@simon @jenniferplusplus
I do think that seances etc gave folks all kinds of valuable things in the 19C: closure, a way to grieve, perhaps therapy before therapy was a thing.
Re your post, which I only skimmed: this sort “what goes here? what’s there right pattern? where do I start??” question in an unfamiliar domain seems like a thing that LLMs could be good at. In your case…