David Lynch fans hold “worldwide group meditation” to honour late director’s legacy

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David Lynch fans held a “worldwide group meditation” tonight (January 20) in honour of the late director’s legacy.The Twin Peaks creator’s death was announced Thursday (January 16) by his family, which followed claims he was “forced to relocate from his house” due to the Los Angeles wildfires.

He was aged 78.Today would have been his 79th birthday and many fans marked the occasion on social media.Just after 8pm GMT, fans around the world were invited by the late director’s children to a group meditation on Zoom in his honour.Hosted by American Transcendental Meditation teacher and author Bob Roth, those on the call were asked to close their eyes for 10 minutes.At the end of the call, Roth also played an audio clip of Lynch from September 12, 2024 at the launch of Meditate America which “is a project to bring meditation instructors from around the world to the United States and Canada, to share the benefits of meditation as a freely given community service”.

It was Lynch’s last public message.In the short statement, which Lynch, would often end his global talks on Transcendental Meditation with, he said: “May everyone be happy, may everyone be free of disease, may auspiciousness be seen everywhere, may suffering belong to no one.

Peace. Jai Gurudev.”Jai Gurudev was a former religious leader in northern India who was imprisoned for 20 months during a period of political unrest in 1975 and led the Doordarshi political party in the 1980s and 1990s, unsuccessfully campaigning for election to the Indian national parliament.