Transcendental David Lynch

Je vois un lien étroit –mais non exclusif- entre la force créatrice et intuitive d’une œuvre et la richesse de l’expérience spirituelle, au sens large, de son réalisateur. Les Dreyer, Bergman, Tarkovski, Sokurov, Herzog et Bernard Émond nous touchent tous par leurs oeuvres car ils se tiennent sur la corde raide entre le cynisme et le défaitisme et les vérités préfabriquées déclamatoires. Cherchant eux-mêmes à donner un sens à l’art et à la vie, ces artistes nous mènent sur des chemins qu’ils ont empruntés, nous invitant à amorcer ou à poursuivre une réflexion plutôt que d’en imposer une.

David Lynch fait aussi partie de ceux-là d’une certaine façon. Et comment! Tous ceux qui ont vu Eraserhead savent que le réalisateur appartient à une catégorie à part, mais avez-vous lu son entrevue dans le Guardian dans le cadre de son dernier film Inland Empire? Ça ne ressemble pas aux entrevues que j’ai faites avec des réalisateurs, ça c’est sûr.

Voyez au moins la première question et la première réponse :

Mark Kermode: Just to start things rolling, and this is not specifically connected to Inland Empire which we've just seen, but transcendental meditation is a really big thing in your life. The last time we talked, it was entirely about how TM had changed and affected your life. In as much as it is possible to explain this complex subject in a pitifully small amount of time, please explain to us what TM has done for your consciousness and what you believe it's capable of doing for the greater good?

David Lynch: How many people have heard of TM? Quite a few. Good. TM is a mental technique. It's an ancient form of meditation that allows any human being to dive within and transcend and experience the unbounded, infinite ocean of pure consciousness. Pure vibrant consciousness, bliss, intelligence, creativity, love, power, energy - all there within. At the base of mind, the base of matter, is this field. And it's there. Modern science has just discovered the unified field by going deeper and deeper and deeper into matter. And there it was: a field of oneness, unity. They can't go in there with their instruments and everything, but any human being can go dive within through subtle levels of mind and intellect, transcend and experience this field. When you experience this deepest field, it's a beautiful experience, and experiencing it enlivens it and you grow in consciousness.
You grow in creativity and intelligence. And the side effect is that negativity starts to recede. Things like hate, anger and depression, sorrow, anxieties - these things start to recede and you live life in more freedom, more flow of ideas, more appreciation and understanding of everything.

It's so beautiful for working on projects. It's a field of knowingness - you enliven that and you get this kind of intuitive thing going. It's so beautiful for the arts, for any walk of life. In Vedic science, this field is called Atma, the self and there's a line, "Know thyself." In the Bible they say, "First seek the kingdom of heaven which lies within and all else will be added unto you." You dive within, you experience this, you unfold it and you're unfolding totality. The human has this potential and they have names for this potential: enlightenment, liberation, salvation, fulfilment - huge potential for the human being. And we don't need to suffer. You enliven this thing and you realise that bliss is our nature. We're like happy campers, flowing with ideas. We're like little dogs with tails wagging. It's not a goofball thing, it's a beautiful full thing, really, really great.

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