Award-winning film director David Lynch (Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, Elephant Man, Dune) will speak at Emerson College on “Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain” on Saturday, October 1, at 7:30 p.m. 

The three-time Oscar-nominated director, who is in the midst of directing his new film, Inland Empire, will be joined by quantum physicist Dr. John Hagelin, recently featured in the hit film “What the Bleep Do We Know?” and neuroscientist Dr. Fred Travis, director of the Center for Brain, Consciousness and Cognition at Maharishi University of Management. 

Lynch will speak on the creative process in film making and how his 30-year practice of Transcendental Meditation has fostered his creativity and innovation.  Hagelin and Travis will discuss findings of new research on the effects of meditation on brain functioning, creativity, conflict, and peace. 

Lynch will also discuss the establishment of the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace—a national nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing the stress-reducing, creativity-enhancing benefits of Transcendental Meditation to students.  The Foundation recently announced its first grant dispersal of $200,000, including a $25,000 grant to the Nataki Talibah Schoolhouse of Detroit, an inner-city charter school where scores of middle-school students meditate twice daily. 

Lynch’s talk in Boston is being sponsored by the Department of Visual and Media Arts and the School of the Arts at Emerson College. 

HOW TO GET TICKETS
All available tickets have been distributed (Friday, September 30, 11:45am.)