Consciousness,+Creativity,+and+Brain

=[|Consciousness, Creativity & the Brain]= In this University of Washington program, award-winning writer, director, and producer ** David Lynch ** discusses his films and his 30-year relationship with Transcendental Meditation, and its role in his creative process. He is joined by physicist John Hagelin, who was featured in the documentary 'What The Bleep Do We Know?' and neuroscientist Dr. Fred Travis, Director of the Center for Brain, Consciousness, and Cognition at Maharishi University of Management. The program is sponsored in joint partnership by the College of Arts and Sciences and the University of Washington Alumni Association. Lynch was born in [|Missoula], [|Montana] on January 20, 1946.[|[][|12][|]][|[][|13][|]] His father, Donald Walton Lynch, was a research scientist working for the [|U.S. Department of Agriculture], and his mother, Edwina "Sunny" Lynch (née Sundholm), was an English language [|tutor][|[][|12][|]] whose grandfather's parents had immigrated to the United States from [|Finland] in the 19th century. Lynch was raised a [|Presbyterian].[|[][|14][|]][|[][|15][|]] Due to Donald's job, the Lynch family often moved around according to where the Department of Agriculture assigned him. It was because of this that when he was two months old, David Lynch moved with his parents to [|Sandpoint, Idaho], and only two years after that, following the birth of his brother John, the family again moved, this time to [|Spokane, Washington]. It was here that his sister Martha was born, before they once more moved, this time to [|Durham, North Carolina], then to [|Boise, Idaho] and then to [|Alexandria, Virginia].[|[][|13][|]] Lynch found this transitory early life relatively easy to adjust to, noting that he found it fairly easy to meet new friends whenever he started attending a new school.[|[][|16][|]] Commenting on much of his early life, Lynch has remarked that "I found the world completely and totally fantastic as a child. Of course, I had the usual fears, like going to school… For me, back then, school was a crime against young people. It destroyed the seeds of liberty. The teachers didn't encourage knowledge or a positive attitude."[|[][|17][|]] Alongside this schooling, his father made him join the [|Boy Scouts], although he would later note that he only "became one so I could quit, and put it behind me." He rose to the highest rank of [|Eagle Scout]. It was through being an Eagle Scout that he was present with other Boy Scouts outside of the [|White House] at the [|inauguration] of President [|John F. Kennedy], which took place on Lynch's birthday in 1961.