Well after seeing that there are true Egyptian influences on the island, I believe that the island is a Stargate style portal, but instead of moving through parallel universes, it is in fact...
A TIMEGATE.
Yes, that's right.
A large Time-Gate built right here on Earth in the cradle of civilisation. The Time-Gate allows those who know how to use it to have eternal life.
It's somewhere deep underground and it's like a big temple controlled by different switches and hubs are placed around it. The 'magic box' as it were, is a metaphor for the ability to move forwards or backwards through the time and bring something back with you. Or take something away so that it never existed in the first place. Richie and his group of sack wearing cohorts are ancient people who have been alive for a very long time and are preservists.
It was discovered recently by a group of Scientists who use it to manipulate jump backwards and forwards through time, perhaps to give the impression they have Godlike powers. Only a handful of people know the truth about the island. A lot of the people who were once there have lost their memories and now need to go back, hence, most of the losties.
They need their memories to return so that they remember who they really are to find themselves and realise once again their rightful place as members of the Island.
They exist in a temporal timeline where they are neither alive nor dead but trapped until they reach their paths again, when the one true way is found, only then can the world be set to rights.
I think a lot of the scientific / religious explanations are just a reasonable and acceptable base description for something much more fantasy based - I don't think the final story line will be able to be explained by scientific fact and that's why a lot of people over 'over-focusing' on whether or not things can be true based on time travel paradoxes etc.
Aliens? Maybe not, but ancient cradle of civilisation Tomb Raidery type mythology is more the route of Carlon and Lindelof. Maybe a lot more of a focus on Egyptian mythology coupled with other mythlogies. Creating perhaps their own "uber" mythology.
I guess a lot of us are looking for the meaning of life through Lost! Here are a few excerpts from what I found in Wikipedia that ring true to similar characteristics of our beloved show...
GHOSTS ON THE ISLAND:
"The Akh (3ḫ meaning 'effective one'),[1] was a concept that varied over the long history of ancient Egyptian belief. It is besides Ka and Ba one of the central elements, aspects of immortal personality, even after the death of the physical body. In this sense, it was a sort of ghost.
In later belief, the Ka was considered to change into the Akh and Ba after death, rather than uniting with the Ba to become the Akh. At this stage, it was believed that the Akh spent some time dwelling in the underworld before returning and being reincarnated as a Ka, gaining a new Ba."
That could be Locke, the leader those on the island have truly been searching for, reincarnated and needed to serve his purpose!
THE MONSTER:
In Egyptian mythology, Ammit (also spelt Ammut, Ammet, Amam, Amemet and Ahemait) was the personification of divine retribution for all the wrongs one had committed in life and she dwelt in the Hall of Ma'at... The hearts of those who failed the test were given to Ammit for her to devour, and their souls were not permitted to enter Aaru, having to be restless forever—dying a second time. Although Ammit is seen as a devouring entity, its order is neutral and strictly serves at the whim of the other deities to take souls that have sinned against the gods and put them into oblivion.
Is Benjamin some form of deity!? At least some of the islanders believed so, at one point!
Moving away from this Egyptian thang - I found something much more enlightening with regards to 'Mysticism'...
Author and mystic, Evelyn Underhill outlines the universal mystic way, the actual process by which the mystic arrives at union with the absolute. She identifies five stages of this process. First is the awakening, the stage in which one begins to have some consciousness of absolute or divine reality. The second stage is one of purgation which is characterized by an awareness of one's own imperfections and finiteness. The response in this stage is one of self-discipline and mortification. The third stage, illumination, is one reached by artists and visionaries as well as being the final stage of some mystics. It is marked by a consciousness of a transcendent order and a vision of a new heaven and a new earth. The great mystics go beyond the stage of illumination to a fourth stage which Underhill, borrowing the language of St. John of the Cross, calls the dark night of the soul. This stage, experienced by the few, is one of final and complete purification and is marked by conf! usion, helplessness, stagnation of the will, and a sense of the withdrawal of God's presence. It is the period of final "unselfing" and the surrender to the hidden purposes of the divine will. The final and last stage is one of union with the object of love, the one Reality, God. Here the self has been permanently established on a transcendental level and liberated for a new purpose. Filled up with the Divine Will, it immerses itself in the temporal order, the world of appearances in order to incarnate the eternal in time, to become the mediator between humanity and eternity
That definately sounds like Locke to me, or the stages he has gone through in his life, as told by his story. Or even there are numerous people going through this stage, each replacing the last!?
There is definately some sort of spiritual transcendace going on and at the same time it appears time travel... There's something that the guys are going to have to work very hard on to bind spiritualism with science in one explanation, but alas, I don't believe we will have the final explanation but in the end, some riddlesome mind blowing ending that will make us think "Do we actually exist in this world, or is it just something else?"
Read all this for some more mind blowing stuff that I think, in a nod to the world of Stephen King and the ambiguous references we keep seeing in the show, even the ultimate end is not important, just the journey - the detail is in our own minds! >
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysticism
My head hurts!
Theory by Darkspark2000
A TIMEGATE.
Yes, that's right.
A large Time-Gate built right here on Earth in the cradle of civilisation. The Time-Gate allows those who know how to use it to have eternal life.
It's somewhere deep underground and it's like a big temple controlled by different switches and hubs are placed around it. The 'magic box' as it were, is a metaphor for the ability to move forwards or backwards through the time and bring something back with you. Or take something away so that it never existed in the first place. Richie and his group of sack wearing cohorts are ancient people who have been alive for a very long time and are preservists.
It was discovered recently by a group of Scientists who use it to manipulate jump backwards and forwards through time, perhaps to give the impression they have Godlike powers. Only a handful of people know the truth about the island. A lot of the people who were once there have lost their memories and now need to go back, hence, most of the losties.
They need their memories to return so that they remember who they really are to find themselves and realise once again their rightful place as members of the Island.
They exist in a temporal timeline where they are neither alive nor dead but trapped until they reach their paths again, when the one true way is found, only then can the world be set to rights.
I think a lot of the scientific / religious explanations are just a reasonable and acceptable base description for something much more fantasy based - I don't think the final story line will be able to be explained by scientific fact and that's why a lot of people over 'over-focusing' on whether or not things can be true based on time travel paradoxes etc.
Aliens? Maybe not, but ancient cradle of civilisation Tomb Raidery type mythology is more the route of Carlon and Lindelof. Maybe a lot more of a focus on Egyptian mythology coupled with other mythlogies. Creating perhaps their own "uber" mythology.
I guess a lot of us are looking for the meaning of life through Lost! Here are a few excerpts from what I found in Wikipedia that ring true to similar characteristics of our beloved show...
GHOSTS ON THE ISLAND:
"The Akh (3ḫ meaning 'effective one'),[1] was a concept that varied over the long history of ancient Egyptian belief. It is besides Ka and Ba one of the central elements, aspects of immortal personality, even after the death of the physical body. In this sense, it was a sort of ghost.
In later belief, the Ka was considered to change into the Akh and Ba after death, rather than uniting with the Ba to become the Akh. At this stage, it was believed that the Akh spent some time dwelling in the underworld before returning and being reincarnated as a Ka, gaining a new Ba."
That could be Locke, the leader those on the island have truly been searching for, reincarnated and needed to serve his purpose!
THE MONSTER:
In Egyptian mythology, Ammit (also spelt Ammut, Ammet, Amam, Amemet and Ahemait) was the personification of divine retribution for all the wrongs one had committed in life and she dwelt in the Hall of Ma'at... The hearts of those who failed the test were given to Ammit for her to devour, and their souls were not permitted to enter Aaru, having to be restless forever—dying a second time. Although Ammit is seen as a devouring entity, its order is neutral and strictly serves at the whim of the other deities to take souls that have sinned against the gods and put them into oblivion.
Is Benjamin some form of deity!? At least some of the islanders believed so, at one point!
Moving away from this Egyptian thang - I found something much more enlightening with regards to 'Mysticism'...
Author and mystic, Evelyn Underhill outlines the universal mystic way, the actual process by which the mystic arrives at union with the absolute. She identifies five stages of this process. First is the awakening, the stage in which one begins to have some consciousness of absolute or divine reality. The second stage is one of purgation which is characterized by an awareness of one's own imperfections and finiteness. The response in this stage is one of self-discipline and mortification. The third stage, illumination, is one reached by artists and visionaries as well as being the final stage of some mystics. It is marked by a consciousness of a transcendent order and a vision of a new heaven and a new earth. The great mystics go beyond the stage of illumination to a fourth stage which Underhill, borrowing the language of St. John of the Cross, calls the dark night of the soul. This stage, experienced by the few, is one of final and complete purification and is marked by conf! usion, helplessness, stagnation of the will, and a sense of the withdrawal of God's presence. It is the period of final "unselfing" and the surrender to the hidden purposes of the divine will. The final and last stage is one of union with the object of love, the one Reality, God. Here the self has been permanently established on a transcendental level and liberated for a new purpose. Filled up with the Divine Will, it immerses itself in the temporal order, the world of appearances in order to incarnate the eternal in time, to become the mediator between humanity and eternity
That definately sounds like Locke to me, or the stages he has gone through in his life, as told by his story. Or even there are numerous people going through this stage, each replacing the last!?
There is definately some sort of spiritual transcendace going on and at the same time it appears time travel... There's something that the guys are going to have to work very hard on to bind spiritualism with science in one explanation, but alas, I don't believe we will have the final explanation but in the end, some riddlesome mind blowing ending that will make us think "Do we actually exist in this world, or is it just something else?"
Read all this for some more mind blowing stuff that I think, in a nod to the world of Stephen King and the ambiguous references we keep seeing in the show, even the ultimate end is not important, just the journey - the detail is in our own minds! >
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysticism
My head hurts!
Theory by Darkspark2000
