This is Your Brain on Transcendence

I just finished watching this awesome, awesome, video entitled Consciousness, Creativity, and the Brain from UDub. At first I thought this would be just another one of those lame presentation on consciousness and quantum physics, but after a few minutes of watching filmmaker David Lynch gave his passionate description of his meditation practice and how he draws his unlimited creativity from it, I just felt goosebumps all over. Here's a successful Hollywood guy openly taking about meditation, and expansion of consciousness. To top it all off there's also a very compassionate presentation by Quantum Physicist John Hagelin. No he didn't equate consciousness with strings. He talked about the dreaded "E" word and how to develop our consciousness into its higher potential. No reductionism here. Just an authentic passion to share the benefits of meditation (TM-style) to academia, the arts, and society. There's also a cool EEG presentation of brain states and the starting point of transcendence. This video is a must-see. Very fluffy.

Consciousness, Creativity & the Brain -- Award-winning writer, director, and producer David Lynch discusses his films and his 30-year relationship with Transcendental Meditation, and its role in his creative process. He is joined by physicist John Hagelin, who was featured in the documentary '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. The program is sponsored in joint partnership by the College of Arts and Sciences and the University of Washington Alumni Association.

Big thanks to Jake of SeattleIntegral for the heads up.