka There's every degree of possibility when it comes to individual artifice/sincerity. I'm not being pointed here but there's also the potential for projection, or as with your father, maybe association, so perhaps your experience does inform you more clearly of things I wouldn't recognise in a person. Maybe I'd just like to think that because he's been doing hardcore meditation for a long time, that he'd be less ego-based by now! Maybe the charisma is natural? I just hope so.
mskj444 1 year ago
very clever explanation. :))
oooodaxteroooo 1 year ago
my goodness, what has the world come to? right now even i think that he is kind of weird, when he is just intellectual... :/
oooodaxteroooo 1 year ago
David Lynch seems like such a strange, wonderful person.
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Look at his left ear (your right): do you see the image of a man's smirking face?
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ToListen 1 year ago
great filmmaker, he visited Poland in 2007 :D
rudolfik2007 1 year ago
In this video he looks so much like Henry from Eraserhead. The suit, the hair, his posture and the facial expression.
defgmx 1 year ago
@normansmother1 ditto
robotfridge 1 year ago
he's like sprinkling imaginary glitter with his hands, all the time. iS it a sort of blessing? :D
guzsaj 1 year ago
This Lady's question spiraled out of control, her question was a big fish she couldn't cook
lolraxjimmy 1 year ago
@lolraxjimmy lol good one
defgmx 1 year ago
His right hand has a life of its own. I love you David lynch.
bryanross1985 1 year ago
I don't understand how he can so directly tell someone what enlightenment is...with the coat thing...then admit he's not there...and everyone in the room smiles.
WaysideShineProd 1 year ago
His right hand is amazing. It's just.. Oh my god.
PowerOfWilliam 1 year ago
I'm straight male in happy relationship with my girlfriend but I have to admit I'm also in love in David Lynch!
RecycledComedian 1 year ago 2
Nice lecture, but his hands movement distracted me from listening to him.
inspired81 1 year ago
he expresses his mind and does it in a beautiful way.
BankruptMonopoly 1 year ago
ask the question bitch stop that stupid speech.
gardenofarcane 1 year ago
I mean when John Hagelin talks about the unified field not conciousness*
DoNotBeHighandMighty 1 year ago
The finger wiggles are funny and John Hagelin reminds me of the chef on south park when he talks about conciousness with his hand gestures.
DoNotBeHighandMighty 1 year ago
all he talks about is TM and "expanding consciousness." he doesn't say a thing about actually realizing your ideas.
anomalyeight 1 year ago
@anomalyeight
Well that's how "he" realizes his ideas.
DoNotBeHighandMighty 1 year ago
@anomalyeight
And he can only speak for himself, he cannot speak for other peoples experiences.
DoNotBeHighandMighty 1 year ago
@anomalyeight
Your analysis is spot-on!
diequas 1 year ago
@anomalyeight
thank you. I am a HUGE Lynch fan.I saw him give one of these talks. I understand, do the thing grow the consciousness yeah yeah. But he never gets at what he means by CONSCIOUSNESS. Since I saw him 6 years ago talking about this I have thought a lot about what consciousness is. I thought, my girlfriend has a bigger consciousness than I because she has been around the world and I haven't. What he is talking about is something different and he is not articulating it.
peterphilip 1 year ago
@peterphilip lol being outside doesn't necesarilly expands your consciousness :P. consciousness is more like what are u aware of? are u aware of ur heart rate? ur breathing all the time? maybe images from ur imagination when u imagine? the volume , the tonality of your internal dialogue? the temperature of ur hands? the feeling of the chair where u are sitted? ur unconscious mind makes lots of things for u for example breathing functions, but if you bring it to conscious you can control it!!
strokedude 1 year ago
@strokedude ment to say this a while ago, thanks, never ever thought of that, I feel dumb for not having thought of all that. Don't get me wrong, I would have learned it by now if I had the chance and $.
peterphilip 1 year ago
@peterphilip Take LSD, 250 micrograms or thereabouts, then you'll understand .
Nautilus1972 4 months ago
@Nautilus1972
Yes yes... done that. That is not what it is about. The idea of LSD and mushrooms is an idea not unlike travel. To enter into a world you haven never seen yet exists, to experience a language of existence unlike that of everyday experience. Its all good. But what I do think he is talking about is having your conscious mind tune in to living. Like enlarging every experience you have so that you are hyper alert to them. Obviously a good thing for someone who is not psychotic.
peterphilip 4 months ago
@anomalyeight
also, on ideas, he has said that he realizes ideas while meditating. I don't understand. He seems adamant that he is growing his consciousness, yet, his best film hands down was Eraserhead. Hmmmm.
peterphilip 1 year ago
@peterphilip
What about mulholland drive?
kibbss 1 year ago
@kibbss
ah yes... insanely good...I even love Inland Empire. However, neither capture the feeling of being inside a world the same way Eraserhead does.
peterphilip 1 year ago
@peterphilip
when he speaks of "consciousness" i think he is meaning your deeper awareness of yourself and the world around you. he is talking about thinking on a more existential or philosophical level.
anomalyeight 1 year ago
@peterphilip
Eraserhead disturbed me more than any of his other movies. it was also less interesting to me (i need to re-watch and re-evaluate it though). i like Lynch's films, but i just don't understand how so many people idolize him. just because his films are weird, and different from the standard "hollywood film" doesn't mean they're brilliant.
anomalyeight 1 year ago
@anomalyeight Watch Eraserhead with the sound turned way up, surround sound, and really good bass. That is how all David Lynch should be viewed.
peterphilip 1 year ago 2
@anomalyeight The Elephant Man is my favourite movie of all time. Unquestionably brilliant. It's the perfect movie.
Nautilus1972 4 months ago 3
as a drawing and painting artist I can second this. the more you have doubts you can draw something, the worse it will get , especially when you have the urge to give up. even when you suffer and hate yourself but already have the strength to keep calm and keep at it , you get better already. when you start to love yourself and forgive yourself while being in focus, you will start to see more and more potential and working skills getting up. dont stand in your own way, but challenge yourself.
lezvarthok 1 year ago 3
He doesn't answer her question at all.
Sconz32 1 year ago
00:17, Leland Palmer walking.
yesledman2 1 year ago
Brilliant. Of Course!
indigomorgan1 1 year ago
gotta love those finger wiggles
sirutis 1 year ago 2
Now I realize that Rihanna's new hair style is a copy of Lynch's.
xD
GantonioG 1 year ago 53
@GantonioG LOL!
biohead66 8 months ago
A conversation:
Accountant: You wanna do what?!?
D. Lynch: I want to explore the dichotomy of reality vs. the imagined, personally constructed hollywood plot of our own lives.
Accountant: And how much is the budget?
D.Lynch: Actually, I just discovered this new medium uh... digital video, it would cost, like fifty bucks, plus, the raw unfilt-
Accountant: You're greenlit. Go make that dream. That cheap, cheap dream, you genius, you!
houseofmedia 1 year ago 2
Okay, that was a lot of what it feels like to "expand yourself" and stuff about "opening your consciousness" or whatever, all I'm saying is this guy should not write a practical guide to making films. I want to talk to his accountant. Or maybe his producers. I'd bet they'd have some pragmatic advice about how to translate ideas into reality.
houseofmedia 1 year ago
who'd know lynch would be so optimistic? i just wanna go make a film now...
loiuse44 1 year ago 3
@loiuse44 I know the feeling.
I have an idea, I just need to get it down :)
WretchedSpawnUG 1 year ago
hey guys arrogant thought i'd throw that out there
werewolfmask 1 year ago
Hi, I'm arrogant.
patrickofdundee 2 years ago 4
And let me clarify that real quick - I personally dont think you are arrogant, im only saying you are arrogant based on what You said.
99Sorc 2 years ago
@99Sorc Ironically, you are saying that you call him arrogant based on what he said... and what he said was that you are arrogant... and he probably drew that conclusion based on what you said.
Perhaps we can generally agree that if you find it prudent to refer to someone as arrogant based solely on a few YouTube comments, you're... arrogant?
Or perhaps that publishing your opinions on a YouTube page is arrogant to begin with?
But perhaps saying that would be arrogant.
BenMcCormack91 1 year ago
Elaborating a bit more, she's making reference to the old Pygmalion ethics of taking an unenlightened guttersnipe, if you will, out of ignorance and into a new awareness by pointing out her true potential just to toss her back out into the street. He reminds her that fulfillment should be sought in awareness of one's own potential, not in any reward or celebrity that may come from exercising that potential. It is enough that the guttersnipe knows within herself she is a lady-even in squalor.
caymandoc 2 years ago
Sadly, it seems she is the type of person who sees herself with a victim's mentality. Essentially, she's asking his opinion on the ethics of denying a talented, ambitious and attractive person the celebrity and success she is seeking--"having fish but not being able to cook it." She regards her fate, so to speak, as being in the hands of others. Lynch refuses to address the idea of realizing potential in her terms and reminds her that fulfillment will not be found by looking outside herself.
caymandoc 2 years ago
1. she's asking him to provide her with some sugar-coated reassurance that society will satisfy everyone's [read: her] potential, which it doesn't; life is unfair.
2. society doesn't expect "so much" from us (see LucasSumtimes' response); society "expects" nothing from us. It takes rebellion, audacity, research, ego and luck to get yr creative visions out there for other people to see.
billjomes 2 years ago
Saying life is unfair is to be relative. Fairness means one thing to one person and another to another person. Enlightenment is simple - change ur idea about a thing and you change the thing itself. u view the world as unfair because of a though that was created in error - aka Fear or the idea that life cant possibly be fair for everyone. Your beliefs literally shape ur physical reality. When you start believing that everything you experience is the result of YOUR desire - your life transcends.
99Sorc 2 years ago
Yes, to Bernie Madoff and his cronies fairness means something different than it does to me. But life is indeed unfair. Injustice is the norm. Nothing is simple, except deceit.
billjomes 2 years ago
You only believe that because your idea about fairness is in error. Fairness is entirely relative. For example, I believe Life IS fair - and you believe it isnt. There is no solid answer whether it is or not. In truth, fairness or unfairness do not even exist - things just ARE. The reason people believe in the idea of fairness because they cast judgment on situations. Judgement does not exist either - in truth - it is a false belief created by fear in the human mind. Fairness does not exist.
99Sorc 2 years ago
in the absolute nature of what is.
99Sorc 2 years ago
Well, um, right, yes, ideas don't exist except in the human mind. I thought that was understood. They are abstract things called thoughts. But you are taking that truism to a reductive (and meaningless, in my subjective opinion) extreme. Try reading Marx as well as Freud w/o knee-jerkedly dismissing them. And things do exist with values attached to them: Better a live dog than a dead lion, but better a live lion than a live dog. Chew on that this Xmas Eve.
billjomes 2 years ago
You can believe whatever you want - dismissing the truth like you are is understandable, 90% of the world does. If it makes you happy to do so then by all means continue - just see where that takes your life.
99Sorc 2 years ago
Well, I'm lucky that you, of the elite 10% of the Earth's population who do not dismiss the truth, deigned to reply to my comment. And how lucky YOU are to have an inside track on "the absolute nature of what is" while the rest of us struggle with our "false beliefs", as you dub the silly little thoughts we have down here on planet earth. Those things like ideas that don't REALLY exist. Yes, things just ARE. Wow. You're so awesome, but, wait, that's a judgment, which doesn't exist, right? Huh.
billjomes 2 years ago
@billjomes Actually yes. Except for the fact that saying "things just ARE" is not a judgement... Just because I know things others dont doesnt mean I think of myself as superior - although I can see you've made that ASSUMPTION.
99Sorc 2 years ago
Yes, I've made that assumption based on the empirical evidence of what you've said and how you've said it.
All the best.
billjomes 2 years ago
@billjomes Well just letting you know that assumption is incorrect. Thanks you too.=]
99Sorc 2 years ago
Well, that's YOUR subjective opinion that my assumption is incorrect, and, according to your ideas, your opinion doesnt exist except in your mind, so I can dismiss it. Your subjective opinion has no meaning for me, becuse I've taken your advice and decided to see my world only according to the things that will bring me to happiness, and you're not included. Sorry and thanks for the advice, you non-existent abstraction, you!
billjomes 2 years ago
@billjomes You finally understand!!!! Best wishes brotha
99Sorc 2 years ago
Sorry, you're making nonsensical noises that don't exist and I don't understand, which is nothing new for you. Brotha.
billjomes 2 years ago
Im glad you think that.
99Sorc 2 years ago
Again, I can't understand what you're saying, it's all pseudo-something crapola. Dude.
billjomes 2 years ago
But you also don't know things that others know
Ieatbabyseals 2 years ago
@Ieatbabyseals Yes, and that means...?
99Sorc 2 years ago
It's a reply to your comment to billjomes
You sound arrogent that's what I''m getting at.
Ieatbabyseals 2 years ago
@Ieatbabyseals Well im sorry to let you down but I ampretty much the exact opposite of arrogant. Anyone who would assume otherwise is themselves arrogant because they believe that their view is superoir to mine - which is what they are accusing ME of in the first place. So you see, I am not the arrogant one, YOU are.
99Sorc 2 years ago
Your reply sounds arrogant
Ieatbabyseals 2 years ago
@Ieatbabyseals Ya I get that You think that..
99Sorc 2 years ago
Well I was just letting you know that your reply to me sounded arrogant.
Ieatbabyseals 2 years ago
I think she's asking if its fair that society expects so much of the individual and then does everything it can to prevent them from achieving those goals.
A pretty smart question.
LucasSumtimes 2 years ago
Remain silent, David Lynch's right hand is speaking! XD
finalfantasyst 2 years ago 5
i get what he said and her question too. Though I am quite mesmerized by his wiggly fingers. :)
red5media 2 years ago
Thank you for capturing such a great moment between two bright people.
gotilk 2 years ago
What would be funny, was if he would suddenly ask the woman, in good Gordon Cole fashion, to speak up.
And for those of you who don't know, Gordon Cole is a character from Twin Peaks who is hearing impaired, and thus talks a little bit louder than usual--though that's an understatement.
Entity1490 2 years ago 2
The question the women asked.... I couldn't even understand what she was trying to say lol.
legmog 2 years ago
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auroradivabatman94 2 years ago
I like him, I think he's brilliant and I admire him greatly...I just wish I knew what the FUCK he was talking about!
auroradivabatman94 2 years ago 3
He's talking about letting go of your fears and doubts. The stuff that holds everyone back from living up to our fullest potential. If you can do that then the skys the limit.
sirenrose666 2 years ago 2
nice video
aerobique 2 years ago
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TM is a cult formed for profit. Google trancendental meditatin and cult..and find out the dreadful brainwashed experiences people have had..
fascistamericadotnet 2 years ago
Transcendental Meditation is a form of mantra meditation introduced worldwide in 1957 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. TM is not a cult.
"Maharishi Mahesh Yogi introduced the Transcendental Meditation technique (also known as TM) and related programs and initiatives, including schools and universities with campuses in countries such as India, the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom and China."
torgosassistant 2 years ago
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TM is just another Indian based trick to try and control the West's spiritual development. The West is developing its own spirituality right now ourselves we dont need Indian's involvement in it frankly.
Silvertrine 2 years ago
man, this woman is fucked up :P
David is awesome though.
JulielovesTandS 2 years ago
If I met him, I would be too mesmerised by his weird hair-style to ask anything.
joasmusic 2 years ago
LOLOLOLOLOL
rutsableich 2 years ago
He's actually makes a lot of sense, so I don't think he's "so f#kd up." He just expresses his thoughts, which are fascinating, in a very unique way. He think about life and how it works, from a philosophical pov. What's so weird about that?
freud5137 2 years ago 44
@freud5137 so true ;)
ceAsey 1 year ago
that woman... asks loooooooong questions.... she likes to hear her voice...
if I was asked such a question... I would say: stop asking . get undressed.... zero worries... zero problems... fullfilment of any desires... a beautiful beautiful thing...you will stay with a certain amount... of ...... a ... cooking the fish... thank you..
guitargonzo 2 years ago 5
How long does it take that woman to ask a question?
joasmusic 2 years ago 19
1:10.
xxscarlettrigger 2 years ago
Key word, "Woman"
chucholetsm8one 2 years ago
hes so fked up but in a good way. reminds me of tom waits. probably what ts elliot was like too.
Tabla461 2 years ago
There goes the saying - we can learn anything from anyone. And I guess, at the same time it's also important to understand ourselves...
Still, thanks for the vidz
VincibleDionysius 3 years ago
he's so sexy.
2kool4skewl77 3 years ago 29
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Great moviemaker, lousy thinker, people think he is joking he is not.
taberkarl 3 years ago
I wouldnt say he is a lousy thinker, that's a subjective statement, I think he thinks about film and art in a different way, which doesn't make him a lousy thinker...
Pabbles123 3 years ago 6
your the idiot, not david.
smithhedgehog 3 years ago 4
lol he just makes up crazy stories...
automaticAEV 3 years ago
you live in a 1% reality world
cyberelfe 3 years ago
whatever it is he's on i want some
mooloobooo 3 years ago
its inner light
PancakeRecipes 3 years ago 2
it's all in the writings of Paramahansa Yogananda.
organboi 3 years ago