The woman vanishes, laughter fading in the mist

Posted on by Lynda Joy

I am writing this to capture this moment and this feeling. Right now.

I am filled with this sense of joy, wonder, and the calmness to approach opportunities with grace and honesty, if still a bit cautiously. I remember feeling this way in spring, shortly after I had registered for the summer program in Copenhagen. Perhaps this feeling is related to the elation of traveling to Europe, of travel in general, and the adventures that await.

I feel like things are working in my favor. I feel really confident and bold and I really enjoy feeling this way. This new contract job can be a bit taxing, but it is also exciting and it makes me use my mental rigor in a very particular way that I really enjoy. I am recognizing that skills and intelligence are valued and I am starting to feel like a professional. I set up meetings with graduate programs in Europe that are truly interdisciplinary in the ways that I had always dreamed of finding, and I am thrilled to present myself as a candidate and see if one of the schools will feel like home. I feel like I am finding out what really matters to me, what I find truly satisfying, in a way that is allowing me to live a more enriching life and feel more resistant to compromise.

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Lynda Joy is a American PhD student living in Denmark, researching sensorimotor training with multi-modal Augmented Reality technologies by using methodologies from Cognitive Neuropsychology. During her MA, she worked very closely with the Center for Subjectivity Research and studied Phenomenology and its plausible implementations in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science ("naturalized" phenomenology). Between her MA and PhD, she worked with labs in Berlin (Germany), Adelaide (Australia), Tallinn (Estonia), Zurich (Switzerland), and Paris (France). She was a keynote speaker at IEEE VR in 2016, and presented at the Augmented Reality World Expo in 2017. In her spare time, she is currently writing a novel about a virtual simulation of bardo (the stage between life and death to reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism). Her goal is to create experiences with new technologies that help people access more of the embodied subjectivity of another person/persons. Lynda wants her work to revere compassion to help allow the world to realize what a gift it is to both give and receive. Lynda is a strong believer in a better world that we collectively make by sharing a common vision, and that this vision comes through sharing our stories and our truths. That's what this blog is all about.