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Are you still sleeping?

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When do you wanna get up?

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"Are you still sleeping?"

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You don't ask someone sleeping:
"Are you still sleeping?"

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You ask, I don't know,
something else,

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but: "Are you still sleeping?"
You treat me like a hamster.

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"Are you still sleeping?"

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I've asked you that before.
-Yes, but not like that.

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Marie had recently moved in with me.
That was great, but not easy.

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She was already working on her second novel.

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While I was pretty lost after finishing film school.

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My parents were still paying my rent.

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It's running.

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It's absurd.

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It just makes it wet.

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I wanted to make dark films like my idol David Lynch.

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But I was lacking the darkness.

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He was my age, when he completed his first masterpiece.

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Then I discovered this ad on the internet.

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A conference in America where David Lynch himself
was supposed to speak about the source of creativity.

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Was I going to find out where he got all of his ingenius ideas from?

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Do you know where my
sleeping bag is?

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Marie didn’t want me to go, but there was no stopping me!

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Are you crying because
you feel sick or you're sad?

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Both.

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I traveled to the middle of nowhere.
A place called Fairfield, Iowa, in America’s Mid-West

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What in the world made David Lynch leave Hollywood for this?

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Transcendental Meditation plays an important part in his life.

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But he had never spoken about it in public.

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Now he has invited his fans to the Maharishi University,
which was founded by an Indian Guru.

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And sure enough – there he was!

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Hello, Mr. Lynch. I wanted
to ask you, why after, why

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exactly after meditating
for 32 years in privacy,

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why have you gone to the public
now at this moment? And how does

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the work for the foundation
affect your work as a filmmaker?

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It takes time away from filmmaking for sure.

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And one of the things I liked
about transcendental meditation is:

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you learn this technique

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and you just add it to your life and
go about business.

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I enjoy the doing more. I love the doing more.

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And I think the intuition and the catching of ideas gets easier.

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It’s money in the bank

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to take that trip.

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Every one of you. You sit
in a chair, comfortably, you

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close your eyes, you start
a mantra, and you go within.

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It’s so beautiful to dive within.

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And it’s diving into the big Self.

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David Lynch isn’t the only celebrity here this weekend.

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Donovan, the 60ies
superstar dedicates his

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performance to the
founder of the TM movement

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Maharishi,

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a mysterious figure, maybe to many of you here.

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A true Yogi initiated me finally

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in a house in Beverly Hills.

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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who Donovan
is singing about and whose meditation

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David Lynch is so fond of, became world
famous for being the Beatles’ Guru.

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What was it about Maharishi
that fascinated these great artists?

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Me and the Beatles,

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we used to sit and talk about how
we would learn, how to meditate,

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because we were wishing to sing songs

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for peace and brotherhood.

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We knew that the Western
philosophy and wisdom had been lost.

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So we looked to the East and
wondered where the answer to

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this suffering of the 20th
century was going to be found

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And it was clear.

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This was the answer.

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Now we could give the
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an alternative way to
enter the inner world.

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So when we came back
from India, we gave this

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meditation from Maharishi
to millions of fans.

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The conference climaxes
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Maharishi from his
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The old Guru speaks to the public for the first time in many years

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Young students!

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I have only only one advice:

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Go by the advice

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that you have received
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Dr. Lynch.

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You read the papers, you watch TV,
you listen to the radio, there’s nothing,

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nothing but problems…

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…and half-baked, ridiculous, absurd solutions.

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You don’t have to believe that this
peace creating group will bring peace to earth,

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but why not give it a try?

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I have got to meet
David Lynch in person

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to really understand
Transcendental Meditation.

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But getting to him is difficult.

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Marie is my lucky charm!

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A big German newspaper assigned her to interview David Lynch.

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She made the trip
although we were uncertain

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if the great master
would meet with us.

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You're so stupid!

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You scared the shit
out of me.

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I can't believe it.

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How do you taste? How are you?
How do you feel?

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So, what's up?

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Tomorrow at 11 a.m.

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you'll be sitting
with David Lynch

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in a room with a fireplace

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at an Ayurveda Hotel.
We'll have 40 minutes.

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You too? Both of us?
-Yes.

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Ok. I'm super prepared.

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She was more than prepared to face the master director.

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Should I sit here?

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Yeah, that’s your place. Oh.
You got a coin for luck. It’s fine.

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No, I am gonna give it to you, ‘cause it was tails up.

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So. That’s for you.

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I sit down and I close
my eyes and I start this mantra.

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And as I say, it was as if I was in
an elevator and they snipped the cables

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and wooooo down, out, all over huge bliss,

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and a feeling that is like so powerful.

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And I said wow, what is going on?

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All the different words that make up negativity,
all those things start to melt away,

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and I say, it’s like we are all,
you know, you know, for one reason

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or another in this suffocating
rubber clown’s suit of negativity.

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And it is real stinky rubber.

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And why do we wanna be clowns?

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And I say the main thing is the enjoyment of doing

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the enjoyment of doing
and the ability to focus more

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and really get in.

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And a kind of understanding grows.

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And when you’re in your work,
it just starts talking to you more.

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And it’s blissful more.

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It’s not like you dive in once
and you say I am enlightened.

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You dive in every day. Regular as clockwork.
It's a real German thing.

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And you just do it.
And you watch things get better.

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For a filmmaker you wanna
get the best teacher you can get,

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and for studying life
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you wanna get the best
teacher you can get.

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Ok, thank you David.

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That’s it? Hey, well,
good luck to you, David, on your film.

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Be a strong proponent, and enjoy life,
and enjoy your filmmaking

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and you’re gonna zoom forward, you’ll see.

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Wherever you are now, you may be fine, but
you’ll just go quickly zzzzz.

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Animated by David Lynch’s words,
I want to take a closer look at the campus.

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The heart of the Maharishi
University is the Golden Dome.

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Here the meditators
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First comes the standard meditation.
Then something more advanced: Yogic Flying

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It looks more like hopping.
But it’s supposed to increase creativity and intuition.

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I have to get into the mood.

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The Maharishi University
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What we find, their level of
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their performance on tasks improves,

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their moral, emotional
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moral reasoning goes
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My brain wave reading isn’t very encouraging.

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In fact it’s a total mess.

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I’m light-years away from the
consciousness of a Yogic Flyer.

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I have to change something.

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For my introductory course
I’m directed to the German

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Transcendental Meditation
headquarters in Hanover

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also known as the ‘Peace Palace’.

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Here I’m assigned a TM teacher.

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I bring along the prescribed offerings:

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Six fresh flowers, sweet
fruits, a white handkerchief and

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two thousand-three-hundred-and-eighty
Euros – in cash.

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That is the tradition.

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The river of knowledge runs

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until it finally reaches Guru Dev.

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He was the last keeper
of this knowledge.

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He passed it on to Maharishi
who spread it around the world.

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Everyone gets their personal mantra.

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The mantra has no meaning.
It is pure sound.

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So the mind can let go.

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The mantra helps
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and go within.

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It is very important that everyone
has their correct mantra.

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What are the criteria for
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Well, as TM teachers,

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we can't talk about it.

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This morning I receive my personal mantra.

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An Indian word in
Sanskrit, that I may never

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under any
circumstance - tell anyone.

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I am to repeat it silently for the rest
of my life twice a day for twenty minutes.

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We’re not permitted to film the initiation ceremony

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This meditation increases health
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But there is more to it:

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TM brings enlightenment.

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We are very lucky to have
a master in our times

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who can give everyone
this technique to enlightenment.

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That is Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

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What have I gotten myself into?

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Is TM really strictly scientific,
non-religious as they claim?

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Yet while meditating these questions fade away.

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During the weekly group
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I feel deeply
connected and self-assured.

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It’s just as David Lynch had predicted.

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My doubts and fears begin to dissipate.

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With the help of my
mantra, I learn to tame the

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monkey in my head and
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Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut.

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But life goes on.

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Marie is back in New York,
where she grew up.

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We are separated for months.

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Why do you want me to
write about you?

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You don't have to
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just spend
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OK. I will.

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But I gotta run now.

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When I meditate I feel
wonderfully in tune with the world.

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But afterwards I’m still
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February 6th, two thousand-eight.
I receive news of Maharsihi’s death.

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I had always hoped to meet him.

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I rush to India and get there
just in time for Maharishi’s funeral.

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It’s in Allahabad,
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Tens of thousands of pilgrims have come
to pay their last tribute to the Guru.

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In his final years Maharishi was a total recluse.

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Only in death,
can one be close to him again.

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I never expected the
TM movement to be this big!

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Rose petals fall from the sky.
And the cremation is conducted like a state funeral.

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The VIP seats are given to the Rajas.

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Crowned by Maharishi shortly before his death
these are the governors of his empire.

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The leader of the Rajas is the
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According to custom, Maharishi’s family
overseas the cremation and collects his ashes.

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His three nephews are especially important.
They’re supposed to control TM’s finances.

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Maharishi’s estate is estimated
to be worth several billion dollars.

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Can Maharishi’s successor keep the movement together?

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His soul was limited in the body.

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Now his body a universal
body has become.

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So here I was

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in a most incredible ceremony

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for, you know, his Holiness,
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to the world, totality to the world.

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And there I am in India.

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And there I am the next day

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in the little boots going to the Sang Gam

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in this moment in time,

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getting into the Ganges,

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dipping three times after saying my prayers

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at the same moment some of
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I feel, you know, Maharishi is as
lively and here and there as ever before.

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And everything is beautiful.

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If you deal with the truth,
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that lived and that is so
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don’t you think, that’s rather,
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Some people have different
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Yes, but so

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you have to say that according to
your level of truth, your take

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And so you be true to yourself
in being true to that person.

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When you go about, stay alert.

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And not forced staying alert. Stay alert

243
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and things come and ideas
come that will, you know,

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show you the way.

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Things are starting to pick up
for me back in Berlin.

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00:28:52,076 --> 00:28:54,599
“It’s money in the bank”, David Lynch promised.

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00:28:54,623 --> 00:28:57,669
And sure enough, my movie finally got funding

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My financial crisis is over. At least for now.

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Marie has announced her
return from New York.

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And I want to surprise her by creating
a home she’ll fall in love with.

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My dark days are over.

252
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It’s time for enlightenment.

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From now on I’m going to trust my intuition
and finally make my ideas into films.

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Marie’s Romanian grandmother is ready to help.

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Here is your position.

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We want to use this curtain...

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to hide you behind it...

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and surprise Marie.
-Exactly.

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The idea is that you're
sitting behind the curtain

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and Marie doesn't know
you're there.

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00:30:05,849 --> 00:30:07,849
What should I do next?

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00:30:09,017 --> 00:30:12,267
Marie doesn't know her grandma
is behind the curtain

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because it's closed.

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00:30:14,476 --> 00:30:16,434
David, what's going on?

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00:30:19,267 --> 00:30:21,434
What did you do?
How amazing!

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What a beautiful curtain!

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00:30:23,933 --> 00:30:28,559
That's your cue, that's when
you say something...

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What could you say?

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You call her name.
-I'll say Marie, just Marie.

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Very loving and soft.

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Outside it snows quietly.

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Inside the fire burns.

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Grandma!

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What are you doing here?

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Marie, look. I am
giving you a magic key.

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The beautiful prince

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gives the beautiful princess
the magic key.

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This hair!

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Come on in.

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Grandma! How long have you
been sitting in the dark?

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00:31:56,684 --> 00:32:01,434
Oh my God!
-Why? I wanted to surprise you.

282
00:32:02,392 --> 00:32:04,225
That's terrible.

283
00:32:04,476 --> 00:32:06,601
How long have you
been sitting here?

284
00:32:10,351 --> 00:32:12,601
Now I can never leave again!

285
00:32:12,849 --> 00:32:16,933
This vase? Did you buy a vase?
-I bought a vase.

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00:32:17,225 --> 00:32:19,267
And flowers.
How beautiful!

287
00:32:19,726 --> 00:32:22,559
Everywhere little goblins
and poems

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00:32:22,726 --> 00:32:24,849
and candles and a new lamp.

289
00:32:25,100 --> 00:32:26,684
What did you do?

290
00:32:30,017 --> 00:32:31,975
How beautiful!

291
00:32:33,142 --> 00:32:35,768
You're so sweet!

292
00:32:41,882 --> 00:32:44,281
But even though Marie likes the new apartment,

293
00:32:45,132 --> 00:32:48,538
ten days later she’s gone. Back to New York.

294
00:32:54,381 --> 00:32:58,303
At least now I can fully concentrate
on Transcendental Meditation again.

295
00:32:59,045 --> 00:33:01,615
Maharishi recommends abstinence anyway.

296
00:33:12,593 --> 00:33:16,999
I travel to Holland, to the
TM World Center, the Rajas’ headquarters.

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00:33:19,062 --> 00:33:23,289
I gained the trust of the TM leadership,
while filming Maharishi’s funeral.

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00:33:24,203 --> 00:33:28,187
They permit me to film ‘Guru Purnima’.
The Guru’s Festival.

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This gathering is also the
organization’s annual meeting.

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It’s the first one since
Maharishi passed away.

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00:33:40,546 --> 00:33:43,890
Until his death, Maharishi
controlled his empire from here.

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00:33:44,742 --> 00:33:47,242
His favourite instrument is played in his honor.

303
00:34:00,325 --> 00:34:03,885
As a promising new follower my
camera team and I are allowed

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00:34:03,910 --> 00:34:07,411
unrestricted access to the nerve
center of the organization.

305
00:34:12,099 --> 00:34:14,927
We can even attend an internal presentation.

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00:34:16,404 --> 00:34:20,192
The other side is construction, if you’d
calculate the amount of money to support ...

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00:34:20,217 --> 00:34:23,592
They are building a gigantic
settlement in the center of India.

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00:34:23,615 --> 00:34:25,990
TM is collecting millions for it’s construction.

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00:34:26,015 --> 00:34:31,092
Even in total it’s about
400 million dollars that’s required,

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00:34:31,117 --> 00:34:35,498
and 200 million dollars
we really have already,

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00:34:35,521 --> 00:34:40,527
probably about 65, 68 million dollars
is already gone into the Brahmastan.

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00:34:40,552 --> 00:34:43,050
So again about half way there.

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00:34:44,846 --> 00:34:49,135
The huge colony is designed
to be the capitol of world peace.

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Thousands of Yogic Flyers
will be settled here

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to bring heaven on earth
through meditation.

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00:34:54,205 --> 00:34:57,565
The project is financed
by TM followers worldwide.

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00:34:57,592 --> 00:35:01,411
And when it’s done
perpetual 8000

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Yogic Flying Vedic Pundits
doing that performance.

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00:35:05,358 --> 00:35:07,630
I’d like you all have
you join us there.

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00:35:07,655 --> 00:35:10,342
Because that’s where my wife
and I would like to be.

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00:35:10,365 --> 00:35:11,661
Heaven on earth.

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00:35:17,209 --> 00:35:21,107
Maharishi’s former palace.
Today the Maharaja lives there.

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00:35:22,365 --> 00:35:24,740
The Lebanese Harvard
graduate was Maharishi’s

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00:35:24,765 --> 00:35:28,022
personal doctor and one
of his closest confidants.

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00:35:28,709 --> 00:35:30,506
Today he is his successor.

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00:35:37,732 --> 00:35:41,201
He’s making his first appearance
on this holiest of days.

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Will he be accepted as the new leader?

328
00:36:39,757 --> 00:36:43,507
Guru Purnima, this is a very special day.

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00:36:43,687 --> 00:36:47,054
The fool moon in the middle of the year.

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00:36:47,079 --> 00:36:48,883
The fullest of the moons,

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00:36:49,836 --> 00:36:52,078
that is the day of the Guru.

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00:36:54,429 --> 00:36:56,265
This is the first one...

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00:36:58,945 --> 00:37:00,398
...without him.

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00:37:01,408 --> 00:37:04,267
How much we would have wanted to

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00:37:09,307 --> 00:37:10,953
offer to Maharishi

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00:37:11,596 --> 00:37:12,838
our achievements.

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00:37:14,742 --> 00:37:19,015
Before Maharishi left he said, “my work is done.”

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00:37:20,250 --> 00:37:23,297
And he gave us that responsibility

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00:37:24,234 --> 00:37:27,117
of upholding infinity

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00:37:27,789 --> 00:37:29,968
and creating heaven on earth.

341
00:37:31,039 --> 00:37:34,367
And that is what we
hope we can offer him

342
00:37:34,392 --> 00:37:38,155
on January 12, or the
next Guru Purnima.

343
00:37:53,786 --> 00:37:55,974
The Rajas’ applause is deceiptive.

344
00:37:56,919 --> 00:38:01,185
Less than one year after the Guru’s death,
a power struggle shakes his empire.

345
00:38:07,740 --> 00:38:11,865
The new leader’s authority is questioned
by a close confidant of Maharishi’s.

346
00:38:12,492 --> 00:38:14,499
I'm not saying anything new.

347
00:38:15,025 --> 00:38:16,968
You already know about it.

348
00:38:17,718 --> 00:38:22,320
I am just saying to just verify that
I am saying to you correct things.

349
00:38:22,726 --> 00:38:28,085
Maharishi’s old companion demands an
equal role. On par with the Maharaja.

350
00:38:28,109 --> 00:38:30,257
He says that it would
have been the Guru’s will.

351
00:38:30,984 --> 00:38:34,905
I support Maharishi to achieve his goals

352
00:38:34,930 --> 00:38:37,765
and whatever directions he has given.

353
00:38:38,820 --> 00:38:43,656
I will not support anything,
which is going against his will.

354
00:38:43,681 --> 00:38:47,014
You are going to lead the
movement in which way, in

355
00:38:47,039 --> 00:38:49,829
some direction, who is going
to give you the direction?

356
00:38:51,579 --> 00:38:53,462
When it’s apparent that
the Indian is truly

357
00:38:53,487 --> 00:38:56,486
challenging the Maharaja,
he’s instantly cut off.

358
00:38:59,767 --> 00:39:01,798
And we’re no longer allowed to film.

359
00:39:07,229 --> 00:39:10,174
I’m told that I can´t use the
footage we just shot

360
00:39:10,199 --> 00:39:13,432
and that the finished film will have
to be approved by the TM leadership.

361
00:39:15,315 --> 00:39:17,776
Raja Emanuel takes me under his wing.

362
00:39:19,601 --> 00:39:21,351
Should I take off
my shoes?

363
00:39:21,862 --> 00:39:24,042
The freshly crowned “King
of Germany” wants me to

364
00:39:24,067 --> 00:39:27,643
understand the basic idea
behind Maharishi’s peace plan.

365
00:39:28,392 --> 00:39:33,267
Invincibility means:
No enemy is born

366
00:39:33,768 --> 00:39:36,142
neither inside nor outside
of a country.

367
00:39:36,351 --> 00:39:38,601
So there's no negativity.

368
00:39:38,809 --> 00:39:41,142
Only when everyone's
your friend

369
00:39:41,267 --> 00:39:43,392
and you have no enemies,

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00:39:43,517 --> 00:39:45,225
you are invincible.

371
00:39:45,517 --> 00:39:48,684
Once you have to fight,
you are no longer invincible.

372
00:39:49,059 --> 00:39:53,059
All 80 million Germans
will live in harmony,

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00:39:53,559 --> 00:39:55,975
if one thousand Yogic Flyers

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00:39:56,351 --> 00:39:58,975
meditate at the same time
in one place in Germany.

375
00:39:59,184 --> 00:40:00,351
That's unbelievable.

376
00:40:00,601 --> 00:40:03,267
Maharishi has given us
all the knowledge.

377
00:40:03,434 --> 00:40:05,100
We don't need to develop
anything new.

378
00:40:05,392 --> 00:40:07,849
We simply need to use
Maharishi's knowledge

379
00:40:07,975 --> 00:40:10,392
and apply it to society.

380
00:40:37,356 --> 00:40:39,833
Is this how TM imagines heaven on earth?

381
00:40:41,411 --> 00:40:45,739
A bunch of kings who speak of
world peace but silence critical voices?

382
00:40:48,423 --> 00:40:50,985
Yogic Flyers making Germany invincible.

383
00:40:51,845 --> 00:40:53,563
Where do these ideas come from?

384
00:41:12,913 --> 00:41:16,624
The idea of invincibility came
to Maharishi in Switzerland.

385
00:41:17,749 --> 00:41:21,593
By the early seventies his movement
had grown into a global organization.

386
00:41:21,618 --> 00:41:23,937
The Guru purchased two luxury Hotels.

387
00:41:24,632 --> 00:41:28,554
Here, he founded his world government
and developed Yogic Flying,

388
00:41:28,579 --> 00:41:31,303
a meditation technique
which defies gravity

389
00:41:31,328 --> 00:41:34,047
and allows one to float
weightlessly in the air.

390
00:41:38,559 --> 00:41:43,975
Maharishi always wanted to
integrate silence into activity.

391
00:41:44,559 --> 00:41:48,768
If you can keep this inner silence,
no matter what you do,

392
00:41:48,975 --> 00:41:50,559
you are enlightened.

393
00:41:50,850 --> 00:41:54,809
And you can only float and fly,

394
00:41:55,017 --> 00:41:58,850
once you have the inner silence
present at all times,

395
00:41:59,017 --> 00:42:00,476
no matter what happens.

396
00:42:00,642 --> 00:42:03,351
Have you ever seen anyone fly?

397
00:42:03,726 --> 00:42:06,142
I have not.

398
00:42:06,476 --> 00:42:10,225
But we all have
experienced moments

399
00:42:11,267 --> 00:42:16,351
when you feel a sort of lifting
and don't fall back right away.

400
00:42:16,768 --> 00:42:22,059
Maharishi must have been
enlightened and able to fly.

401
00:42:22,267 --> 00:42:24,601
-Right.
-Why didn't he demonstrate it?

402
00:42:24,809 --> 00:42:27,850
Because he was
a very humble man.

403
00:42:41,783 --> 00:42:45,189
In the parliamentary hall of the
former TM world government

404
00:42:45,214 --> 00:42:49,095
Raja Felix conducts a ceremony
for Swiss Independence Day

405
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:51,126
just like in Maharishi’s times.

406
00:42:58,391 --> 00:43:01,382
At the time Switzerland was the
richest country in the world.

407
00:43:01,407 --> 00:43:05,539
It's success was attributed to the
positive energy of the Yogic Flyers.

408
00:43:11,156 --> 00:43:14,414
The most loyal and
wealthiest of Maharishi’s followers

409
00:43:14,439 --> 00:43:17,789
were chosen to be governors and
ministers in his world parliament.

410
00:43:18,705 --> 00:43:21,541
To become a Raja, you better have deep pockets.

411
00:43:24,392 --> 00:43:28,933
I found a website, where
I can register for the Raja training.

412
00:43:29,476 --> 00:43:32,225
But I'd have to pay one
million dollars.

413
00:43:32,684 --> 00:43:35,225
How did you raise
that kind of money?

414
00:43:36,309 --> 00:43:38,559
Through a miracle.

415
00:43:40,225 --> 00:43:43,017
I have a hardworking wife.

416
00:43:43,517 --> 00:43:46,476
She was a very successful
meditation teacher

417
00:43:47,267 --> 00:43:49,642
but she didn't make enough.

418
00:43:50,726 --> 00:43:54,184
One day she mentioned
to a friend,

419
00:43:54,517 --> 00:43:57,267
very subtly, in a restaurant

420
00:43:58,017 --> 00:44:02,975
that she wanted to do it
but didn't have enough.

421
00:44:04,184 --> 00:44:06,850
Then her friend said:

422
00:44:07,392 --> 00:44:09,726
"Why didn't you tell me
this before?

423
00:44:09,933 --> 00:44:13,309
I'm willing to pay
the difference."

424
00:44:13,726 --> 00:44:16,975
And so the registration
was sent out

425
00:44:17,225 --> 00:44:20,849
and both of us took off to
the Raja training course.

426
00:44:37,128 --> 00:44:39,433
I still enjoy meditating regularly.

427
00:44:41,316 --> 00:44:45,183
But to me TM seems more
like a clever business plan.

428
00:44:46,902 --> 00:44:49,207
Some believe that enlightenment is for sale.

429
00:45:01,992 --> 00:45:03,992
Germany is graced with royalty.

430
00:45:04,547 --> 00:45:07,661
On his European TM tour
David Lynch stops in Berlin

431
00:45:07,686 --> 00:45:10,680
to present a new educational
system to the public.

432
00:45:13,870 --> 00:45:15,378
Thank you very much everybody.

433
00:45:17,503 --> 00:45:19,721
Very good to be here
in Berlin with you all.

434
00:45:19,746 --> 00:45:24,432
And we’re here today
establishing this invincible

435
00:45:25,378 --> 00:45:27,300
Germany University.

436
00:45:27,329 --> 00:45:33,087
This University will be different than
other Universities with the addition

437
00:45:33,112 --> 00:45:38,735
of this technique to open the door
to the transcendent enlightenment.

438
00:45:48,933 --> 00:45:52,559
I was crowned Raja of Germany

439
00:45:52,892 --> 00:45:57,184
to crown Germany
with invincibility.

440
00:45:59,392 --> 00:46:02,849
Today we bought
the 'Devil's Mountain',

441
00:46:03,059 --> 00:46:08,059
where we will build the tower
of invincibility for Germany!

442
00:46:11,517 --> 00:46:14,392
But who's attacking us?
Invincible against whom?

443
00:46:14,559 --> 00:46:16,850
I'm a good German.

444
00:46:16,975 --> 00:46:20,434
I'm a German who wants to
make Germany invincible.

445
00:46:20,559 --> 00:46:22,225
That's what
Adolf Hitler wanted...

446
00:46:22,351 --> 00:46:23,975
...but unfortunately
he couldn't do it

447
00:46:24,142 --> 00:46:26,309
because he didn't have
the right technique.

448
00:46:31,809 --> 00:46:34,142
You are a charlatan!

449
00:46:35,726 --> 00:46:36,559
Pardon?

450
00:46:36,849 --> 00:46:38,975
You're showing us
very bad theatre!

451
00:46:40,059 --> 00:46:42,017
And you wanna be
our new king?

452
00:46:42,142 --> 00:46:43,351
Pathetic fool!

453
00:46:43,517 --> 00:46:45,809
Yeah really! Pathetic fool.

454
00:46:46,157 --> 00:46:50,032
Words, we understand, trigger things in us.

455
00:46:50,057 --> 00:46:54,657
You all have a history. And Raja
Emanuel has triggered things,

456
00:46:54,682 --> 00:47:00,835
but he is a great human being, doing
something for Germany on the deepest level,

457
00:47:00,860 --> 00:47:02,446
on the deepest level.

458
00:47:06,446 --> 00:47:09,071
Inspite of everything,
the corner stone ceremony

459
00:47:09,096 --> 00:47:11,361
is held as planned
on “Devil’s Mountain”

460
00:47:11,386 --> 00:47:13,886
with Berlin’s TM community standing by.

461
00:47:17,238 --> 00:47:20,410
Which direction is east, Raja Emanuel?

462
00:47:20,730 --> 00:47:21,559
Over there.

463
00:47:33,212 --> 00:47:35,040
For invincible Germany.

464
00:47:47,236 --> 00:47:49,360
And then this one goes here.

465
00:47:53,017 --> 00:47:55,184
Invincible Germany,

466
00:47:55,642 --> 00:47:58,017
Invincible Germany.

467
00:48:09,892 --> 00:48:12,476
I would rather say
"strong Germany".

468
00:48:22,820 --> 00:48:25,039
As part of his extensive campaign,

469
00:48:25,062 --> 00:48:29,976
David Lynch has laid corner stones for
TM universities in fifteen countries.

470
00:48:31,039 --> 00:48:34,351
Nowhere has he gotten into
such hot waters as here in Berlin.

471
00:48:40,314 --> 00:48:43,813
The ‘Devil’s Mountain’ was built
from the rubble of World War II.

472
00:48:44,954 --> 00:48:48,829
During the Cold War the CIA
used it as a monitoring station.

473
00:48:57,407 --> 00:49:01,142
And now TM wants to build a
University of invincibility here?

474
00:49:06,431 --> 00:49:10,830
Does David Lynch really believe
Yogic Flyers will bring heaven to Berlin?

475
00:49:26,224 --> 00:49:28,677
I fly to New York to see Marie again.

476
00:49:30,248 --> 00:49:33,396
We have grown apart by being
separated for such a long time

477
00:49:34,076 --> 00:49:36,528
and now I seem to have some competition.

478
00:49:42,727 --> 00:49:44,969
Now she’s not so sure about us.

479
00:49:56,693 --> 00:49:58,685
David Lynch is in town as well.

480
00:50:03,295 --> 00:50:06,357
He is holding a press conference
to present his new project:

481
00:50:07,013 --> 00:50:09,685
Transcendental Meditation for school kids.

482
00:50:10,935 --> 00:50:15,802
This David Lynch Foundation for consciousness
based education and world peace

483
00:50:15,827 --> 00:50:19,324
raises money to give
transcendental education to

484
00:50:19,349 --> 00:50:22,700
any student anywhere in
the world who wants it.

485
00:50:22,725 --> 00:50:29,763
If we can get this to
one million kids, it’ll be huge.

486
00:50:29,788 --> 00:50:33,803
Welcome now: Ringo Star, Paul McCartney.

487
00:50:37,683 --> 00:50:42,535
It was a great gift that Maharishi gave us.
For me it came at a time

488
00:50:43,032 --> 00:50:47,485
when we were looking for
something to kind of stabilize us

489
00:50:49,172 --> 00:50:51,571
towards the end of the crazy 60ties.

490
00:50:51,594 --> 00:50:56,446
And it is. It’s a life long gift, you
know, it’s something that you can

491
00:50:57,969 --> 00:51:00,500
call on at any time.

492
00:51:00,525 --> 00:51:02,515
And I think, it’s a great thing.
I think, it’s a particular

493
00:51:02,540 --> 00:51:06,157
great thing, what David and
the foundation is doing,

494
00:51:06,182 --> 00:51:11,881
putting it in schools and allowing
kids to experience something

495
00:51:11,906 --> 00:51:15,595
that I don’t think they otherwise would
have had the chance to experience.

496
00:51:20,261 --> 00:51:24,878
While the stars are fund-raising, I meet
with a former TM governor and renegade.

497
00:51:25,698 --> 00:51:29,355
He says he’s given counseling to over two thousand TM dropouts.

498
00:51:30,144 --> 00:51:31,440
Many of the people that
I work with have been

499
00:51:31,465 --> 00:51:34,129
struggling with depression
for most of their life.

500
00:51:34,154 --> 00:51:38,218
In the TM movement we were
discouraged from getting medical help,

501
00:51:38,243 --> 00:51:40,709
traditional western
medical help or mental health…

502
00:51:41,147 --> 00:51:44,163
Supposedly Maharishi
exploited his followers

503
00:51:44,188 --> 00:51:47,241
through overpriced courses and
questionable herbal medicines

504
00:51:52,217 --> 00:51:54,296
I have to get to David Lynch.

505
00:51:57,483 --> 00:52:03,217
Ever since I refused to let the TM leadership
censor my movie the wind has changed.

506
00:52:04,778 --> 00:52:08,098
My interview requests are rejected
by the David Lynch Foundation.

507
00:52:18,609 --> 00:52:23,256
Finally, disguised as a Swiss TV crew
we manage to get an appointment.

508
00:52:25,663 --> 00:52:28,710
Unfortunately a TM assistant recognizes us.

509
00:52:29,864 --> 00:52:33,137
I don’t know what you are expecting
to get, there is no appointment for you.

510
00:52:33,162 --> 00:52:36,832
It’s an interview. For sure.
We’re here from Swiss television sent me over.

511
00:52:40,101 --> 00:52:40,874
Oh my God.

512
00:52:43,991 --> 00:52:48,358
Now we have to wait for his boss,
the David Lynch Foundation PR manager

513
00:52:53,726 --> 00:52:54,975
It's time to tell them

514
00:52:55,309 --> 00:52:59,517
not to treat you like
a film student anymore.

515
00:53:00,059 --> 00:53:02,184
That's not the right
strategy now.

516
00:53:02,434 --> 00:53:07,267
You have to act with a certain
degree of professionalism.

517
00:53:09,827 --> 00:53:11,085
I don’t think we have ever met.

518
00:53:12,413 --> 00:53:16,061
So the thing is,
David is not interested in -

519
00:53:16,147 --> 00:53:21,061
just to be perfectly blunt - in the
story that people make up stuff

520
00:53:22,045 --> 00:53:25,982
that says TM is a cult or
a religion, because it’s not.

521
00:53:26,024 --> 00:53:31,543
And there are people my
age largely, in the US,

522
00:53:31,576 --> 00:53:35,104
one or two people, we’re just
being completely straight foreward here,

523
00:53:35,129 --> 00:53:39,995
“oh, it’s a religion, it’s money making cult, Maharishi mind control.”

524
00:53:40,020 --> 00:53:42,034
Here is the thing, I have to tell you

525
00:53:42,581 --> 00:53:43,916
I’d like you to turn this off.

526
00:53:45,620 --> 00:53:49,441
After some negotiation, I’m finally
granted a ten-minute interview.

527
00:53:50,316 --> 00:53:53,784
But only under the condition
that I don’t ask critical questions.

528
00:53:55,798 --> 00:53:57,795
How can I face my idol now?

529
00:53:59,397 --> 00:54:01,998
Hey David, thank you for meeting you again.

530
00:54:02,412 --> 00:54:04,248
You want some water or some coffee?

531
00:54:04,273 --> 00:54:07,631
I am gonna get a Coca Cola soon. Thanks.

532
00:54:07,656 --> 00:54:08,834
Shall we just start or do you want...

533
00:54:08,859 --> 00:54:09,623
Start. Start. Start.

534
00:54:09,648 --> 00:54:10,271
...To wait for the Coca Cola?

535
00:54:10,296 --> 00:54:11,022
No, no, start, start.

536
00:54:12,937 --> 00:54:17,747
as I am doing research, I come across
many many strange stories. I feel like a

537
00:54:17,772 --> 00:54:22,687
detective, a bit like in Blue Velvet, suddenly
you hear something, you hear a sound...

538
00:54:22,712 --> 00:54:23,289
Sure, sure, sure...

539
00:54:23,314 --> 00:54:27,594
Or you find an ear in the grass
and you wonder what’s it’s all about.

540
00:54:27,619 --> 00:54:30,109
People come to me, and
stories come to me a lot and

541
00:54:30,134 --> 00:54:33,353
I, it’s hard to tell, what’s
right and what’s wrong.

542
00:54:33,378 --> 00:54:36,338
Also with Maharishi.
It’s very controversial. You know.

543
00:54:36,363 --> 00:54:39,096
What’s controversial?
There’s nothing really controversial.

544
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:41,978
What would you say is controversial?

545
00:54:42,525 --> 00:54:45,634
It’s strange to have a
spiritual organization

546
00:54:45,659 --> 00:54:49,643
to have so many
business-oriented products.

547
00:54:51,392 --> 00:54:57,111
So beautiful. You know, if you
want to take a Vitamin called

548
00:54:57,136 --> 00:55:01,783
Amarit, you better hope
there’s a business behind it.

549
00:55:01,808 --> 00:55:04,595
You better hope somebody
is manufacturing it.

550
00:55:04,620 --> 00:55:07,104
’Cause it does so much
good for the body.

551
00:55:07,129 --> 00:55:12,775
So you can go and you can order it,
you can go to a store some places and get it.

552
00:55:13,361 --> 00:55:16,533
And this is beautiful.
Whereas before you couldn’t.

553
00:55:16,558 --> 00:55:20,609
So to me, there is nothing
out there as great as

554
00:55:20,634 --> 00:55:23,534
the initial teaching of
transcendental mediation.

555
00:55:23,559 --> 00:55:26,775
That’s the number one thing.
That’s what Maharishi started with,

556
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:28,228
effortless transcending.

557
00:55:28,854 --> 00:55:33,698
The rest frosting on the cake.
Frosting on the cake.

558
00:55:33,723 --> 00:55:38,921
And an organization, so,
if you wanna learn to meditate,

559
00:55:38,946 --> 00:55:44,446
you can go somewhere and
find a teacher, a legitimate teacher.

560
00:55:44,472 --> 00:55:49,472
And it needs an organization.
Somebody has to train these teachers,

561
00:55:49,499 --> 00:55:52,825
and, and all this stuff has to be organized.

562
00:55:52,850 --> 00:55:59,611
And now there is a beautiful
bunch working 24/7 like Maharishi

563
00:55:59,636 --> 00:56:05,973
to make peace in the world, to bring
enlightenment, full potential to the individual.

564
00:56:06,009 --> 00:56:11,070
Huge. Nobody did that.
Nobody did what Maharishi did.

565
00:56:11,095 --> 00:56:14,635
And some people come
out and try to hurt that.

566
00:56:14,660 --> 00:56:21,185
It’s like, you know, tell them
to go far away, leave us alone.

567
00:56:27,892 --> 00:56:30,726
I can understand Lynch.
When he says...

568
00:56:30,955 --> 00:56:35,419
I want people to leave us alone then I
totally respect that. And I am gonna leave

569
00:56:35,444 --> 00:56:38,242
him alone and I want them
to leave me alone.

570
00:56:38,267 --> 00:56:40,441
And that’s the end of the story.

571
00:56:40,466 --> 00:56:41,725
But they don’t leave us alone.

572
00:56:41,750 --> 00:56:44,526
What do you mean? Of course they leave
you alone. They’re not like… They’re not like…

573
00:56:44,559 --> 00:56:46,517
Imagine your child is going
to a public school

574
00:56:46,726 --> 00:56:49,059
where they introduce this system.
Your father died

575
00:56:49,267 --> 00:56:51,892
because he only took
Ayurveda products.

576
00:56:52,225 --> 00:56:55,351
No! That's not what it is.
It's not the same for everyone.

577
00:56:55,768 --> 00:56:57,850
-You pay for all these
advanced courses...

578
00:56:57,975 --> 00:57:00,809
-No, David, you're obsessed
with this movement...

579
00:57:00,892 --> 00:57:02,809
-No, I am not.
-Yes, you are!

580
00:57:02,892 --> 00:57:04,809
I think it's a little strange.

581
00:57:04,892 --> 00:57:07,309
You are harassing a celebrity

582
00:57:07,601 --> 00:57:09,684
for a movie you want to make

583
00:57:09,850 --> 00:57:12,975
because you've decided to be
obsessed with David Lynch.

584
00:57:13,184 --> 00:57:15,392
But he wants nothing
to do with you.

585
00:57:15,642 --> 00:57:19,559
But he's not just David Lynch.
He's become a promoter.

586
00:57:19,726 --> 00:57:22,517
He's like an advertisement
for an organization.

587
00:57:22,684 --> 00:57:23,434
-So what?

588
00:57:23,892 --> 00:57:26,933
Why is Lynch any of your business?
-That's what I'm interested in.

589
00:57:27,241 --> 00:57:30,120
But he is not the president.
He’s not George Bush.

590
00:57:35,478 --> 00:57:38,413
I wanted to talk to Marie about our relationship.

591
00:57:40,188 --> 00:57:41,784
But there’s not much to say.

592
00:57:46,594 --> 00:57:48,982
Her love for me seems to be on holiday.

593
00:57:50,757 --> 00:57:52,654
And there is still that other guy.

594
00:57:52,849 --> 00:57:54,892
Are you still in love?

595
00:57:57,434 --> 00:57:59,017
I don't know.

596
00:58:00,642 --> 00:58:02,225
I'm not sure.

597
00:58:05,267 --> 00:58:08,100
It has nothing to do with that.

598
00:58:10,892 --> 00:58:14,392
But you still think it's right?

599
00:58:14,933 --> 00:58:16,100
Yes.

600
00:58:16,351 --> 00:58:18,849
And you want to give up the
apartment in Berlin?

601
00:58:19,059 --> 00:58:20,892
Yes, I think that's the best.

602
00:58:54,831 --> 00:58:59,975
After more than a year of daily meditation,
my life is a complete disaster.

603
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:06,303
My girlfriend dumped me, David wants
to Lynch me and TM is threatening to sue.

604
00:59:08,915 --> 00:59:12,096
Are these the blissful effects
of Transcendental Meditation?

605
00:59:18,201 --> 00:59:20,154
I want to get to the bottom of things.

606
00:59:20,815 --> 00:59:26,730
I discover a book by a TM dropout featuring
a list of the top secret mantra syllables.

607
00:59:26,755 --> 00:59:28,783
Someone has censored them.

608
00:59:29,498 --> 00:59:33,516
The expensive TM mantras are not
chosen for specific individuals.

609
00:59:33,541 --> 00:59:36,842
Instead they are preassigned
according to age groups.

610
00:59:40,134 --> 00:59:44,598
The neurologist Michael Persinger
has been studying meditation for years.

611
00:59:45,703 --> 00:59:48,359
He can help me test the effects of my mantra.

612
00:59:54,051 --> 00:59:59,174
My brainwaves are measured while I meditate
with my TM mantra, a word in Sanskrit.

613
01:00:04,296 --> 01:00:07,575
For the second measurement
I choose a random word in German

614
01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:10,325
and repeat it silently
just like a mantra.

615
01:00:14,197 --> 01:00:16,213
So his left temporal. Wow.

616
01:00:16,238 --> 01:00:19,844
See, so most of the effect
took place in your left temporal

617
01:00:19,869 --> 01:00:23,169
which is the one involved
with your actual thinking.

618
01:00:23,215 --> 01:00:25,791
During the first one,
you repeated the Sanskrit

619
01:00:25,993 --> 01:00:31,626
which obviously did not have as much temporal
lobe activation and relaxation effect.

620
01:00:31,651 --> 01:00:34,151
The second mantra,
which was your personal one,

621
01:00:34,176 --> 01:00:38,549
shows a tremendous increase in power.
It was much more beneficial for you

622
01:00:38,574 --> 01:00:41,194
to use that German mantra,
your personal mantra,

623
01:00:41,219 --> 01:00:43,551
in terms of producing meditation effects.

624
01:00:45,973 --> 01:00:48,641
The cult always has to present
something new or people get bored.

625
01:00:49,009 --> 01:00:52,179
So what starts as a simple
meditational procedure may then,

626
01:00:52,204 --> 01:00:55,471
it must go on to something
more exotic otherwise

627
01:00:55,496 --> 01:00:58,641
the novelty effect is not satisfied.

628
01:00:59,052 --> 01:01:02,077
So what may start as simple relaxation

629
01:01:02,102 --> 01:01:04,108
to most people becomes boring,

630
01:01:04,133 --> 01:01:09,253
and then it has to be
flying, invisibility, immortality.

631
01:01:09,979 --> 01:01:14,822
Add those ideas with the feeling of being
part of the group, a special group,

632
01:01:14,845 --> 01:01:17,255
and you got the formula for a cult.

633
01:01:17,468 --> 01:01:20,615
The incorporation of TM
in the public schools is not new.

634
01:01:21,117 --> 01:01:23,851
If I have the person’s
belief by the time they

635
01:01:23,876 --> 01:01:27,257
are 8 or 9, I have them
the rest of their lives.

636
01:01:27,282 --> 01:01:33,462
So the earlier you inculcate a person,
a human being with a particular belief,

637
01:01:33,487 --> 01:01:36,062
the more likely you have them
for the rest of their lives.

638
01:01:36,087 --> 01:01:38,796
Or they may deviate and rebel.

639
01:01:38,821 --> 01:01:42,774
But ultimately they come back, and when
it comes down to emotional decisions

640
01:01:42,806 --> 01:01:46,623
like who I am going to marry,
not (...) to say I am going to marry

641
01:01:46,648 --> 01:01:51,198
who I am going to vote for that’s where
religious beliefs become powerful.

642
01:02:03,710 --> 01:02:06,634
In Fairfield at the
Maharishi of Enlightenment,

643
01:02:06,656 --> 01:02:10,607
TM was incorporated long before
David lynch’s current campaign.

644
01:02:42,127 --> 01:02:45,151
Waves of creation flowing

645
01:02:45,176 --> 01:02:48,500
And ocean of knowingness

646
01:02:48,525 --> 01:02:51,781
Ocean of consciousness

647
01:02:51,806 --> 01:02:54,906
One unbounded ocean

648
01:02:54,931 --> 01:02:58,298
of consciousness in motion

649
01:02:58,323 --> 01:03:01,479
Waves of the Vedic flowing

650
01:03:01,504 --> 01:03:04,951
And ocean of knowingness

651
01:03:04,976 --> 01:03:08,198
Ocean of consciousness

652
01:03:08,223 --> 01:03:11,446
One unbounded ocean

653
01:03:11,471 --> 01:03:14,917
of consciousness in motion

654
01:03:14,942 --> 01:03:17,919
Fully awake within yourself

655
01:03:17,946 --> 01:03:21,171
Consciousness fully knows itself

656
01:03:21,196 --> 01:03:24,430
Consciousness knows itself

657
01:04:11,576 --> 01:04:17,078
According to TM one thousand Pandits have been
settled in a camp on the outskirts of Fairfield.

658
01:04:17,648 --> 01:04:21,766
These Pandits are specially trained Yogic Flyers
brought here from India.

659
01:04:22,090 --> 01:04:25,393
They are to create invincibility for America.

660
01:04:28,440 --> 01:04:32,291
Every month millions of dollars
are donated to the project,

661
01:04:32,704 --> 01:04:35,728
promising US prosperity and security.

662
01:04:44,947 --> 01:04:47,179
But what exactly are the Pandits doing?

663
01:04:54,121 --> 01:04:56,186
They won’t let me in at the front gate.

664
01:04:57,280 --> 01:04:59,389
So I try to sneak in through the fields.

665
01:05:07,971 --> 01:05:09,869
But I’m not welcome there either.

666
01:05:15,617 --> 01:05:19,869
The security guard tells me
that the Pandits sing holy songs.

667
01:05:24,880 --> 01:05:27,335
The fence is there to protect them.

668
01:05:28,251 --> 01:05:32,001
And to make sure that they’re
not corrupted by American society.

669
01:05:34,934 --> 01:05:37,189
They wouldn’t want to
leave the camp anyway.

670
01:05:50,395 --> 01:05:54,223
The Pandits are taught by
TM to recite holy verses.

671
01:05:55,641 --> 01:05:58,877
Their ritual chanting is
supposed to bring world peace.

672
01:06:00,674 --> 01:06:03,029
But is that reason to fence them in?

673
01:06:06,042 --> 01:06:08,999
Locals tell me about Pandits who escaped

674
01:06:09,747 --> 01:06:11,834
but were captured immediately.

675
01:06:27,627 --> 01:06:31,332
The more I research the
more discrepancies I uncover.

676
01:06:33,353 --> 01:06:38,464
I meet with former TM members.
Afraid of reprisal they want to stay anonymous.

677
01:06:42,002 --> 01:06:47,158
Many suffered psychological problems
due to extremely long meditation programs.

678
01:06:47,183 --> 01:06:49,688
Others were completely ruined financially.

679
01:06:52,903 --> 01:06:57,311
How did Maharishi convince all
these people of his lofty visions?

680
01:07:09,624 --> 01:07:12,012
My research takes me to New Mexico.

681
01:07:12,838 --> 01:07:17,883
I track down a man who was Maharishi’s
personal assistant, his ‘Skin Boy’.

682
01:07:18,675 --> 01:07:23,117
He wants to show me something extremely
valuable that I’m not allowed to touch.

683
01:07:31,968 --> 01:07:35,025
I can’t describe it really. But ehm.

684
01:07:37,611 --> 01:07:39,129
It feels very alive.

685
01:07:39,955 --> 01:07:45,088
So he wore these exclusively for years
and years and years until they broke.

686
01:07:45,111 --> 01:07:49,999
So, you know, there are some people
who would probably pay a lot for these

687
01:07:50,021 --> 01:07:52,342
But if they are so
precious, and have so much

688
01:07:52,367 --> 01:07:55,679
value for you, how can
you think to sell them?

689
01:07:55,704 --> 01:07:57,812
Oh, I can think to sell them.

690
01:07:57,837 --> 01:08:01,941
I spent over a hundred thousand dollars
of my own money working for the movement.

691
01:08:01,966 --> 01:08:05,111
So you know, if I got some of
that back I wouldn’t mind.

692
01:08:05,903 --> 01:08:10,312
Actually, what was the duty
of a skin boy? How did it work?

693
01:08:11,863 --> 01:08:15,412
You had to carry, the name
comes from carrying the dear skin.

694
01:08:15,437 --> 01:08:19,385
The name comes from carrying
the dear skin. And the name and the fame.

695
01:08:20,102 --> 01:08:22,878
Because you know, we’d
be walking into these

696
01:08:22,903 --> 01:08:25,494
halls, with sometimes
thousands of people

697
01:08:25,519 --> 01:08:27,445
hundreds of people or however many.

698
01:08:31,764 --> 01:08:33,997
The skin boy would walk in front of him.

699
01:08:34,019 --> 01:08:37,889
It was like this divine
air would come down

700
01:08:37,914 --> 01:08:40,594
from heaven, and then
we’d be breathing it.

701
01:08:40,619 --> 01:08:43,160
Ah. And I got addicted to that.

702
01:08:45,449 --> 01:08:48,183
You know, the world is a harsh place

703
01:08:48,208 --> 01:08:51,431
and Maharishi could be
very harsh. Believe me.

704
01:08:51,456 --> 01:08:58,139
So for a while I had trouble
putting the paradox together.

705
01:08:58,987 --> 01:09:03,507
You know, how could he be so awful
and so wonderful at the same time.

706
01:09:03,543 --> 01:09:06,330
But he was. He was awful and
wonderful at the same time.

707
01:09:06,355 --> 01:09:08,061
That’s just how it was

708
01:09:08,083 --> 01:09:13,965
Repeatedly I would see him, you know,
use people and then just kick them out.

709
01:09:13,990 --> 01:09:17,502
And often times he would discard
them when they ran out of money.

710
01:09:17,527 --> 01:09:20,840
You know, he would use people and then

711
01:09:20,865 --> 01:09:23,440
he would brush them off like flies.

712
01:09:23,465 --> 01:09:28,574
You know, how I told you he could get
inside of you and then help you sleep?

713
01:09:28,599 --> 01:09:34,433
He could also get inside of you
and pulverize, pulverize you completely.

714
01:09:34,589 --> 01:09:36,933
So that’s what he did.

715
01:09:36,958 --> 01:09:40,683
He just pulverized me and told me to leave.

716
01:09:41,665 --> 01:09:44,690
And I was devastated for two years after that

717
01:09:44,715 --> 01:09:47,826
He wanted me to leave because

718
01:09:49,199 --> 01:09:50,660
I had run out of money,

719
01:09:51,386 --> 01:09:55,720
and because I wasn’t serving him
as wholeheartedly as I had been before.

720
01:09:56,368 --> 01:09:59,973
For example, he had me
bring women into his room.

721
01:09:59,998 --> 01:10:02,338
And he’d be in there with them.

722
01:10:02,975 --> 01:10:07,216
I am not gonna name
any names, but ehm, I, I,

723
01:10:07,241 --> 01:10:10,386
there is no question in my mind
that he had sex with the women.

724
01:10:19,517 --> 01:10:23,309
To refrain from
the worldly joys of life.

725
01:10:23,642 --> 01:10:25,849
That is a monk's way of life.

726
01:10:26,933 --> 01:10:29,267
Who wants to lead
a spiritual life,

727
01:10:29,434 --> 01:10:31,267
has to renounce
the world.

728
01:10:31,559 --> 01:10:33,933
I had the idea,
I must renounce the world,

729
01:10:34,100 --> 01:10:37,309
in order to be
a really spiritual man, a yogi.

730
01:10:40,732 --> 01:10:43,086
For the sake of spiritual
progress, Maharishi

731
01:10:43,111 --> 01:10:46,470
recommended sexual
abstinence to his followers.

732
01:10:46,971 --> 01:10:51,234
But it was always rumored that he
wasn’t strict with his own celibacy.

733
01:10:56,625 --> 01:11:00,263
Judith Bourque is the first
who dares to speak on camera.

734
01:11:00,966 --> 01:11:04,794
Today the former TM teacher
works as a shamanic healer.

735
01:11:11,033 --> 01:11:14,460
I just think, all the time
I was in complete awe.

736
01:11:14,485 --> 01:11:18,097
I felt so incredibly,
I felt loved, I felt special.

737
01:11:18,122 --> 01:11:20,609
I mean, he was amazing to be with.

738
01:11:20,634 --> 01:11:24,102
So when I came to India for me, it was like,

739
01:11:24,806 --> 01:11:28,868
oh, I am gonna get to meet,
it’s like meeting Jesus.

740
01:11:29,727 --> 01:11:34,839
Here and now. You know.
And then to have someone,

741
01:11:34,864 --> 01:11:38,745
who is almost like God,
fall in love with you

742
01:11:38,770 --> 01:11:41,736
or treat you in that special way, I mean,

743
01:11:41,761 --> 01:11:44,281
it was really hard for me to grasp.

744
01:11:45,542 --> 01:11:48,556
I was exceedingly happy.

745
01:11:50,219 --> 01:11:53,221
I did not in any way feel invaded.

746
01:11:54,136 --> 01:11:59,169
And I was never forced
into any situation with him.

747
01:11:59,605 --> 01:12:03,489
And he took me to this room
in his house that was

748
01:12:03,511 --> 01:12:06,346
down on the floor below.
He called it, his cave.

749
01:12:07,327 --> 01:12:10,274
Small room. His meditation cave.

750
01:12:10,989 --> 01:12:13,912
So we were there and I think,

751
01:12:13,937 --> 01:12:16,939
he must have spoken to
me about something to do

752
01:12:16,964 --> 01:12:19,841
with my meditation, if
my meditation was good.

753
01:12:20,419 --> 01:12:25,107
And then all of the sudden,
he started to pet my hair.

754
01:12:25,132 --> 01:12:29,125
He started to go like this.
Stroking my hair.

755
01:12:30,297 --> 01:12:33,768
And I was just, you know, what is this?

756
01:12:35,129 --> 01:12:41,546
And em, he laughed, you know,
it was so easy for him to laugh.

757
01:12:43,120 --> 01:12:46,748
He giggled and he laughed. And he said,
“don’t tell anyone. Don’t tell anyone.”

758
01:12:50,746 --> 01:12:53,715
Oh, I haven’t opened it for some time.

759
01:12:55,355 --> 01:13:00,713
So one day I went into his room and,
and he wasn’t there, he had just left,

760
01:13:01,192 --> 01:13:03,937
it’s kind of embarrassing,
but I just went

761
01:13:03,962 --> 01:13:07,062
over to his hairbrush
and took out his hair.

762
01:13:07,699 --> 01:13:10,260
This thing we do, we humans, if
someone means something to us, we

763
01:13:10,285 --> 01:13:14,373
want a piece of their hair, a
lock of their hair.

764
01:13:14,708 --> 01:13:16,639
So. I took it.

765
01:13:20,065 --> 01:13:25,322
I asked him at one point, “so what
would you do, if I became pregnant?”

766
01:13:26,371 --> 01:13:29,675
And he said, “get married, quick.”

767
01:13:30,936 --> 01:13:32,744
And he didn’t mean to him.

768
01:13:33,726 --> 01:13:38,692
He meant that he would arrange some
kind of marriage. For me. Quickly.

769
01:13:40,032 --> 01:13:43,616
So I think, when I asked him that
question and I got that answer,

770
01:13:43,641 --> 01:13:50,155
I understood that this would never be
a normal relationship in that way.

771
01:13:50,836 --> 01:13:53,928
And then in time I also noticed that

772
01:13:53,953 --> 01:13:58,247
he started to get interested
in other young women.

773
01:13:58,839 --> 01:14:02,477
So. In that period of two years,
it was like

774
01:14:02,511 --> 01:14:05,970
not as often. And then less often.

775
01:14:05,995 --> 01:14:09,258
Toward the end it was clear
to me that he was interested

776
01:14:09,283 --> 01:14:13,771
in other women. At that time. So.
I just decided to leave.

777
01:14:52,796 --> 01:14:57,528
In Colorado I find Earl Kaplan,
who was TM’s biggest financer.

778
01:15:02,395 --> 01:15:06,770
He donated more than one-hundred-fifty
million dollars to TM projects.

779
01:15:12,192 --> 01:15:15,998
The successful publisher
left the movement in 2004

780
01:15:16,023 --> 01:15:18,442
and moved from Fairfield to
The Rocky Mountains.

781
01:15:23,364 --> 01:15:29,156
In the TM organization the whole
idea was to sit and let it be.

782
01:15:29,181 --> 01:15:35,786
You know, just not really do anything,
you think a mechanical repetition of a mantra

783
01:15:36,645 --> 01:15:38,520
and then good things come.

784
01:15:38,545 --> 01:15:42,795
And in life you’re supposed to
do less and accomplish more?

785
01:15:43,621 --> 01:15:47,650
It doesn’t work. I have never
met a successful person,

786
01:15:47,675 --> 01:15:51,958
who had the idea that if they
did less, they would accomplish more.

787
01:15:51,983 --> 01:15:56,221
You know, people in business
succeed, when they are very focused.

788
01:15:56,924 --> 01:16:04,692
So I had donated all this money to help built
a permanent ten thousand group of India

789
01:16:04,717 --> 01:16:08,096
that Mahesh had always been saying would bring world peace.

790
01:16:08,120 --> 01:16:11,744
So I believe in 2000
Neil Patterson showed me

791
01:16:11,769 --> 01:16:14,829
some pictures of some
buildings they had built,

792
01:16:14,854 --> 01:16:19,235
and they were missing roofs. And he
showed me the pictures of the groups

793
01:16:19,260 --> 01:16:23,914
of people and they moved the
different people around in the picture

794
01:16:23,939 --> 01:16:27,361
to try to make me believe,
they had more people than they had.

795
01:16:27,386 --> 01:16:30,753
And I looked at that
and I thought, what a joke?

796
01:16:30,778 --> 01:16:34,035
And then another time,
I was sitting with Mahesh

797
01:16:34,057 --> 01:16:37,904
and we were talking about
getting different groups together.

798
01:16:37,929 --> 01:16:40,911
And there were a
lot of discussions and I said,

799
01:16:40,936 --> 01:16:44,524
“Maharishi, why don’t we
just put a ten thousand

800
01:16:44,549 --> 01:16:47,697
group in place? I have
donated enough money

801
01:16:47,722 --> 01:16:50,340
to support a group like that in India.

802
01:16:50,365 --> 01:16:54,570
And with ten thousand people, you’ve
been saying, there would be world peace,

803
01:16:54,595 --> 01:16:55,943
right away.”

804
01:16:56,331 --> 01:16:57,894
And he looked at me and he said,

805
01:16:59,189 --> 01:17:05,539
“Earl, I have no idea, if a ten thousand
group would create world peace.

806
01:17:05,564 --> 01:17:10,405
We would have to create that group
and see what effects it would have.”

807
01:17:10,430 --> 01:17:11,677
And I was shocked.

808
01:17:11,702 --> 01:17:15,517
Because Mahesh had
done numerous fundraisers

809
01:17:15,542 --> 01:17:19,356
and gotten so many thousands
of people to donate money

810
01:17:19,381 --> 01:17:23,851
with this idea that he was
gonna build, create a permanent

811
01:17:23,876 --> 01:17:27,739
ten thousand group that
would usher in world peace.

812
01:17:27,764 --> 01:17:32,369
And when we were in private,
he told me, he had no idea.

813
01:17:32,392 --> 01:17:36,019
That was amazing to me. Just amazing.

814
01:17:36,532 --> 01:17:40,628
You have been the biggest
donator in the history of TM.

815
01:17:40,653 --> 01:17:44,791
As far as I know and I am not
really proud of that fact either.

816
01:17:45,796 --> 01:17:50,684
I did talk to a person,
who says they saw the will.

817
01:17:51,499 --> 01:17:52,693
Maheshe’s will.

818
01:17:53,084 --> 01:17:55,918
You know, putting, you
know certain large amounts

819
01:17:55,943 --> 01:17:58,688
of money to different
people in his family.

820
01:17:58,713 --> 01:18:02,994
Rumor has it that that family became
one of the wealthiest families in India.

821
01:18:04,702 --> 01:18:08,631
You know, and it wasn’t until after
I had left the TM movement,

822
01:18:08,656 --> 01:18:10,985
or right at the end, when
I was in that movement,

823
01:18:11,010 --> 01:18:13,275
that I went to India
for the first time.

824
01:18:14,992 --> 01:18:19,233
And you know, things cost one
40th in India what they do here.

825
01:18:20,681 --> 01:18:23,917
So. The money that my brother
and I donated, should have

826
01:18:23,942 --> 01:18:28,060
revolutionized the lives of
tens of thousands of people.

827
01:18:29,132 --> 01:18:30,572
I don't think much happened.

828
01:18:45,314 --> 01:18:50,269
Meanwhile the David Lynch Foundation gets
wind of my interviews with the TM dropouts.

829
01:18:51,631 --> 01:18:55,459
Now Lynch himself wants to
see the final cut of my movie.

830
01:18:56,821 --> 01:18:59,231
Otherwise his lawyer is going to sue me.

831
01:19:06,898 --> 01:19:10,571
Yet it was David Lynch who
encouraged me to find my own truth.

832
01:19:12,792 --> 01:19:14,421
And Maharishi’s truth.

833
01:19:40,544 --> 01:19:42,481
I travel to India.

834
01:19:42,506 --> 01:19:45,131
What has become of the huge
project where thousand of

835
01:19:45,156 --> 01:19:48,338
Pandits are supposed to be
meditating for world peace?

836
01:19:51,192 --> 01:19:54,439
I seek out two Pandits who
have just left the movement.

837
01:20:07,453 --> 01:20:11,951
They lead me to a remote valley
where they were working until recently.

838
01:20:22,129 --> 01:20:26,348
So this is the capital of world peace,
the Brahmasthan of India?

839
01:20:35,464 --> 01:20:38,619
TM claims that almost
one-hundred million dollars have

840
01:20:38,644 --> 01:20:42,196
been invested in the settlement
of 8000 Yogic Flyers here.

841
01:20:43,343 --> 01:20:45,922
Once again we’re not allowed to film.

842
01:20:59,823 --> 01:21:01,185
Time for plan B.

843
01:21:01,765 --> 01:21:05,102
My companions dress
me up like a western Pandit.

844
01:21:07,837 --> 01:21:10,750
I approach the gate without my camera team.

845
01:21:14,411 --> 01:21:18,685
The security guard, flabbergasted
by my appearance, lets me pass.

846
01:21:19,355 --> 01:21:21,598
He even gives me a guided tour.

847
01:21:26,274 --> 01:21:28,406
Most of the buildings are empty.

848
01:21:29,076 --> 01:21:31,687
Only eight Pandits are
reciting holy verses.

849
01:21:32,859 --> 01:21:34,756
No trace of the eight thousand.

850
01:21:39,265 --> 01:21:43,194
Heaven on earth is a bunch
of stage props, a ghost town,

851
01:21:43,908 --> 01:21:46,531
far from India’s vibrant spirituality.

852
01:21:56,585 --> 01:22:01,317
After the heated situation in the
Brahmastan, I try to cool off in the holy Ganges.

853
01:22:05,692 --> 01:22:09,129
In Haridwar, a place of pilgrimage
in North India, people have

854
01:22:09,154 --> 01:22:13,953
gathered to celebrate Ganga Aarti,
a Hindu ritual for the Mother Ganges.

855
01:23:03,516 --> 01:23:06,786
I long to find the true
core of Maharishi’s teachings.

856
01:23:09,565 --> 01:23:12,467
Upstream I search for the
source of his knowledge.

857
01:23:16,206 --> 01:23:18,996
Where does the meditation
that I learned come from?

858
01:23:28,045 --> 01:23:32,899
High up in the Himalayan mountains near
the border to Tibet, I reach Jyothir Math,

859
01:23:32,944 --> 01:23:37,466
the monastery where Maharishi’s
spiritual career began a long time ago.

860
01:24:03,523 --> 01:24:06,491
In those days, Guru Dev led the monastery,

861
01:24:06,516 --> 01:24:09,551
a well respected and admired Indian master.

862
01:24:09,576 --> 01:24:11,335
They say that he was the
one who told Maharishi to

863
01:24:11,360 --> 01:24:13,938
spread his meditation
technique around the world.

864
01:24:26,893 --> 01:24:31,143
Another man served Guru Dev at that time.
Swami Swaroopanand.

865
01:24:31,168 --> 01:24:34,038
Today he is considered
Guru Dev’s successor.

866
01:24:44,017 --> 01:24:47,100
I was a disciple of Guru Dev.

867
01:24:50,309 --> 01:24:53,017
He took me into
his monastic order.

868
01:24:55,684 --> 01:24:58,476
Someone not born
in the priest caste

869
01:24:58,809 --> 01:25:02,142
could not be part of this
monastic order,

870
01:25:02,684 --> 01:25:05,642
but serve in the monestary
as a celibate.

871
01:25:06,267 --> 01:25:11,351
Maharishi served as a
bookkeeper for Guru Dev.

872
01:25:13,184 --> 01:25:15,225
He was his secretary.

873
01:25:15,517 --> 01:25:20,517
Guru Dev never educated him
as Yogi or spiritual teacher.

874
01:25:21,184 --> 01:25:24,892
Maharishi came from
the writer caste.

875
01:25:27,142 --> 01:25:31,225
He had no right to give mantras
and teach meditation.

876
01:25:33,017 --> 01:25:34,601
A true Guru

877
01:25:35,809 --> 01:25:39,225
has no expectations
from his disciple.

878
01:25:42,517 --> 01:25:44,809
He never wants
anything from him.

879
01:25:47,476 --> 01:25:51,059
It is the disciple who offers
his service to the Guru.

880
01:25:54,351 --> 01:25:58,850
Gurus don't sell
their knowledge.

881
01:26:00,225 --> 01:26:02,142
They share it.

882
01:26:02,933 --> 01:26:06,225
Guru Dev had a sign
at his place:

883
01:26:07,225 --> 01:26:10,100
"Donations are not allowed;

884
01:26:10,559 --> 01:26:15,142
you can only sacrifice
your sins here."

885
01:26:18,559 --> 01:26:23,017
What you have learned
from Maharishi,

886
01:26:23,809 --> 01:26:26,850
will not bring you
spiritual progress.

887
01:26:28,017 --> 01:26:32,309
Now you should go to Gangotri
in the Himalayas

888
01:26:33,809 --> 01:26:36,809
to the source
of the river Ganges.

889
01:26:37,059 --> 01:26:41,850
Try to find the meditative
art of living.

890
01:26:42,142 --> 01:26:43,434
That's it.

891
01:27:06,504 --> 01:27:09,930
I head further up the
Himalayas, home of the gods,

892
01:27:10,789 --> 01:27:13,513
to find the source of the river Ganges.

893
01:27:17,285 --> 01:27:19,572
I befriend a Sadhu on my way up.

894
01:27:20,733 --> 01:27:22,644
His name is Anah Baba.

895
01:27:29,684 --> 01:27:32,427
A sadhu renounces the world

896
01:27:32,452 --> 01:27:35,432
to dedicate himself
entirely to meditation.

897
01:27:38,457 --> 01:27:41,593
The cold and thinning air
doesn’t seem to bother him

898
01:27:49,002 --> 01:27:50,531
Baba G.

899
01:27:52,651 --> 01:27:55,476
Man, how do you do that?

900
01:27:56,804 --> 01:27:58,255
What is the secret?

901
01:27:58,768 --> 01:28:00,442
What is in your mind?

902
01:28:00,520 --> 01:28:02,138
My God Shiva.

903
01:28:16,045 --> 01:28:20,442
At around four-thousand-five-hundred
meters we meet other Sadhus.

904
01:29:28,719 --> 01:29:32,581
Anah Baba is always meditating.
Even when walking.

905
01:29:33,228 --> 01:29:37,067
His footsteps are his mantra.
The mountains are his gods.

906
01:29:41,643 --> 01:29:43,931
I feel small and insignificant.

907
01:29:44,824 --> 01:29:49,009
But he who can harmonize body and
mind can grow beyond himself..

908
01:29:50,527 --> 01:29:52,011
Down like this?

909
01:29:58,072 --> 01:29:59,791
Straight. Always straight.

910
01:30:00,661 --> 01:30:01,721
What’s straight?

911
01:30:09,043 --> 01:30:10,404
No good smell.

912
01:30:29,405 --> 01:30:32,307
Finally we reach the source of the Ganges.

913
01:30:50,700 --> 01:30:55,332
The mountain lake reflects the clouds
and I’m floating in heaven on earth

914
01:31:11,107 --> 01:31:14,734
Someone who shows you
the way can lead you astray.

915
01:31:18,071 --> 01:31:22,592
Despite all my meditating, I’m still
searching for the most important thing.

916
01:31:35,348 --> 01:31:37,915
Back in Berlin, Marie comes to visit.

917
01:31:39,020 --> 01:31:41,263
I show her my new favourite place.

918
01:31:43,864 --> 01:31:46,788
We get along better
than ever since we broke up.

919
01:31:52,871 --> 01:31:55,594
Apparently she has taken
a liking to me again.

920
01:31:57,142 --> 01:31:59,768
I love your shoes, David.

921
01:32:01,392 --> 01:32:03,768
This is where Lynch laid
the cornerstone.

922
01:32:05,002 --> 01:32:08,384
TM still hasn’t paid for the
property on ‘Devil’s Mountain’.

923
01:32:09,444 --> 01:32:12,525
There’ll never be a
University of Invincibility here.

924
01:32:14,054 --> 01:32:16,319
But Marie already has new plans…

925
01:32:16,517 --> 01:32:19,933
Change nothing. Nothing.
Maybe a window.

926
01:32:20,309 --> 01:32:22,601
Imagine, these are
your windows!

927
01:32:22,850 --> 01:32:25,559
All of this is glass!
And your bed is right here.

928
01:32:25,809 --> 01:32:29,059
You wake up in the morning
and this is your view.

929
01:32:29,225 --> 01:32:30,601
That'd be so cool.

930
01:32:34,225 --> 01:32:36,351
Entering the west wing...