Sixties pop type Donovan is planning on opening a university in Scotland that will concentrate on transcendental meditation. No really. Donovan says he was told to open such a university by slightly strange guru type Maharishi Mahesh Yogi back in the sixties, but that it was only following a recent meeting with film director David Lynch (who funds transcendental meditation schemes in US schools) that he decided the time was right to open the institution.
He told the Associated Press: "I know it sounds like an airy-fairy hippie dream to go on about 60s peace and love but the world is ready for this now. I met David Lynch, who told me about the positive effects of TM in education. Although it's taken me 35 years, I will do what the Maharishi told me to do".
Lynch reportedly says: "For a country the size of Scotland it would take only 250 students meditating to protect Scotland from its enemies and to bring peace, to stop violence and drug abuse. That is just a byproduct of the students meditating together".
Yeah, not airy-fairy hippie nonsense in the slightest.