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Ron Unz recently noted “the sharp decline in quality of the New York Times.” He might have added that we can still learn things from the Times by reading between the lines, the way Soviet-era Russians read Tass and Pravda.
That’s a good way to read today’s David Lynch obituary. The Times, like the rest of the American Establishment, views Lynch as a crazy artistic weirdo with entertainingly offbeat views—perhaps a great filmmaker, but hardly to be taken seriously in terms of getting at the most important truths about our world. The obit writer, a certain J. Hoberman, seems amused by Lynch’s “manichean” juxtaposition of extreme Capraesque innocence with equally extreme beyond-Kafkaesque suspicions of depravity. From the Establishment point of view, the fact that Lynch was a 9/11 truth-seeker seems par for the course. Of course his legendarily paranoid imagination would wonder what was crawling around beneath our perfectly-manicured American lawn.
But Lynch wasn’t just some carnival-barking visionary lunatic. His films teach us how to see. That Frank Capra innocence was no pose. Lynch once pushed back against a typically decadent Hollywood schmuck by describing himself as “Eagle Scout, Missoula, Montana.” He wasn’t being ironic. Unlike the Hollywood producer who is said to have wisecracked “I have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk,” David Lynch knew how to rigorously study the world with the heart of a little boy, through the eyes of innocence. That’s how you come to see the depravity. If you allow shades of cynicism to darken your heart, even a little, you lose the ability to discern darkness from light. That’s why professional mainstream journalists, the most cynical people in the world, can’t bring themselves to see the blindingly obvious truth that the official 9/11 story is an evil psy-op.
Lynch’s method of studying the world through pure eyes with a child’s spotless heart, and reporting honestly on both the beauty and horror that he saw, was not only evidenced in his films (and presumably his paintings, though I don’t know much about those) but also in his meditation. When one meditates, one travels through peace and childlike simplicity towards a blissful state of absolute oneness. If that pure, peaceful meditative state, the Nafs al-Mutma’inna, is akin to childlike innocence, the various spiritual currents that disturb it—some intentionally—can be pictured as the bizarre and sometimes monstrous manifestations that erupt in Lynch’s films, which attempt to exorcise them by maintaining the undivided purehearted attention of the meditator/viewer with the kind of non-attachment to ego that allows divine barakah to manifest.
Lynch embraced a secularized, quintessentially American style of meditation, TM, describing his practice, and its benefits for his mental health and creativity, in Catching the Big Fish. It’s an interesting read even for we traditionalists who advocate for spiritual practices grounded in the millennial great religious traditions.
“Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un”: “Indeed, we belong to Allah, and indeed, to Him we return.” Returning at least partway toward God via a regular path of prayer and meditation prepares us for the full journey that awaits us, and that David Lynch has now undergone, Allah yarhamuh.
-KB
Transcript of David Lynch’s Legendary 9/11 Interview
Interviewer: The theory about Marilyn Monroe is relatively small, but it is a theory of conspiracy. There also are conspiracy theories of huge proportions. And you suggested we show a part of a clip of the documentary Loose Change by Dylan Avery. And it was a film that has been watched by million viewers because you could see it through the internet. No charge. And the film sums up in a way all the theories about US government having planned the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center. But let’s first watch it. What do you think? Do you think it’s convincing what they tell in the film?
David Lynch: It’s not so much what they say, it’s the things that make you look at what you thought you saw in a different light. And those things for me that bother me is the hole in the Pentagon being too small for a plane, the lawn isn’t messed up, and the government’s not showing the plane hitting when many cameras photographed it.
At the World Trade Center three buildings came down like demolition. And two of them were hit by a plane but the third one they said “you want us to pull it? and they pulled it.” And it looked just like the other two. Those things bother me.
In Pennsylvania the plane that went down, it was just a hole in the ground. There wasn’t any wreckage. There wasn’t any skid marks. There wasn’t any tear in the earth.
And no one’s ever really found out about that. So every place there’s questions coming from this documentary. And you don’t have to believe everything in the documentary to still have questions come up, and you look back and you remember what you saw and what you were told, and now you have questions.
And the event itself, did it change your life or did it change your view of…
No. Now it’s just an event that has many questions and no answers. And the suggestion that the American government is behind it? That’s too big for people to think about. It’s too big.
What do you mean?
It’s just, you know, it’s like something no one wants to think about.
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When I checked out the Unz Review this morning it was a real jolt reading the words “RIP David Lynch”. I couldn’t read this article right away and simply prayed thanking God for the life and work of this marvelous man. It was interesting to read your perspectives emphasizing his childlike approach to his art and life untainted by cynicism, still capable of seeing great beauty and ugliness, in the world and beyond it. More than anyone else, he could peel back the curtain and capture the hidden higher reality coexisting everywhere in parallel to our own on film, visible to those who have eyes to see and ears to hear. I hope to meet this man in heaven someday and enjoy a cup of coffee with him.
Sure it was just a joke? This is Hollywood we’re talking here. 😉
He’s also on the short list of artists I’d love to meet over coffee (or halal wine) in paradise to say “thank you for your work.” At one point had I hoped to meet him in this life too. He and I were both living in Madison, Wisconsin in 2006 when I was being witch-hunted in the national media as “that 9/11 conspiracy professor.” https://news.wisc.edu/archive/barrettissue/ I was getting major positive coverage in The Capital Times, one of the two local papers, during that period, as well as fair-to-positive coverage from the local CBS affiliate. (High-level people at both outlets were closet truthers.) In December 2006, at the tail end of my six months worth of “15 minutes of fame,” Lynch did his 9/11 interview with Dutch TV. I always wondered if the press coverage of my controversy at the university had something to do with that, and hoped to meet him some day and ask him. I did try to reach out to him a couple of times, but famous filmmakers are hard to reach unless you know somebody.
‘a certain J. Hoberman’ seems somewhat dismissive.
Hoberman has been one of the best film critics since the 80s writing for the Village Voice.
His Vulgar Modernism: Writing on Film and Other Media is a must-read compilation.
Also, he, along with his friend Jonathan Rosenbaum, was among the first critics to appreciate Lynch. They wrote a book together called Midnight Films.
Hoberman also wrote excellent books on cinematic periods of the 50s and 60s.
The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties.
https://archive.org/details/midnightmovies0000hobe
My one beef with the new generation of critics and scholars that emerged in the 80s is their championing of Chantal Akerman, the worst director ever who made the worst film ever: JEANNE DIELMAN that should be banned by the Geneva Convention for torture.
But homos, Jews, feminists, supposed Marxists, cucks, dorks, idiots, and etc voted lockstep to make it the greatest film ever for Sight and Sound in 2022.
Thank you for sharing that. It was an interesting read.
Now this article I just read was good, but Anglin did an article that was the best out of all the RIP Lynch articles out there.
Documentary? Bits and pieces. Misdirection totally.
Exactly the point of jews making, offering Loose Change – U. S. gov’t planned and is to blame.
Any loose jew tongues flapping in the direction of jews?
5ds
Anglin: “Interesting boomer. Poster boy for smokers’ rights.” OK, whatever.
So I didn’t really know of this guy David Lynch. Knowledge of movie stars and pop culture is my weakest subject. However your tribute Kevin sent me back down the rabbit hole. Thanks for that, and now storytime.
It is said this type of meditation he was into, can progress to the point where a person can take control of their own dreams while sleeping. Cosmic meditation – I’ve never heard of it, however I can relate because I started taking control of my own dreams at around age 15. Being aware of the fact this is a dream. I would practice flying outside my house every night while sleeping and eventually I mastered flight. As a consequence, my dream self is safe always – because I can just fly away or if I choose to strike an enemy – they get severely hurt. Whereas previously if I struck an enemy during dreamtime, it used to be a very weak strike. In addition, if I wake up remembering some cryptic dream code – all I have to do is think, what if that was dream me trying to convey a message to physical me and immediately I understand the cryptic code. The code didn’t come from anywhere but myself. So dream codes are now easy to decipher.
The Quran is said to be charged with barakah. All I can say is this, if I read the Quran – that same night the Quran enters my dream. Nothing else, no book or movie or whatever, does this. In fact I met that nasty big black bird after reading the Quran – what a horrible bird. I wasn’t afraid, well maybe for a micro second. This bird stood like a man on long stalk legs, is 8 feet tall and tries to intimidate when it bursts open its 3m wingspan and does a hell squawk revealing sharp teeth in it’s pelican beak.
YIKES
Well, it’s not that far fetched. After all the US government planned the attack on the USS Liberty, and the FED, and the Bank of England, and the Holohoax, and the overthrow of the Romanovs, not to mention the “French” Revolution, and the Kalergi Plan.
I see Jason “Loose Change” Bermas is still out and about truthing. He’ll tell you to kill yourself if you start in with the anti-fake-semite-ism so knock it off.
I know people who get mad when I try and discuss these things. It’s obvious they don’t want to think about it. They don’t want to understand the world they live in. It must be terrible to live a life ‘looking away’. None of them have a sense of humor, though they would reply to that characterizing in the negative. I attribute that to the fear of actually knowing what is going on. What a way to live.
I liked Jeanne Dielman, but I watched it over the course of a few days. It is certainly not the greatest film ever, though. Far from it. If anything, it’s an interesting experiment in filmmaking and not much else.
while blocked as a citation, I recommend the Documentary about Mr Lynch’s life.
His best film for me will always be
Elephant Man.
I remain aloof of his explorations into violence and intimacy, not that such seedy worlds don’t exist. I just not sure I need the graphics, the same applies to Mr Tarantino. Just too much and a tad exploitive, though a look at Mr Lynch’s life suggests that is less so for him. Iam convinced that he had a learning disability that film allowed him to channel his issues though.
I have watched Loose Change and many other videos about September 11, 2001 – including “no planes” videos. The video that I think is the best of all is this one – no hype, fanfare or dramatics. Just the apparent FACTS and observations. Video –
Video Link
Thank you.
Maybe you should contact Lynch on the dream plane and try to sell him your script for a remake of Richard Linklater’s Waking Life.
((( Hollywood producer ))).
Literally anything is possible.
it don’t take 3 1/2 hrs
Video Link
It isn’t a stretch to see David Lynch as a 9/11 truther.
For example, “Mulholland Drive” is absolutely a send-up of Hollyweird’s casting couch culture.
When Naomi Watts’ character is dropped off by the old couple, they get “super smiley” as they have done a favor for the elites and now they’ll get their reward.
There isn’t always a narrative to grasp in his movies. But that doesn’t mean they’re “arthouse” or trash. They are entertaining and perplexing. I WANT to know what’s going on while watching a Lynch film.
“Dune” is re-imagined every generation now as it’s solidly a part of our pop culture. Yet the mini-series from a generation ago, the Sci Fi channel one, is all but forgotten. Lynch’s bizarro-world with the navigator / space guild scene, the WAY OUT Harkonnens, the low-tech clockwork buzzing of devices, was all given the ok by Frank Herbert himself who was reportedly on set.
Also the cast of “Blue Velvet” and “Dune” has a lot of correlation. Actors liked working with Lynch.
For a lark, watch the clip of Lynch describing his one meeting with George Lucas to have him direct “Return of the Jedi” – imagine that…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJQ4vCu-S0U
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Thanks, I have often thought that my ‘Grand Unified (conspiracy) Theory of Everything’ starting in the ancient past and also incorporating my personal paranormal experiences, would make a great film series. My theory puts me in a minority of just one singular individual – so the material would be unique. It would be nonfiction also but marketed as fiction.
Trouble is they would assassinate me and ban the films, of course.
I can’t actually communicate with the deceased in dreams btw – I see them sometimes, but they never speak or fly. They just look at me with all knowing eyes. Although I did try communication with a missing (dead) person once during waking hours, this practice is subject to the Jewish curse apparently. Anywho this was the first and only time I heard ‘voices’ – the guy yelled at me. I know they say the voices heard by mentally ill are just internal dialogue – but internal dialogue is not an audible sound (as we all know). V2K is an ‘audible’ sound heard only by the target – for example.
Kevin I know it isn’t cool. But I would quite happily make money off of the paranormal, not for personal gain. I just really want to build a fortress where any NZer can run to when their lives are in danger.
I have a Twitter but have never used it. Perhaps I will take a photo of a photo, upload it and link it here. The photo is 3 evil clown ghosts (Jin) sitting in a car. It creeps me out – even thinking of retrieving the photograph from storage. But I wouldn’t mind pawning it.
I took a look at your link too. The Barrett Issue. There is an email at the bottom – I almost sent them a big F you. But didn’t do it.
I agree that 9/11 Mysteries may be the best video intro to 9/11 by way of the demolitions issue. There is an interesting back story about how Bugsy Siegal’s nephew engaged the most powerful law firm in Chicago to harass the 9/11 Mysteries filmmaker for using a “proprietary” short clip of the demolitions filmed by someone who was probably set up to film them.
Riding subway trains in the evening of the fourteenth of this month, I saw our version of the little man from another place.
He was careful not to show his face.
My legs were tired, hours of walking that day, so we rode the elevator down to the metro line. I pressed and held the ‘open’ button to give him precedence, he gave a little salute to thank me for my politeness. Never showed his face.
It was spooky, he was just like the little man from another place, except an introvert, not an extrovert.
I think that some kind of synchrocity to do with David Lynch had been in play.
Fortunately
Mr Lynch was honest enough to say
that the issues regarding 9/11 created a lot of questions but no real answers. I ha forgotten about “Straight Story” another delightful film, until I read the American Conservatice on Mr Lynch.
When I read on Wikipedia that Lynch’s Dune was homophobic I was overjoyed. The world’s greatest film just got even better.
It wasn’t the “American” government behind the 911/anthrax attacks
It was Israelis with the help of American traitors
Who benefited from the US entangling itself in the ME because of the 911 false flag attack?
Only fake Jews and Israel
9/11 committed by evil joooz and their evil honky friends.
That’s where the blame lies.
The vast majority of honkyz don’t really know the amount of power, jooooz have over the usa and world in general.
The quotes by baby murderer Netanyahu about “America the Golden Calf” and “who runs America” should be in Normie’s faces on a regular basis…
it may spread the message, and get us to Expulsion #110.
The Lynch mob I believe.