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Update: David Lynch Tour, Ann Arbor

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David Lynch
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Dr. John Hagelin
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Here’s how the Ann Arbor News (Monday, September 26, 2005) described the scene on Sunday night as David Lynch, Dr. John Hagelin, and Dr. Fred Travis took the stage at the University of Michigan to speak on “Consciousness, Creativity, and the Brain”:

Packed Crowd Hears David Lynch

Filmmaker shares zeal for Transcendental Meditation

If you arrived on time to see filmmaker David Lynch talk about Transcendental Meditation last night at the Power Center, you were already too late. The venue was packed to capacity.

Harried Power Center employees with walkie-talkies loudly stated, again and again, that there were no available seats anywhere in the building, but dozens of people nonetheless lingered at both ground floor entrances, hoping a spot would miraculously open up. (Despite earlier reports that equipment had not been set up to provide video feed of the talk, those who stayed did eventually get to hear and see most of Lynch’s presentation by way of television monitors in the lobby.)...

For the full story, click here. (PDF of full article)

More than 1400 people attended the presentation, with another 400 people turned away because the hall was not large enough.

Students in particular were profoundly moved and inspired by the speakers. Here’s an excerpt from just one student’s email after the talk:

I attended David’s presentation last evening, and walked away in a daze.... It is now 2:54 am in the morning. I just woke up, and had a terrible realization. I had possibly just walked away from my life calling....

I had understood David and John's philosophies ever since I was a freshman in high school. The paradigms of meditation, spirituality, quantum physics, interdependence, consciousness, and practicality were core to my being as I grew up and moved to Michigan for college....

I would like to inquire if there is any way possible (of course there is!) for me to become deeply involved with the foundation. I do not wish to be a mere member or benefactor. I would like an active role and help establish and develop consciousness-based education in schools in the United States, as well as abroad. I know that I have the abilities and resources to be successful. I would genuinely appreciate if you can provide guidance to how I can become connected with your foundation.

Faculty, too, recognized the significance of Sunday night’s event:

The event last night was extremely powerful for me in many ways. Something is in the air.  The world is in such a twit that folks may be beginning to look inside for emerging approaches (self-awareness>>creativity>>engagement in that order, rather than the other way around). ... Most of my adult life has been in service to the dream/scheme portrayed last evening.

The tour will continue this week with presentations in Washington, DC; Philadelphia; New York; New Haven; Boston; and Providence. After a month-long break, the tour will begin again at major universities on the West Coast, and then continue on to the rest of the country.

We will continue to update you this week about the inspiring successes of the East Coast tour. For more information about the tour and presentations, please click here.


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