Meditativeness: Guenon, Lynch, Wallace, etc.

Guenon

- Metaphysician, Comparative Religionist, Cultural Critic

Why Metaphysics?

- "Spiritual Realization", "Spiritual Liberation" "Enlightenment"
- Indian Vedic, Buddhist, Misc, traditions (Fun fact: Yoga in Sanskrit translates to Union)
- Weakening/Dissolution of ego/self
- Meditation as method of initiation/realization - increase sense of self&consciousness, dissolve ego, rejoin the divine (religion from Latin "religare", to rebind)
- "Ultimately intuition is the only path to achieving realization"
- Symbolism/art/religion as all pointers to the infinite

David Lynch

- Was an avid meditator (Transcendental Meditation), used it as way to expand consciousness and "go fishing" for ideas - Started as painter & made movies as way to do "moving paintings"
- '"Horror" from Latin "dread, veneration, religious awe". Ultimate derivation from Sanskrit "to bristle" ("harsate")—literally, "hairs stand up on end".'
- "mysterium tremendum et fascinans"
- Dark feel from inhuman sense derived from TM. (semantic satiation, existential dread, inhumanity of the cosmic perspective)
- Also very "rich" and "dreamy" feeling, perhaps from increased interoception from meditation

SCENES

David Foster Wallace

DFW article on Lynch Part 13. WHAT EXACTLY DAVID LYNCH SEEMS TO WANT FROM YOU (http://www.lynchnet.com/lh/lhpremiere.html)

MEDITATE!!!

Benefits of Meditation (various types):
- Destimulation, Relaxation, Restoring Sensitivity
- Increased Focus and Conscious Capacity
- Trauma Resolution, Pattern Dissolution (like psychedelics)
- Self Awareness, Metacognition, EQ
- Self Actualization
- Ego Dissolution
- Spiritual Realization/Enlightenment