Wednesday, December 22, 2010

TM-Free News Brief, 22 December 2010

No News is Global Good News: The near-total lack of serious news coverage of last week's David Lynch Foundation press conference and gala titled "Change Begins Within II" seems to have stymied the editors of the TM organization's news processing operation, "Global Good News" (GGN). Their story of December 19 refers to "extensive media coverage" of the event. One slight problem. It appears that most of the references in this story refer to one single news article distributed worldwide by the Agence France-Presse newswire and picked up by numerous outlets. All these "reports around the world" are hard to identify (GGN won't offer links) but the usual search engines, including Google News, detect no other hard-news reports not already covered here on the blog.

Other than the vague reference to the apparent worldwide resending of the AFP story, the only reference to a specific article by GGN is to the Telegraph (UK) article entitled "David Lynch and Russell Brand hawk meditation for traumatised veterans: is that really wise?" This article by the Telegraph's film columnist, which clearly emphasizes caution when dealing with those who "are pushing transcendental mediation," and ends with the suggestion, "maybe they could leave the more specific prescriptions to the medics," probably wasn't the kind of glowingly supportive press coverage Lynch and TM organization heads were hoping for.


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Rose McGowan: "You know they’re all lying. None of these bitches meditate." One of the hazards of gathering a stable of celebrities to endorse/support/finance your product at such a gala event is that organizers, like David Lynch, have no control over what those celebs might say or do. Like Rose, here, who was picked up by the gossip/celeb columns of two New York mags/newspapers spilling the beans on what was actually happening. Read more about it here at the TM-Free Blog.


Now it's Performance Artists for TM: According to a report in the Gainesville Sun, Florida performance artist Tom Miller was to "watch every episode of the David Lynch TV-Series 'Twin Peaks' (including the European pilot) in a 30-hour stretch" through last Friday, for the benefit of Transcendental Meditation. He planned to eat only foods popularized on the show: coffee, cherry pie and doughnuts. Miller says, “I have found no evidence that anyone in the world has publicly achieved watching every episode of ‘Twin Peaks’ (plus the movie “Twin Peaks — Fire Walk With Me”) in one continuous sitting while only consuming coffee, cherry pie and doughnuts. I will be the first.” There's no word yet on whether Miller survived the onslaught of sugar and caffeine.


Briefly: Bill Coop has identified many TM organization related locations across the planet and created a Google Earth .kml file that locates them on the map. Want to find out where all those alleged billions of dollars went?   Here's your chance... One of the TM related files that appeared on Wikileaks last year has been reposted to (Yahoo group) Fairfield Life. The "Governor Recertification Course Overview of Policies and Procedures" document was purportedly written by Kingsley and Leslie Brooks... Here's installment number 534,296 of "TM will send you to hell."

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TM-Free News Brief, 22 December 2010. Published irregularly here on Wednesdays by Mike Doughney, who's solely responsible for its content unless otherwise noted. The News Brief will be on holiday hiatus until early-to-mid January.

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