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==Description==
==Description==
According to the foundation's web site it is a non-profit, organization established to "fund the implementation of scientifically proven stress-reducing modalities" for "at-risk populations" including veterans with PTSD, inner city students, American Indians, homeless and incarcerated men. DLF also funds research to "assess the effects of the program on academic performance, ADHD and other learning disorders, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, cardiovascular disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, and diabetes".<ref> [http://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/about-us.html David Lynch Foundation] About Us, retrieved Feb 22 2012 </ref> The Orange County Register reported in 2005 that the DLF was launched "to provide the [TM] program to schools"<ref>Larsen, Peter (August 10 2005) ''Orange County Register'', Tapping into TM, </ref> and in 2006 Teacher Magazine called DLF an organization "which provides funding for students in grades 4 to 12 to learn Transcendental Mediation".<ref name = "Teacher Mag"/> A 2011 article in the [[New York Times]] described DLF as offering "TM at no cost to troubled students, veterans, homeless people, prisoners and others"<ref>{{cite web|title=Look Who’s Meditating Now|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/fashion/20TM.html?pagewanted=all|accessdate=22 November 2011|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/63OaTU45y|archivedate=2011-11-22|quote=Mr. Brand was the M.C. at a benefit for the David Lynch Foundation, an organization that offers TM at no cost to troubled students, veterans, homeless people, prisoners and others.}}</ref> via [[scholarships]] for the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program in venues such as public, private and [[charter schools]] in the United States and abroad.{{fact|date=February 2012}} Lynch told ABC News: "Kids come to school and they meditate together for 15 minutes in the morning. And before they go home they meditate for 15 minutes. A lot of them come from, you know, bad situations, and so this gives them this thing you know, at the beginning and the end of the day, the rest of the time you just watch the violence stop." <ref name=ABC>ABC News, Transcendental Meditation Thrives in Iowa, John Berman and Maggie Burbank, January 8, 2010, [http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/transcendental-meditation-vedic-city-iowa/story?id=9218475]</ref>
According to the foundation's web site it is a non-profit, organization established to "fund the implementation of scientifically proven stress-reducing modalities" for "at-risk populations" including veterans with PTSD, inner city students, American Indians, homeless and incarcerated men. DLF also funds research to "assess the effects of the program on academic performance, ADHD and other learning disorders, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, cardiovascular disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, and diabetes".<ref> [http://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/about-us.html David Lynch Foundation] About Us, retrieved Feb 22 2012 </ref> The Orange County Register reported in 2005 that the DLF was launched "to provide the [TM] program to schools"<ref>Larsen, Peter (August 10 2005) ''Orange County Register'', Tapping into TM, </ref> and in 2006 Teacher Magazine called DLF an organization "which provides funding for students in grades 4 to 12 to learn Transcendental Mediation".<ref name = "Teacher Mag"/> In 2011 a [[New York Times]] article described the DLF as offering "TM at no cost to troubled students, veterans, homeless people, prisoners and others"<ref>{{cite web|title=Look Who’s Meditating Now|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/fashion/20TM.html?pagewanted=all|accessdate=22 November 2011|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/63OaTU45y|archivedate=2011-11-22|quote=Mr. Brand was the M.C. at a benefit for the David Lynch Foundation, an organization that offers TM at no cost to troubled students, veterans, homeless people, prisoners and others.}}</ref> while [[Details (magazine)]] described the foundation as bringing "TM free of charge to those most in need of its calming effects:at-risk kids, prison inmates, veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress" via fund raising.<ref>Hooper, Joseph (September 2011) Details, [http://www.details.com/culture-trends/critical-eye/201109/transcendental-meditation-pure-consciousness Meditation Nation], retrieved Feb 22 2012</ref> In an interview, Lynch told ABC News: "Kids come to school and they meditate together for 15 minutes in the morning. And before they go home they meditate for 15 minutes. A lot of them come from, you know, bad situations, and so this gives them this thing you know, at the beginning and the end of the day, the rest of the time you just watch the violence stop." <ref name=ABC>ABC News, Transcendental Meditation Thrives in Iowa, John Berman and Maggie Burbank, January 8, 2010, [http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/transcendental-meditation-vedic-city-iowa/story?id=9218475]</ref>The DLF provides [[scholarships]] for the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program in venues such as public, private and [[charter schools]] in the United States and abroad.{{fact}}


==History==
==History==

Revision as of 19:46, 22 February 2012

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Paul McCartney, David Lynch, and Ringo Starr at David Lynch Foundation benefit concert, Radio City Music Hall, April, 2009

The David Lynch Foundation For Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace (DLF) is a global charitable foundation based in Fairfield, Iowa.[1] It was founded by film director and Transcendental Meditation practitioner David Lynch in 2005 to fund the implementation of stress-reducing programs for at-risk populations.

Description

According to the foundation's web site it is a non-profit, organization established to "fund the implementation of scientifically proven stress-reducing modalities" for "at-risk populations" including veterans with PTSD, inner city students, American Indians, homeless and incarcerated men. DLF also funds research to "assess the effects of the program on academic performance, ADHD and other learning disorders, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, cardiovascular disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, and diabetes".[2] The Orange County Register reported in 2005 that the DLF was launched "to provide the [TM] program to schools"[3] and in 2006 Teacher Magazine called DLF an organization "which provides funding for students in grades 4 to 12 to learn Transcendental Mediation".[4] In 2011 a New York Times article described the DLF as offering "TM at no cost to troubled students, veterans, homeless people, prisoners and others"[5] while Details (magazine) described the foundation as bringing "TM free of charge to those most in need of its calming effects:at-risk kids, prison inmates, veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress" via fund raising.[6] In an interview, Lynch told ABC News: "Kids come to school and they meditate together for 15 minutes in the morning. And before they go home they meditate for 15 minutes. A lot of them come from, you know, bad situations, and so this gives them this thing you know, at the beginning and the end of the day, the rest of the time you just watch the violence stop." [7]The DLF provides scholarships for the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program in venues such as public, private and charter schools in the United States and abroad.[citation needed]

History

David Lynch founded the DLF in July 2005. That year, Lynch, DLF President John Hagelin, and Maharishi University of Management researcher Fred Travis went on a lecture tour titled "Consciousness, Creativity, and the Brain". Tour dates included University of Southern California,[8] UC Berkeley,[9] the University of Oregon in Eugene,[10] the University of Washington,[11] Emerson College,[12] Yale University, and Brown University.[13]

In 2006, six public schools in the U.S. were each awarded $25,000 by the David Lynch Foundation[14] and a total of 25 public, private, and charter schools in the United States had offered Transcendental Meditation to their students. [citation needed] Teacher Magazine reported that DLF had "helped approximately 500 students and 50 teachers learn how to meditate and about 1,500 more" were scheduled to learn in the fall.[4] In October the foundation withdrew a $175,000 pledge to a San Rafael, California high school after the pro-separation Pacific Justice Institute threatened to sue for violating the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.[15] That year also saw Lynch assign all of his "proceeds" from the sale of his book Catching the Big Fish to the DLF and [16] the foundation sponsored a presentation on the benefits of TM in education at the Harvard Club of Boston.[12]

As of 2008, the foundation had funded more than 2,000 students, faculty and parents at 21 universities and schools in the U.S., in addition to substantially higher numbers at schools overseas.[17] That year DLF funded the TM program at two schools in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.[18]

The foundation sponsored the 2009 "Change Begins Within" benefit concert, held at Radio City Music Hall and hosted by David Lynch and Laura Dern. The event featured performances by musicians Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Donovan, Moby, Eddie Vedder, Ben Harper, Paul Horn, Jim James, Bettye LaVette, Sheryl Crow, and Angelo Badalamenti, and appearances by Mike Love, Jerry Seinfeld and Howard Stern.[19] It generated gross receipts of about $3 million.[20] According to PsychCentral, DLF made also plans that year to provide a $2 million grant to fund research on the "effects of the [TM] technique on ADHD and other learning disorders". [21] According to an article written by a Maharishi University of Management alumni, by 2009 the DLF had raised "millions of dollars" and "more than 60,000 students" had learned Transcendental Meditation, "around the world".[22]

A 2010 Wall Street Journal article reported that since 2005, Lynch had "donated half a million dollars to help finance scholarships for 150,000 students who are interested in learning transcendental meditation". [23] The foundation held its second "Change Begins Within" benefit event, titled "Operation Warrior Wellness", at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in December 2010. Participants included Lynch,actor Clint Eastwood, designer Donna Karan, comedian Russell Brand and several war veterans.[24][25][26]

Programs

Students in Peru practicing Transcendental Meditation, paid for by the David Lynch Foundation

The David Lynch Foundation focuses on school-wide instruction in Transcendental Meditation with the aim of improving educational and health outcomes. All school program instruction is voluntary, is done only with parental permission, and is offered to children with no cost to parents or to the school.[27]

According to the DLF, it has funded school programs in Washington D.C, New York City, Hartford CT, Detroit MI, California, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Vietnam, Nepal, Northern Ireland, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa and Israel.[28][29][30] A 2011 article from ABC News reports that the foundation "teaches 70,000 students for free in 350 schools around the world; 15 of them are in the United States." [31] According to the foundation, it has funded over $3.5 million in school programs aiding over 55,000 students in 26 countries.[32] The David Lynch Foundation's mission to introduce Transcendental Meditation to public school students has been criticized by Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, claiming that the foundation's efforts undermine the constitutional separation of church and state.[33]

In addition to funding in-school Transcendental Meditation programs in the USA and Canada, the foundation has supported meditation instruction for over 35,000 students in South America. According to the DLF web site, Columbian priest, Father Gabriel Mejia, has founded 47 shelters for homeless children where thousands of young people practice the Transcendental Meditation technique.[34]

The Transcendental Meditation technique has also been taught to soldiers with post traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) as part of research at the University of Colorado.[35][36] Other initiatives to teach the TM technique to war veterans who are at risk for PTSD, are ongoing.[37][38]

The DLF has the long-term goal of raising $7 billion in order to establish seven affiliated "Universities of World Peace" in seven different countries, to train students to become "professional peacemakers".[39][40]

Directors and advisors

The foundation is governed by the Board of Directors consisting of: John Hagelin, Jeffrey S. Abramson, Rona Abramson, Ramani Ayer, Robert G. Brown, Stephen Collins, Joni Steele Kimberlin, Arthur Liebler, and Nancy Liebler.[41]

Current foundation Board of Advisor members are: Russell Simmons, Gary P. Kaplan, William R. Stixrud, Frank Staggers Jr., César Molina, George H. Rutherford, Carmen N’Namdi, Ralph Wolff, Ashley Deans, Linda Handy, Sarina Grosswald.[42]

References

  1. ^ David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace Iowa Secretary of State (Requires a data search for business #314711)
  2. ^ David Lynch Foundation About Us, retrieved Feb 22 2012
  3. ^ Larsen, Peter (August 10 2005) Orange County Register, Tapping into TM,
  4. ^ a b Kirsten Wells, Denise (Sept 1 2006) Teacher Magazine, Take Your Meditation
  5. ^ "Look Who's Meditating Now". Archived from the original on 2011-11-22. Retrieved 22 November 2011. Mr. Brand was the M.C. at a benefit for the David Lynch Foundation, an organization that offers TM at no cost to troubled students, veterans, homeless people, prisoners and others.
  6. ^ Hooper, Joseph (September 2011) Details, Meditation Nation, retrieved Feb 22 2012
  7. ^ ABC News, Transcendental Meditation Thrives in Iowa, John Berman and Maggie Burbank, January 8, 2010, [1]
  8. ^ Booth, William (December 2, 2005). "Yogi Bearer; Dark Films Aside, David Lynch Brims With the Light of Transcendental Meditation". The Washington Post. p. C.01.
  9. ^ Harmanci, Reyhan (November 6, 2005). "FIVE QUESTIONS FOR: David Lynch / Bliss and world peace, one campus at a time". San Francisco Chronicle. p. D.4.
  10. ^ Keefer, Bob (November 6, 2005). "Movie director takes cues from Transcendental Meditation". The Register-Guard. Eugene, Or. p. G.1.
  11. ^ GOODNOW, CECELIA (November 5, 2005). "DAVID LYNCH IS SPREADING THE GOSPEL OF MEDITATION". Seattle Post - Intelligencer. p. D.1.
  12. ^ a b David Lynch Foundation "Conferences on Video", retrieved July 17, 2009
  13. ^ Houpt, Simon (October 10, 2005). "From Twin Peaks to inner peace". The Globe and Mail. Toronto, Ont. p. R.1.
  14. ^ (May 2066) NEA Today, National Education Association, Clear Your Mind
  15. ^ Californian Catholics against teaching of meditation in public schools, The Buddhist Channel, 6 August 2007
  16. ^ Lynch, David, (2006) The Penguin Group) About the Author (last page of the book)
  17. ^ Conant, Eve (May 29, 2008). "Much dispute about Nothing". Newsweek.
  18. ^ Fridell, Zach (Dec 14 2008) Steamboat Springs Pilot, Meditation Soothes Lowell Whitman students
  19. ^ Variety Magazine "Change Begins Within", retrieved July 18, 2009
  20. ^ The Hollywood Reporter "Change Begins Within at Radio City Music Hall -- Concert Review", retrieved July 18, 2009
  21. ^ Nauert Ph.D, Rick and Grohol Psy.D., John (Jan 5 2009) PsychCentral Meditation Helps Students With ADHD
  22. ^ Yellin, Steven (March 2009) Elevated Existence, Meditation in the Classroom
  23. ^ (Nov 26 2010) [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704638304575636911988306800.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Filmaker David Lynch Introduces Meditation to Veterans, Wall Street Journal, Retrieved Feb 22 2012
  24. ^ Announcement for Second veteran Annual Change Begins Within Benefit at the Met
  25. ^ Dec 15, 2010, "Eastwood meditates to battle stress", The Gold Coast Bulletin (Australia).
  26. ^ Dec 13, 2010, "Celebs, war vets promote meditation" Agence France Presse.
  27. ^ David Lynch Foundation "Transforming Lives: The David Lynch Foundation", retrieved July 17, 2009
  28. ^ "Stress-free urban schools". David Lynch Foundation. Archived from the original on September 15, 2010.
  29. ^ "At-risk children in developing countries". David Lynch Foundation. Archived from the original on September 15, 2010.
  30. ^ Ehud Zion Waldoks, "School crisis? Send the kids to the corner – to count to 10 cross their legs and hum..." The Jerusalem Post November 22, 2007
  31. ^ James, Susan Donaldson (November 29 2011) Comic Russel Brand does stand up for Transcendental Meditation ABC News Retrieved Dec 5 2011
  32. ^ David Lynch Foundation "David Lynch Foundation", retrieved July 17, 2009
  33. ^ Levitating Over the Church-State Wall? Church & State magazine, June 2009
  34. ^ [2] DLF official webs site, Global Outreach page, see the "Support the David Lynch Foundation—Center de Fundación Hogares Claret Project" article in lower right hand corner, retrieved April 11, 2011
  35. ^ Military Officer Association of America, Promise for PTSD, Don Vaughn, retrieved 10/5/10, [3]
  36. ^ "CAM and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Pub Med, retrieved 10/5/10". PMC 1810367. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  37. ^ [4] Wall Street Journal, Film Maker Introduces Veterans to Meditation, Nov 26 2010
  38. ^ [5] Syndney Morning Herald, "Stars Hum Praises of Meditation's Healing Power", Dec 15 2010
  39. ^ Wasserstein, Scoop, "David Lynch meditates on peace", Harvard Crimson (September 30, 2005)
  40. ^ Hoover, Eric, "Filmmaker starts foundation to help students chill out - with Transcendental Meditation", Chronicle of Higher Education (July 21, 2005)
  41. ^ "David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace: IRS Form 990, Fiscal year 2008" (PDF). GuideStar. February 12, 2010.
  42. ^ David Lynch Foundation "Directors and Advisors, retrieved Feb. 3, 2011
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