Okay so in my last post I said I wouldn't post about Lost anymore, but hey I just can't stop thinking about it... I just can't move on.
So I think I stumbled onto something very big about Lost that's been bugging me for a long time. First off, I didn't think the numbers were completely explained the way they should have been on the show, and second off, I wasn't quite sure why they had spent so much time on the afterlife timeline in the last season.
Then one day I was driving to work and it hit me...
I had been reading Nikki Stafford's Finding Lost Season 6 book and in it she explains in great detail about how the writers most likely modeled the afterlife timeline on the Buddhist concept of Bardo. Basically Bardo is a series of hallucinatory experiences that one goes through after you die in which you are led around by visions of people whom you knew when you were alive and then you achieve a realization that you're dead. Once that happens you have a choice, either to ascend to a heaven-type realm or to be reincarnated as another person back on Earth.
The Numbers of the Guardians by Scott Gingold
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