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Reactor and Natural Probability
(UMMMM…SURE?)
You see, the Dharma Initiative built a reactor that taps into the island's natural probability field and makes pure energy from infinite possibility, very much like the star drive system in Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
The (meticulously-orchestrated) Plan to get Claire to The Island
(THIS ONE IS A BIT LONG BUT… JUST READ THE DARN THING AND YOU’LL SEE WHY I JUST HAD TO POST IT. NO CRACKPOT THEORY LIST WOULD BE COMPLETE WITHOUT IT.)
I have been thinking for a while that Claire was set up by Dharma/Hanso (through many people in her life/people around her who, i believe, are affiliated with Dharma) to be a part of their Project, all along. I believe that the influence of Dharma/Hanso is extremely far-reaching and manipulative. Dharma needed a pregnant woman who would most definitely give up her baby to them, and Claire fit the bill perfectly. I believe that she was put through a series of "tests" to make absolute sure that she would be willing to give up the baby--she "passed" these tests, and therefore ended up on The Island. In this post (which I warn you, will be long!) i will explain why i think this. The bottom line of what I am about to explain in my theory is, Dharma planned EVERYTHING out--manipulated THESE PEOPLE onto THIS PLANE, which was all along headed to THIS ISLAND, for the purposes of being a part of their Project(s). And Claire was a very important component of this Plan.As we know, Dharma needed a baby for some research project they were going to be doing on The Island (or needed a baby for some other reason for their own use). Dharma, through their agents scattered throughout the world, and especially in Australia (where i believe there is a major Dharma headquarters of some kind), set about the task of looking for the perfect candidate. I believe that Thomas, Claire’s ex-boyfriend, worked for Dharma, as well as some other people in Claire’s life. First of all (THIS PARAGRAPH WILL BE A BIT OFF-TRACK--a "sidenote"), i am not sure exactly how Claire became (without her knowledge, of course) involved in, or a target of, Dharma--maybe through sheer coincidence; but I am starting to consider that Claire herself might have been "born into" Dharma (the way that in her recovered memory of the nursery on The Island there were pictures of animals on the wall--and then when she visited that nursery, the way there was so much dust in the old abandoned nursery and the way the animals' outlines on the wall showed so much dust collection, it was obvious that the nursery had been used MUCH longer ago than a month prior--i think that it's possible that nursery that Claire remembered in her recovered memory was HER OWN NURSERY from when she was a child). I believe that Claire’s mysterious father who has been mentioned in passing a few times on the show, possibly was or is a member of Dharma. If this is so, then whether Claire was "born into" Dharma or not, having her own father work for Dharma would have made it much easier for Claire to become Dharma's "target". (Her father being a Dharma member would explain the coincidence of how Claire’s father sang "Catch a Falling Star" to Claire when she was young, and that that is the exact song that the mobile in the Hatch Nursery played.) Anyway, IF Claire was born into Dharma, this could explain why Dharma needed SPECIFICALLY CLAIRE for their Project--to witness a now-grown-up Dharma-engineered baby give birth to a new baby, or something. But this would be the subject of a WHOLE OTHER POST and is off track from what this current post is about. I just wanted to mention that possibility. NOW, back on to my theory that this post is really about.So anyway, Claire SOMEHOW became the target of Dharma, either through lifelong (unbeknownst to her) involvement, or through coincidence (i.e., Thomas just happening to meet the suitable girl for the The Project), or through Dharma having their agents scattered throughout the world actively looking for the right girl for their Project and finding that Claire fit the bill. For the purpose of the theory presented in this post, I am going to assume that Dharma was LOOKING FOR the right girl to end up giving birth to a baby on The Island as part of their Project (as opposed to them specifically wanting Claire because of her involvement with Dharma since birth--which I’ve already admitted is a possibility).So, Thomas the Dharma Agent met Claire, and realized that she would be a perfect candidate to impregnate, because he knew with near certainty upon getting to know her that she would NOT want a baby. She was a young college student with no stable income, parents who were not a part of her life, and a free spirit with no interest in becoming a mother at the young age of (approximately?) 21. He formed the requisite *relationship* with Claire, and naturally had sex with her. He tampered with her birth control pills (anyone watch "Desperate Housewives", hehe?) so that she could become pregnant. (When taken correctly, birth control pills are nearly 100% effective. I have thought all along that her pills must have been tampered with, in order for her to become pregnant while on The Pill.) She did indeed become pregnant. Thomas the Dharma Agent had fulfilled Task No. 1 that had been assigned to him.Now onto Task No. 2: He now had to convince Claire to keep the baby, rather than have an abortion. He did that with planned out, perfectly delivered sweet talk of how they would be a "family" together, and how he thought that this baby would be the best thing to ever happen to their relationship. This appealed to Claire, who did not have a stable family, and longed for it. She agreed to keep the baby. Task No. 2 successfully completed by Thomas the Dharma Agent. He needed to now let a few months pass by, until Claire was far enough along in her pregnancy for her to terminate it, before he’d complete his next task.A few months later, when it was too late for Claire to abort the baby, Thomas the Dharma Agent then had to fulfill Task No. 3: Abandon Claire. He did that. (And you have to admit, it apparently came out of nowhere, and was done in a very cruel, abrupt fashion for such a huge life-altering act. It was yet another, albeit mild, red flag to me.) He left Claire, who was now ALONE, with no stable income, a tiny apartment, no burning desire to become a mother, and no family to help her out once the baby came along. Dharma, who were the ones planning all this out and pulling the strings (through their agent, Thomas) knew that Claire would absolutely not want to keep the baby once she gave birth to it. They knew that Claire would see it as nearly impossible to provide a stable life for the child, and that that was not the kind of life that this free-spirited "New Age" girl wanted. Thomas the Dharma Agent had successfully fulfilled his duty. The Plan was on track.Now, Dharma had to successfully pull strings to get Claire to agree to give up the baby for adoption. It wouldn't be hard, as they knew Claire would not want to keep the baby. But even further, Dharma had to perform some cleverly orchestrated complex "Tests" on her, to make absolute sure that she would be willing to give up the baby.Claire’s friend took her to see a psychic. I believe Claire's friend was also a part of Dharma--or at least put in Claire's life by Dharma's influence (Dharma paid her off or something, to get her to bring Claire to the specific psychic). Dharma (who collects extensive information about their subjects) knew that Claire, the horoscope-reading, zodiac-believing, "New Age" girl that she is, believed in psychics. The Psychic was most definitely a Dharma Agent. The first visit to "Dharma Agent The Psychic" was before Thomas left Claire, when Claire was still planning to raise the baby with Thomas. Now would begin the next part of The Plan, and this phase had to be very carefully orchestrated. Upon this first visit to The Psychic, he did what he was supposed to do: SCARE HER. Fill her with a sense of doom about this baby inside of her. Implant a seed of doubt in her mind, that this baby was bad--thus nudging her towards the feeling of wanting to get rid of the baby (through giving it away through adoption) once it was born. The Psychic did just this. He made it obvious (or rather put on a good show) that he HAD in fact been able to see into her future (which Claire obviously wanted to know about), and that what he saw was BAD, but he left her unsatisfied. He did enough to get her incredibly intrigued (though justifiably freaked out); he left her with a sense of mystery...human nature would of course want to KNOW MORE.So, after Dharma Agent Thomas left her, Claire wanted to KNOW what that Psychic had seen. It had been on her mind ever since the aborted reading. She went back to Dharma Agent The Psychic--just as Dharma knew she would. The Psychic did her "reading" and then began to perform his next task as part of the carefully orchestrated Plan. He told her that she must raise the baby--her alone. I believe this was the first TEST that Dharma put Claire through, to MAKE ABSOLUTE SURE THAT CLAIRE WAS THE PREGNANT WOMAN THEY WANTED--THAT SHE WAS CERTAIN THAT SHE WOULD GIVE UP THE BABY. That is all that that talk about "You alone MUST raise this child" was about. It was simply a test--to test Claire, to see if, even while knowing this information, if she would STILL want to give the baby away for adoption.At this session, The Psychic also planted in Claire's head the notion that the baby must be surrounded by "good people". (when he said something like, "Your goodness, must be an influence on this child's life, or bad things will happen." -- This was to get her thinking that as long as the child was surrounded by "good people" that the baby would be just fine.) This "good people" theme was important and would later be revisited.Over the course of the next few months, Dharma Agent The Psychic called increasingly-more-pregnant Claire regularly by telephone (as we saw in "Raised by Another"). This was, of course, to keep tabs on her, to make sure that she was still planning to give the baby away--which was The Plan. These phone calls also served as further Tests. The Psychic babbled on in these phone calls about Claire needing to raise the baby herself. I think this is the ultimate test of testing a mother's will to give her baby away: Telling her that bad things will happen if she gives the baby away. Since Claire STILL wanted to give the baby away even while knowing this disturbing information, Dharma was certain that they had found the right pregnant woman for their Project.We didn't see how Claire came to be in contact with the potential adoptive parents that she met with in the lawyer's conference room, but i believe that this, too, was all a set-up orchestrated by Dharma--or that Dharma at least intervened (by supplying non-working pens) to stop her from signing her baby over to that couple. Dharma, of course, needed the baby for themselves. They needed to get her to The Island, where she would then give up her baby. Claire walking out on her plans to give the baby to the couple in the conference room, bought Dharma some time.The next phase of Dharma's carefully orchestrated Plan was, of course, getting Claire to The Island. After walking out of the lawyer's conference room, Claire was feeling lost -- She didn’t want this baby, she felt she COULDN’T have this baby herself and support it; yet "fate" had just intervened in that conference room and "told her" not to give her baby away. Yet she still wanted to, had to, give the baby away. In desperate need of direction, Dharma of course swooped in at this crucial point and intervened in their most important task yet, of getting Claire onto The Island. They knew that Claire would finally listen to The Psychic after the events in the lawyer’s conference room threw her plans off track. She was lost and had nowhere to turn. When The Psychic made his daily phone call to Claire after that conference room incident, Dharma knew this time, Claire would listen to him. And she did. She went to see Dharma Agent The Psychic again, who then set into motion The Plan of getting Claire to The Island. He explained there was a couple in L.A. who would adopt the baby, and that they were "good people". (The phrase "good people" was important--The Psychic had already implanted the notion in Claire’s head that the baby needed to be around "goodness", so this tidbit of info put Claire’s mind at ease just a bit more.) It goes without saying that there was, of course, no couple in L.A.The Psychic was just doing his job as a Dharma Agent to manipulate Claire onto Flight 815, which was carefully planned out to land on The Island. He handed her plane tickets for Flight 815 (destination: Craphole Island), along with a substantial amount of money (something Claire desperately needed). Claire, who was so lost in life and not knowing where to turn or what to do in her situation, accepted the plane tickets. As Claire saw it, the one person who had said that she should be the one to raise the baby, had now changed his mind, and was not only telling her to give the baby up for adoption (which is exactly what she herself wanted to do all along), but he had planned the adoption process out making it extremely easy for Claire to go through with what she herself wanted to do all along anyway -- the plane tickets were bought, and money was handed to her. She would be able to give the baby to "good people" without any hassle. Plus, she would get to get away for a month to the U.S. The prospect of travel and a change of scenery for a little while probably appealed to free-spirited Claire, whose life at home in Australia was anything but fun & joyous. She accepted the tickets and left The Psychic's house.Dharma Agent The Psychic had fulfilled his part of The Plan, and it had worked beautifully. Claire was going to The Island as planned, where Dharma was eagerly awaiting her arrival, and she was desiring to give the baby away. The Plan worked perfectly--Claire had been manipulated just right. Not only that, but Claire had PASSED THE TESTS. She had been TESTED to make sure that she absolutely 100% wanted to give up the baby. This was important, because when Claire would be on The Island, in the custody & care of Dharma (while they injected the baby with their special serums and performed tests and whatever else was part of their big scientific project for which they needed Claire/her baby), Dharma would be asking Claire repeatedly if she would be willing to give them her baby. They, of course, wanted her to willingly give them the baby--this would make things MUCH smoother and easier than taking a baby by force from a mother. It wasn't very hard to get the high-as-a-kite, drugged-up Claire to agree to give them her baby--as she had already not intended to keep the baby anyway.However, Dharma still reassured her by once again using the term "good people" to appease that part of her that had the notion in the back of her mind that the baby must be raised by "good people". I believe that Ethan saying, "We’re good people, Claire." was VERY SIGNIFICANT--it showed a link to The Psychic, who also said "They’re good people, Claire." when talking about the people who she would be giving the baby to, who, as The Psychic knew, was Ethan and the rest of the Dharma team.To sum up my theory presented in this post: Claire was CHOSEN to have a baby; was TESTED through tests specifically planned & carried out by Dharma to make sure that she definitely was willing to give up her baby--to make absolute sure that Claire was The One that they wanted on The Island; was MANIPULATED by Dharma Agents (or people paid off by, or working for, Dharma) to get on THAT PLANE, destination THE ISLAND, for the purpose of going to give away her baby to Dharma. The rest, as they say, is history. The plane was headed specifically to The Island, where a carefully planned out procedure would bring the plane down to land….As I just said, i believe, of course, that the plane crash was very carefully planned out. I would have to do a whole other long post to explain my exact thoughts about how they did this, but to quickly explain: I believe that Oceanic Airlines, or at least some of the employees of Oceanic Airlines, worked for or were a part of Dharma/Hanso. Either Oceanic set up, or Dharma hacked into their computers to set up, WHO would be sitting WHERE on the plane, to ensure that in the carefully-planned breaking apart & "crash" of the airplane, that CERTAIN PEOPLE would most likely SURVIVE. The Pilot was/is part of Dharma. He specifically flew the plane to The Island. The Plan to bring down the plane was very carefully planned out (to greatly understate things!). The Pilot got the plane to the right place at the planned out time, and the Dharma scientists then used their big Electromagnetic Force Machine (that is behind the concrete bunker wall in The Swan Hatch) to somehow "grab hold" of the airplane, and with the plane under its control, guide it down to the ground, on The Island. (We even heard in The Pilot episode the same sounds that "The Monster"--which i believe is, or is controlled by, this Electromagnetic Force Machine--makes when the plane began to, and was, crashing.) That is how the plane managed to land on The Island without completely disintegrating and having the people onboard become nothing but smithereens upon impact with the earth. It is irrefutable that the plane was somehow brought down in a gentle manner. Otherwise, it is completely scientifically impossible for a plane to crash from 40,000 feet and have it and the objects and people aboard it NOT become nothing but smashed little bits upon impact.
Paint Bottles as Dioramas of Recent Events
(IF I’M NOT MISREADING THIS SHE IS LIKENING THE PLACEMENT OF THE PAINT BOTTLES
Paint Bottles as Dioramas of Recent Events
(IF I’M NOT MISREADING THIS SHE IS LIKENING THE PLACEMENT OF THE PAINT BOTTLES
NEAR THE MURAL IN THE HATCH TO…THE NATIVITY?)
Looking at the arrangement of paint bottles and other strange supplies, I quickly interpreted the nativity. But on further study, while the image or impression of the nativity is significant, what's really being communicated are the three events that have occurred on the island: the kidnapping of Walt; the birth of Aaron; and the death of Boone.The kidnapping of Walt:This event requires the most paint bottles. On the left side, the four clustered bottles comprise the Capt Gorton gang. The tallest one is Gorton himself, and if that bottle is paint remover/turpentine, I find that extremely hilarious. The green and white bottles are the thug "twins" and the green one specifically is the one who shot Sawyer. The bottle with the yellow and orange dried marks is the woman who tossed the molotov cocktail onto the raft. The little bottle/jar marked gold is Walt after he is removed from his father.Meanwhile on the right towards the back and in the very front are the three bottles which represent Michael, Jin, and Sawyer. Michael is, I rather sure, the yellow bottle, as the color would match gold the closest. Michael was also separated from Jin and Sawyer and that bottle is the most separated from the other two. Also, to borrow from the mural itself, the house behind Michael carries a sad, mournful face which would visually express Michael's grief. Plus, that red paint off the mural looks like an 8 to me and includes, I believe, the red strand across the yellow paint bottle, bringing the paint supplies into the mural and/or the mural into the paint supplies. The red splotch just off the 8 could be the flare or impending guilt and loss at having fired the gun that led to Michael's son being seized. The two bottles in the front are Sawyer and Jin, but had trouble deciding which is which. I decided to go with the standing one as Sawyer because of its open cap and dried paint suggesting blood. There is an amount of green which ties in well with the green bottle which I deemed the shooter for that reason of connected green color. There looks to be a bit of dried red suggesting blood more specifically. The outlined CRY (from the word ACRYLIC) confused me because Jin cried out Sawyer's name at the time of the shooting, but I opted to go with the recumbent paint bottle as Jin diving into the water after Sawyer. The open box between the Gold and the Yellow is, I figure, the raft.The birth of Aaron:The little obliquely positioned box containing what is either, from others' speculation, a ping pong ball or a light bulb, clearly resembles a cradle or a baby's bed, and its position suggests not a gentle rocking but a turbulent one. It also suggests, beyond the obvious manger, the basket of Moses set adrift on the Nile. The yellow bottle (formerly the bomb throwing woman) becomes Claire with the interesting colors of yellow for her hair, red for the birthing process and/or life, and green for new life. She also has the letters CRY emphasized, which for Claire is a clear connection, as her crying and crying out have been counted as much as Boone beatings. The figures behind her now change from Capt. Gorton and his boys to Kate, the white paint bottle, assisting in birth; Charlie, probably the green bottle, to connect with the bit of green on the bottle representing Claire; and Jin, the tall bottle in back, who played a comforting, supportive role. A nice touch here is the inclusion of the word Gold, which was, of course, of the gifts of the Magi.The death of Boone:The recumbent figure (formerly Jin) in front now becomes Boone after his injuries. And the semi covered item just behind the recumbent bottle would represent Boone at his burial and/or the mourning leading up to the burial. I am scared to suggest what the open box further behind might mean as while we have perhaps some evidence of ghosts we dont really have evidence of resurrection. However, the flashlight shining on the whole scene does give a certain aura to things. But that could just be Captain Gorton's blinding spotlight playing tricks. Meanwhile the standing bottle to the recumbent bottle's right. Two choices: Jack and Locke. Jack because of the giving of the blood (dried paint stains and open lid), the crying that occurred when telling Boone that he would die, and the general proximity. Locke because of the duality of the standing and falling, because the scene suggests carrying Boone back to the cave, and because of Locke's crying to the Hatch and the Hatch's then mysterious luminous response.Conclusion:Why do this? The mural suggests the seemingly wild and disorganized mind of the artist. It is loaded with images and symbols that interconnect physically and mentally. It suggests an island under bombardment by elemental and psychological forces. Could just mean that the artist is mad or on the verge of madness (Desmond, perhaps?). Meanwhile, the paint supplies are far more orderly, things in a certain place, as would suggest an artistic work in progress is going on above it. But the paints are messy, uncleaned. Are the paints a psychological bridge between the orderliness of the person, represented by Desmond and his pristine apartment, and the iconic insanity of the painting? If so, based on Desmond at the end of season 2 episode 1, madness is likely the case and is probably winning.Couple of side observations:the CRY words of course also contain the letters CR which, if I recall correctly, is part of the name of the injection.also, if you look to the left of the tall yellow bottle to the back of the paint bottle image, the way that Jack's flashlight is shining, you see a smaller shadow image. if that was intended, I am very excited.
Egyptian Escathology - Mythology
(I….JUST….HAVE NO WORDS. As an avid Egyptologist I admire the theory but can't quite take the leeap with him. )
I sort of wrote this narrative based on The Book of the Dead. The Egyptians called it The book of life or The Book of Destiny. My speculation is that maybe Lost is following a mythological narrative like this. I am asking you to see beyond the "They are dead" part and consider the other more important implications which derive from Egyptian mythology that I think can be found in the plot.I am overlooking, for the sake of the narrative, that all the processes through the Amenti are performed by means of rituals and spells in 7 different mysterical ceremonies. The rituals can be translated into the actions and situations that every character has to face.Sorry if this is a bit long. I tried to summarize as much as I could. English is not my native language so it's hard to condense sometimes.
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After living in this world the Egyptians believed they were born into another world called the Amenti, where the knowledge they acquired in this would be of paramount importance.The afterlife is conceived as a struggle that will prepare for the trial of the heart and then the passage to Paradise.The Amenti is maybe placed in an island in the Lake of Horus and it is filled with beings and entities of all kinds since the beginning of the World.It is placed under the Boreal Sky. The furthermost part of the Amenti is where stars are thrown into the abyss. There is a mountain of impressive height on the east and a temple under it protected by The Great Snake whose breast is adorned with silex and a sparkling shielding. There are portals with temples or palaces in the 4 positions of the sun. It is divided in 12 sections.After you pass away on Earth, you are reborn as the reincarnation of a god, but only potentially, you have to realize that potential to become the real personification of the god.First you recover your mouth to be able to speak.Then regain power of your bodily functions. You start by recovering your arms and legs, then your heart and lungs in order to regain mobility.The newly born into the Amenti can play checkers.Checkers was a game used to solve disputes.Now, you find yourself in the midst of an eternal Battle between Light (Horus) and Darkness (Seth). Neither of them is good or bad, they represent the 2 opposing forces of Nature that have to be put in balance so the Order of the Cosmos can be restored. That will be brought forth by the birth of the New Horus, an event which you must contemplate and from then on you must become the protector of that baby acting as Osiris.Both Set and Horus are ruthless warriors, with no concept of pity for their enemies.This is part of a Messianic prophecy as that New Born Baby Horus will grow to be the leader of the army that will help Osiris vanquish Set and permit his return to the Land of the Living.The Amenti is ripe with perils.The most dangerous are Seth’s demons.There are dangerous spirits that devour their own arms.The hairy demons.The black boars of Seth, armed with venomous fangs.The evil fish Andú.The fisher-spirits and the hunter-spirits that catch everyone on the Amenti for the Great Governor.Other demons have a veil covering their faces.There are Guardian Spirits with dangerous fingers and armed with long knives.There is a dog demon that devours corpses and stands guard by a lake of fire. He is the leader of the invisible red demons. The evil Apap, that old serpentThe rebelsThe devouring crocodiles "The Host of Set" : Red haired humans formed part of his armyDemons and monsters are invisible but they can be make tangible and visible when they are incarnated in your mind.Natural phenomena related to darkness were all atributed to the influence of Set, that is, storms, earthquakes and eclypses.It was also believed that Set lived in the Palace of the Great Bear in the hyperborean regions, where he could live in darkness and cold.You may find help along the way, like the Sanctified Spirits who dwell in secret abodes,or the servants of the two-headed lion god.In the house of the Moon you might find magic weapons.In the Amenti there are also damned souls of the people who have died twice. They become dangerous too.They will remain forever in the Amenti as mere shadows drawing their strength from the blood of the living.In this afterlife the purpose is first to become pure, renouncing all the evil deeds done in the previous life so that they don’t count anymore against you. Only then you may find inside yourself the strength to overcome all the enemies and restore Order.You have to turn into Khepra , the god of Metamorphosis. You have to acquire the power of invisibility, the power of shape-shifting; you must be able to turn into a hawk with a phoenix head, a snake, a lotus, a scorpion, a swallow, a fish. You must gain power over the stars, the waters on Earth and in the sky, over the irrational animals.You must become Orion and be able to ride along the fixed stars.You must gain knowledge of the mysterious paths in the land of the dead.In the process all your body parts must be replaced by body parts from different gods.You offer your arm to Ra, to distinguish yourself from the demons that use it only for their own purposesTo success you must cross the fire zone and separate the 2 warring sides with a torrent.When you come forth as the restorer of peace you are crowned as King of the two lands.Two lions crouch at the beautiful gate of exit from Amenti.As Osiris your emblems are the Eye and the Pillar.The emblem of Horus is the Hawk with a phoenix head and The Big FishAfter restoring the Order you come into the sanctuary of Maat to stand the trial of the scales before the 42 divine judges. You declare your deeds in the Amenti and that you’ve remained pure in it and beg the 4 powerful spirits to cleanse the sins you comitted before on Earth in order to be able to leave the Amenti and enter Paradise, where you can contemplate forever the spirits of the Sun and the Moon inside the House of the Million Years. It is said that you need a stair to access the celestial regions where the land of Paradise is placed.5 pillars sustained the structure of the Paradise. Ra sits there on a metalic throne ornated with lion faces and bull hooves.There you can live forever in the Field of the Blessed. There you will also find the city, field and the lake of peace. The whole paradise is surrounded by walls.
Binary Code / Duality of Man
(THIS WAS SO FAR OVER MY HEAD THAT I ACTUALLY HAVE NOTHING TO SAY ABOUT IT.
IF ANYONE HAS A CLUE WHAT THIS MEANS, LET ME KNOW. )
I think many of you already know the relation between the DHARMA Initiative symbol & the Ba-Gua, but for those that don't:Basically, what the Ba-Gua is is a wheel determining "alignments" in Feng-Shui, with its origins in the I Ching & Taoist thought. Though it was and is used primarily for geomancy, it has deep roots in mathematics & the true sciences, much as astronomy is a pseudoscience for the superstitious, but has its roots in astronomy. Note that the center contains the well-known yin-yang symbol, which in our DI symbol is divided by the swan neck. At the roots of Taoism, Buddhism & other East Asian faiths is the idea of mutually opposing things existing in balance—dualism. The relation of these faiths to LOST is nothing new—the number 108 is a sacred number to Buddhists, and well... look up the definition of dharma, if you haven't come across that yet. I did a little further digging on the subject, because it was really the symbols on the outside that interested me most. I found that these are basically trigrams of kwae, composed of an undivided dash (yang) or a divided one (yin). Meanings are as follows:yin-yin-yin (K'un) - earth - mother/receptive yin-yin-yang (Kên) - mountain - third son/keeping still yin-yang-yin (K'an) - water - second son/abysmal yin-yang-yang (Sun) - wind - first daughter/gentle yang-yin-yin (Chên) - thunder - first son/the arousing yang-yin-yang (Li) - fire - second daughter/clinging yang-yang-yin (Tui) - lake - third daughter/joyful yang-yang-yang (Ch'ien) - heaven - father/creative Basically, it’s a type of binary code! Found in a series where early computers figure in prominently. The idea of binary code is often credited to German mathematician (& philosopher, shown above) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the late 1600s; he also invented differential & integral calculus. However, he only popularized the idea’s applications (which would in modern times evolve to be the foundation of all computer programming & revolutionize the Digital Age). The idea of binary code itself has been around far longer than him, with some of the earliest recognized writings by Indian mathematicians in the third century. Where did Leibniz get his ideas? Note the uncanny similarities between Leibniz’s original chart of 64 codes (above), and the chart of 64 kwae determinants from the I Ching’s Book of Changes (below)—64 here being no accident, since it is simply 2 to the 6th power:So what does all this mean for our show LOST? Where does binary code figure in? What I wrote above is all pretty verifiable & I don’t think, too "out there" for most people to note the striking connections. Now I’m going to get a little more abstract and theoretical, you can choose to swallow it or not. Alvar Hanso makes an address to the U.N. in 1967, and disappears shortly thereafter, presumably to develop this concept through the DHARMA Initiative project, enveloped in secrecy. He has lofty ideals. Let’s look at this time period in the late 60’s. It was an explosive era of social change and instability, civil rights activism in the US and abroad, Israel beginning to occupy the Gaza Strip during the 6 days war; and what some would say is the start of the Cold War, with a US/USSR nuclear nonproliferation treaty signed. Utopian ideas were fast crumbling, but it was still a period ripe for some scientists to regard the "salvation of Man" as lying with technological innovation. He was not the first scientist to find inspiration with Eastern philosophies. Einstein (shown on the left above) before him had credited this idea as influential when he came up with the Theory of Relativity—matter and energy existing in duality. Oppenheimer (shown on the right above), the "Father of the Atomic Bomb" because he is best known for his work with the Manhattan Project (but also a significant contributor to the relativity theory & one on cosmic rays), also had a real fascination with many of the same ideas. In his case, he had invented the most powerful weapon man had ever known with all good intentions, because he believed in his heart that the threat of it would save Mankind from annihilation by conventional warfare (sound familiar?). Incidentally, Oppenheimer changed these views after Hiroshima & Nagasaki, and involvement with the project became his greatest regret—he was later in life a great social activist in the scientific & political arena.But our Dr. Hanso was still convinced he did have the answer, the ultimate weapon that would rescue us from war and all other causes of human strife. If you could make a code out of 0’s and 1’s, why not out of other things; biological things? This is not so crazy a concept, because DNA is really a quaternary code (and similar ideas have been explored in real life with research into creating artificial intelligence). How about abstract things like thought? Again, may sound like pure science fiction. But the brain produces quantifiable energy in the form of electromagnetic fields… EMFs! That’s what EEG’s measure, after all (something I’m rather familiar with, in my field, psychiatry). The idea of brain waves being seen like binary code isn’t even an original idea of mine. I got the idea only on reading an old article in the Scientific American years ago. In the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) development, it’s been mentioned several times. I think it was Alan Turing (a major contributor to the field of computer science) who even suggested it as early as the 40s a similar idea.The idea is that the brain itself, though complex, can be broken down into its simplest form–a single neuron. It’s basically a simple circuit. This can have two responses to a stimulus: to fire (when its threshold potential is reached, or 1) or not fire (0). It’s only the complex interconnectiveness of a neural network (and its location in this network) that creates different actions, such as running away, or crying. And the energy with which it does so? Electromagnetic waves. In 2 dimensions, for instance, you can measure if the electrical impulse travels away or towards a dipole, and this determines if the EEG records negatively or positively. In other words, in a plane, there’s a way to record this binary code of thought.What has LOST been about so far? I see the major themes as being interconnections, and human choices—choices to do good and evil, right and wrong. An age-old subject explored by ancient philosophies & faiths, and philosophers such as John Locke & Jean-Jacques Rousseau (the two we know are referenced by name in the show). In the complexity of the human condition, good and bad exist as a duality within the same person, and the choices we make are determined by this balance, with consequences in our environments—lately very evident with characters such as Sayiid and Charlie (but throughout the show, every one of them has had this internal struggle and done good and bad). So our thoughts are in fact various combinations of good and evil, and other elements that exist in mutual opposition. Binary code! Could this energy be harnessed—converted to kinetic or chemical energy for example? Or converted to matter, as per our good ole Theory of Relativity? We’ve already seen examples of telekinesis & ESP from the show, mostly from Walt, but it appears he is just the most keen & adept so far. That’s the part that I think dovetails nicely into Andrew’s Ultimate Theory, of the Collective Conscience.
HE SHALL THUNDER THE SKY
(STOP! STOP…YOU’RE KILLING ME!)
Is Lost just an analogy for the THUNDERCATS?
THE BIG THEORY
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I'll make this as brief as I can (no he won't):
I'll make this as brief as I can (no he won't):
Meet Hans Oersted:
There was a picture of some old dude here but I cut it.
Hans O. discovered electromagnetism in 1820. In 1999 the 'Oersted' satellite was launched with the purpose of charting Earth's magnetic field. The findings led scientists to believe that there might be a polar reversal imminent, the effects of which could be cataclysmic: if Earth were to lose its magnetosphere, it would be vulnerable to massive radiation from the space/sun. The satellite also revealed an anomaly in the magnetic field under South Africa; it is pointing the opposite direction from the rest of the Earth's field and has been growing for hundreds of years. Please Google this info. A similar idea was also used in the film 'The Core'. Meet Hannes Alfvén:
Another old dude.
His contribution to science - mainly in the field of electromagnetism - revolutionized how scientists view the universe, winning a Nobel Prize on the way. He spoke English, German, French, Russian, and some Spanish and Chinese; and studied oriental philosophy and religion. He spent time in the Fiji Islands. He was fascinated by the "green flash" - a phenomenon that sometimes occurs at sunset. By no coincidence (Green Lantern and Flash comic): He also wrote fiction: The Great Computer: A Vision (1968) telling the story of computers taking over the world. Google "Hannes Alfvén". Alfvén plus Hans O. equals Alvar Hanso. The above outlines the reason for - and a means to control - the island... Scientists, fearing the cataclysmic events of a polar reversal, prepared an environment for the survival of the human race. They either directly or indirectly engineered the kind of people who would make up a community fit for survival and propagation of a new world. In the main, this means characters without father/mother figures; and/or characters with skills for survival: a doctor, an engineer, a survivalist, a mercenary; and characters of sufficiently varied genetic background: african, caucasian, asian, etc. to ensure a healthy gene pool for generations. Then on an island which already had a massive natural source of electromagnetism, they constructed an artificial magnetosphere, alluded to in Walt's/Hurley's comic: Yeah, there was a picture of the comic book here.to repel the deadly cosmic rays that Earth's magnetosphere used to repel. The hope was that the community could thrive, grow and, eventually, repopulate/recover the world. The Dharma Initiative under Alvar Hanso (if both of these thing exist in the Lost reality - much of the Orientation film is red herrings for the 'survivors') used a technology based on remote viewing and electromagnetism to power this magnetosphere and to influence the lives of the future island candidates. As stated in another of my posts: every strange (and a lot of mundane) occurrences in Lost can be attributed to electromagnetism as wielded by the collective consciousness on the island (see "Enlightenment Theory"). When all the candidates were in place, i.e. on the plane, the collective consciousness knocked everyone out, brought it down, cryogenically preserved them, dismantled the plane (placing enough debris in the ocean to ensure an "everybody dead" verdict); years later, some plane debris was placed on the beach with the passengers and the scene was set to give the illusion that they had JUST crashed. Then the collective consciousness woke them up. The joke/password about the snowmen is an allusion to being cryogenically frozen. The collective consciousness is that group of scientists that became so totally absorbed into remote viewing and electromagnetism that they now operate on frequencies of electromagnetism (covering everything from light to sound) only. They can read minds as well as manipulate iron and other conductive material. Claire wondered why there was not one comb or hairbrush on the entire plane; the reason: the slight electrostatic charges that hairbrushing creates is interference for the collective consciousness. Much of the Orientation film and what Desmond says is false and purely to ensure that our heroes press those bloody buttons every 108 minutes. The purpose is threefold: to provide a focus for the community - a reason to go on and something 'meaningful' that goes beyond rational decision-making; secondly, to protect the hatch/power-supply/scientists behind the concrete; and, thirdly, to download the information from the Oersted satellite as it orbits the Earth every 108 minutes (please Google this) to get the latest on the magnetic poles. The collective consciousness messed with this bird's navigation (based on magnetism - birds have magnetite in their beaks). You guessed it, screen cap of dead bird.Sayid tells Jack that either the compass is wrong or North has moved. In fact, North has moved. Picture of jack and Sayid.Walt seems to become a knife-throwing expert. He isn't. The metal knife was guided by the collective consciousness in an attempt to bring him closer to Locke, who is the island's most faithful servant. The presence of this ship is an indication that this island has always been known as a source of great magnetic power (the word "magnet" comes from "Magnesia" the land where the first black rock with powers of attraction was found). The location of this ship is an indication of the island's volcanic past - pushing the island higher - the ship is now inland. (Lava cools to form basalt; at the point basalt solidifies it takes on the same magnetic field as the surrounding location, thus providing information of the magnetic field's past.) BF Skinner's dubious theories form the basis for the methods used by collective consciousness to socially engineer this 'utopia'. They are the voices in the trees, they are the visions, they are the black fog (metal in a magnetic field), the monster (mechanical, but designed to embody each survivor's personal fear). They use every psychological trick in his books to manipulate the survivors into forming a stable long-lasting community ON the island; and their means to this end are extensive. The two images above are an explicit example of how the influence of the Dharma's collective consciousness has pervaded in the survivors' lives: notice the octagonal ceiling in both shots; and the metal balls in the second scene.
One of these is a picture of Walt in the foyer of his house. And the other is Jack’s eyeball. And no, I’m not kidding.The opening shot of most episodes - the eye - establishes that this epsiode's main character will percieve what the collective consciousness wishes to show them. In this episode, Boone has an epiphanous vision courtesy of the collective consciousness and is later murdered with a falling plane! Locke can walk now. Locke has no feeling in his legs. Locke's ability to walk is based on the collective consciousness' will. It makes him obedient. This level of obediency may be required of all the survivors eventually. His legs move because the collective consciousness allows those tiny electronic impulses from his brain via the spine to get through to muscles in his legs. To summarize: our heroes never actually crashed; they are the future of mankind - the survivors of a cataclysmic polar event of which they are unaware; they are on the island to survive, procreate and repopulate the Earth. They are unaware of this plan which is sustained by a sophisticated collective consciousness and a group of scientists using electromagnetic power, and psychological techniques of reward and punishment. There is more, but that's the gist.
ST. ELSEWHERE? HERE?
(I never saw the show but I think this is as good a theory as any other.)
There was a picture of some old dude here but I cut it.
Hans O. discovered electromagnetism in 1820. In 1999 the 'Oersted' satellite was launched with the purpose of charting Earth's magnetic field. The findings led scientists to believe that there might be a polar reversal imminent, the effects of which could be cataclysmic: if Earth were to lose its magnetosphere, it would be vulnerable to massive radiation from the space/sun. The satellite also revealed an anomaly in the magnetic field under South Africa; it is pointing the opposite direction from the rest of the Earth's field and has been growing for hundreds of years. Please Google this info. A similar idea was also used in the film 'The Core'. Meet Hannes Alfvén:
Another old dude.
His contribution to science - mainly in the field of electromagnetism - revolutionized how scientists view the universe, winning a Nobel Prize on the way. He spoke English, German, French, Russian, and some Spanish and Chinese; and studied oriental philosophy and religion. He spent time in the Fiji Islands. He was fascinated by the "green flash" - a phenomenon that sometimes occurs at sunset. By no coincidence (Green Lantern and Flash comic): He also wrote fiction: The Great Computer: A Vision (1968) telling the story of computers taking over the world. Google "Hannes Alfvén". Alfvén plus Hans O. equals Alvar Hanso. The above outlines the reason for - and a means to control - the island... Scientists, fearing the cataclysmic events of a polar reversal, prepared an environment for the survival of the human race. They either directly or indirectly engineered the kind of people who would make up a community fit for survival and propagation of a new world. In the main, this means characters without father/mother figures; and/or characters with skills for survival: a doctor, an engineer, a survivalist, a mercenary; and characters of sufficiently varied genetic background: african, caucasian, asian, etc. to ensure a healthy gene pool for generations. Then on an island which already had a massive natural source of electromagnetism, they constructed an artificial magnetosphere, alluded to in Walt's/Hurley's comic: Yeah, there was a picture of the comic book here.to repel the deadly cosmic rays that Earth's magnetosphere used to repel. The hope was that the community could thrive, grow and, eventually, repopulate/recover the world. The Dharma Initiative under Alvar Hanso (if both of these thing exist in the Lost reality - much of the Orientation film is red herrings for the 'survivors') used a technology based on remote viewing and electromagnetism to power this magnetosphere and to influence the lives of the future island candidates. As stated in another of my posts: every strange (and a lot of mundane) occurrences in Lost can be attributed to electromagnetism as wielded by the collective consciousness on the island (see "Enlightenment Theory"). When all the candidates were in place, i.e. on the plane, the collective consciousness knocked everyone out, brought it down, cryogenically preserved them, dismantled the plane (placing enough debris in the ocean to ensure an "everybody dead" verdict); years later, some plane debris was placed on the beach with the passengers and the scene was set to give the illusion that they had JUST crashed. Then the collective consciousness woke them up. The joke/password about the snowmen is an allusion to being cryogenically frozen. The collective consciousness is that group of scientists that became so totally absorbed into remote viewing and electromagnetism that they now operate on frequencies of electromagnetism (covering everything from light to sound) only. They can read minds as well as manipulate iron and other conductive material. Claire wondered why there was not one comb or hairbrush on the entire plane; the reason: the slight electrostatic charges that hairbrushing creates is interference for the collective consciousness. Much of the Orientation film and what Desmond says is false and purely to ensure that our heroes press those bloody buttons every 108 minutes. The purpose is threefold: to provide a focus for the community - a reason to go on and something 'meaningful' that goes beyond rational decision-making; secondly, to protect the hatch/power-supply/scientists behind the concrete; and, thirdly, to download the information from the Oersted satellite as it orbits the Earth every 108 minutes (please Google this) to get the latest on the magnetic poles. The collective consciousness messed with this bird's navigation (based on magnetism - birds have magnetite in their beaks). You guessed it, screen cap of dead bird.Sayid tells Jack that either the compass is wrong or North has moved. In fact, North has moved. Picture of jack and Sayid.Walt seems to become a knife-throwing expert. He isn't. The metal knife was guided by the collective consciousness in an attempt to bring him closer to Locke, who is the island's most faithful servant. The presence of this ship is an indication that this island has always been known as a source of great magnetic power (the word "magnet" comes from "Magnesia" the land where the first black rock with powers of attraction was found). The location of this ship is an indication of the island's volcanic past - pushing the island higher - the ship is now inland. (Lava cools to form basalt; at the point basalt solidifies it takes on the same magnetic field as the surrounding location, thus providing information of the magnetic field's past.) BF Skinner's dubious theories form the basis for the methods used by collective consciousness to socially engineer this 'utopia'. They are the voices in the trees, they are the visions, they are the black fog (metal in a magnetic field), the monster (mechanical, but designed to embody each survivor's personal fear). They use every psychological trick in his books to manipulate the survivors into forming a stable long-lasting community ON the island; and their means to this end are extensive. The two images above are an explicit example of how the influence of the Dharma's collective consciousness has pervaded in the survivors' lives: notice the octagonal ceiling in both shots; and the metal balls in the second scene.
One of these is a picture of Walt in the foyer of his house. And the other is Jack’s eyeball. And no, I’m not kidding.The opening shot of most episodes - the eye - establishes that this epsiode's main character will percieve what the collective consciousness wishes to show them. In this episode, Boone has an epiphanous vision courtesy of the collective consciousness and is later murdered with a falling plane! Locke can walk now. Locke has no feeling in his legs. Locke's ability to walk is based on the collective consciousness' will. It makes him obedient. This level of obediency may be required of all the survivors eventually. His legs move because the collective consciousness allows those tiny electronic impulses from his brain via the spine to get through to muscles in his legs. To summarize: our heroes never actually crashed; they are the future of mankind - the survivors of a cataclysmic polar event of which they are unaware; they are on the island to survive, procreate and repopulate the Earth. They are unaware of this plan which is sustained by a sophisticated collective consciousness and a group of scientists using electromagnetic power, and psychological techniques of reward and punishment. There is more, but that's the gist.
ST. ELSEWHERE? HERE?
(I never saw the show but I think this is as good a theory as any other.)
With all the conspiracy theories and potential other dimensional possibilities- could we be in for a St. Elsewhere kind of ending? If you recall, St. Elsewhere’s ending for the entire series was that the hospital was contained in the snow globe of a child and we, the viewer, were entertained by the imaginings of a young boy. It was one of the lowest points in television next to the whole janet jackson debacle.
QH/Homoplasmates AND the numbers??????
(THIS IS IT! THIS IS THE ONE! THIS IS MY FAVORITE BAR NONE OF ALL TIME! IT IS THE ROLLS-ROYCE OF UNFOUNDED SPECULATION. IT IS THE HOLY GRAIL OF ASSUMPTION. IT IS, IN SHORT, WHAT MUST BE THE WORK OF A MAN WHO WAS ONCE REFERRED TO AS "DUNGEON MASTER" IN HIS PUBERTY AND HAS A LOT OF PHONE SEX!)
This one is actually too technical and long for a blog post and there are a whole mess of pictures. I encourage you to go read it yourself and offer you the following as an incentive:
Homoplasmates
Constellations linked to Apollo
Arcturians
Black hole anti-matter
Eclipses
And there’s a "hatch star map idea using the following "apollo constellations" which are not found within ursa major" this is merely a creative idea, to show how a Pyramids type of connection to the stars may exist"
Freud meets the Matrix?
(YOU CAN’T HAVE A LIST OF THEORETICALS WITHOUT FREUD…)
AND THE WINNER OF THE MOST FAR-OUT THEORY IS….
The Island (blog)
http://lostbutfound.typepad.com/theanswerstolost/
(I…I…It’s…I can not get my mind around this one. Okay, this blog contains the information that LOST is all an allegory for a post-9/11 America. And no I am not kidding! And to prove it? I’ve tossed you a bone to tantalize you into going to the site….)
The Island is full of unknown terrain, hidden threats and mysterious bands of possibly dangerous "Others."
The castaways never asked to be on the Island, but due to events outside of their control they have been thrust into this strange unknown place, and must learn to live in it.
Hypothesis:
The Island = What the world looked like to the American People after the events of 9/11
Sawyer symbolizes . . . Vice-President Dick Cheney
Michael = The Democratic Party Leadership
The Monster = The Terrorist Threat . . . BUT not the actual Terrorists themselves (more on that at a later time)
Jack is . . . President George W. Bush
Sayid = The Intelligence Agencies: The CIA, The FBI, and the NSA
Locke = The Military, Patriotic Duty, and sometimes Secretary of State General Colin Powell
The Small Second Group of Surviving Passengers = The UK (and possibly the rest of the US Allies in the Iraqi Invasion)
Michael = The Democratic Party LeadershipIs the theme of the Castaways' flashbacks "THE AMERICAN DREAM"?
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