Night Blooming Jasmine : A Twin Peaks Podcast, loving on David Lynch & Spirituality

I’m back in the cult section of Video Ezy this week with David Lynch’s version of Re-Animator, Fire Walk With Me . This film, chronicling the last 7 days of Laura Palmer was released to boos and hisses at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. Derided and misunderstood by Joe Public & critics back in the day, Fire Walk With Me has been resurrected and reassessed as one of the great Lynch cinematic experiences.

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Do we have a soul?

One year after launching Night Blooming Jasmine, we’re diving into one of the biggest questions lurking behind the red curtains of Twin Peaks: what, exactly, are we?

From Laura Palmer’s radiant light to Sarah Palmer’s terrifying abyss, David Lynch spent a lifetime exploring masks, doubles, dreams, identity, and the possibility that something exists beneath them all. But was Lynch pointing toward an eternal soul—or showing us that the self is nothing more than a beautiful illusion?

In this anniversary episode, we wander through Buddhism, classical yoga philosophy, Jungian psychology, Transcendental Meditation, reincarnation, and Twin Peaks: The Return to ask whether there is a permanent self beneath the mask, or whether the mask is all there ever was.

David Lynch believed that light overpowers darkness. This episode asks what happens when we follow that light all the way into the unknown.

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People are under a lot of stress.

In this episode of Night Blooming Jasmine, we return to the eternal present - a post-David Lynch Los Angeles, where the surreal has collapsed into the everyday.

The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer is essential reading. The act of keeping a diary is an instinctual tradition - from Joan Didion to Pamela Des Barres to Eve Babitz’s sun-drenched fragments of Los Angeles life, this episode traces the diary as artifact, weapon, map, and mirror.

A diary is not safe.But neither is silence.

KNOW THYSELF.

Write it in your diary.

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This week, Night Blooming Jasmine drifts through Tibetan dream yoga, the mechanics of tulpas, and the dissolving boundaries between waking life and the unconscious.

David Lynch’s Twin Peaks becomes a kind of bardo—an in-between space where identities split and time folds in on itself.

What if your thoughts don’t disappear?What if they take form?

From ancient Buddhist practices to modern anxiety loops, this episode explores how the mind constructs reality—and what happens when those constructions begin to look back at you.

Do you know what you’re looking at?

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David Lynch's legacy is forever entwined with the practice of Transcendental Meditation. He was gleefully evangelical about it, describing the practice as a dive within, to the bottom of the ocean of consciousness. But what exactly is TM? Who invented it? How is it different from other forms of meditation? Allow me to enlighten you. 🪷🪷🪷

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David Lynch lovers, here’s a taste of the water from the well - This Body Podcast, all about our bodies under pressure. Dark Hollywood, pop culture, the male gaze, ambition, capitalism. This new season, Blue Movie, explores the hidden history of porn 🌽 From French erotic postcards to stag films, Warhol’s downtown New York, Deep Throat, VHS vixens, and today’s OnlyFans economy, this series asks: how did we get here, and what has porn done to our bodies and fantasies? Join Patreon for early access and bonus content! xxx 💋

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Happy New Year, Night People. January is a holy month for our community, marking the first anniversary of David Lynch's passing, his birthday, Bowie's birthday, and 10 years since the Black Star passed; and now, one year since the LA fires. Let us reflect. Come with me, wont you, on a journey into the unexamined shadows of the Black Lodge, and it's opposite, the White Lodge, a place where wisdom and peace reside in abundance. Are the notions of these lodges real, like a formica table? Or are we always dwelling on the thresholds of these states of being, passing through and doubling back, like threading a needle, again and again.

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Night Bloomers 🪷- this is a special Christmas episode of the Mother Podcast, This Body, from where Night Blooming Jasmine sprung. The water and the well, if you will. I wish you a safe and loving holiday! 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄

Merry Christmas from the FBI!

This year we lost a real one (another one), Assata Shakur. Freedom fighter, political refugee, mother, and MOTHER. From growing up under Jim Crow, to the Black Panthers, and on to the Black Liberation Army - from COINTELPRO to Cuba, this episode is about hope in times of chaos. Assata’s story is crazy, it’s unbelievalbe no one has made a blockbuster out of it yet. Rest in Power Assata, and Merry Christmas ALL!

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Little bits of “Song For Assata” by Common & Cee Lo Green

“Money’s Too Tight To Mention” - Simply Red, a band I have always deeply disliked, up until this moment. The tides are turning on the old definitions of self, if my softening in Simply Red’s direction is to be trusted.

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Welcome back to Night Blooming Jasmine. Join me as I visit the myth of Annie Blackburn — a woman written as a narrative fix, then transformed by David Lynch into something spectral and essential. From the convent shadows to Miss Twin Peaks, Annie becomes a guide, a sacrifice, a hinge in Cooper’s fate, and an echo of older myths: Ariadne, Persephone, Psyche.

Check out The Tao of Twin Peaks by William Dickerson here

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This Body Podcast is about the darkness in Hollywood, where beauty, morality, and memoir meet. Hosted by Sofia Mella. This is the final installment in The Black Dahlia series, in which a line is traced from the murder of Elizabeth Short in 1947, all the way to the rape trial of Danny Masterson, and the Me Too Movement.

With love and respect for the victims, this is The Black Dahlia by This Body Podcast. Listen to the first episode free, or purchase this one as a stand alone.

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