Concert Raises $3-Million for Filmmaker’s Charity

A New York fund-raising concert featuring Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr this month took in $3-million for the filmmaker David Lynch’s charity, which promotes Transcendental Meditation for children and teenagers, Bloomberg reports.

The Oscar-nominated director of Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, a Transcendental Meditation devotee since 1973, has spent the last three years raising money for the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, which sends instructors into schools around the world to teach meditation techniques based on the precepts of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Mr. Lynch said receipts from the concert, which also featured the musicians Moby, Sheryl Crow, and Eddie Vedder, will be used to expand meditation instruction in the United States, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Read an article from The Chronicle’s archive about Mr. Lynch’s organization.

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