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Donovan Nominated For Induction Into The 2011 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

October 4, 2010

The first British folk troubadour who truly captured the imaginations of early Beatles-era fans on both sides of the Atlantic, Donovan Leitch made the transition from a scruffy blue-jeaned busker into a brocaded hippie traveler on Trans Love Airways. As a folkie on the road with Gypsy Dave, Donovan became a Dylanesque visual presence on the BBC’s Ready Steady Go! starting in 1964 and released several classics: “Catch the Wind,” “Colours,” Buffy Ste.-Marie’s “Universal Soldier,” “To Try for the Sun” and more. That changed in 1966, as he came under the production arm of UK hit-maker Mickie Most, and was signed by Clive Davis to Epic Records in the U.S. Donovan ignited the psychedelic revolution virtually single-handedly when the iconic single “Sunshine Superman” was released that summer of ’66 (and the LP of the same name with “Season of the Witch”). His heady fusion of folk, blues and jazz expanded to include Indian music and the TM (transcendental meditation) movement. Donovan was at the center of the Beatles’ fabled pilgrimage to the Maharishi’s ashram in early ’68 (where, it is said, he taught guitar finger-picking techniques to John Lennon and Paul McCartney). Donovan’s final Top 40 hit with Most was “Goo Goo Barabajagal (Love Is Hot)” in the summer ’69, backed by the Jeff Beck Group. Donovan continued to record and tour sporadically during the 70s and 80s. During the 1990s, Rick Rubin (after working with Johnny Cash) produced Donovan’s Sutras. In the six years since Beat Café (2004), we’re learning just how much we miss Donovan.

Sources: MI2N Music Industry News Network [10-03-2010]
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David Lynch receives Cologne Film Award

October 3, 2010

COLOGNE, Germany — David Lynch hasn’t turned his back on Hollywood entirely, but the four-time Oscar nominee is focusing more on the art of painting and photography than film as his non-cinematic work begins to receive worldwide attention.

“I’m trying to catch ideas for a film but I don’t have the ideas yet,” the director of “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Dr.” told an audience in Cologne Friday, where he received the city’s Film Prize for his life’s work.

The award ceremony was the climax of the 20th media festival and confab the Cologne Conference.

While the idiosyncratic director has been linked to a CGI project called “Snootworld,” Lynch said the only film he is working on at the moment is his documentary on the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of Transcendental Meditation. Lynch has been a practitioner and proselytizer of TM for decades. The director was recently in India shooting interviews for the project.

“I’m not a documentary film maker, but I’ll give it a try,” Lynch said.

Lynch’s last feature, “Inland Empire” (2006) received mixed reviews and grossed just $4 million worldwide.

But his painting, photography and sculpture, work he has continued to produce between film projects, is reaching an ever-larger audience. Since a major exhibit of his paintings and photography in Paris three years ago, Lynch has held exhibitions around the world. He recently held a joint exhibit together with shock-rocker Marilyn Manson at the Vienna Kunsthalle this summer. A new exhibit of his work opens this month in Osaka, Japan.

On October 9, Lynch will receive the Goslar Kaiserring, one of Germany’s highest artistic honors. Previous winners include painter Willem de Kooning, “wrap artist” Christo and sculptor and art film director Matthew Barney.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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Dr. John Hagelin: Look Within to Understand the Universe

October 2, 2010

Supreme Master Television sent their film crew here last year to produce several respectful profiles on Consciousness-Based Education at Maharishi School and Maharishi University of Management, and also featured our organic vegetarian food services. They produced a feature on the Maharishi Effect for World Peace, and one on Dr. Fred Travis, director for MUM’s Center for Brain, Consciousness and Cognition, for their “Science & Spirituality” series. They recently returned to conduct an interview with Dr. John Hagelin for the same program.

Supreme Master Television’s profile on Dr. Hagelin: “Dr. John Hagelin: Look Within to Understand the Universe” aired in two parts on their “Science & Spirituality” program: Part 1 (Aug. 30, Mon) and Part 2 (Sept. 27, Mon) at 4am, 10am, 4pm, 10pm in Central Time. This excellent interview has now been archived and can be viewed in two parts:

Part 1: http://www.suprememastertv.com/bbs/tb.php/download/8239
Part 2: http://www.suprememastertv.com/bbs/tb.php/download/8399

The main philosophy of Supreme Master Television is vegetarianism to save the planet. They enjoyed coming here, meeting everyone, and especially loved eating our organic vegetarian and vegan food. Their motto is: Be Veg, Go Green 2 Save the Planet www.suprememastertv.com

Other videos worth watching: Conscious TV: John Hagelin – The Core of Nature and John Hagelin, Ph.D., Speaks on the Nature of Consciousness and the Universe. And this interview: John Hagelin — “Only Higher Consciousness Can Transform Our World” — Beyond Awakening Blog.

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New film by Richard Beymer on David Lynch Following His Master’s Footsteps Throughout India

October 1, 2010

You are Invited to a Sneak Preview

Richard Beymer’s Stunning New Film from India
“David Lynch Follows His Master’s Footsteps”

Saturday, October 9 • 7:30 pm
Dalby Hall, Argiro Center • Maharishi University of Management

$10 General Admission • $5 Students

Tickets can be purchased at MUM Bookstore & Flying Leap Art Space

All proceeds go to the Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment

Be in your seat promptly at 7:30 p.m!
There will be no seating once the film begins!

In December 2009, David Lynch retraced Maharishi’s travels across India in the years before Maharishi inaugurated his Spiritual Regeneration Movement in 1957. Richard Beymer’s stunning new documentary follows David up into the Himalayas, to Jyotir Math, where Maharishi spent much of 13 years with his teacher, Guru Dev; and to Uttar Kashi, where Maharishi spent two years in silence following the passing of Guru Dev in 1953. We go with David to Jabalpur, near the birthplace of Maharishi; and to Ramashram, Kanyakumari, and Trivendrum–all rare and special sites integral to the founding of Maharishi’s movement. Richard’s filmmaking is artful, magnificent, and captures the behind-the-scenes look and feel as David and his traveling buddy, Bob Roth, make their way with awe, humor, and dogged persistence to each new destination. See David Lynch at his best: wise, funny, insightful, and inspired.

Source: PEACETOWN, USA

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108 line poem for Maharishi (April 5, 2002)

October 1, 2010

This poem was written in honor of Maharishi on April 5, 2002, in Fairfield, Iowa, as a token of appreciation for all the gifts of knowledge and love He gave us and brought to the world; and for the few but meaningful comments He said about me while working on a project with a buddy in 2001. Maharishi’s upliftment, humor, care and concern for my welfare were beyond anything I would have imagined. This poem was printed out and placed on His desk by a friend in Holland but I don’t know if He ever saw or heard it. Some things have changed, like the Pandits now forming at the Brahmasthan of India. But I am posting it as it was written, in memory of my having learned TM 43 years ago on September 30, 1967, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I met Maharishi in person for the first time 9 months later at Lake Louise, a most memorable occasion captured beautifully in the CBC TV documentary, Maharishi at Lake Louise, posted on this blog. Several other interactions occurred between Maharishi and my family, all governors, throughout our lives—precious moments to last a lifetime.

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