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Authors: David Lynch
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younger and younger age, at just about the time they get out of the crib. And there are all these different learning disorders that I never even heard about before.
At the same time, I saw the results of consciousness-based education, which is education that develops the full potential of the human being. It’s the same education everyone receives, with the added bonus that the student learns to dive within and unfold that Self, that pure consciousness.
There’s a school principal, Dr. George Rutherford, in Washington, D.C., who has introduced Transcendental Meditation into three schools. Before that, the schools were filled with violence:There were shootings, suicides, and violence. But he got the staff meditating, got the teachers meditating, got the students meditating, and watched it all turn around.
There’s another principal, Carmen N’Namdi, in Detroit, who introduced Transcendental Meditation in her school, Nataki Talibah, about nine years ago.The kids meditate ten minutes in the morning together, ten minutes in the afternoon, and the school is a blissful school.Those kids are happier, getting better grades, and going out and experiencing all kinds of success.
It’s something that works. You take in more intellectual knowledge during school because it’s so much fun. But you’re also expanding the container of that knowledge. You contrast that with what normal education produces, which is a joke. It’s facts and figures, but the knower does not know him- or herself.
One night I saw a play at Maharishi School in Iowa—a school that has consciousness-based education. It was a cold and rainy night, and when I was told I was going to see a high school play, I thought,“Man, it’s going to be a very long night.” I was sitting in the middle of this little theater, a beautiful little theater, and out on stage came the students. They weren’t professional actors; they were just kids putting on a play. But I was never more blown away. I thought it was better than a Broadway production, because what I saw was consciousness on these faces—a lively, glowing consciousness. They had such intelligence and timing, and their humor was right on the money. You don’t worry about students like that.They’re self-sufficient.They’re going to do fine in the world and they’re going to make the world better by being in it.
My foundation, the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, was set up to help more kids get that kind of experience.We’ve raised money and given it to schools all over the country for thousands and thousands of students to learn to meditate. And it’s amazing to see kids who do this. Stress just doesn’t catch them; it’s like water off a duck’s back.
I want to do this not only for those students’ sake, for their own growth of consciousness, but for all of us, because we are like lightbulbs. And, like lightbulbs, we can enjoy that brighter light of consciousness within, and also radiate it. I believe that the key to peace is in this.
If there were ten thousand new meditating students, it would affect this country. It would be like a wave of peace. It’s harmony, coherence—real peace. In the individual, that light of consciousness drives negativity further and further away. In the world, it can do the same thing.
REAL PEACE
Avert the danger that has not yet come.
YOGA SUTRAS
People are so convinced we can’t have peace that it’s a joke now. Somebody wins a beauty pageant, and the joke is, she wants world peace. And everybody has a big laugh. Nobody believes in peace. It’s a nice idea. But that’s all it is—just a sweet-little-old-lady idea. It’s meaningless. It’s never going to happen. And we live in this hellhole, and we think it’s got to be this way.
But what if we’re wrong?
We know that in one human being, when you ramp up consciousness—when you ramp up that light of
At the same time, I saw the results of consciousness-based education, which is education that develops the full potential of the human being. It’s the same education everyone receives, with the added bonus that the student learns to dive within and unfold that Self, that pure consciousness.
There’s a school principal, Dr. George Rutherford, in Washington, D.C., who has introduced Transcendental Meditation into three schools. Before that, the schools were filled with violence:There were shootings, suicides, and violence. But he got the staff meditating, got the teachers meditating, got the students meditating, and watched it all turn around.
There’s another principal, Carmen N’Namdi, in Detroit, who introduced Transcendental Meditation in her school, Nataki Talibah, about nine years ago.The kids meditate ten minutes in the morning together, ten minutes in the afternoon, and the school is a blissful school.Those kids are happier, getting better grades, and going out and experiencing all kinds of success.
It’s something that works. You take in more intellectual knowledge during school because it’s so much fun. But you’re also expanding the container of that knowledge. You contrast that with what normal education produces, which is a joke. It’s facts and figures, but the knower does not know him- or herself.
One night I saw a play at Maharishi School in Iowa—a school that has consciousness-based education. It was a cold and rainy night, and when I was told I was going to see a high school play, I thought,“Man, it’s going to be a very long night.” I was sitting in the middle of this little theater, a beautiful little theater, and out on stage came the students. They weren’t professional actors; they were just kids putting on a play. But I was never more blown away. I thought it was better than a Broadway production, because what I saw was consciousness on these faces—a lively, glowing consciousness. They had such intelligence and timing, and their humor was right on the money. You don’t worry about students like that.They’re self-sufficient.They’re going to do fine in the world and they’re going to make the world better by being in it.
My foundation, the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, was set up to help more kids get that kind of experience.We’ve raised money and given it to schools all over the country for thousands and thousands of students to learn to meditate. And it’s amazing to see kids who do this. Stress just doesn’t catch them; it’s like water off a duck’s back.
I want to do this not only for those students’ sake, for their own growth of consciousness, but for all of us, because we are like lightbulbs. And, like lightbulbs, we can enjoy that brighter light of consciousness within, and also radiate it. I believe that the key to peace is in this.
If there were ten thousand new meditating students, it would affect this country. It would be like a wave of peace. It’s harmony, coherence—real peace. In the individual, that light of consciousness drives negativity further and further away. In the world, it can do the same thing.
REAL PEACE
Avert the danger that has not yet come.
YOGA SUTRAS
People are so convinced we can’t have peace that it’s a joke now. Somebody wins a beauty pageant, and the joke is, she wants world peace. And everybody has a big laugh. Nobody believes in peace. It’s a nice idea. But that’s all it is—just a sweet-little-old-lady idea. It’s meaningless. It’s never going to happen. And we live in this hellhole, and we think it’s got to be this way.
But what if we’re wrong?
We know that in one human being, when you ramp up consciousness—when you ramp up that light of
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