Jordan Gruber

Jordan Gruber, JD, founder of Enlightenment.com, holds a law degree from the University of Virginia and both a BA in philosophy and an MA in public policy analysis and administration from Binghamton University. After practicing law at Silicon Valley’s Cooley Godward, working on intellectual property matters at NASA’s Moffett Field, and serving as managing editor of Gnosis Magazine (a respected journal of the Western esoteric traditions), Jordan became “The Practical Wordsmith”—author, ghostwriter, editor, independent thinker, and longtime explorer and practitioner of transformational modalities.

As the Practical Wordsmith and now the Renaissance Wordsmith, Jordan has helped create authoritative and sometimes definitive works in fields ranging from forensic audio and financial services to health, wellness, psychology, and spirituality. Recent projects include co-authoring a book on rebound exercise, editing two books on mindfulness for lawyers, helping showcase the ideas of the “Shaman of Wall Street,” and working on books about Jungian “shadow play” and building a better physique.

Drawing on decades of intellectual inquiry, firsthand experience, and psychospiritual exploration, Jordan is bringing together his own ideas and perspectives in an increasingly ambitious synthesis, challenging conventional assumptions about consciousness, identity, perception, embodiment, and the possibilities of human development and evolution. His Substack, The Enlightened Stack, is a home for this evolving body of work, exploring the underlying synergistic currents running through microdosing, multiple selves, mindfulness, music, movement, magic, muscular mysticism, and more—and what these seemingly disparate approaches might reveal about the multiplicity of human potential.

Jordan has also collaborated extensively with his close friend, pioneering psychedelic researcher and transpersonal psychologist James Fadiman, widely credited with developing modern psychedelic microdosing. After co-authoring a review of DMT: The Spirit Molecule, Jordan contributed to Fadiman’s 2011 book, The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide. In 2020, they co-authored their book on healthy multiplicity—Your Symphony of Selves: Discover and Understand More of Who We Are. Their second book together, Microdosing for Health, Healing, and Enhanced Performance, was published in 2025, with editions in Portuguese and Spanish forthcoming and a Polish edition to follow. Their website, MicrodosingBook.com, invites citizen scientists to anonymously submit their own microdosing reports.