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Catching the Big Fish
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity | David Lynch
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In this "unexpected delight,"* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David Lynch's Catching the Big Fish provides a rare window into the internationally acclaimed filmmaker's methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. Catching the Big Fish comes as a revelation to the legion of fans who have longed to better understand Lynch's personal vision. And it is equally compelling to those who wonder how they can nurture their own creativity. Catching Ideas Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful. I look for a certain kind of fish that is important to me, one that can translate to cinema. But there are all kinds of fish swimming down there. There are fish for business, fish for sports. There are fish for everything. Everything, anything that is a thing, comes up from the deepest level. Modern physics calls that level the Unified Field. The more your consciousness-your awareness-is expanded, the deeper you go toward this source, and the bigger the fish you can catch. --from Catching the Big Fish
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Shadowfat
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I liked some of what was in here, but mostly it seemed super random. It was a lot of different personal stories relating to his film making and creativity with a little meditation thrown in. It just wasn't what I thought it would be.

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Shadowfat
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I liked some of what was in here, but mostly it seemed super random. It was a lot of different personal stories relating to his film making and creativity with a little meditation thrown in. It just wasn't what I thought it would be.

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Booksnchill
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This is a short book (2 hours on audio narrated by Lynch) on his experiences with Meditation and by extension, the reason for his foundation for funding meditation in education. They are very short snippets- definitions really- of key concepts and his take on them and how they have worked in his creative life. Much from the Upanishads. I enjoyed it as a short work for my 2019 creativity readings project. Available on Libby at my library.

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ReadingGlasses
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Just listened to this as an audiobook - read by David Lynch! I keep the paper version by my bed, but it was amazing to listen to him read it. Wonderful meditations on creativity and life. - @malloryomeara

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danx
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After getting through a bunch of excellent books over the Xmas/NY period I've been compelled to return to Litsy.

This was a Xmas present, and I was so very happy. I'm now extremely curious to practice transcendental meditation, which the book promotes heavily. However outside of this there is great insight into his process, history and sources of inspiration and I think any creator would come away from reading this with a positive adjustment.

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SkeletonKey
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I get a bit obsessive about my collections.

This is a great book to flip through when you're having a creative block though!

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