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Listen to these wonderful excerpts (Podcast 41: David Lynch)--very interesting. Produced by Penguin Books.

Includes a passage from "Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness and Creativity" read by David Lynch.

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HEALTH AND ENLIGHTENMENT THROUGH TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION

More than once, Mickey Settle's students at Lafayette High School wanted to know what she was smoking. Even today, it's not hard to see why.

The retired English teacher's ebullient conversational manner and positive attitude would be difficult for the average person to match without pharmaceutical assistance, but Settle has found her own drug-free path to personal peace and satisfaction - 35 years of practicing transcendental meditation along with her husband, Howard.

Today, Settle spends much of her time as the unofficial lady of Lexington's Maharishi Peace Palace, a mansion-like estate that serves as an educational center for the techniques of transcendental meditation, or "TM," at the heart of Coldstream Research Park.

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Transcendental Meditation
Reduces Congestive Heart Failure,
New Study Shows

(MARCH 1, 2007) A widely practiced, stress-reducing meditation technique significantly decreases the severity of congestive heart failure, according to a first-of-its-kind randomized study published in Ethnicity & Disease (Winter 2007).

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Transcendental meditation still flowers
Transcending the times

Kansas City Star

After a bright turn in the psychedelic limelight of the 1960s, when it was embraced by celebrities such as the Beatles and Donovan, it seemed to go the way of bell bottoms, flower power and love beads.

But others maintain that it has never gone away.

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Filmmaker Lynch finds peace with Transcendental Meditation

Fort Worth Star Telegram

David Lynch, who has practiced Transcendental Meditation for years, says he wants to raise money for consciousness-based education. How much? "I say $7 billion would get a real good start," he says.

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Transcendental Meditation makes a comeback

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Filmmaker David Lynch is among those bringing new attention to a discipline that gained favor in the 1960s.

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