Author. Philosopher. Polymath.
Dr. Victoria Lynn Schmidt’s Portfolio Links
What changes when women begin asking their own questions about spirituality, enlightenment, and what it means to change the world?
Dr. Victoria Lynn Schmidt has spent years chasing that question through philosophy, psychology, feminism, neuroscience, spirituality, culture, and her own life.
A twice-doctored philosopher and Harvard trained author of four books published by Random House, Victoria writes for women who are curious about the deeper questions of consciousness, meaning, and personal and cultural transformation. Her essays, cultural criticism, memoir, and academic work explore the fascinating territory where feminist thought, philosophy, culture, spiritual neuroscience, and women’s inner lives meet.
Sometimes the questions are serious. Sometimes they’re irreverent. Usually they lead somewhere unexpected as in – Who gets to define enlightenment, and what changes when women enter the conversation?
Animal Welfare and Human Rights are also important to Victoria, as well as living her feminism in everyday life.
Victoria’s Books:
Four books with Random House, bestsellers translated into multiple languages.
Writing Samples
Her range includes: personal essay, culture, feminist criticism, literary analysis, and spirituality. All with wit, philosophy, and humor that invites readers to pause, reflect, and connect . More uploaded soon.
Interdisciplinary Research studies
Victoria’s Dissertation
Doctoral Dissertation 230 pages, currently embargoed.
Spirituality has been part of Victoria’s life since childhood. Beginning around age nine, she experienced expanded states of awareness—and regularly annoyed her mother with questions about the nature of life, consciousness, and personal power.
Years later, those early experiences became subjects of doctoral research. Her dissertation explored spiritual experience and how women might enter a conversation about enlightenment that has historically been shaped largely by male voices. Interdisciplinary research, particularly Intuitive Inquiry, gave her a way to bring lived experience, scholarship, and the study of consciousness into the same room. Poetry was brought in to help describe the ineffable.
