Around the dinner table, the conversation was lively. Thank you but for now, the forum has been archived.
Maharishi believed that the world is in chaos because most people aren't using total brain. That is to say, people aren't using the left, right, neo-cortex, amygdala, pineal, etc. in harmonious balance. Indeed our world and especially America, seems to be left-brained and amygdala dominant. David Lynch is a studier of Maharishi's teachings as well as Vedic scriptures. What that scene said to me based on the words of EvilCoop saying my arm hurts when it's over here on both sides, and my arm feels comfortable right in the middle, is that inner peace and the peace of the world depends on harmonious balance of the brain and human nervous system. It's a way for him to express his personal philosophy without beating you over the head with it. And of course like all of his art, that's my interpretation.
Well, I don't know anything about that so I didn't get any of that.
What I did notice about that segment is the palette...lots of greys and muted colors, like you see in a lot of modern action movies. The building was also something right out of a Transporter or Punisher film or something. Lynch might have been poking a little fun at the genre there.
I would be surprised if that scene and interaction had anything to do with spiritual balance. It was a display of power and dominance. He was toying with bald dude, "see what I can do to you?" IMO, there was no balance about it, it was all one sided.
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