Waking Up
is more fun together
Exploring awareness, nonduality, oneness, fundamental wellbeing, nonseparation, the world as illusion (and the perfectly helpful inadequacy of all these maps) — relationally, irreverently, integrally.
January 27 – March 31 · 10 weeks
Enroll NowFirst class Wednesday, January 27 · Last class March 31
Honestly? I have absolutely no idea.
Perhaps nothing. Perhaps "waking up" is only good for the sake of itself.
A great deal less certainty (in one way) and perhaps more (in another).
A comprehensive overview of metamaps — and the awareness that every map, including these, is constructed.
New places to play and connect — new ways of understanding "self," "other," and "world."
Integrally informed (hot) takes on enlightenment and that kind of stuff.
Drawing from Christianity, Vedanta and Buddhism.
Lots of practice with other people.
A temporary community of likeminded psychos psychonauts.
These maps aren't territory, but they sure change where you go.
Syllabus subject to change in relationship with the course.
Themes
This is about practicing and playing.
Lectures and materials are here to support experimenting together.
There's a ton of dope practices, frames, and insights around what is often considered the point of existence (and therefore hotly debated).
There's lots of video content, plus a written companion featuring orientation, perception, relationship, and integration guides. The core product is all about the 2 hours every week that you spend practicing with other people– to build exceptional ways of relating from wildly new yet absurdly normal seeming-experiences.
In the Moment
Live coaching on awareness and recognition. Some coaching around emotional blocks as they arise.
Relational & Group
Experimental new practices that leverage other people. Waking up is more fun together — and the "together" is practice.
Tournament Style
Empirical approach: two practices per day, rotate every few days, keep what works best for you.
Throughout the Day
Simple practices you can do anywhere from coffeeshop to boardroom. Some flow, some focus.
Prayer Requests
Every session closes with prayer requests. Take that however you take it.
Irreverence
The kind that comes from experience and transcludes seriousness.
Awareness of awareness • Collapsing past, future & present • Becoming the room • Shift into immediacy • Relaxing into experience • Swap 1st & 2nd person • Delight in feeling good • Turn towards all • Existential gratitude • Looking at space • Identity flux • Do nothing • River of experience • Meditating in chaos • Bedtime love routine • Examining the 'I' • Unprovoked happiness • Knowingness • The Jesus Prayer • Big Mind • Pure listening • Fundamental okayness • Sinking in • The tunnel between us • How is this me? • Awe connoisseurship • Be triumph-informed
Jordan Myska Allen
22+ years of highly disciplined introspective and meditative practice, including obscene amounts of interpersonal practice. Religious Studies degree from Rice University (Sid Rich '08). Creator of Relatefulness, a communication methodology and coaching ecosystem. Founder and CEO of UpTrust.
Drawing from Ken Wilber, A Course in Miracles, Ken Wapnick, Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, Christian Mysticism, the Tao Te Ching, David Loy, Mahamudra, Integral Zen, Almaas — and aliens, superheroes, psychedelics, binaural beats, and whatever else turns out to be relevant.
Jordan’s gentle approach to the waking up territory showed me more about the kind of gentle lovingness I can bring to any area of life than about beliefs or frameworks, though there are those too.
The thing that stuck with me the most was not assuming all traditions are pointing to the exact same territory, and remaining skeptical of “ultimate” truth claims from any one tradition. That helped me more freely explore each of them.
The daily meditations were golden to me. They felt like daily prayers. It’s like through the practice, remembering grace became a habit.
It was good to meet my own tradition again without the associations I’d carried from the past. Being with everyone deepened the meditation exponentially.
Two ways in.
- 1 video lecture each Sunday evening, engage at your leisure
- 2-hour live community practice on Zoom every Wednesday, 12–2pm Central (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
- Everything in the Course tier
- 5× per week, 1 hour on video at 9am Central
- 45 min solo "meditation" practice (together on video, I'll be there) + 15 min Q&A / coaching / course corrections
- That's 50 extra hours of dedicated practice
- For those for whom this is helpful and worth the expense
We're going to have fun, get weird, and realize we're already awake — you're reading this, so how could you not be? — and goodness and freedom and love is possibly the nature of being, even though we fail and suck at talking about it.
