All who came to see David Lynch at Price Center on Nov. 4 got a glimpse into the head of the man who gave us “Eraserhead” and now, the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness Based Education and World Peace, rooted in transcendental meditation.

“Transcendental meditation is a mental technique that allows any human being to dive within subtler levels of mind and intellect and transcend, experiencing pure consciousness,” Lynch said. “You grow in bliss, intelligence and love.”

Lynch, along with Dr. John Hagelin and Dr. Fred Travis, was meant to explain the facts behind transcendental meditation and encourage students to apply for scholarships to study it. There is something sort of sweet (albeit strange) about Lynch’s quest to get students to increase academic achievement and relieve stress, depression and learning disorders through Maharishi’s (the founder of transcendental meditation) techniques. This same sweetness and strangeness is a quality present in Lynch’s films as well.

Take his 1990 film “Wild at Heart.” A man kills a guy on screen with his bare hands, crushing his skull into the wall. Then a girl dies in a car crash while looking for her purse. And then a hitman/wannabe-rapist gets his head shot completely off. Strange? Yes. But what’s so sweet about that?

Believe it or not, there is something pretty sweet behind it all; at the end, after a little visit from Glenda the good witch, the main character goes back to his girlfriend in order to pursue true love. Hear that? The end message is love: sweet, romantic, hot-sex-scene love! Which, even if you can’t jibe with the same optimism, is pretty sweet.

“With regular practice it grows and grows,” Lynch mused. “You see a girl who starts to meditate, and in about two years you see a beauty that is profound. Love is radiating from her, and this person has become so beautiful, it’s kind of amazing.” Who doesn’t secretly respond to this wish to radiate beauty and love? (I like my style of scrappy sarcasm, but the cheerfulness of Lynch’s words is appealing.) In general, this overriding optimism guides the end points of his bizarre films and explains his enthusiasm for transcendental meditation.

Many a film buff and David Lynch devotee went home happy last Friday after getting the opportunity to ask Mr. Lynch a question about “Elephant Man,” and some students (one of whom learned primordial sound meditation from Deepak Chopra) might even apply for a scholarship to learn transcendental meditation.

If you want to learn more about Lynch’s world of transcendental meditation, visit www.davidlynchfoundation.com. If not, go rent “Blue Velvet,” arguably his greatest film.