Product Details

• Actors: David Lynch, Donovan, Moby, Dr. John Hagelin, Chrysta Bell
• Directors: Tony Perri
• Format: NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Perri Pictures
• DVD Release Date: March 12, 2009
• Run Time: 40 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001VH7AP4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #263,033 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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13 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Flyers, June 17, 2009

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D. Duarte (Torrance, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: School Of Thought (DVD)

So the director and someone with the same last name give his film 5 stars?

I'd be much more impressed by a film that shows what's really going on out there.

The TM people say that they want to achieve world peace by teaching everyone TM, but then they want $2500 out of you first, for about 4 hours of instruction, with little or no overhead. I don't know if the price has gone up by now as i was out in Fairview about 3 or 4 years ago. In Mexico it costs $600 (or thereabouts). Why? Because they feel they can get more money out of Americans.

So they basically wouldn't let me be a part of world peace because I didn't have the money. Their recruiter asked if I myself taught anything. I told him that I tutor math. He challenged, what would I do if student couldn't pay? I told him that I often tutored poor students for free, it was never an issue, my only qualification was a desire to learn on the student's behalf, no matter how much money they had.

Well, the Maharishi needed my money still. You see, he was raising the money to bring together the top 13 or so meditators in the world (why it costs so much to bring them together was never explained) and then these guys, once meditating together would bring about world peace.

Isn't elitism beautiful? World peace will come about without your participation, because you're just not good enough. How do they know this? I don't know, just some special powers they have tell them so. You wouldn't understand. Although the TM'ers never seemed to question this so perhaps once you learn TM it all becomes clear, and I'm just not yet enlightened enough to understand?

One TM'er also told me that if he came up with $8,000 they would teach him to "fly." That's why the locals of Fairview, IA, lovingly refer to them as the "flyers."

Oh, if only I had enough money to be a part of world peace... or if I had enough to learn to fly! That would be a beautiful thing!

I wonder if they can teach invisibility too? That would be cool!

David Lynch is my favorite filmmaker, but I'm not too crazy about the TM people who come off to me as scammers.

I'd like to see them address the points that I have brought up. They might try with vague double talk, but I've never been able to get straight answers out of them.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Informative, April 4, 2010

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Cypriot "petg57" (CYPRUS) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: School Of Thought (DVD)

Although I'm disappointed with the late Maharishi and the post-Sidhis TM movement, if there was such a school in my country I'd be very glad to send my son there. But I'm sure it would have been an awfully expensive school as most TM products are.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars review from outside source, September 24, 2009

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Deb (Richmond, Kentucky) - See all my reviews

This review is from: School Of Thought (DVD)

I would like to see a review from someone outside the movement.
No need to wear emerald glasses like the Wizard of Oz or something.
Does everyone really flourish, getting all A's and winning all the athletic contests?
I don't think that is realistic.