What's Unique Here:

This territory is evidently well-covered by many teachers over thousands of years. However, every exploration starts in-this-moment, and I'm excited to offer two unique approaches:

(1) Most explorations of "waking up" happen "inside" the subjective experience. We're going to do that, but we're going to play with bringing all of that interpersonally. Some meditation/prayer/contemplation practices don't translate as well to the intersubjective, but new vistas open. This is exciting territory! It's not "new" in the grand history of humaning, but for many of us steeped in personal growth cultures, there are a lot of unturned stones that we'll get to turn over.

(2) Most approaches have a particular map. We're in a unique era where we have a lot of access to meta-maps and cross-cultural experiences, so we have a better understanding of how little understanding we humans have of experiencing, what is, and where we're going. Our approach is deliberately ontologically indeterminate. In other words, we can hold many polarities at once that seem to be contradictory, like certainty and uncertainty, everything being one and also two distinct things that can relate etc.

What this is not:

This is not a particularl dogma; this is not a particular meditation style; I don't claim to have all the answers at all. But I do have a lot of powerful experience, insight, experiments and frames that I often keep to myself because I don't want to be pedestalized; I'm not so afraid of that anymore and I think this could be really neat for us to do a bunch of practices live, with each other, and get curious about what awareness is like between/as "us."

We let the experiments be experiments. Some will land. Some won't. We don't know in advance.

We hold all the maps lightly, including the ones we love, including the one that says maps should be held lightly.

It's not going to be a typical relateful Flow or Focus or Fundamentals, although we'll happily appropriate those structures, and show how we can bring what we find in those containers. 

One cool possible outcome:

The gap between "spiritual life" and "regular life" getting thinner; the boundary between "Self" and "self" and "other" and "others" blurring and fuzzing and sometimes inverting.

A sense that awareness was never really yours to begin with, but always yours, but... 

The Details

• January 27 - March 31, 2027

• Sundays - New lecture drop:
  Every Sunday on the course site, engage at your leisure.

• Wednesdays - Group practice Zoom sessions:
  12-2pm CST / 7-9pm CET

• Personal & relational meditative inquiry

• Awareness practices, phenomenology, nature-of-reality exploration

• The Complete Practice Guide — 40+ practices, essays, and frameworks

• 10 weeks of showing up together

These themes will somewhat inform our practice for the Thursdays, but the experience always takes precedent, so we'll be adjusting a lot in the moment based on what is most meaningful:

Week 1:
Construct-Awareness & Integral Overview — Seeing the constructing itself, AQAL as one map among many, gross / subtle / causal / nondual state-stages, wake up / grow up / clean up / show up, ascending vs. descending, etcetera.

Week 2:
Sean Esbjörn-Hargens' Ice Cream Cone Model — Plus David Loy on nondual perception, the Tao Te Ching, and cross-tradition dialogue.

Week 3:
Jeffery Martin's Theory — Persistent nonsymbolic experience, the Finders Course research, the M-Matrix, the 41-minute threshold.

Week 4:
Common Mistakes & the Ethics Question — Completion project, misapplied wholeness, surrender as power game, why enlightenment and ethics are independent, growing up interprets waking up.

Week 5:
A Course in Miracles — Forgiveness, the dream of separation, choosing again, projection makes perception.

Week 6:
Christian Mysticism — The Cloud of Unknowing, Richard Rohr, Jesus, the Bible, Hesychasm, the paradox of practice and already-always-divine.

Week 7:
Integral Buddhism — Mahamudra (Dan Brown), Genpo Roshi, Diane Hamilton, JunPo Roshi.

Week 8:
Space & Relationship — Emptiness?

Week 9:
Everything else (form?) Pop Culture — Aliens, superheroes, psychedelics, siddhis, manifesting, binaural beats, money, death, rebirth.

Week 10:
Seeing/Seer/Seen — Not materialism, not idealism, co-constructed / nondual, creativity as the fabric of existence, Almaas and essential identity, construct-awareness applied.

Led by Jordan Myska Allen

This workshop is open to anyone. Although you may wish to familiarize yourself with the practice of Relatefulness, you don't need to.

Please read our refund policy if you are in any doubt about your purchase.

I like Planetary Dharma (John and Nicole Churchill)'s policy on scholarships and the distinction between hardship and sacrifice. If you've read this and think you're in hardship, ping us.

With love and excitement,
Jordan & The Relateful Team

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