Occult American Mirror World

 To consider the background of American lit's most highly acclaimed content in Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, and its occult or mystical, often biblical, or interpretations of biblical substance as separate from the narrative accounts, allowing for the difference from that time to this when a longer form of sentence and brilliant description was an equal attraction with the content, there being no TV digital entertainment at all, hard as that may be to believe, as said, narrative prowess aside, which in all the leading writers of the canon is to excellently tell a tale, but what is the tale about. It is an investigation in fiction or poetry of the apprehension of the unknown. It is as if these were common handbooks of magic, or distillations of them, driven by madness, or drugs, or secret kabbala  rituals, versions of the Babylonian Talmud translated for the ungentle goyim, what Yeats is doing in his investigations with his wife, but which it is not unfair to say is best described in Enoch I, from the Dead Sea Scrolls, so back to the Bible again. Much of it is bible based, or inverted, mirrored. This suggests both that there is truth in the literal source so twisted, and that there is an unknown reality counter to the biblical, separate and apart, to which these writers also constantly refer. Back and forth they go. That Emerson and Thoreau add the transcendental expanding selfhood with Whitman, is another variety on the theme. We may take religion as a branch of literaturewithal, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian --Muslim less so -, or literature as a branch of religion, and literature as the hand maiden of religion, as the Romantic poets seem to take it, with or without God. That such ideas amplify in later writers from Crane to Faulkner confecting history within, like retelling the American west in Cormac McCarthy, always getting more violent and adding the popular occult in multi-voiced authors of children's stories, always with twists, like the mother who forbids here daughter to read the Narnia series lest it corrupt her from Harry Potter. You mean you don't believe in magic, these children ask a skeptic? From the furries to otherkin, preparing, it supposes, always preparing the appearance of the other self, other world landings now gone to fear every stray satellite, orb, underground apocalypse seeming to promote the Revelation of John, again the biblical, to the forefront of modern takes of the occult.

This graduates into the question I took up in linguistics in 1970 when analysis by synthesis was the theory of how to make text interpreted by machine, which could not be done, but in 20 yrs or less the ARPA net linked those half dozen universities to precursor internet connection, the very point that Amos de Shalit urged on Ben-Gurion in those sabbath night discussions so long ago sponsored in the prime minister's home, where he hosted as many advanced physicists etc as he could to discuss this linking many machines to share data bases and analysis, so by 1993 transferring text to digital print as on Ygdrasil Journal, etc. The future question of the extreme complexity of our biology and its balances of enzymes and peptides that fuel our intellects, abstracted to a machine so I can argue with open Xai is the mirror world.