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Catching the Big Fish

Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

By David Lynch

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| Paperback | 9781585426126

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In this "unexpected delight,"* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David Lynch's Catching the Big Fish proContinue

In this "unexpected delight,"* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David Lynch's Catching the Big Fish provides a rare window into the internationally acclaimed filmmaker's methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. Catching the Big Fish comes as a revelation to the legion of fans who have longed to better understand Lynch's personal vision. And it is equally compelling to those who wonder how they can nurture their own creativity. Catching Ideas Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful. I look for a certain kind of fish that is important to me, one that can translate to cinema. But there are all kinds of fish swimming down there. There are fish for business, fish for sports. There are fish for everything. Everything, anything that is a thing, comes up from the deepest level. Modern physics calls that level the Unified Field. The more your consciousness-your awareness-is expanded, the deeper you go toward this source, and the bigger the fish you can catch. -from Catching the Big Fish

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  • Catching the Big Fish: Meditation Consciousness and Creativity

    Where do we go to find a decent idea? It's not like you can hop down to the local Bob's Big Boy and order up the seed for good short story and an order of fries. Not unless you're David Lynch, who does exactly that. 'Catching the Big Fish' is Lynch's ... (read full critics)

    bookotron published on Sun, 12 Sep 2010

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  • While providing some clear, lucid insights into his creative process, how he worked before discovering transcendental meditation, and interesting trivia such as descriptions of happy accidents on how his films are made and what Kubrick’s favourite film was (“Eraserhead”, according to Lynch), there’s ... (continue)

    While providing some clear, lucid insights into his creative process, how he worked before discovering transcendental meditation, and interesting trivia such as descriptions of happy accidents on how his films are made and what Kubrick’s favourite film was (“Eraserhead”, according to Lynch), there’s also a downside.

    Lynch does get me interested in transcendental meditation, but the theme is so regurgitated and repeated throughout the entire book that he feels a bit like a cult member trying to lure you in. It’s very “transcendental meditation can cure anything, make you do anything, will overcome anything”. I particularly disliked the chapter where you’re to imagine you’re the Empire State Building and transcendental meditation is electric gold; just swap the junk in all your rooms for the electric gold and you’re all good. Yeah.

    To me, it all reeks of an empty promise, mainly because Lynch doesn’t explain how transcendental meditation works. And that knowledge, my dears, is expensive to attain.

    So, if you can shut the lid on that all-permeating aspect of the book, Lynch does bring interesting stream-of-consciousness stuff to the table, especially on how he’s overcome obstacles in his creative process and how he seems very open to new things that influence and come to him.

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    Niklas Pivic said on Mar 25, 2012 | Add your feedback

  • very practical advice from mr.lynch

    his movie is something very exceptional but it seems he is down to earth guy, really.

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    Lehkost84 said on Dec 14, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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