There have been numerous theories about time shifting, black holes worm holes and the like. They all have merit. However, the writers also provide us a simple thesis for all the islands mystery and time space distortion: The transitional experience at one's moment of Death.
I direct you to consider that a primary LOST plotline is composed and derived from each characters collective final memory, experiences and mental – spiritual transition that manifests themselves for each of us in the timeless infinity when we pass from this existence to the next at the “life to death” portal.
There are plenty of clues to support this thesis in LOST’s references to Jacob, the cameo use of the Book the Third Policeman and myriad other images.
Here are but a few items for your consideration that LOST as a plot line is a summation of the final collective memory of the dying passengers of flight 815.
Ben takes his direction from Jacob. This invokes the image the metaphysical lore of “Jacobs Ladder to heaven”, and crossing over as a life within a life, as considered in the film of the same name in which the plot harkens back to the final “life passing before your eyes” plot lines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s_Ladder_%28film%29
The Third Policeman suggests that evil deeds in life can cause a persistence of memory.
The novel appeared in the season 2 première. The series' creators have said that anyone who has read the book "will have a lot more ammunition when dissecting plotlines" of the show. Allusions to the book include an underground chamber in which numbers play an important part and a spike in those numbers as a key plot point, a box from which anything you desire can be produced, and the suggestion that the survivors of the plane crash are actually in some kind of afterlife, although this suggestion has been extensively denied by the creators of the show. The book has seen a significant sales increase since its role in Lost.
In a letter to William Saroyan dated 14 February 1940, the author of O'Brien explained the strange plot of The Third Policeman:
... When you get to the end of this book you realize that my hero or main character (he's a heel and a killer) has been dead throughout the book and that all the queer ghastly things which have been happening to him are happening in a sort of hell which he earned for the killing ... It is made clear that this sort of thing goes on for ever ... When you are writing about the world of the dead – and the damned – where none of the rules and laws (not even the law of gravity) holds good, there is any amount of scope for back-chat and funny cracks.
This is all just one plot theory. There is literary precedent for the moment of death as a universe within a universe in numerous works, my favorite being An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (sometimes called "An Incident at Owl Creek Bridge") by Ambrose Bierce.
Theory by Larry
I direct you to consider that a primary LOST plotline is composed and derived from each characters collective final memory, experiences and mental – spiritual transition that manifests themselves for each of us in the timeless infinity when we pass from this existence to the next at the “life to death” portal.
There are plenty of clues to support this thesis in LOST’s references to Jacob, the cameo use of the Book the Third Policeman and myriad other images.
Here are but a few items for your consideration that LOST as a plot line is a summation of the final collective memory of the dying passengers of flight 815.
Ben takes his direction from Jacob. This invokes the image the metaphysical lore of “Jacobs Ladder to heaven”, and crossing over as a life within a life, as considered in the film of the same name in which the plot harkens back to the final “life passing before your eyes” plot lines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s_Ladder_%28film%29
The Third Policeman suggests that evil deeds in life can cause a persistence of memory.
The novel appeared in the season 2 première. The series' creators have said that anyone who has read the book "will have a lot more ammunition when dissecting plotlines" of the show. Allusions to the book include an underground chamber in which numbers play an important part and a spike in those numbers as a key plot point, a box from which anything you desire can be produced, and the suggestion that the survivors of the plane crash are actually in some kind of afterlife, although this suggestion has been extensively denied by the creators of the show. The book has seen a significant sales increase since its role in Lost.
In a letter to William Saroyan dated 14 February 1940, the author of O'Brien explained the strange plot of The Third Policeman:
... When you get to the end of this book you realize that my hero or main character (he's a heel and a killer) has been dead throughout the book and that all the queer ghastly things which have been happening to him are happening in a sort of hell which he earned for the killing ... It is made clear that this sort of thing goes on for ever ... When you are writing about the world of the dead – and the damned – where none of the rules and laws (not even the law of gravity) holds good, there is any amount of scope for back-chat and funny cracks.
This is all just one plot theory. There is literary precedent for the moment of death as a universe within a universe in numerous works, my favorite being An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (sometimes called "An Incident at Owl Creek Bridge") by Ambrose Bierce.
Theory by Larry
