Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch
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Book Reviews of Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
Book Review: The Most Important Book of the Century
Summary: 5 Stars
This book addresses creativity with great personal stories of a master creator, but more importantly it describes how everyone can become more creative, happy, and fulfilled. Especially for the children of our increasingly stressed world, David Lynch presents a simple solution and takes the action to make it happen.Book Review: Watch the films, don't wait for the book to come out.
Summary: 1 Stars
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big David Lynch fan. Twin Peaks is still my favorite TV show, even after all of these years. But having subjected myself to Lynch's senseless, overly whimsical rants about creativity and meditation, I now completely understand why he never wrote very much about explaining his work in the past.
Instead of offering insight into Lynch's creative process, this overly indulgent volume is more of a shallow diary. Most chapters are little more than a couple of sentences, stating little more than the fact that he enjoys LA and working with wood. Further, the stories get so caught up in logistics that the point is often mysteriously lost.
For ventures into the creative process, check out Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way or Kenny Werner's Effortless Mastery. For more on meditaion, see Suzuki's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind or Chogyam Trungpa's Dharma Art.
Book Review: honest, great book
Summary: 5 Stars
It's an honest, ingenuos, great book written by one of the ever greatest film director. In these pages you'll find honest advices for film maker and for peoples that use creativity as a part of everyday life. You'll find too many suggestions about how to practice meditation, written by a "normal" person instead of a "guru". Keywords: common sense, love, huge, peace, life, ideas, film.Book Review: Meditation is about more than this
Summary: 3 Stars
Lynch makes meditation sound like a magic carpet ride. that part of the book made me wanna shove a couple long fingers down my throat. Anybody who actually does meditation knows that it is way more multifaceted, rigorous, and subtle than Lynch describes it as.
But the parts about filmmaking were great.
I would've liked it much much more if he just wrote a great book about film and at the end said : "By the way, meditation has been really helpful to my creative process," and left it at that.
If you want to really learn about meditation, read Turning The Mind into An Ally by Sakyong Mipham. If you want to learn about film, David Lynch is one of the masters.
Book Review: An Honest Look into the Creative Process
Summary: 5 Stars
I "borrowed" this book this morning from a friend's coffee table, read about half before having to return it now buy my own copy.
Not because the story is so gripping that I have to find out it ends but because of the honest view Lynch provides into the creative process. There are sentences I'd like to return to for encouragement and inspiration.
I am a poet, writer, and materials artist. While reading his descriptions of the filmaking process I mentally substituted the word "short story" or "sculpture-poem" for "film" and the processes he describes. This is just what I am going through right now in developing a couple of short stories.
As an artist and also long-time meditator I find Lynch's small book with brief, "seed-thought" chapters inspiring. And just enough is said to help me reflect on my own creative work. Sometimes I feel his words come from some lectures on creative film work that he may have given. Yet David Lynch has attempted the difficult task of clearly reflecting on the creative process in his long career.
Some reviewers here on Amazon complain that his book lacks depth because of brevity of these chapters. But they may have missed the essential point Lynch makes: the Deep you seek is within you. One must transcend the surface shallow stuff and dive within to experience the depth of life. This is not a book that teaches HOW to transcend. It merely describes WHAT has happened in one artist's life by regularly transcending.