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Updated July 21, 2012, 8:38 p.m. ET

David Lynch

The dark (and sometimes light) director on the joys of finger painting, how he meditates and the newspaper-tossing techniques of his youth

Some excerpts:

Mr. Lynch embraced transcendental meditation around the time he made the 1977 curiosity “Eraserhead,” and since 2005 has headed the David Lynch Foundation, a charity he created to fund the teaching of T.M. in schools. It’s become a consuming mission.

I can’t live without coffee, transcendental meditation, American Spirit cigarettes, a freedom to create ideas that flow and my sweet wife, Emily. And this business of just being able to work and think: It’s really, really beautiful.

You don’t need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere. Maybe if you sat on a bed of nails to do it…no, not so much comfort. Find a comfy chair, though, close your eyes and away you go!

Read the whole interview here.

See David Lynch speaks with LA Times health writer Jeannine Stein about Transcendental Meditation (Five Questions: David Lynch on transcendental meditation)

Tags: David Lynch, Transcendental Meditation, Wall Street Journal

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