And those mysteries and treasures are no further than your nightly dreams, your wild love for this world, or for that matter, your deepest emotional wounds no more remote than the rustling leaves outside your door, the every-moment miracles of your own body, the mycelium-webbed soil beneath your feet, or the waxing and waning of the Moon above no harder to find than the myths that arise everywhere from the depths of the human psyche. What waits on the other side of that vast plain is so much more interesting and inspiring. If only the hypnotized masses of the mainstream contemporary world had some idea of the extraordinary riches, mysteries, and intricacies of the human psyche and of the daily dazzling miracles of the self-organizing, more-than-human world! If they did, whatever glimmer and glamour glimpsed in the flatland of conformist-consumer culture would swiftly fade and be seen for the sham it is.
This journey will be a core element of any future society capable of growing a flourishing culture in partnership with all other species and life processes of Earth.Īlthough the Descent to Soul - the expedition across a vast plain, then down into the depths of what I call Soul Canyon, and eventually, with good fortune, up and out the other side - can be hazardous and harrowing, it is also joyful and engaging. This loss is our single gravest human and planetary crisis because the journey of soul initiation is the path to true Adulthood - to becoming a cultural visionary and evolutionary - and true Adulthood is essential to a genuinely healthy, mature culture. This journey, if revitalized and reclaimed, can transform everything for us, individually and collectively. What we have lost, in particular, is the journey of soul initiation - a psycho-spiritual undertaking that connects us in the most profound way to both the Earth community and the source of our deepest humanity. Our developmental dilemma stems primarily from our disconnection from nature, from both our “outer” and “inner” natures: the loss of our experienced belonging to and entanglement within the natural world and the loss of our communion with the very core of our own individual human nature - our Soul. Too many of us are only troubled guests on this Earth. Vital threads in growing whole are missing from the cultural fabric. This has been true for so long and in so many societies that most people today (including most psychologists, educators, and religious leaders) are unaware of this breakdown in the natural sequence of human maturation, a failure now plainly evident - as witnessed in the current epidemics of psychological dysfunction as well as social and ecological degradation. I believe the root cause of the dire crises and challenges of our time - all of our currently cascading environmental and cultural collapses - is a widespread failure in individual human development. This journey, which begins with a dying, enables you to grow whole and wild in a way that has become rare - and yet is vital for the future of our species and our planet. This is just an Expansion! You need the core game Descent: Journeys in the Dark Second Edition to play with it.This is a field guide to an ecstatic and hazardous odyssey that most of the world has forgotten - or not yet discovered - an essential spiritual adventure for which you won’t find clear or complete maps anywhere else in the contemporary Western world. The rules are available for free download from the Descent: Journeys in the Dark Second Edition support page. Important: The rules for the Forgotten Souls expansion are not included in the box. Forgotten Souls simulates a mini campaign in one night, offering all the excitement and adventure of Descent in a fully cooperative environment. Your heroes must battle through waves of monsters to escape your fate, but you still have a chance to gain experience and grab items along the way. In the Forgotten Souls expansion, the overlord is replaced by an overlord track and a deck of monster activation cards, which control monsters in the dungeon. A series of Exploration cards dictate which rooms the heroes encounter, ensuring that you’ll never play the same dungeon twice.
Up to four players take the roles of heroes, working against time to escape from a dragon’s lair. Experience the battles and quests of Descent: Journeys in the Dark Second Edition in an entirely new way with the Forgotten Souls expansion! This expansion, available via FFG’s in-house manufacturing introduces an entirely cooperative variant to Descent, without replacing the main game.
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