Relateful Experiments in Waking Up

(how could we not?)

What's Unique Here (if anything):

This territory is well-covered, with many teachers over thousands of years. Still, there are two unique things I'm excited to offer:

(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 particularly dogma; this is not a particular meditation style; I don't claim to have many answers at all. But I do have a lot of cool experience and 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... 

Details 

• April 28, 2026 - July 2, 2026
• Optional Daily practice hour: This hour is on Zoom at 10am central; we're doing solo practices while being on Zoom together, with the last 15 min for discussion.
• Thursdays: group practice sessions: 8pm - 10pm central USA time (9–11 ET, 6–8 PT - timezone convert. Sorry Europeans!)

• Tuesdays: lectures drop on the course site

  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 — Tue Apr 28 / Thu Apr 30 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 — Tue May 5 / Thu May 7 Sean Esbjörn-Hargens' Ice Cream Cone Model — plus David Loy on nondual perception, the Tao Te Ching, and cross-tradition dialogue

  Week 3 — Tue May 12 / Thu May 14 Jeffery Martin's Theory — persistent nonsymbolic experience, the Finders Course research, the M-Matrix, the 41-minute threshold

  Week 4 — Tue May 19 / Thu May 21 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 — Tue May 26 / Thu May 28 A Course in Miracles — forgiveness, the dream of separation, choosing again, projection makes perception

  Week 6 — Tue Jun 2 / Thu Jun 4 Christian Mysticism — The Cloud of Unknowing, Richard Rohr, Jesus, the Bible, Hesychasm, the paradox of practice and already-always-divine

  Week 7 — Tue Jun 9 / Thu Jun 11 Integral Buddhism — Mahamudra (Dan Brown), Genpo Roshi, Diane Hamilton, JunPo Roshi

  Week 8 — Tue Jun 16 / Thu Jun 18 Space & the Relational Container — trusting space, what is holding space, love includes me, the we-space that makes relational waking up possible

  Week 9 — Tue Jun 23 / Thu Jun 25 Ontology — not materialism, not idealism, co-constructed / nondual, creativity as the fabric of existence, Almaas and essential identity, construct-awareness applied

  Week 10 — Tue Jun 30 / Thu Jul 2 Pop Culture — aliens, superheroes, psychedelics, siddhis, manifesting, binaural beats, money, death, rebirth

• Lead 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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