that he has lost her so he knows , even as he dreams , sets himself down on the valleys floor and exposes his mind for whomever or whatever will come and enter it , split it open , eat itdeep sleepingwatching joseph smith as he observes the imagining of the golden plates ... a story merging with so many other stories of a time that is historic , mythic , astral of sundering ... observing the psychic barriers crackingspiritual identities shifting , darknesses demonic and angelic drifting outward and throughoutnot just america but all on earth ... archaeology cracking past dreams ... wars cracking isolated cultures , like eggs being cracked at a sprawling end-of-summer-camp breakfast cookoutso is the whole human race cracking .