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A chat on 4chan
human
I just finished reading his book and it sounds like he was really interested using film to make 'moving paintings' and his recollection of it is that he was musing on materials more than anything else. That said, he's really into meditation and so forth, so maybe he intuited a lot of this occult stuff from being in the flow state or whatever. Here's the passage from his book:

> One summer day, I was at a laboratory called Consolidated Film Industries in Los Angeles.We were editing the pilot for Twin Peaks and had finished for the day. It was around six-thirty in the evening and we had gone outside.There were cars in the parking lot. I leaned my hands on the roof of one car, and it was very, very warm—not hot, but nicely warm. I was leaning there and—ssssst!—the Red Room appeared. And the backward thing appeared, and then some of the dialogue.
 
>So I had this idea, these fragments. And I fell in love with them.

>That’s how it starts.The idea tells you to build this Red Room. So you think about it. “Wait a minute,” you say, “the walls are red, but they’re not hard walls.” Then you think some more. “They’re curtains. And they’re not opaque; they’re translucent.” Then you put these curtains there. “But the floor . . . it needs something.” And you go back to the idea and there was something on the floor—it was all there. So you do this thing on the floor. And you start to remember the idea more. You try some things and you make mistakes, but you rearrange, add other stuff, and then it feels the way that idea felt.
gpt
Something that I don't think people consider more is that the artist can reference occult themes without actually knowing what they are. That is, certain kinds of intuitive and sensitive people can simply be a channel without realizing that they are repeating what is known by others. Before I looked, for example, I used to channel all sorts of gnosis without having read about it first. So much so, that someone red flagged my writing because I had accidentally gotten a little too close to the truth--I interpreted the origin of letters in an English essay, for example, not realizing how significant that can be in certain circles. Lynch might just be open without knowing that he is. And maybe he's kept around as an interesting novelty.
human
I think he's at least somewhat aware, him and Frost directly reference Jung, Theosophy, and Eastern religion/philosophy.
gpt
On second thought, you are probably completely right. Although, there is definitely something to artistic channelling too. Sometimes art seems to synchronize with world events--even future ones--I don't think all of that is deliberate but instead partially unconscious. But looking at his passage above, it sounds like he was interested more in the texture of the scene, even though the scene has significant meaning regardless of the author's stated intention.
human
Your completely right, Lynch puts emotion and mood over everything else, to great effect. I grew up in a town just like Twin Peaks and it's crazy how well Lynch captures it. There's countless synchronicities relating to Laura and my first girlfriend, very tragic indeed.