The Oscar-nominated filmmaker, famous for movies like "Blue Velvet", "Eraserhead" and "Twin Peaks", hopes to raise $7 billion this year, to launch his Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, which will build schools to teach Transcendental Meditation, the spiritual techniques he has been practicing for over thirty years, under the teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the man who was responsible for the spiritual seduction of The Beatles, as well.


"People laugh about that, they have a really good time with it. But the real joke is that we don't laugh when the US government develops a bomb for two billion dollars that only serves to kill people", said the famous moviemaker.

"They spend billions of dollars on military projects and people don't bat an eyelid. That's a pathetic, sick joke", Lynch added.

"This is not a pretend thing," said the director, whose intention is to use the money for "peace-creating super groups of 8,000 meditators" around the globe.

Lynch, 59, thinks that "today's students are even more stressed out", but is sure that by meditation "they will start shining like a bright, shiny penny, and their anxieties will go away. By diving within, they will attain a field of pure consciousness, pure bliss, creativity, intelligence, dynamic peace".


Meanwhile, the director is partnering with StudioCanal (a division of Vivendi Universal) to finance his next film, Inland Empire, according to the Hollywood Reporter.