Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversa

Description: Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch "Bonus: interviews with Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr"--Cover. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Catching the Big Fish is a revelation for all want to understand Lynchs personal vision. And it is equally compelling for any who wonder how they can nurture their own creativity.When it first appeared in 2006, David Lynchs Catching the Big Fish was celebrated for being "as close as Lynch will ever come to an interior shot of his famously weird mind" (Rocky Mountain News) Now for the bestsellers 10th anniversary, Lynch dives deeper into the creative process and the benefits of Transcendental Meditation with the addition of his exclusive q-and-a interviews with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.The musicians open up to Lynch about their artistry, history, and the benefits they have experienced, artistically and personally, from their decades-long practice of Transcendental Meditation - a technique that they and their fellow Beatles helped popularize in the 1960s.Catching the Big Fish is a revelation for all want to understand Lynchs personal vision. And it is equally compelling for any who wonder how they can nurture their own creativity. Author Biography Three-time Oscar-nominated director David Lynch is among the leading filmmakers of our era. From the early seventies to the present day, Lynchs popular and critically acclaimed film projects, which include Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, INLAND EMPIRE, and Twin Peaks are internationally considered to have broken down the wall between art-house cinema and Hollywood moviemaking. Review "The director explores every aspect of his work in film, music, photography, and other aesthetic pursuits, including behind-the-scenes stories about Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive and revelations on his thirty-five years of Transcendental Mediation. Read it because: This is about as close as Lynch will ever come to an interior shot of his famously weird mind." —Kelly Lemieux, Rocky Mountain News "The book, an unexpected delight, serves as a sort of skeleton key to the rest: In it he muses on the relationship between Transcendental Meditation and his work with appealingly nondidactic and non–New Age-y clarity, and in so doing opens the door—a crack, at least—to the heretofore impenetrable mysteries of his imagination." —Katie Bolick, The Boston Globe"The quirky helmer known for Boy Scout demeanor and twisted tales shares his creative vision in a surprisingly gentle tome informed by the underlying teachings of Transcendental Meditation. But dont worry: David Lynch, one-time creator of "The Angriest Dog in the World" comic, keeps the proselytizing to a minimum. He addresses topics ranging from working with wood (for it) to directors commentaries (against) in deceptively simple, yet ultimately affirming, chapters. Theres much for fans and aspiring filmmakers to enjoy."—Variety "Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, youve got to go deeper," says David Lynch the idiosyncratic filmmaker whose creations include Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire, and the cult TV classic, Twin Peaks. He claims that he has savored the pleasures of diving deep thanks to a 33-year practice of Transcendental Meditation (TM). He describes the fun of gathering what he calls "firewood" (all kinds of ideas and things for a film), the joy he takes in seeing an aging building or a rusted bridge, and the respect he has for Fellini and Kubrick. Lynch loves making movies and diving deep, and this testament bears witness to both loves."—Spirituality & Practice "In Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity, David Lynch puts aside his filmic quest to get inside the viewers head and lets them instead inside his, an invitation almost as rare as a ticket to fictions Wonka Chocolate Factory, and possibly just as out of this world. Catching the Big Fish is a blend of thoughts and themes, sometimes random like a stream of consciousness, or — the analogy he personally prefers for creativity — casting a hook into a bottomless sea. The book melds biography, film analysis, philosophy and spirituality with a heart-on-sleeve sincerity, while incorporating a narrative of the authors passion for charting the world of dreams and ideas and rendering them unto action."—BlogCritics "With this book, Lynch offers us a rare glimpse into his own head. In the process, he reveals just enough biographical information, philosophy of film, and general behind-the-scenes dirt (including the connection between Lynchs Lost Highway and O. J. Simpson)to keep the attention of those more interested in Lynchs films than in his consciousness."—Booklist Promotional Catching the Big Fish is a revelation for all want to understand Lynchs personal vision. And it is equally compelling for any who wonder how they can nurture their own creativity. Review Quote "The quirky helmer known for Boy Scout demeanor and twisted tales shares his creative vision in a surprisingly gentle tome informed by the underlying teachings of Transcendental Meditation. But dont worry: David Lynch, one-time creator of "The Angriest Dog in the World" comic, keeps the proselytizing to a minimum. He addresses topics ranging from working with wood (for it) to directors commentaries (against) in deceptively simple, yet ultimately affirming, chapters. Theres much for fans and aspiring filmmakers to enjoy." -Variety Promotional "Headline" Catching the Big Fish is a revelation for all want to understand Lynchs personal vision. And it is equally compelling for any who wonder how they can nurture their own creativity. Excerpt from Book the first dive He whose happiness is within, whose contentment is within, whose light is all within, that yogi, being one with Brahman, attains eternal freedom in divine consciousness. bhagavad-gita When I first heard about meditation, I had zero interest in it. I wasnt even curious. It sounded like a waste of time. What got me interested, though, was the phrase "true happiness lies within." At first I thought it sounded kind of mean, because it doesnt tell you where the "within" is, or how to get there. But still it had a ring of truth. And I began to think that maybe meditation was a way to go within. I looked into meditation, asked some questions, and started contemplating different forms. At that moment, my sister called and said she had been doing Transcendental Meditation for six months. There was something in her voice. A change. A quality of happiness. And I thought, Thats what I want. So in July 1973 I went to the TM center in Los Angeles and met an instructor, and I liked her. She looked like Doris Day. And she taught me this technique. She gave me a mantra, which is a sound-vibration-thought. You dont meditate on the meaning of it, but its a very specific sound-vibration-thought. She took me into a little room to have my first meditation. I sat down, closed my eyes, started this mantra, and it was as if I were in an elevator and the cable had been cut. Boom! I fell into bliss--pure bliss. And I was just in there. Then the teacher said, "Its time to come out; its been twenty minutes." And I said, "ITS ALREADY BEEN TWENTY MINUTES?!" And she said, "Shhhh!" because other people were meditating. It seemed so familiar, but also so new and powerful. After that, I said the word "unique" should be reserved for this experience. It takes you to an ocean of pure consciousness, pure knowingness. But its familiar; its you. And right away a sense of happiness emerges--not a goofball happiness, but a thick beauty. I have never missed a meditation in thirty-three years. I meditate once in the morning and again in the afternoon, for about twenty minutes each time. Then I go about the business of my day. And I find that the joy of doing increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes. suffocating rubber clown suit It would be easier to roll up the entire sky into a small cloth than it would be to obtain true happiness without knowing the Self. upanishads When I started meditating, I was filled with anxieties and fears. I felt a sense of depression and anger. I often took out this anger on my first wife. After I had been meditating for about two weeks, she came to me and said, "Whats going on?" I was quiet for a moment. But finally I said, "What do you mean?" And she said, "This anger, where did it go?" And I hadnt even realized that it had lifted. I call that depression and anger the Suffocating Rubber Clown Suit of Negativity. Its suffocating, and that rubber stinks. But once you start meditating and diving within, the clown suit starts to dissolve. You finally realize how putrid was the stink when it starts to go. Then, when it dissolves, you have freedom. Anger and depression and sorrow are beautiful things in a story, but theyre like poison to the filmmaker or artist. Theyre like a vise grip on creativity. If youre in that grip, you can hardly get out of bed, much less experience the flow of creativity and ideas. You must have clarity to create. You have to be able to catch ideas. starting out I started out just as a regular person, growing up in the Northwest. My father was a research scientist for the Department of Agriculture, studying trees. So I was in the woods a lot. And the woods for a child are magical. I lived in what people call small towns. My world was what would be considered about a city block, maybe two blocks. Everything occurred in that space. All the dreaming, all my friends existed in that small world. But to me it seemed so huge and magical. There was plenty of time available to dream and be with friends. I liked to paint and I liked to draw. And I often thought, wrongly, that when you got to be an adult, you stopped painting and drawing and did something more serious. In the ninth grade, my family moved to Alexandria, Virginia. On the front lawn of my girlfriends house one night, I met a guy named Toby Keeler. As we were talking, he said his father was a painter. I thought maybe he might have been a house painter, but further talking got me around to the fact that he was a fine Details ISBN0143130145 Author David Lynch Short Title CATCHING THE BIG FISH Pages 208 Language English ISBN-10 0143130145 ISBN-13 9780143130147 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2016 Imprint Tarcher/Putnam,US Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 158.125 Edition 10th Publication Date 2016-09-06 US Release Date 2016-09-06 Subtitle Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition UK Release Date 1900-01-01 Narrator Tom Judd Photographer Ericka McConnell Birth 1939 Affiliation Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Bipolar Clinic and Reseach Program, Massachusetts General Hospital Position Associate Professor of Psychiatry Qualifications PsyD Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc Audience General NZ Release Date 2016-10-16 AU Release Date 2016-10-16 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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