Introducing Project: Happiest Moments

Posted on by Lynda Joy

Yesterday I sat in the Intelligentsia in Lakeview (the one on Broadway, near the Belmont intersection) writing a screenplay called Boat Beneath the Sky. I sat there for hours, crafting something with care and detail. Does it matter? I have no idea, I just know that creating it has made me happy. Being an artist in any capacity is one of the most challenging risks I have explored in awhile. Creating something just for the sake of sharing beauty seems like a benevolent project goal, but every step along the way a skeptical voice asks what the point is, accusingly imploring an explanation for why this is how I spend my time.

My goal is to create a surreal, dreamlike allegory exposing the magic of the greatest moments in life. The script erupts from a conversation between two people in love, but highlights moments of happiness that they each had experienced before they ever met. The moments range from childhood memories to moments feeling communion and acceptance to be authentically oneself with friends, to moments confronting fears and feeling a sense of connectedness to something beyond oneself.

I am inviting others to script scenes of their happiest moments. If you are interested in contributing, please e-mail me at patternsofconsciousenergy@gmail.com

Thank you!

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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.