Night Blooming Jasmine : A Twin Peaks Podcast, loving on David Lynch & Spirituality

Do we have a soul? One year after launching Night Blooming Jasmine , we’re diving into one of the biggest questions lurking behind the red curtains of Twin Peaks : what, exactly, are we? From Laura Palmer’s radiant light to Sarah Palmer’s terrifying abyss, David Lynch spent a lifetime exploring masks, doubles, dreams, identity, and the possibility that something exists beneath them all. But was Ly...

People are under a lot of stress. In this episode of Night Blooming Jasmine , we return to the eternal present - a post-David Lynch Los Angeles, where the surreal has collapsed into the everyday. The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer is essential reading. The act of keeping a diary is an instinctual tradition - from Joan Didion to Pamela Des Barres to Eve Babitz’s sun-drenched fragments of Los Angeles...

This week, Night Blooming Jasmine drifts through Tibetan dream yoga, the mechanics of tulpas, and the dissolving boundaries between waking life and the unconscious. David Lynch’s Twin Peaks becomes a kind of bardo—an in-between space where identities split and time folds in on itself. What if your thoughts don’t disappear? What if they take form? From ancient Buddhist practices to modern anxiety l...

David Lynch's legacy is forever entwined with the practice of Transcendental Meditation. He was gleefully evangelical about it, describing the practice as a dive within, to the bottom of the ocean of consciousness. But what exactly is TM? Who invented it? How is it different from other forms of meditation? Allow me to enlighten you. 🪷🪷🪷 Subscribe to Patreon! 🪷🪷🪷 2026 proceeds go to the ACLU...

David Lynch lovers, here’s a taste of the water from the well - This Body Podcast , all about our bodies under pressure. Dark Hollywood, pop culture, the male gaze, ambition, capitalism. This new season, Blue Movie, explores the hidden history of porn 🌽 From French erotic postcards to stag films, Warhol’s downtown New York, Deep Throat, VHS vixens, and today’s OnlyFans economy, this series asks:...

Happy New Year, Night People. January is a holy month for our community, marking the first anniversary of David Lynch's passing, his birthday, Bowie's birthday, and 10 years since the Black Star passed; and now, one year since the LA fires. Let us reflect. Come with me, wont you, on a journey into the unexamined shadows of the Black Lodge, and it's opposite, the White Lodge, a place where wisdom a...

Night Bloomers 🪷- this is a special Christmas episode of the Mother Podcast, This Body, from where Night Blooming Jasmine sprung. The water and the well, if you will. I wish you a safe and loving holiday! 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄 Merry Christmas from the FBI! This year we lost a real one (another one), Assata Shakur. Freedom fighter, political refugee, mother, and MOTHER . From growing up under Jim Crow...

Welcome back to Night Blooming Jasmine . Join me as I visit the myth of Annie Blackburn — a woman written as a narrative fix, then transformed by David Lynch into something spectral and essential. From the convent shadows to Miss Twin Peaks, Annie becomes a guide, a sacrifice, a hinge in Cooper’s fate, and an echo of older myths: Ariadne, Persephone, Psyche. Check out The Tao of Twin Peaks by Will...

Listen to the full series HERE on Patreon This Body Podcast is about the darkness in Hollywood, where beauty, morality, and memoir meet. Hosted by Sofia Mella. This is the final installment in The Black Dahlia series, in which a line is traced from the murder of Elizabeth Short in 1947, all the way to the rape trial of Danny Masterson, and the Me Too Movement. With love and respect for the victims...

What does it costs to live inside a fantasy built by men? On this episode we prod that viper’s nest. David Lynch loved Kubrick’s film adaptation of Nabokov’s Lolita, so much so that he conjured his own Dolores Haze with Laura Palmer. JOIN PATREON We move between fantasy and wreckage. Between Desire, danger, and the American girl—through the eyes of genius. So put your heart shaped glasses on, pop...

Find the Full Episode HERE The Black Dahlia murder shocked postwar America and ignited a media frenzy that reduced her to pulp headlines and grotesque speculation. The LAPD’s bungled investigation faded into silence, until the incest trial of George Hodel thrust the Dahlia’s specter back into the spotlight. In episode 3 of This Body - The Black Dahlia , we trace a line from Elizabeth Short’s deper...

:-) ALL. Enjoy the FREE PATREON BONUS , and JOIN HERE for the next installment xox OR JOIN ON SUBSTACK Elizabeth Short’s life began with abandonment—and ended as a grotesque surrealist tableau, her body transformed into a nightmare that still haunts Los Angeles. But she wasn’t the only girl destroyed by the darkness of mid-century Hollywood. In this episode 2 of The Black Dahlia , we trace the fra...

FULL EPISODE ON PATREON or Substack behind the paywall Join here!! 🩵 Elizabeth Short’s life began with abandonment—and ended as a grotesque surrealist tableau, her body transformed into a nightmare that still haunts Los Angeles. But she wasn’t the only girl destroyed by the darkness of mid-century Hollywood. In this episode 2 of The Black Dahlia , we trace the fractured childhood of Elizabeth Sho...

Welcome back Peaks Freaks! We’re going to Heaven in this episode of Night Blooming Jasmine . In Twin Peaks, heaven is not eternal. Angels appear and vanish, offering only brief mercy in a violent world. This episode follows Laura Palmer, Dale Cooper, and the fleeting visions of grace that haunt David Lynch’s universe. Also: Mary Magdalene, the Upanishads, The Dweller On The Threshold, Maharishi Ma...

Join me on Patreon Meow meow... it's time... The Black Dahlia murder remains unsolved 78 years later, and Los Angeles has never stopped dreaming about her. Elizabeth Short's story is the story of Hollywood itself. A city that projects it's dark fantasies onto the female body like film on screen, and devours what it gazes upon. A place where beauty and brutality are bound together. We follow the th...

Welcome back Peaks Freaks! In this installment of Women in Trouble , we enter The Surreal Housewives of Twin Peaks . From Nadine to Sarah, to Shelly to Norma, we explore how Twin Peaks gives space to women at every stage of life — their pain, resilience, shadow selves, and survival. Along the way: rescue fantasies, menopause, family trauma, and what Bravo’s Real Housewives can teach us about visib...

A midsummer night’s tease from deep inside the Mojave desert. Join PATREON for the full kit & kaboodle. This week: Dante’s Inferno, The Black Dahlia murder, and morphines’ long journey from poppy du jour to Dilaudid, heroin, and beyond! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sofiamella.substack.com/subscribe

On this episode of Night Blooming Jasmine , we open the file on Women in Trouble —beginning with the blonde of all blondes: Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe and Laura Palmer—two luminous blondes devoured by image, myth, and men. Join ny séance through Hollywood shadows, Twin Peaks fog, and the ache of girls who became symbols.. Paid Patrons get the upcoming Black Dahlia / George Hodel hellscape epis...

What does it mean to live — or die — in a place where the map fails you? Also - the transformation of Dr Jacoby, Ben Horne's failed attempts at redemption, the evolution of Bobby Briggs, plus the psychic self-defence of Marina Abromovic. We look at the Highway of Tears, and the kind of murdered girl that America loves: blonde, white, loved by all. Meet me at the Roadhouse after 9.30. ***JOIN THE P...

A Satanic rocket scientist, the esoteric history of Pasadena, splitting the atom, and the rip in time that ushered in the Scarlet Woman, and ancient evil - Judy herself. Is BOB just the evil that men do, and can he have a birthday? Welcome back to Night Blooming Jasmine . Join me, wont you, as we ask these questions. In Loving Memory of Rebekah Del Rio 1967 - 2025 🤍 HELP THOSE IMPACTED BY THE LA...

Welcome to Night Blooming Jasmine! A limited-series podcast exploring the spiritual, emotional, and cultural impact of Twin Peaks and the visionary work of David Lynch. Hosted by Sofia Mella, this season weaves personal narrative, film history, and philosophical reflection into a lyrical tribute to the mystery, beauty, and darkness at the heart of Twin Peaks . Part memoir, part meditation, part po...

Welcome to Night Blooming Jasmine A podcast about Twin Peaks , dreams, and the spiritual imagination. I’m your host, Sofia Mella. The show Twin Peaks came out in 1990, when I was 11 years old, and somehow, I understood it perfectly. The fictional town under the shadow of Laura Palmer’s murder shaped my young mind, and influenced the rest of my life, and thousands of others like me. This is not a r...