The best part of this story: Like many of the people who have seen his movies, David Lynch had absolutely no idea what was going on:

But at a meeting this week at a culture center in Berlin, Lynch triggered a less than peaceful exchange with German onlookers when Emanuel Schiffgens, his partner for establishing such a “university” in the German capital, suddenly veered into dangerous waters.

“We want an invincible Germany!” intoned Schiffgens, the self-styled Raja of Germany. The flap those words created, with their echoes of the Third Reich, reveals both the deadly seriousness with which Germans view their wartime past and the gulf separating Lynch’s new-age agenda from that of some hard-bitten Berliners with a more historical mind-set.

“What do you mean by this concept of invincibility,” asked an onlooker from the audience, made up mainly of film students with a smattering of meditation devotees. “An invincible Germany is a Germany that’s invincible,” replied a Delphic Schiffgens, who was dressed in a long white robe and gold crown. “Adolf Hitler wanted that too!,” shouted out one man. “Yes,” countered Schiffgens. “But unfortunately he didn’t succeed.” At that the crowd began shouting epithets at the speaker: “You are a charlatan! This is bad theater!” Lynch, who does not speak German, looked on in incomprehension.

Other believers in TM: Clint Eastwood, Howard Stern, Hugh Jackman.