APTITUDE Course

As of the 2026-07-31 baseline seed (issue #3).

The APTITUDE course is a ten-stage, 36-week rite of passage "from Liminal Creep to Whole Adept — from insight to embodiment, from temporary enlightenment to sustainable practice" (aptitude-course README.md). The repo is the curriculum itself: roughly 130k+ words of teaching content, versioned like software.

What it does for its reader

• Ten stages as notes on a scale. BEIGE through CLEAR LIGHT, each a capacity to bring online — not a rung to climb past. Wholeness is playing the right chord for the moment.
• A complete container per stage. Each stage ships ~11,000–14,000 words across sections: the stage's mood with integrated/repressed/excessive expressions, journaling prompts, a key practice with alternatives, a default habit, gift and shadow, divine gender, and a full six-phase Wavelength breakdown with medicinal and overdose expressions per phase.
• A rhythm to live by. Sections carry release_day pacing so the reading drips over the 36-week arc rather than arriving as a wall of text.

Audience

Written for "neurodivergent spiritual seekers who struggle with embodiment despite having mystical insights" (aptitude-course CLAUDE.md) — the same people the app's four personas describe.

How it is consumed

Readers meet the course through the Adepthood app's Course ring; the app vendors a pinned commit and reads through manifest.json only (ADR 0011). Authors work in Markdown under markdown/, following CONTENT_FORMAT.md, and rebuild the manifest — Build the manifest.

Cross-repo relationships

The course is the canonical text of the ontology every other product implements: the app paces it, the vault classifies by it, the watch condenses it, and the demo page advertises its central wave.