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Diving Jade Cove & the Conscious Unconscious

Diving Jade Cove & the Conscious Unconscious

Exploring the Jungian waters of Big Sur's Jade Cove, and the Nephrite Deep Green

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Mar 31, 2023
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By Ryan Masters

“Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.”

Twenty feet beneath the sea.

I skimmed the bottom of the cove, probing a mosaic of algae, sponges, limpets, and barnacles. My focus skittered like a ravenous crab, picking its way across a vast scatter of storm-tossed stones. It poked its head down holes and peered through a swaying curtain of kelp stalk and rockweed.

Seeking, seeking, seeking the smooth and lustrous wink of treasure . . . nephrite jade.

But for the ticks and pings and creaks inside my skull, it was silent down here. I kicked past an overhang. A fat lingcod lurked in the shadows. Intriguing, but not jade. My brain chugged oxygen from my lungs. Just a few more seconds and I would be forced to resurface for air.

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A disquieting alarm rang deep within one of the older functions of my brain. It was not responding to any discernible motion or a sound—simply to a presence. Something was behind me. Cautiously, I turned. I was fac…

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Ryan Masters
Writer, poet, musician, EMT/firefighter, bodysurfer from Santa Cruz, CA. No AI. More info: https://ryanmasters831.com.
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