Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me - Classic or Dud [spoilers]

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One significant day in my life

By David Lynch

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Jane - May, 2004

A significant event occurred in my life the day I learned that our human physiology, our body, is made of consciousness.

Consciousness???

"What???" I asked out loud in wonder.

I learned that our human physiology is so magnificent and complex, and so exquisite in its design and makeup, as to be wondrous beyond imagination. We are spun out of unbounded, infinite, eternal consciousness.

I learned that underlying all matter is a vast, unbounded, infinite and eternal field of consciousness called the Unified Field. I found out that modern science started taking this field seriously about 25 years ago and that all matter is unified at this level in a state of perfect symmetry, or balance. The entire universe emerges from this field in a process called "spontaneous sequential symmetry breaking."

Are you still with me?

I also learned that there is another science called Vedic Science. This Vedic Science is ancient, and it has always talked of the Unified Field.

Interesting!

Veda, I learned, means "total knowledge." The home of total knowledge is the Unified Field. It is also the home of all the laws of nature. The branches of Veda, 40 in total, make up the language of the Unified Field, the impulses of this eternal field.

I realized this Unified Field is quite an interesting place. It is not manifest and is full, meaning it is no thing, yet all things in potential. It manifests and permeates all things: the whole universe, everything, while still remaining full and not manifest.

Amazing!

Is this mind-boggling or what?

Now comes the hippest part. I have learned that any human being can "experience" the Unified Field.

Really?

Or: So what?

Why in the world would we care to experience the Unified Field?

First, another question.

Have you ever heard that most of us human beings use only 5 percent of our brain, our mind? Have you ever wondered what in the heck the other 95 percent is all about?

This is the beautiful part coming up.

The "experience" of the Unified Field actually unfolds "enlightenment"-higher states of consciousness culminating in Unity Consciousness, the highest state of consciousness. These higher states use that 95 percent of the brain. That is what the 95 percent is there for-to give us permanent, all-time enlightenment.

Now, what is enlightenment? If you were a lightbulb, let's say, your "glow" might light up your whole house and surrounding yard. In enlightenment, your "glow" would be unbounded, infinite and eternal. That would be some glow!

Enlightenment is fulfillment. Supreme fulfillment. Unbounded, infinite, eternal bliss, consciousness, intelligence, creativity, harmony, dynamic peace.

Enlightenment, I have learned, is our "full potential." It is the birthright of every human being to enjoy enlightenment.

Is this good news? I think it is such good news.

In Vedic Science, the Unified Field is called "Atma." Translated, that is "Self"-the Self of us all.

The Unified Field is not something foreign, or even something far away. It is right within each of us at the base of our mind, the source of thought. A great sage from the Himalayas, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, brought a beautiful gift to our world in the form of Transcendental Meditation. Transcendental Meditation is an easy and effortless, yet supremely profound, technique that allows any human to dive within and experience that unbounded ocean of pure bliss, pure consciousness. the Unified Field, our Self.

It may be interesting for you to know that millions of people are practicing Transcendental Meditation all around the world. People from all religions, and all walks of life. Over 600 studies have been done in universities and research institutes validating the profound benefits of Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation Program.

Having this kind of knowledge and technologies of consciousness available to us in this age is, in my mind, a significant event. Yet the "experience" of that Unified Field is the most significant event, because it unfolds what we truly are-totality.

David's movies'inciude Eraserhead, Dune, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive. He is looking forward to Creating World Peace Day, to be held mid-September at the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa (www.mum.edu).

"i'm as blank as a fart."

The only, only reason why FWWM might now be as good as the TV show is that the little boy who hangs out with his grandma is not the same actor they used in the TV series. In the TV show, the boy was obviously Lynch's grandson or something because he looked exactly like a child version of Lynch. It made me giggle like crazy.

Actually, I should point out this rumour appears to be of the "overheard conversation at lunch" variety and thus far from confirmed, but speculating is always fun.

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/642/642262p1.html

this show fucking rules!!! great thread!!!

i also like how the show incorporates UFO mythology (Major Briggs' 'abduction', the whole Project Blue Book thing, flashing lights, etc.) in a similar way as John Keel's 'the Mothman Prophecies' or Whitley Strieber's 'Communion', by putting it within a more occult/esoteric/mystic perspective rather than the usual science fictional approach. Even to go as fat s appropriating the owl imagery from Communion.

Even going

Even to go as far as appropriating the owl imagery from 'Communion'.

The show had a very keen understanding of occult/dream 'logic'.

its ok because HE BOFFS SUPERMODELS. old supermodels, yes.

just rewatched FWWM for the first time in ages. i remember being disappointed with the movie initially because i felt it trying to explain away some of the show's mysteriousness. or something. for instance: oh i see. they're all complete coke heads! but, rewatching it, i noticed something about the coke. there's the scene near the end. laura is doing giant rails of coke and the camera pulls back and she's in bed. doing rails to go to bed! doesn't make sense. but it's the night where she sees her dad rather than bob "having her." meanwhile, her mom, who has just been gently forced by leland to drink something it's safe to assume is drugged, is having restless sleep and visions of a white horse or whatever. it's safe to assume that leland has been drugging his wife and laura for years ("he's been having me since i was 12" laura told her therapist). by doing the rails of coke, laura was able to counteract the drugs and see her dad. it's this kind of explaining-away of things that i initially didn't like about the film, but i've made peace with that i think, because ultimitely it still doesn't even begin to explain the other dimmension death cult or whatever it is. i've just written way too much about this. again. sheesh.

OMG!!!!

AMATEURIST.

Despite awful moments, his second best of the nineties.

Kinda think it's his second best period.

what's your first?

Either Mulholland Drive or Inland Empire, depending on which side of the bed I woke up on.

now i want to know what alfred thinks is his first-best of this period.

The Straight Story!

his creepiest film

haha i always forget the straight story came out in the '90s tbh.

i have still never seen fwwm.

every time I watch it I go from "lol what the hell is this mess" to terrified and crying by the end of it

Sheryl Lee is almost as heartbreaking as Naomi Watts.

fwwm is great. so is wild at heart. the rest of you can go suck it fwiw imho

too many acronyms to worry about

this is one weird-ass movie so far

i keep waiting for large marge or some other pee-wee character to show up

The first half hour is fun but rather pointless cept for Keefer blinking blankly at the waitress ("You wanna hear the specials? We have none"). And Bowie in a Magnum P.I. shirt.

i rented this when i was like thirteen and it really freaked me out

My first Lynch movie -- I was eighteen. Lots of scenes in this movie are at that level.

http://www.nme.com/photos/50-best-film-soundtracks-ever/207108/1/47

Yes. Love the scene in that barn-club with the drugged-out neo-rockabilly band playing like Dwight Yoakam produced by Brian Eno.

Uh, that NME link didn't go where I wanted it to.

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