Following David Lynch’s passing on Jan. 16, 2025, it feels the entire world is mourning the loss of this creative genius. The tributes from around the world have moved me to tears and my heart is full knowing the impact he had on so many people. Lynch’s family – Jennifer, Riley, Austin and Lula – are inviting the world to honor his legacy on Monday, January 25, 2025 during a worldwide meditation moment for 10 minutes beginning at 12:00 p.m. Noon (Pacific Standard Time). Monday also happens to be David’s 79th birthday and the best gift will be sending love, peace and positivity into the world.
HONOR DAVID LYNCH’S LEGACY ON JAN. 20, 2025
On January 18, 2025, David Lynch’s children posted the following on his Facebook page:
“David Lynch, our beloved dad, was a guiding light of creativity, love, and peace. On Monday, January 20th—what would have been his 79th birthday—we invite you all to join us in a worldwide group meditation at 12:00pm NOON PST for 10 minutes.
Let us come together, wherever we are, to honor his legacy by spreading peace and love across the world. Please take this time to meditate, reflect, and send positivity into the universe.
Thank you for being part of this celebration of his life.
Love,
Jennifer, Austin, Riley and Lula Lynch”
If you aren’t sure when 12:00 p.m. Noon (Pacific Standard Time) is for where you live, visit EveryTimeZone.com to calculate the time for Monday.
WHEN DID DAVID LYNCH BEGIN TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION?
During a CBS Sunday Morning interview with Mo Rocca on Jan. 3, 2016, David Lynch said his journey with Transcendental Meditation (TM) began on “July 1, 1973 on a sunny Saturday morning at 11:00.” [Note – in 1973, July 1 fell on a Sunday].
David then reminisced about that first day with Rocca.
“I remember it like it was yesterday. And it was so beautiful. I’ve been meditating twice a day for more than 41 years and never missed a meditation.”
Years early in an article published in The Leader Post on Mar. 10, 2007, Lynch explained how he felt after that first day to Michael Kress, an entertainment reporter at Beliefnet.
“It had an effect right away, and that right-away effect was this anger lifted away from me. I knew I had this anger, and I’d take it out on my first wife. Two weeks after I started meditation, she came to me and said, ‘What’s going on? … This anger – where did it go?’ And I honestly didn’t know that it had lifted.
That was in the beginning, and then it just keeps on growing. I think the ability to catch ideas grows, and the enjoyment of doing almost anything grows. An awareness, a clarity grows. A bigger picture starts to form – bigger and bigger.”
The earliest mention in a newspaper article about David Lynch practicing mediation comes from a Jan. 27, 1991 article in The Flint Journal. Charles Honey from the Journal News Service provides a profile on Transcendental Meditation and Maharishi International University (MIU) in Fairfield, Iowa.
“A TM-touted health system has set up clinics frequented by notables like Twin Peaks director David Lynch (Watch the TV show closely and you’ll see agent Dale Cooper drinking coffee from an MIU mug, meditators say.”
I’m unsure which mug Cooper supposedly uses as I don’t recall a mug with an MIU logo being a prop.
A few month later on July 28, 1991, Lynch was tied to a brief update about Transcendental Meditation’s comeback – “Everyone from movie director David Lynch to Elizabeth Taylor to ‘thirtysomething’s’ Nancy to real-life baby boomers are doing it.”
DAVID LYNCH EXPLAINS TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION
If you are not familiar with Transcendental Meditation (TM), this 16-minute documentary features David Lynch offering a detailed explanation. The video is mesmerizing as he sketches on a giant white board.
When I attended the Festival of Disruption held in Brooklyn, New York in May 2018, all attendees received a similar print that Lynch draws in the video.
I adore Lynch’s explanation at the beginning the video which was shot at his painting studio in Hollywood, California.
“This is a donut. It is very sweet and very good. But if you had never tasted a donut, you would never really know how sweet and how good a donut is, if you never had that experience. Transcendental Meditation is like that. Transcendental Meditation gives an experience much sweeter than the sweetness of this donut. It gives the experience of the sweetest nectar of life – pure bliss consciousness. As Maharishi [Mahesh Yogi] says, ‘Those who don’t know, they don’t know. Those who know, they enjoy it.’ I hope this following documentary gives you some good news about the sweetness of life.”
I am personally not familiar with TM and have never practiced it. I have found however that being present, lost in thought or focusing on the sounds of the world around me can help me meditate. So I invite you to join the world on Monday for 10 minutes. Just sit. Be with yourself. Send love and positivity into the world. I truly believe we need that now more than ever.
May everyone be happy. May everyone be free of disease. May auspiciousness be seen everywhere. May suffering belong to no one.
