THE DIVE

Novel / Speculative Fiction

A mystic-cientific experience, of all, the most supernatural: to be conceived.

Choosing what to live, then to be conceived, and to be born.
Who can remember the most numinous and shocking experience of the human being?

The journey of choosing a new life and the subsequent 9-month stay around and inside the “Great Vase” told from the perspective of an adult — not a baby.

This adult is a paranoid, yet intellectual and very thoughtful soul — the more lost he feels in this supernatural journey that happens before birth — the more he exposes, in confessions, all the poetic, scientific, mystical, and existential contradictions of his hybrid and neurodiverse mind.

A literary novel that blends science, mysticism (firsthand experience without intermediaries), archetypes, and the wonders of the psyche. A story that takes place right in the middle of the cosmos, but also a very earthly, common story, since we all go through this and forget, because we never see our history as a galactic history—we, galactic citizens entering and living on Earth.

SYNOPSYS:
In a “room”, in the cosmos, a paranoid soul with self-belief issues is presented with five astrological mandalas (or natal charts) and struggles to pick one for its next earthly life. Each mandala has a singular trauma (and that produces a gift), but the soul finds it hard to choose its own pain. Worst: a last-minute fear of going crazy goes off when it’s told the one rule: “neurosis is itself the mechanism of surviving”. As conception is coming at full speed, so its paranoia intensifies: the soul could choose to give up at any minute, but it wants to experiment life. Temporarily living in its Merkabah (an energetic vehicle), the soul disguises its fear thinking, writing, and chatting with itself, and five telepathic loving beings accompanying its “9-month choice-journey” before birth — they might be part of its psyche or not, and the soul thinks they switch gender in accordance with its own self.

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TESTIMONIALS

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“This is a very significant piece of work. I consider it interesting writing, thinking, and ‘imaginality’ with great intuitive segues. It is more similar to my own work.”
- Richard Grossinger, American writer, curator of Sacred Planet Books, member of the Inner Traditions editorial board, founder and former publisher of North Atlantic Books, and a founding copublisher of ‘Io’, a seminal interdisciplinary literary journal that ran from 1964–1993.

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“What a wonderful prose writer!”

“One more time, I am so happy. How well you write. How happy I am. And I realize that it is the writing of someone who has challenged herself, trained herself, studied; someone who isn't just complying. Someone who has asked more of herself. Very interesting, very interesting. You are independent, it is something of your own form, itself. This is a sophisticated text, this is sophisticated language. It is not because of what is said, but how you say it, the words. At the beginning, the text already says: ‘I came, I’m here’, and this is good. Yours has this; this beginning, as we read it, says: ‘Wow, there is strength here’. It’s something in the language itself, chosen things. There is a certain sophistication.”
- Nilton Resende, writer, short story writer, poet, director, playwrighter, screenwriter, actor; director of the award-winning ‘A Barca’, based on the homonymous short story by the great Lygia Fagundes Telles (of whom Nilton had the honor to be a pupil). Master and PhD, Adjunct Professor of Literature at UNEAL (Alagoas, Brasil).

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“Honestly, the first thing that came to mind was: poetry in prose, richness of language…”
- Christine Hernandez, acccounting/HR at Vulcan

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“I finished reading ‘The Dive’. It was really good! Lots of reflections, some anxieties. Now in a period of gestation and observation. Nowadays there are many books that ‘shit’ rules about Being... What a pain! Your work is original, authentic, intelligent, interesting. Your book captivated me. It surprised me. I recommended it to about 40 people.”
- Marcello Melo, psychologist

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The author

ANA KARINA LUNA is a writer who produces poems, short stories, chronicles, essays and novels in English and Portuguese. She is also a Visual Artist, Oraculist, has a degree in Holistic Therapy, and a BA in Architecture & Urbanism. She lived for 17 years in Seattle, USA, where she was a Graphic Designer and founded Miss Cline Press, a letterpress shop where she printed poems on century-old presses similar to Gutenberg's. In Brazil, she founded Lua Negra Cartonera, an independent publisher of handmade books by women authors, where she works as a writer, designer, illustrator and artisan, and through which she has published 6 books, 4 of poems and 2 novellas: Getting out of the Ether Pool – Illustrated Poems (2017), Crazy Girl Wants to Dance – Poems & Geometries (2019) and Mário (& Rosina) – A Novella (2020), a collection called the Double-Book (2022), also offered as two individual books: A Woman Tears Down Patriarchy – Poems of Revenge (2022) & Adages of an Enslaved Woman – Poems of Pity (2022), and The Dive – A Drama of Fantasy / Novella (2023). She practices, studies and researches the therapeutic uses of Tarot and Astrology; studies crystals, floral essences, energies and polarities; She is passionate about integrative medicine, improvised dance, spontaneous movement and the practical applications of quantum physics, phenomenology, organic nutrition and alchemy. She is fascinated by Dionysus. She lives in Maceió in a temple close to heaven where she keeps her feet firmly planted in the gardens of the earth.