Diving Within

A Universidade de Berkeley convidou três personalidades para falar sobre o tema "Consciência, Criatividade e Cérebro":

– David Lynch
– John Hagelin
– Fred Travis

Basicamente toda a conversa anda à volta do tema da meditação transcendental e da sua influência sobre o cérebro, paz interior e criatividade.
Há uma observação em directo do que se passa ao nível das ondas cerebrais quando se medita (com um voluntário que se submete a um electroencefalograma).

Ordem dos oradores:
–David Lynch (que responde a perguntas do público sobre os seus filmes e a sua experiência de 32 anos a meditar)

–John Hagelin (que fala sobre como a ciência explica o processo do Diving Within: minuto 0:47:10)

–Fred Travis (que explica o que se passa ao nível do cérebro quando se medita).

– David Lynch (volta a responder a mais perguntas do público)

Tópicos da intervenção de David Lynch:

– "I amness", consciousness is here, there and everywhere. It's an abstraction.
– Consciousness grows and the result is enlightenment.
– True happiness lies within.
– The side effect to experiencing pure consciousness is that negativity starts to receed.
– On the surface we are all different, which is always gonna be, but underneath we're all one.
– Depression, Prozac, Ritalin
– Coincidence
– Intuition grows
– If you want to understand my films start meditating
– Descrição do processo de meditação (minuto 0:45:00)

Tópicos da intervenção de John Hagelin:

– The experience of the inner unity.
– The holistic experience (meditative state). It has with it a remarkable transformation and correlation in the functioning of the human brain. A complete transformation, so dramatically different from waking, that the meditative state is now considered to be a fourth major state of consciousness, distinct from waking, dreaming and sleeping.
– The phenomenon of atention.
– The self (0:54:38) with the big "S", the atman. The only thing in our lives that never changes.
– The meditative state engages the total brain.

Tópicos da intervenção de Fred Travis:

– Brain functioning shapes the content of daily experience.
– On the brain level we are constantly recreating networks which constantly recreate our reality.
– All experiences change the brain.
– If you want to develop certain parts of your brain, you have to have specific experiences.
– Transcending builds frontal connections in the brain.

Tópicos da 2ª intervenção de David Lynch:

– Mullholand Drive
– To "feel think"
– To live inside the ideas and being true to them
– Music "unlocks" a lot of things
– Film is a lot like music because it is a flowing of things in time
– "Water the roots and enjoy the fruit" (Maharashi Yogi)
– Meditation. peace and health
– Dreams. What happens in the physical body and brain during dreaming
– Absence of war and negativity
–Transcendental meditation vs social activism
– Solving the problem from underneath. Not from the level of the problem, but from underneath it.

(entretanto descobri que existe legendado em português).

Outros links:
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The David Lynch foundation
Atman
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