And I'm reading the Bible, going along, and suddenly-there was a sentence. And on that particular film, I started reading the Bible. I did not know what these things meant to me-really meant. I think about them, and I tell this story about my first feature Eraserhead. I think we should know the meaning of the idea. A lot of times, I don't know the meaning of the idea, and it drives me crazy. And cinema can say these difficult-to-say-in-words things. I love stories, but I love stories that hold abstractions-that can hold abstractions. And cinema is a language that can say abstractions. And, in some ways, I always say, when something's abstract, the abstractions are hard to put into words unless you're a poet. Those ones you fall in love with are really special ideas. Lots of times I get ideas, I fall in love with them. So all those experiences are there for you, without the side effects of drugs.”Ĭatching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity And the ball of consciousness can expand to be infinite and unbounded. It's just a matter of expanding that ball of consciousness. When your consciousness stars expanding, those experiences are there. Yet my friends were the ones who said, "No, no, no, David, don't you take those drugs." I was pretty lucky.īesides, far more profound experiences are available naturally. I went to art school in the 1960s, so you can imagine what was going on.
I have smoked marijuana, but I no longer do. Drugs injure the nervous system, so they just make it harder to get those experiences on your own. But the problem is that the body, the physiology, takes a hard hit on drugs. And a lot of people look for it in drugs. “We all want expanded consciousness and bliss.
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