We're sick of people harping on nowadays about how Lynchian everything is like Luis Buñuel never existed, but this has to be one of the weirdest things we've seen since, like, forever. Some context: we went to the David Lynch lecture in Berlin yesterday when this happened…David Lynch was in Berlin to talk about his enlightenment movement Transcendental Meditation and announce the start of building work on the "Invincible Germany University" which his organisation is funding in Teufelsberg.It's going to be a place for 1000 students to learn everything there is to learn - literally, everything, including special courses on Transcendental Meditation and yoga flying for the price of a mere $2500.As if that wasn't enough, Lynch was then presented with a framed picture of the Tower of Invincibility from TM guru Raja Emmanuel, which is going to be erected at the univerity in Teufelsberg.All this was kind of weird, but a minor tremor compared to the freak-bomb that hit when the Raja Emmanuel was invited to say a few words about the university's aims.What followed was the saddening humiliation of one of our all-time favourite film-makers, sitting in a kind of impotent innocence as his reputation was slowly undermined by a middle-aged man wearing a hospital maternity gown and a gold cardboard crown.RELATED: Interview: Vice meets David Lynch
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