David Lynch's Next Project to Focus on Transcendental Meditation

In an interview with New York magazine's online Vulture column, filmmaker David Lynch revealed that his next film won't be his standard trippy stuff. Or maybe it will be. It's slated to be a documentary about the founder of transcendental meditation, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Lynch currently runs a foundation that strives to teach Transcendental Meditation to children.

From the interview:

It won’t be a so-called David Lynch film, really; it will be about Maharishi and the knowledge he brought out. It’ll hold a lot of abstractions. We’re on our way to India in December to start the India part of it.

It’ll have to go in the documentary department, I think. I don’t think it’ll be a talking heads kind of thing, but we’re going to do a lot of interviews with people. We’ll interview--I hope--in India, a 97-year-old man who was with Maharishi from the beginning and get stories of times that weren’t so well recorded.

Until that comes to fruition, you can get caught up on Lynch's latest activities on the David Lynch Foundation Television website, which is hosting clips from the recent 4th Annual David Lynch Weekend. There you can watch videos with titles such as "Exploring the Frontiers of Consciousness Creativity and the Brain" and "Transforming Lives - How to Get Involved with the David Lynch Foundation."

Still not enough Lynch for you? Check out his currently running, online 121-part documentary series Interview Project right here.