AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.

This void has been the subject of art. David Lynch's shots of driving at night down a road in the middle of nowhere, with the headlights picking out a tiny spot that just accentuates the vast darkness surrounding everything. Or Moby Dick, his whiteness a symbol of the vast void blankness of the universe. Also a central idea in White Noise.

This sense of an engulfing darkness reminds me of David Lynch’s imagery—a car driving down a desolate highway at night, its headlights cutting through the void, illuminating only a tiny fragment of the road while the vast, unknowable darkness stretches infinitely beyond. We exist in that tiny illuminated space, barely aware of the abyss surrounding us.

David Lynch

16 Jan 2025 - 28 Aug 2025

The Truth upholds the fragrant Earth and makes the living water wet. Truth makes fire burn and the air move, makes the sun shine and all life grow. A hidden truth supports everything. Find it and win.

Died Jan 16th, 2025, surprised to find myself joining in the general grief. I don't usually get emotional about artists I don't know, but something raw about Lynch's weird presence.

Intuition is the number one tool. Mind and emotion working together, a knowingness. Like consciousness, everyone has it but not in equal amounts.

"There’s a lot of smart aleck stuff going on these days" (interview with Mitch Horowitz)

Anyhow, one thing led to another and I found Transcendental Meditation as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and I learned this technique on July 1st, 1973, at about 10:30 in the morning, and I just loved that experience and have been meditating twice a day, every day since and it’s money in the bank for the human being. It changes things for the good. I’m really gettin’ sick of all the suffering and negativity in this world, and all they gotta do is get this technique, dive within, and things get really good. It happens for everybody who gets this technique and it’s time to get the word out Mitch, it’s really ridiculous what’s going on.