What Comes After Postmodern

You emerge in this first level of the lower spirit world, breaking through an eggshell on the beach.  

You then enter the water, submerge, and go down to the next level of the lower spirit world.

Now you find yourself standing on the top of rolling hills, with the sun at your back. 

You meet some friends and journey down the narrow trail and through the grassy plains.

You arrive at Stonehenge. One of the Stonehenge triliths is a portal, which you must go through alone while the rest of your companions set back for home. 

Once through the portal, you shrink down to become a spider—a spider so tiny that you are carried by another spider on his back for 3 weeks. 

On the third day of this third week, you arrive at the great desert...

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At the great desert, you return to human form again. 

Here you meet your mentor who has lived in this desert  for 300 years. 

He teaches you how to learn from the rocks. With their guidance, you train for the journey and battle ahead. 

After 9 years of training in the desert, you set off. You are alone, but wear the shoes of your mentor that have traveled all the roads of the world and so know their ways.

The shoes take you through the desert until you come upon a beautiful, walled city. You enter the sacred city through an archway.

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You walk past the quiet houses and into the hustle of a bazaar. 

You walk down the streets, where women and children buy, sell, and carry their wares.

You arrive at the archway in the center of the city. 

You walk through the archway and down, and there you meet your trusty steed and your owl companion. 

Together you journey for 3 years around the world. 

Finally, you arrive a lonely house in the desert, where food, drink, and fresh bedding await you and your companions. You rest and refresh yourself after the long journey. 

Walking out onto the back terrace of the house on morning of the 3rd day, you find a stone-walled hole leading underground.  

You bend down to look over the edge, to see what might be below, when you feel yourself toppling over and realize you are falling down the deep, dark hole …

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Your battle is behind you, and you begin your journey back upward, through many levels. 

You emerge as a sea lion and meet your friends. Together you swim to the edge of a beach. Here, you transform into blue-footed booby birds. (Ha!)

You fly until you come to a tree where you transform into monkeys. 

You scamper about and scurry on your way. When you come to a mountain, you transform into mountain goats.

As goats, you all climb up the rocky mountain until you reach an old fortress at the top, still guarded by its lonely walls. 

One by one, you enter through an archway that overlooks over a deep, blue sea. You pass through this window, jumping off the ledge and into the air. 

You each transform, mid-leap, into a bird that flies higher and higher upwards, higher even than the sun.

As a bird, you land gently in the calm river waters of the town where you live.  

You paddle up to your house and fly to the doorway, where your transform back into you ordinary self and re-enter your ordinary world. 

And sometimes you will hear the mountains calling in the distance, calling you to spiritual combat once again …