You keep on talking about this pool of consciousness and this place that you go inside. And I was wondering: Do you see anything when you’re there, visually? 

I’ll tell you the story of my first meditation. 

I had heard this phrase, “True happiness isn’t out there. True happiness lies within.” And I used to think about that phrase. And in this phrase, they don’t tell you where the “within”

What message are you sending in your films?

They say if you want to send a message, go to Western Union.

Ideas are their own thing.

And those stories and those characters came from ideas.

In several of your last films, particularly Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive and Fire Walk with Me, for me personally, it seems like there are a lot of underlying themes concerning Transcendental Meditation within the characters and such. And I was wondering: as you personally dive farther into TM, can we expect to see more abstract themes inherent in some of the later David Lynch films come

Do you happen to have any meditational techniques conducive for invoking inspiration or general creativity? And if so, what is it?

You know, meditation is that thing that takes you within. And if you go all the way in, you experience this ocean of pure consciousness, or as modern science says, the Unified Field—oneness, pure bliss consciousness. And that is also a field of pure creativity. Vedic

First of all, when you were young, did you find that you’d second-guess yourself a lot more? Now that you’re older, do you find that you don’t second-guess yourself as much on artistic ideas? Like I totally understand when you do this, that there’s an idea floating off there.

And I also what to ask: I don’t think that there’s a lot of people in Hollywood who understand what you do. And I