Although its origins are in ancient India, Transcendental Meditation has only been popular in the US since the early 1960s. That's when a man with a twinkle in his eye taught a new version of an ancient technique.

The way David Lynch tells it, every morning since 1973, he has gotten up...closed his eyes…slowed down his breathing…and 'gone fishing' in the ocean he calls the 'unified field,' using Transcendental Meditation.

Where does David Lynch go to find the dreamscapes that mystify and unnerve us? The Twin Peaks director draws back the veil with writer Mitch Horowitz.

Religion should be covered like sports, Jews make good copy, and, let's be real, CrossFit is not a religion.

Nadia Bolz-Weber is covered in tattoos, swears like a sailor, and has logged a lot of time in church basements, wrestling with addiction. She is also a Lutheran minister.

Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber says if she leaves church with a to-do list, 'I don't feel like I've heard any good news.' Plus, Mark Oppenheimer talks shop on covering religion.

We asked Koshin Paley Ellison to read a couple poems that have taken on special meaning for him in his work as a hospice chaplain. He shares with us "The Gate" and "The Last Time" by Marie Howe.

Kate Braestrup is an unusual chaplain. She ministers to game wardens--people who come to the aid of hunters, fishermen, and hikers who've had mishaps in the wilderness.

We speak to a palliative care physician and a Buddhist chaplain about contemplative care-- a mindful approach to the patient-caregiver relationship that could even be an antidote to empathy fatigue and doctor burnout.

Koshin Paley Ellison is one of a small but growing number of chaplains in the United States who are Buddhists. He works in hospice, and his goal is to take "the Zen thing" out into the world.