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The Upgrade Protocol:
Foundations for Enlightenment

Name: The Upgrade Protocol: Foundations for Enlightenment
Price: 444 USD
Availability: PreOrder

A complete 13-pillar system for total human optimization, built on decades of living it, a quarter of a million dollars of testing, and direct transmission from world-class Masters. Built on the ancient understanding that only a sound body, mind, and spirit can access true enlightenment.

Jess sitting on a hillside at sunset, looking out over autumn oak and distant snow.

$444 Founding RateOne time, lifetime access. The rate goes up when the full course launches.

Pillar 01 unlocks on 11 November 2026, then one pillar a week from there. Pre-order now at the founding price.

Not Theory. Lived Experience.

Jess deconstructs every facet of your daily life, reveals what is silently draining your energy and health, and shows you the best way to upgrade each one. Not someone else's research. The exact system he spent decades living, a quarter of a million dollars testing, and years of direct transmission building. Taught through the same lineages, a traditional Taoist Qigong lineage and Munay Ki through The Four Winds, that rebuilt Jess from the inside out.

A Course Experience Like Nothing You Have Seen

Every section is broken into focused 5 to 10 minute chapters that flow seamlessly into each other. Each chapter has its own notes field that saves automatically to your personal journal log as you type, so you can jump back to any section and instantly see exactly what you wrote in that moment. Pillar 13 stays locked. No one hands you the key, it is hidden inside the first 12 pillars. You have to earn it.

The Curriculum

THIRTEEN PILLARS, ONE COMPLETE SYSTEM

Air

The Life Force

Most people breathe wrong their entire lives. We fix that and clean everything your air touches.

Water

The Life Giver

Your body is mostly water and most of it is slowly poisoning you. Learn what to drink, how to structure it, and why it matters more than almost anything else.

Moon

Sleep and Energy

Sleep is where you are rebuilt. Master your sleep, your dreams, and your recovery and everything else becomes easier.

Earth

Food as Medicine

Every bite is either healing you or harming you. Learn to eat in a way that works with your biology not against it.

Sun

Movement and Healing

Your body was designed to move in specific ways that heal, energize, and rebuild. Most exercise is doing the opposite.

Sanctuary

Your Environment

Your home and workspace are either supporting your health or quietly destroying it. We go through every hidden factor most people never think about.

Fire

Mindset and Joy

The inner fire that drives everything. Master your mind, your emotions, and your capacity for joy and life fundamentally changes.

Axis

Life Balance and Center

When you lose your center everything suffers. Learn to find it, hold it, and return to it no matter what life throws at you.

Heart

Love, Emotions, and Abundance

Unprocessed emotions live in the body as disease. Open the heart, clear the blocks, and watch every area of life transform.

Tribe

Relationships

The people around you are either the medicine or the poison. Learn to see the difference and build a circle that elevates you.

Temple

Time, Senses, and Presence

Your attention is your most valuable resource and the modern world is designed to steal it. Reclaim your senses and your time.

Purpose

Flow and Growth

Without a clear mission life feels hollow no matter how healthy you are. Find yours, clear what blocks it, and step into your full power.

Mystery

The final frontier. What lies beyond the physical, beyond the mind, and how to access it. This pillar cannot be fully described. It must be experienced.

🔒 Locked. No one hands you the key. It is hidden inside the first 12 pillars, for those paying close enough attention to find it.

Why Join Now

THE FOUNDING ADVANTAGE

Founding Rate, Locked for Life

Your price is set at $444, one time. It goes up when the full course launches, and it never goes up for you. Every future update is included.

One Pillar a Week from 11 November

Pillar 01 opens on 11 November 2026. The rest follow one a week, so the full thirteen are yours by early February.

Your Questions Shape What Gets Filmed

The pillars are still being made. What the founding cohort asks is what I answer in them, which stops being possible the day the course is finished.

Recommended Products

The tools Jess pairs with this course. Add one, or add the whole set.

Bundle

Bundle, Biohacking

Biohacking Bundle

The core biohacking gear Jess actually uses: the Muse headband to train a calmer brain with real-time EEG, the NeuroVizr for light-and-sound focus and sleep sessions, a red-light therapy panel for skin, recovery, and mitochondria, the Resona Vibe, VaguVibe, and Apollo Neuro to signal safety to your nervous system, the HeartMath Inner Balance Coherence Plus to train heart-brain coherence and watch your HRV respond live, blue-light-blocking glasses to protect your sleep, the Oura Ring 5 to score your sleep, HRV, and daily readiness, a LifePro vibration plate for circulation and lymphatic drainage, an Earthing grounding mat to connect you to the ground, a percussion massage gun for deep-tissue recovery, and the RENPHO heated eye massager to release screen fatigue, plus STEMREGEN to support the body's own release of stem cells, the foundation of how it repairs. Measure, train, recover. The Muse, NeuroVizr, Resona, VaguVibe, and Apollo add at their own stores, where the UPGRADEYOU code applies, the Oura Ring through Jess's practitioner dispensary at 10 percent off, and the rest add to your cart for Amazon.

Bundle

Bundle, Meditation

Meditation Bundle

Make meditation measurable, then deepen it: the Muse headband reads your brain in real time and teaches you to settle faster, the NeuroVizr guides you into focus, calm, or sleep through light and sound, and a hand-hammered Tibetan singing bowl gives you a tactile, sound-healing anchor to drop in, with calming Satya incense to set the space and two courses to go deeper, Spiritual Protection and The Anxiety Upgrade, plus a meditation reading shelf: Be As You Are by Ramana Maharshi, Living in the Heart, The Untethered Soul, and The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep, plus the full Gut Repair Bundle, because a settled gut makes a settled mind. The devices add to your cart for their own stores, where the UPGRADEYOU code applies; the singing bowl, incense, and books add for Amazon; the courses check out here.

Bundle

Bundle, Sleep

Deep Sleep Bundle

Engineer the deepest sleep of your life: a clean Avocado organic mattress, GOTS organic cotton sheets, and organic pillows including a full-length body pillow, so you are not breathing foam off-gassing all night, a silver Faraday canopy, a shielding under-mattress sheet, and Greenwave filters to pull the EMF and dirty electricity out of the room, an Earthing grounding mat to connect you to the earth, the Apollo Neuro and Resona Vibe to drop you into rest, magnesium L-threonate and the Four Sigmatic reishi elixir to wind down, lavender oil, blue-light-blocking glasses plus red sleep bulbs and amber no-blue night lights to keep your evening and nighttime lighting off the blue spectrum and protect your melatonin, the AirDoctor cleaning the air you breathe for eight hours, activated charcoal to bind toxins overnight and black electrical tape to cover the LED lights that keep a room from going truly dark, a contoured blackout sleep mask for total darkness, a percussion massage gun to release tension before bed, and the Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep for working consciously with the dream state. Pair it with the Deep Soak Bundle for a pre-bed bath. The mattress ships from Avocado; the devices add at their own stores, where the UPGRADEYOU code applies; the rest add to your cart for Amazon.

Sleep & Recovery

Oura Ring 5

The wearable Jess trusts for the numbers that actually change decisions: sleep stages, HRV, resting heart rate, body temperature, and a readiness score that tells you whether to train hard or back off today. It lives on your finger instead of your wrist, so it reads through the night without you noticing and does not turn recovery into another screen to check. Pair it with the log analyzer in the app and you stop guessing which changes are working. Ordered through Jess's practitioner dispensary at 10 percent off retail.

$359.10

EEG Meditation

Muse Headband

Real-time EEG feedback that teaches your brain to settle. Jess uses it to quiet a racing mind, drop into deeper meditation, and on days when focus just won't come. It turns meditation from guesswork into measurable practice.

HRV Coherence

HeartMath Inner Balance Coherence Plus

An ear clip sensor that reads your heart rhythm 500 times a second and shows you, live on your phone, when your heart and breath fall into coherence. Instead of guessing whether you settled, you watch it happen and learn the feeling you can come back to. Jess uses it to train the state before meditation, energy work, and anything that asks him to be steady. Connects over Bluetooth or USB-C, runs about eight hours on a charge, and includes lifetime access to the HeartMath app.

Nervous System

Apollo Neuro

Gentle wearable vibration that signals safety to your nervous system. Jess runs it by mode all day: Unwind to ground racing thoughts and travel anxiety, Social and Love to lift and fill the heart, Recover when run down, Energy for a lift, Calm for meditation, and Sleep to drop off fast.

Clean Water

AquaTru Water Purifier

Countertop reverse osmosis that strips fluoride, chlorine, PFAS, and heavy metals without plumbing or a filter you forget to change.

Clean Air

AirDoctor Air Purifier

Medical grade filtration that pulls ultrafine particles, VOCs, and mold spores out of the air you sleep and train in.

Grounding

Earthing Elite Grounding Sleep Mat

Clint Ober's Earthing sleep mat, the grounding setup Jess uses. Plugs into the ground port of an outlet so you are connected to the earth's charge while you sleep, the way bare feet on soil would be.

Bundle

Bundle, Water

Clean Water Bundle

Clean water at home and anywhere: the AquaTru countertop reverse-osmosis purifier for everyday drinking water at home, the Survivor Filter PRO hand pump for the outdoors and emergencies, the LifeStraw personal straw to drink safely straight from a stream or a sketchy tap on the road, a shower filter to pull the chlorine out of your daily shower, and a bathtub filter so the water you soak in is filtered too, since your skin drinks it in a hot bath. LMNT electrolytes round it out, because purified water needs minerals put back to actually hydrate you, plus activated charcoal as a binder and oregano oil as an antimicrobial backup for when you have to drink water you are not sure about. Home, shower, tub, trail, and go bag all covered. The AquaTru adds at its own store; the filters, electrolytes, charcoal, and oregano oil add to your cart for Amazon.

Bundle

Bundle, Air

Breathe Easy Bundle

Clean the air and open the breath: the AirDoctor purifier to strip the room of fine particulates, allergens, and VOCs, organic peppermint oil to open the airways, palo santo with a ceramic holder and Satya incense to clear and set the space, the Resona Vibe on its calming resonance protocols to settle the breath, the Meridian Flow Qigong set to actually train the breath and move Qi, and oral probiotics (ProBiora and Hyperbiotics) to seed the mouth and airway microbiome. The AirDoctor and Resona Vibe add at their own stores, where the UPGRADEYOU code applies; the palo santo, holder, incense, peppermint oil, and probiotics add to your cart for Amazon; the Qigong set checks out here. Ergothioneine, the longevity antioxidant, is in the set too.

Bundle

Bundle, EMF

EMF Defense Bundle

See it, then shield it: the TriField TF2 meter to measure the magnetic, electric, and RF fields in your space, Greenwave filters to clean the dirty electricity riding on your wiring, a silver-thread Faraday canopy to shield the bed where you spend a third of your life, a shielding fabric sheet for under the mattress, an Earthing grounding mat to drain charge off the body, a Faraday cover for the always-on router, a Faraday phone pouch plus air-tube headphones to cut what hits your head and body, and silver-fiber shielding apparel (a Faraday hat, boxer briefs, and a hoodie) to carry the protection with you, plus red sleep bulbs and amber no-blue night lights so the bedroom light is not its own kind of pollution, a triple protection crystal bracelet and a black tourmaline pendant (the classic stone for grounding and EMF protection), and Epsoak Epsom salt plus mineral-rich Dead Sea salt for magnesium and mineral recovery baths. The full kit Jess uses to take control of EMF exposure. Adds the set to your cart for Amazon.

Guided Audio, Free Gift

The 3 Dantiens Meditation

Settle and charge your three energy centers, lower, middle, and upper. The free gift for new subscribers, alongside the three biohacking devices Jess swears by. Join the list and it lands in your inbox.

Supplement

THORNE Basic Nutrients 2/Day

Thorne's two-a-day multivitamin with highly absorbable vitamin and mineral forms, free of gluten, dairy, and soy. 60 capsules.

Pedram Shojai

Inner Alchemy

Master Dr. Pedram Shojai's guide to Taoist practice in modern life, for health, happiness, and vitality, from one of Jess's teachers.

Alberto Villoldo

One Spirit Medicine

Ancient shamanic ways to ultimate wellness, from one of Jess's teachers.

Joe Dispenza

Becoming Supernatural

Joe Dispenza on how ordinary people use meditation to change their brain, body, and life, with the research and practices behind it.

Some links here earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. Jess only lists what he actually uses. Disclosure.

Questions

BEFORE YOU JOIN

It is not filmed yet. Why would I buy it now?

Because it is cheaper now and because you get a say in what it becomes. Here is the honest version: you pay today and Pillar 01 opens on 11 November 2026, then one more each week until all thirteen are live in early February. You are funding the work and waiting for it. In exchange the $444 founding rate is locked for you for life and every future update is included. If waiting sounds worse than paying more later, join the list and I will email you when all thirteen are ready.

What if 11 November slips?

Then you hear it from me before the date, not after, and you can take a refund if the new date does not work for you. I am not going to pretend a date I set months ahead is a certainty, but I will not let you find out by logging in to an empty page. Refund and cancellation terms are published in full on the terms page.

What exactly is The Upgrade Protocol?

A complete 13-pillar system for total human optimization. Jess deconstructs every facet of your daily life, reveals what is silently draining your energy and health, and shows you the best way to upgrade each one. Not theory, the exact system he spent decades living, a quarter of a million dollars testing, and years of direct transmission from world-class Masters building.

Why is it called Foundations for Enlightenment?

It is built on the ancient understanding that only a sound body, a sound mind, and a sound spirit can access true enlightenment. The 13 pillars build that foundation from the ground up, taught through the same Taoist Qigong and Munay Ki lineages that rebuilt Jess from the inside out.

How is the course structured?

What is the deal with Pillar 13?

Pillar 13, Mystery, stays locked. No one hands you the key. It is hidden inside the first 12 pillars, for those paying close enough attention to find it. You will understand why when you do.

Will this cure anything?

No, and anyone promising you that is not being honest. This is education and practice: the tools I use, taught by someone who needed them first. It is a complement to working with a good functional medicine doctor or a therapist, never a substitute, and you should never change or stop prescribed treatment because of a course.

BUILD THE FOUNDATION. UPGRADE EVERYTHING.

Pillar 01 opens on 11 November 2026, then one more every week until all thirteen are yours. The founding rate is $444, one time, lifetime access, and it goes up when the full course launches.

All Courses

Educational and energetic practice offered as support, not diagnosis, treatment, or cure, and not a substitute for medical care. Read the full disclaimer.

Not ready yet?

Join the list and I will email you when the full course launches. The gift lands in your inbox either way.

The Upgrade Protocol:Foundations for Enlightenment

THIRTEEN PILLARS, ONE COMPLETE SYSTEM

THE FOUNDING ADVANTAGE

Founding Rate, Locked for Life

One Pillar a Week from 11 November

Your Questions Shape What Gets Filmed

Recommended Products

Biohacking Bundle

Meditation Bundle

Deep Sleep Bundle

Clean Water Bundle

Breathe Easy Bundle

EMF Defense Bundle

The 3 Dantiens Meditation

BEFORE YOU JOIN

BUILD THE FOUNDATION. UPGRADE EVERYTHING.

The Upgrade Protocol:
Foundations for Enlightenment