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Jan 19

The Big Fish

Hello 🙂 

How are you?

I was very sad to hear of the death of David Lynch a few days ago. He was an incredibly important influence on my family, friends and I. I actually consider him to be a creative genius and the greatest director of all time. By 1991, his work had taken London by storm…it was a massive thing. Responding to a question about the success of his series ‘Twin Peaks’, David told Patti Smith, “Do what you believe in.” 

Kyle MacLachlan, who starred as Agent Dale Cooper in that series, wrote in tribute : “He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are.” Beautiful in standalone, as an observation about the way of things, his remark also reminded me that I had once heard Adyashanti saying, “I haven’t come to answer your questions but to question your answers.” Of course, I am not making any of the three the same, but it is true that Lynch was an avid meditator. Tomorrow, which would have been his 79th Birthday, his four children have called for a 10 minute worldwide meditation in honour of their father. It is at 8pm London time. You can read more about it here (thank you Shannon Chamberlain for this) :-

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/david-lynch-children-worldwide-group-meditation-1236278181/

Steven Spielberg has described Lynch as “a singular visionary dreamer who directed films that felt handmade.” When I found out he had died, I had a similar reaction to that of when my father died, in that I felt no resistance at all but rather a sense of aligned Truth, whilst also experiencing love and loss (though to very differing degrees in each case). The strange thing is, a day or so before Lynch’s death I decided to make the following list :-

Top 6 TV series of all time :-

  1. Twin Peaks
  2. I May Destroy You
  3. Peaky Blinders
  4. Succession
  5. Girls
  6. Chewing Gum

Again uncannily, the evening before my father Roger Nokes died (which was completely sudden and unexpected), my brother and I were with him compiling lists of the best films of all time! We were having such a laugh together with it… Maybe realising it was a type of futile madness to rate creativity like this, and yet somehow compelled, perhaps out of sheer passion for the work we had all been exposed to over many decades and different eras in history. 

The next Free Online Group Healing is this Friday 24th Jan @ 1pm London time. If you feel drawn to do so, please let your friends / fam / etc. know by sharing this link with them. 

Please book your place if you can remain on Zoom for the duration (1hr) in a quiet space free from distractions. Thank you 🙏

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https://www.anthonygorman.org/Foundational.html

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Love,

xDaisy