I’d just like to warn everyone that this is a VERY LONG theory, almost like a mini novel. It is a compellation of things that you all may have heard before, and also some new ideas or just plain observations. Several things that we have already seen might be redundant to many of you hardcore lost fans, but if you’re new to reading theories, you should really enjoy this one. Anyways, if you have the time to read this I’m sure you’ll find it to be enjoyable, and if you don’t have the time, I fully understand. Feel free to comment and let me know how it can be improved (other than making it shorter ). Thanks and enjoy….
Since the beginning of time, as the world formed and the universe expanded, many great things have come together to produce life here on earth. With a magnetic force field that protects us from the nuclear winds of the universe and an atmosphere that works as a fine tuned machine to support life, water, air and land. Even the precise distance from the sun that allows life to exist without freezing or burning from extreme temperatures. Since the formation of our planet there has existed an island, a special island that is the heart of earth and helps to drive the machine, the system. The machine is precise and complicated; it is driven by the actions of many physical things, as well as intervention of the divine and dimensions that we cannot see. The system follows a design, a complicated equation.
This island has been the home for many people and cultures throughout the ages; one in particular is the Egyptians. Its location on earth is always changing, like it is in orbit. The island possesses matter from several different universes all at once. This is the only place that contains light matter and dark matter, right handed and left handed matter, living and dead souls, angels and demons all at the same time in the same place. They are all here, now, and they are all the same. All things are entangled and part of the system. This island is part of an equilibrium system that helps drive the motion of earth and the universe. This place, much like everywhere else, contains a great deal of duality in its existence. For every light, there is a dark; for every positive, there is a negative; for every action, there is a reaction.
As cultures have existed throughout history, there have been many ancient cultures that have found themselves on this island as well. The living souls that exist on this island have reached it through one of the many portals on earth. These portals are known as Vile Vortices and there are 12 locations on earth, evenly distributed, where they can be accessed. Two of these vortices are well know for their mystery, the Devils triangle and the Bermuda triangle. Two other vile vortices locations are the north and south poles. Much like the rotation of the earth, the location of the island, as well as the access point to it, rotates in a cycle. If one is located at a particular vortex at a particular time, they will be sucked through a wormhole (personified as Maxwell’s demon) and they will end up on this island. Most of the living souls that have found their way on the island have never found their way out, for there is only one bearing that one can follow in order to ge! t back. For the dead souls on the island, it is even harder to get back, but if they are special, they can use the island as a conduit to communicate to the living.
This island shares many properties with the rest of the earth, but every property acts slightly differently. As we experience magnetic fields on earth, the island experiences magnetic fields as well, but with different properties and higher concentration. Earth experiences gravitational forces and ultraviolet light, and the island experiences the same properties, but in different ways as well. There are also several unexplainable energies that we see on earth. Some people use religions and spirituality to explain strange coincidences that they see, but interpretation is in the eye of the beholder. The human body feels energies that we cannot explain; urges and feelings like lust, love, remorse and purpose. These special and unexplainable, intangible energies are also found on the island in higher concentration to what is felt on earth.
There is a spirit that guards the island and works with it as a hand of judgment, this spirit is known as Cerberus and is formed of clouds of black smoke. Cerberus is known as Duat by the Ancient Egyptian civilization. The island itself was known by the Egyptians as BenBen in its origin. The Island has an underworld, and in the dimensions of the dead, it is known as Ma’at, a place where the hearts of the dead are judged. Those who are judged unfavorably have their hearts fed to Duat/Cerberus/Smokie, destroying their full existence. Those who are judged favorably were allowed to remain on the island in the underworld in peace. Dead souls are known as “dark” souls and live souls are known as “light” souls. In order for a light soul to be seen by a dark soul, or visa versa, it must live a simple life in its own universe so it can be favored by the island and be granted special powers. One special power allows the favored light soul inhabitants of the island to! communicate to the dark souls. The light souls can summon the dark souls to help them. The dark souls cannot physically interact with all light souls, but they can be heard in the form of whispers. Light souls use these whispers to create an advantageous distraction that helps confuse their combatants when needed. Some light souls can only speak dark souls beyond their judgment into the realm of the dead and some light souls can only speak to the energy of the person left behind.
When a meteor hit the island thousands of years ago, it caused a great force of energy that destroyed the inhabitants and spiritual leaders, as well as the statue that honors Anubis, and Ancient Egyptian god. The metallic material known as holmium in the meteor acted as a catalyst to the powers of the island. Among the island leaders was Richard Alpert. Richard Alpert was known originally as Ra, but became reincarnated into an immortal being to live forever as the advisor to the leader of the islands faithful inhabitants.
The island was always able to communicate to its people using a sort of sixth sense. As time moved on, people stopped believing in the will of the island, which made it harder and harder for the island to communicate to them. Before the meteor, everyone on the island was special and could hear what it had to say. Later, the islands inhabitants grew unappreciative and lent nothing but a deaf ear to its words. In order to help people to believe in its purity and importance, the island assumed a human form to communicate to those that remained special enough to see him. This form was known as Jacob. In order to be special, one must be a reincarnation of an ancient inhabitant, or must be genealogically connected to them.
As people have found themselves on the island throughout history, some have been able to live in harmony with it by living a simple life. If any of the islands inhabitants wanted or needed anything, the island would provide it, as long as they didn’t seek out new technologies or go against its will. The natives of the island have had a communion with it throughout the ages. They have built temples and statues and even made sacrifices for the island.
In 1882, when a slave ship called the Black Rock found itself shipwrecked on the island. As the Black Rock was sailing from Africa to America, the Island was moved right under it, causing the ship to be located inland. The captain of the ship, Magnus Hanso, discovered evidence of many cultures on this island and also found that it had many strange properties. As Magnus lived on the island, he created a journal of his findings with hints about its strange properties and even a small map. Magnus tried to find his way out of the island so he could be with his son, Tovar Hanso, whom he had left behind as he sailed on his voyage. Magnus was never able to get off of the island, but his journal did. His journal was lost at sea when Magnus was trying to find a way out, and it managed to wash out through a particular bearing, and made it back to our world in Tovar’s time. The journal was found and given to Tovar.
Several years passed and the island managed to live in harmony with many of the inhabitants who found their way to it. Though not all of these inhabitants were special enough to speak to Jacob, they could feel that the island was special and had faith in their leader. One of the famous people who made it to the island was one Amelia Earhart on her attempt to fly around the world. Amelia lived the island and lived in harmony with it, along with the other few natives who have found their way to the island over the years. All of the islands inhabitants had to get to the island through a Vile Vortex access point.
As time went on, the journal of Magnus Hanso was passed down another generation from Tovar to Alvar Hanso, who was a weapons dealer in the World War II. As an arms dealer, Alvar had to test several of his weapons. He decided in 1954 to test out an atom bomb on this special island, of which he was the only one who could locate. When the bomb was dropped and nothing happened, the US military sent a team of soldiers to retrieve the bomb or to find out why it did not detonate. This team was never found again. The bomb was intercepted by the island’s inhabitants in 1954, where some strange people who claimed to be from the future suggested they bury it. The natives took the advice of these travelers and buried the bomb deep in the ground, covered by cement and earth.
During his service with the armed forces, Alvar heard of a government funded program that paid the greatest scientist and mathematicians to help predict the fall of humanity. During this time there were also many government sponsored studies that involved researching several paranormal activities such as extra sensory perception, telekinesis and remote viewing. This research was funded to compete with Russia and China, who were also funding research in such fields. Though the participants of such studies believed in these paranormal activities to be real, the funding was ceased shortly. Several members of the government still believe that these programs should not have been shut down. The studies of the mathematicians have yielded an inconvenient truth; a mathematician by the name of Enzo Valenzetti computed what is known as the Valenzetti equation, which predicts when humanity will extinguish itself, through any means possible.
Alvar Hanso learned of the Valenzetti equation, and decided at that moment to do anything he could do change the core factors of it and save humanity as we know it. Alvar felt that he must repent for all of the years of creating tools of death for various countries. The 6 core factors of the Valenzetti equation can be described with the numbers: 4 8 15 16 23 and 42. These numbers not only represent the path of humanity and its destruction, but they also possess special powers of their own. These numbers and their powers should not be used for profit, or the one who misuses them will be cursed with bad luck until they can make their life right with the island and learn to respect its powers.
In an effort to change the core factors of the Valenzetti equation, Alvar Hanso recruited some very gifted and passionate scientists named Gerald and Karen DeGroot to help him assembled a team of scientists that will work toward altering the core values of the Valenzetti equation and saving humanity. In the journal passed down to him from his father, Alvar remembered the special island that was located in special places with special properties where he and his scientist could conduct their experiments. In early 1970s Alvar and the DeGroots assembled their team of scientists and created the DHARMA initiative on the special island. DHARMA was named as an acronym for Department of Heuristics And Research on Material Applications, and is also a concept in Hinduism that that values “the way of higher truths” and the “fundamental principles of justice and righteousness.” The name also has some hidden meaning when considering the concepts of dark matter, dhar-ma = dark ! matter.
The Dharma Initiative (or DI) consisted of many talented scientists in several different fields from places all over the world. Alvar provided funding to the DI to allow them to build anything that they needed. The only people who knew exactly how to get to the island was Alvar Hanso and a few of his selected employees. When the DI was first assembled, the island was willing to give them a chance, thinking that their intentions were good. The island was even able to speak to one special member of the DI, named Horace Goodspeed, a central and spiritual person who was able to listen. As the power of the island showed itself, their intentions strayed from saving humanity and became geared towards knowledge and power. The island stopped talking to Horace, but not before he learned about the prophecy of the island’s next leader, a special boy with a mother named Emily.
On one fateful day in Portland, early 1970s, Horace and his wife Olivia were driving along a coastal highway in Portland and came across and man named Roger Linus holding his bloody wife Emily, who had just given birth to their son, Benjamin. Emily died after the premature birth of Benjamin and Horace and Olivia were there. With Ben being a motherless premature child of a woman named Emily, he fit the schema that had been predicted as the reincarnation of the islands leader. Horace lured Roger and Ben to the island with the premise that he had found work for Roger, when the real intention was to get Ben there. Ben was also being taught and observed by Olivia Goodspeed as he grew up. Olivia eventually died in a skirmish with the island’s natives, leaving Horace heart broken. Horace later shared this pain with another DI member named Amy, and they eventually married and had a son, Ethan.
Through the 1970s, the DI lived on the island, though not harmoniously. Members of the DI treated the island like it was just another piece of land. They drilled holes in it, erected towers on it and forced the natives to live in a separate area, held off by the sonar fences. The scientists carelessly drilled into the island and at one point drilled too far. There was an incident in late 1970s/early 1980s while building the Swan station in which the scientists decided to dig at a point where the island’s electromagnetic anomalies were great. The Swan was almost finished and this last digging effort was intended to use the island’s electromagnetic energy to create a generator and large capacitor so the DI could have an unlimited power source. As they dug further, the anomalies became stronger, and on top of that they were digging in the same spot where the leaking atom bomb was buried. They chased this rabbit too far down the hole. Once past a certain point, the e! lectromagnetic waves got out of control and all metal and electronic equipment went haywire. As large pieces of equipment were sucked into the hole and the ground trembled, the folks from the DI scrambled to plug the hole with anything that was available. They filled it with trucks, generators, tools and cement until the chaos subsided. During this process, the natives even had to help the DI and a piece of flying metal severed off the arm of Pierre Chang, father of Miles Straum. After the incident, Pierre knew it was not a safe place for children, so he had his wife take their son and leave the island to live in America.
As a result of this incident, Dharma took notice in a built up charge that would get very unstable after 108 minutes. This electromagnetic force needed to be discharged every 108 minutes, or the ground would begin to tremble and the force would become unstable. The DI decided to use their currently erecting station, The Swan, to discharge this accruing EM force. The island acts as a catalyst for this force and allows it accrue between the two metal plates over a greater distance. As the harmonic oscillations of the plates cause a force to grow exponentially, the magnitude of the oscillations get to a point of instability after a period of 108 minutes. The Swan station essentially became a huge set of metallic plates separated by dielectric air, or a very large capacitor. This capacitor could be used to fix the built-up charge that was started because of the incident. While the capacitor was building up and discharging on the island, it also had a biological effect on w! omen, preventing them from having babies
As a back up plan, in case the EM force built up to be out of control, the DI built a failsafe key that would set off the bomb and cause the station to implode, covering the hole a destroying the large capacitor. If anyone were to turn the failsafe key and detonate the bomb and destroy the Swan, they would no doubt experience some side effects, which would be expected to be death. This overall misuse of the island made it and its native inhabitants very unhappy, because the island is special and it is more than a piece of land, it has a soul of its own. The DI has now physically hurt the island, so its natives have set out to eliminate them. The unexpected result of turning the failsafe key would be a combination of electromagnetic force and radiation to cause the person who turns the key to have their consciousness ripped away from the dimension of time.
As the DI and its scientists lived and studied on the island, they became more and more aware of its mystical and special properties. With the awareness of these powers and the fact that the scientists have the ailment of being human, they became greedy, and strayed away from their original intentions. Their focuses on studying these properties for the sake of saving humanity began to dwindle as the focus to harness these special powers for profit began to grow. The members of the Dharma initiative began to move away from the ideals of Alvar Hanso. When Alvar showed his disapproval about the direction the DI was heading, his position became usurped by one of his own colleagues named Thomas Middlewerk.
Dr. Thomas Werner Middlewerk was chief of technology for the Hanso foundation. Middlewerk continued to run the Hanso foundation, but he had his own set of scientists doing their own work on the island, one in particular named Radzinsky. Middlewerk and his scientist only studied the powers on the island that could be used for profit. They studied parapsychology, extra-sensory perception, remote viewing and the islands special healing and electromagnetic properties. For a man like Middlewerk, harnessing these abilities will give him a level of power that money can not provide by itself. Middlewerk wants absolute power.
As Middlewerk and his team gradually take control of the island and the DI, he learns that the island does have its own spirit. Despite dreams that he should stop abusing the island, Middlewerk continued to do so, making its spirits angry. In time, Middlewerk learned a great deal about the island and its history. This knowledge allowed Middlewerk and his team to continue abusing the island while suppressing the island’s attempts to stop them. They built houses and hatches around the islands ancient temples that keep the island in its cycle. They also froze the ancient wheel that keeps the island moving from location to location. All of this brought instability to the island and the cycle by which it works.
The DI, as a whole, had been presented a choice to use the island for good or for evil, and they began to choose evil as their scientists took Middlewerk’s money. The island took it upon itself to judge the DI by using the help of Benjamin Linus. As a result of being saved by Richard in the Temple, Ben has had a special connection with the island. The island could speak to Ben, as he was the reincarnation of someone special from the past. The island had chosen Ben to be the one, for the time being.
As Ben grew up, the island talked to him and trained him to harness its powers. Ben was already very special, even to the point that he could see Jacob, the personified spirit of the island. The island wanted Ben to protect it. It gave many gifts and talents to Ben that go beyond what many can even imagine. Ben learned all of the island’s secrets. Jacob also spoke to the natives in their dreams and told them to follow Ben, for he would be the one to protect the island. The natives had faith and believed what the island told them.
Ben Linus has mommy issues and has a lot of hate built up inside of him from years of being abused and neglected by his father. When Ben was a child, he fell in love with a little girl named Annie. Annie was the only one who cared about Ben, and as they grew to be teens they fell in love. When they were teenagers, Annie became pregnant and died as a result of it because she had conceived on the island. Ben had now lost Annie during the act of childbirth, much like his mother, but not after she gave birth to their son Thomas. The natives kept Thomas away from Ben, under Jacob’s instruction, sending him to Australia. Thomas later became the father of Aaron Littleton.
Ben angrily pleaded with the Jacob to help him change the course of Annie and his mother’s deaths. Ben felt that Jacob had the ability to bring them both back, but he was not doing so to control Ben more. Jacob knew that it was Emily and Annie’s time to die, and that their souls are residing where they are fated to be. Even if Jacob could bring them back, fate will course correct and they will be dead. Ben would not accept this fate and he worked hard toward finding a cure to prevent pregnant women from dying so he could go back and resurrect Annie and his mother. Much like Anakin Skywalker, Ben thought he could harness the power to prevent his loved ones from dying, and tried to do so with the anger and pain of their deaths in his heart.
In 1992, Ben carried out the purge. In doing so, Ben carries out the desires of Jacob to eliminate the DI and gains the trust of the natives. Shortly after the purge, Ben managed to take the island from the control of Charles Widmore by casting him out for breaking the rules and desires of the island. After casting out Widmore, Ben was also instructed by Jacob to move the island. Ben went out to the Orchid station and turned the frozen wheel, causing the island to move and hiding it from Charles Widmore.
The Orchid station was originally intended for botanical research, but the DI found that it had very special properties. As the island existed in the past, it would periodically move from one vile vortex to another. Widmore and the DI has managed to freeze the wheel to stop this process and control the location of the island.
Ben then continued to use his abilities to fulfill his own agenda. Widmore continuously worked toward tracking Ben and the location of the island. Ben used Richard’s Mittelos Bioscience to recruit the help of fertility specialist, Juliet Burke, to come to the island and help him with his fertility issue. Ben also acquired a great liking toward Juliet because she looked a great deal like his mother and the woman who tended to him when he was shot at the age of 13. Ben did anything he had to in order to recruit Juliet to the island, including killing her ex-husband and using her sister as leverage.
For over 10 years Ben Linus remained the leader of the island’s inhabitants. He spent this time seeking out his own agenda to fix the issue of the pregnant women dying. Ben still felt that if he solved this problem, he could go back and save his mother and Annie. The remnants of the DI remained and some were used by Ben to help him to control his followers. The Flame station, used for communication, was manned by Mikhail, Ben’s information man. Whenever Ben wanted information on someone or something, Mikhail used the Flame station to find it. The Looking Glass station, manned (or wo-manned) by Bonnie and Greta, was uses to block RF signals that might be radiated by the island or RF technology used on the island in an effort to cloak it. All signals were blocked except a special frequency, roughly 4.8 GHz and precisely 4,815,162,342 Hz. When other people, signals or objects entered or exited the island, there was a time shift if they did not enter or exit at a par! ticular bearing. This resulted in food drops and radio transmissions that went to the future on the way out, and bodies that went to the past on the way in.
There were other stations on the island. The Hydra hatch is on a separate island of its own, originally used for zoological research by the DI and now used by Ben to hold people captive and act as a base of operations. The Pearl is an observing station, where one can see what is going on in all of the other stations. The Pearl was used by Dharma as a psychological evaluation station, where all other stations were watched and activities were recorded for psychological evaluation. The scientists inside the Pearl were actually the test subjects themselves and their efforts were wasted. Ben used the Pearl to observe the other stations and their happenings. Ben could see that there was always someone inside the Swan station, pushing the button to discharge the EM forces and keep everyone alive. This person was Dharma’s own Radzinsky for a long time, and in 1991, the DI recruited a former Gulf War vet named Kelvin Inman to join Radzinsky in the button pushing. Radzinsky ! and Inman were spared through the purge so they could continue to push the button. It was Radzinsky and Inman trading shifts and pushing the button for a long time, until Radzinsky killed himself in the late 90s to leave Inman by himself. Later, Desmond Hume showed up on the island while on a boat race. Desmond met Inman and was lured into helping him push the button. Eventually Kelvin died and it was only Desmond pushing the button.
September 22nd, 2004 comes along and Oceanic flight 815 comes to the island. This plane had been filled by many. Widmore had paid a great deal of money and had several years of research invested in this flight and even purchased a majority of shares to control Oceanic Airlines. The pilot of Oceanic flight 815 had been paid to bring the plane to a special location, our island. The management of Oceanic told their pilot for flight 815, Frank Lapidus, to stay home that day, as they had another pilot who was in Widmore’s pocket fly the plane instead. Since, as fate would have it, Desmond didn’t press the button on the Swan station in time, he allowed the EM charge to build up enough to create a magnetic force large enough to rip the flight 815 Oceanic aircraft into pieces while in mid air, once discharged. Widmore had encounters with time traveling survivors from flight 815 when he was leader of the others in the 70s, so this is how he knows the plane will end up on th! e island. He wants to utilize this opportunity to find the island’s location.
When the plane crashed, it ripped into three main pieces: the fuselage, the tail and the cockpit. This plane contained a selected bunch of people. Some of these people were put on the plane by Widmore, some people were put on the plane by Middlewerk, some by Ben himself, and some of them made it on the plane with the help of a little fate. This plane contained special people from every side that is trying to control the island, some even brought by the island itself. Middlewerk tried to fill the plane with people who were intended to reconstitute the DI, but they all died in flight 815 and Middlewerk had to make a second attempt with Ajira flight 316, which was more successful.
Christian Sheppard’s father had a communion with the island. Charlie’s drug habit and lack of purpose is why fate brought him to the island; to accomplish unselfish acts and reflect on his life happily and sacrifice himself to protect Aaron. Aaron is very special; not only does he have a genealogical connection to the island, but he is also a reincarnation of one of the island’s great spiritual leaders who was killed by the meteor. Aaron has both light and dark sides to him and potential to take any path.
Christian Sheppard’s special abilities were passed down to his children, Jack and Claire, as well as his grandson, Aaron. They are not so special that they are a reincarnation of the islands gods or leaders, but they are genealogically connected to very loyal followers from ancient times. Locke is the most special of all. Locke is the reincarnation of one of the islands great leaders, the island’s protector from centuries ago, and mentor to Richard Alpert, who survived the meteor. We will call this former leader “the guru.” When the guru died, Richard began a search for the tomb which his spirit energy has resided. Jacob told Richard that the boy would be premature and born to a young redheaded Emily. It took time for Locke to realize who he was, but he is learning now that he is on his Walkabout to the island.
Hugo “Hurley” Reyes was chosen by the island to help and learn. Hugo has special things that he needs to do to help our survivors, and he has a lot of personal growth to do. The island has helped him overcome so much, but his past is still something that he cannot let go. Hugo is seeing apparitions of the island because he is a reincarnation of one of the islands loyalist followers, who also had a very large pet bird that survived the meteor. The bird has been searching for his master ever since. The problem with Hugo is that he has a huge ego (hugo – HUge eGO) and does not believe the things that he sees. Hugo needs to learn that there is more than what others tell him is real, and he needs to trust himself and listen to the island.
Hurley had gained a great deal of faith on the island and has overcome a lot, so he might be ready and willing to talk to Jacob. Jacob has been trying to speak to Hurley, but he is not having luck getting Hurley to believe. Hurley forces himself to not believe visions presented to him, and he doesn’t realize his special abilities, even if they are just helping him with horseshoes. Hurley has had issues in the past where he thought he was seeing something (or someone) that wasn’t actually there. He has learned to suppress these visions, which has resulted in a lack of ability to see and hear Jacob. His huge ego is still getting in the way.
Jack is also very special, but he is fighting an internal battle. Since he is a doctor, Jack has studied medical journals for years. He has found a scientific explanation for everything that he has seen. Every time Jack starts to believe that there is something beyond science and that miracles do occur, something happens that destroys his faith. Jack is strictly a man of science. He feels special powers deep down inside of him, but he fights them and denies them because he has no way to explain them. Jack has abandoned faith because he feels that faith has abandoned him. Jack wants to get off of the island because he doesn’t know how to appreciate the island for what it is. After 3 years off the island, Jack is a changed man. He is now willing to sit back and see what fate and faith have to offer.
All of our survivors are on the island for a reason. Kate Austin has to come to terms with herself and learn that she cannot run away prom problems. She has 2 sides to her; she is a sweet and innocent person who wants stability in her life, but she is also a rebel who cannot settle down. This is why one side of her is drawn to Jack and another side is drawn to Sawyer. Sawyer is also on the island to grow by addressing his past. Sawyer is learning from the island and his interactions with the survivors that he can be a good person. He has faced and overcome many of his demons, but still has more to learn. Another survivor, Sayid Jarrah, has many demons that he must face from years of torturing people after working in the republican guard. Sayid has a good heart, but he kills too easily, as if he were tasked to do so. Every one of our characters is lost in their own lives, so the island will help them find their way.
Widmore knew of flight 815 and the time travelers. Ever since 1954, he knew John was from the future and in 1974 he learned from Richard Alpert that Sawyer and other time travelers were on the island. Though he knew that flight 815 was fated to crash on the island, Widmore still worked hard to make sure it would happen. Widmore managed to approximately locate the island, with the help of his former friend Eloise, and arrange it so that most of the passengers of Oceanic flight 815 would be comprised of people whom he thought was special. Widmore spent a great deal of finances trying to find people whom he thought might have a communion with the island. He managed to give tickets to these passengers in very creative ways. With all of his money and power, Widmore has been able to buy many people to help him with his plans. Widmore paid a supposed psychic, Richard Malkin, to get Claire and Eko on the plane. The government agents that gave Sayid his ticket were all workin! g for Widmore.
Some of the remaining passengers of flight 815 made it on to the plane just by circumstance. These people could just be in the wrong place at the wrong time, or they were somehow guided to take the flight by the island. There is one couple, the Kwon’s, who were put on the plane for a different reason. Jin was given a watch by his boss, Mr.Paik (Sun’s father), to deliver to someone in L.A. This watch was actually a global location device. Mr.Paik had corporate spies that gathered intelligence about Widmore and his plans for Oceanic flight 815. Knowing that his daughter was unhappy in her marriage to Jin, Mr.Paik arranged to have Jin sent to the island along with the rest of the flight 815 passengers, so that he could find the island and his daughter could also get away. Sun was supposed to leave Jin at the airport and he was supposed to take the watch to the island by himself, but she decided to go with him at the last moment.
Widmore also paid Libby to give Desmond the boat that he used that got him lost on the island. Since Desmond had shown interest in competing in his boat race, Widmore found this as a golden opportunity to get rid of him and get closer to locating the island by sending him to it. Libby is an employee of Widmore’s who was also sent to the island to provide him with updates and feedback as to what was going on with the survivors. She did some spying on Hurley at the ward to check his progress as a prospected special person who could communicate to it. Widmore bought the journal of Magnus Hanso in 1996 at a private auction, knowing that the Hanso family had lost a great deal of money and power after the purge and Middlewerk’s takeover. If anyone else were to purchase this journal, they could find the island and potentially become competition for Widmore.
With the donkey wheel frozen and the failsafe turned, it created a situation that made the island’s system unstable. With an unstable system, turning the frozen wheel would eventually cause the island to not only move in space, but also in time. Ben remembers Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Miles, Juliet, Hurley and Faraday from when he was younger and he remembers that they helped to save him and young Ethan. Ben knew that the failsafe had to be turned, so he manipulated Locke while he was held captive and eventually used him as a tool to stop pressing the button inside the Swan, forcing Desmond to turn the failsafe key. This was also Ben’s first line of defense in hiding the island from Widmore, but it didn’t work. After Desmond turned the failsafe key, Ben knew how events would unfold and he knew it was just a matter of time until the donkey wheel was turned and the 815 survivors were sent jumping around through time. What Ben did not expect, was the death of Alex. He kn! ew it would happen, but he was in denial for so long. He thought that the rules of conduct among the island’s people would protect her, but the island wanted Alex to be dead.
When the failsafe key was turned and the sky turned purple, the island’s large capacitor was discharged and there was a large pulse of electro-magnetic energy. This energy killed all of the communication equipment, just as Ben had suspected. The energy release also caused a side effect for Desmond, causing him to separate his consciousness to be ripped from the fabric of time. None of Ben’s follower suspected Ben to be responsible because he was at the Pala Ferry dock when the failsafe key was turned. Ben also used Locke as a tool to blow up the submarine, sealing the people in the snow-globe that is the island. Once again, no one could point their finger at Ben because he had manipulated Locke to do his dirty work. Ben continued to try and alter fate, but in doing so, he made so many fated events occur. Though he knew he could not change the past or his destiny and what happened, happened…he still tried to do so, unsuccessfully. They all have free will, but th! ey are always fated to choose whatever path they choose.
Now, with his communication to the island shut down, Widmore sent a freighter out to find the island and take it over once again. This freighter was full of scientists, who were assigned to study the islands paranormal characteristics. Some other people on the freighter were sent to capture Ben Linus and exterminate the rest of the survivors. This was Widmore’s attempt at a purge. Some people on this freighter were special, and it was their fate to be on the island; some people were just filling Widmore’s orders; one of the freighter’s passengers was Michael. Michael was sent to the freighter to do work for Ben, but he really had his own agenda for redemption. Michael got off the island, but his life was riddled with the guilt of what he had done to get off. When people spend some time on the island and leave, life in the real world just isn’t right. There is a yearning to get back to the island which one cannot escape. If the island has plans for someone, i! t will not allow them to be at peace unless those plans are carried out.
All of the children and Vincent had special powers because there is something special about children and pets. They can sense things and see into the true nature of people better than adult humans can, and they follow their intuition in ways that most adults cannot. Ben, coming from a sad childhood himself, had a soft spot for children. He felt that they were innocent and should not be harmed. Whenever Ben gets word of a child that had made it to the island, he kidnaps them and tries to brainwash them to be happy among the others. Ben will lock the children in room 23 and subject them to brainwashing videos. This brainwashing has not worked on Walt, so Ben was willing to let Michael take him home. Ben would not want Walt growing up to learn how special he is. Ben made sure he used Michael to do his bidding before he released them.
Locke is learning that he is very special and he has been since he landed on the island. The island immediately healed his paralysis after allowing him to survive the crash. Locke has been a man of faith and has trusted the word of the island since the beginning. At some point, Locke had lost his faith and lost his way, but he always looked and kept his heart open. The island had spoken to Locke in his dreams as it guided him to the hatch and has helped him to focus his energy. Locke understands the island and knows that he should stay and protect it and its simple ways, but he did not yet truly know who he was or his purpose until he died and was resurrected by the island. Now Locke can hear the island more clearly than ever before, with no hallucination drugs or dreams necessary.
Ben also knows that Locke is very special after getting his information packet from Mikhail, revealing that the island healed his paralysis. Ben had always thought that he was the chosen one, the reincarnation of the guru, but he always knew deep down that he wasn’t, and that the true chosen one would someday come.
Ben knew he could not just kidnap Locke and brainwash him in room 23, he had to manipulate him and con him in order to remove him as an obstacle. Ben knew that his followers doubted him and his priorities, so he tried to humiliate Locke by showing that he was too much of a coward to kill his own father. This is the culture of the others…the leader must be strong and decisive. If someone disagrees with the leader and gets away with it, it shows weakness in that leader. Locke however got some help from Richard in Ben’s power struggle, and showed his leadership by bringing his father’s dead body to Ben and beating up Mikhail in front of Ben and his followers. This helped to convince Ben to bring Locke to see Jacob. Ben was also curious just how special Locke is. If Locke could see Jacob, then we would most assuredly be the chosen one.
When Ben took Locke to the cabin where Jacob was held captive, Locke was able to hear Jacob. Jacob asked Locke to help him, because the island needs to be moved before Widmore’s men come and take over. This confirmed Ben’s fears that Locke was the true guru, and so Ben took this chance to shoot Locke and leave him for dead. Ben knew that the island allowed him to survive a gunshot wound as a child, so he tested Locke’s fate and connection to the island. The island did not want to let Locke die, so he spoke to him in the form of Walt to convince him not to lose faith. Locke survived, thanks to his missing kidney. Now Locke had renewed faith. He can talk to Jacob, he can walk, his father is dead and his missing kidney turned out to be a good thing. Locke truly had been given a clean slate (Tabula rasa) on this island and is set out to protect it.
Locke still had to work to find his way, but he was now more willing than ever. Some survivors made it off the island and when Ben tried to move the island, he pushed when he should have pulled, which set the wheel off of its axis. Normally, this would have just caused the island to jump around in space, but since the island had been exposed to the light from the Swan station when Desmond turned the failsafe key, the island started jumping around in time and space. The loyal John Locke made his way back to the Orchid and set the wheel back on it axis while simultaneously getting sent off the island to try and bring back those who left. This left the rest of the people that were time traveling to stay in the 70s, where they set in motion many events that resulted in the future they had seen.
The survivors were eventually convinced to come back to the island, each for their own reasons. John Locke promised that he would not bring Sun back, so the island sent her to her own time. The remaining members of the oceanic 6 ended up back in the 70s with everyone else. These survivors in the past get to witness the incident, but eventually their covers are revealed and the DI sent them off the island, and they are brought to their own times.
When the survivors get back to their time, they find that there is a team of mercenaries and scientists that were sent to the island by Thomas Middlewerk to start the DI over again. Two of these new DI members are Bram and Ilana. They are intending to abuse the island further, which would result in more destruction and could ruin the machine that drives this universe. Locke and the rest of the survivors must fight Middlewerk and his men to reclaim the island and keep it safe forever.
Lost Dbutz
Since the beginning of time, as the world formed and the universe expanded, many great things have come together to produce life here on earth. With a magnetic force field that protects us from the nuclear winds of the universe and an atmosphere that works as a fine tuned machine to support life, water, air and land. Even the precise distance from the sun that allows life to exist without freezing or burning from extreme temperatures. Since the formation of our planet there has existed an island, a special island that is the heart of earth and helps to drive the machine, the system. The machine is precise and complicated; it is driven by the actions of many physical things, as well as intervention of the divine and dimensions that we cannot see. The system follows a design, a complicated equation.
This island has been the home for many people and cultures throughout the ages; one in particular is the Egyptians. Its location on earth is always changing, like it is in orbit. The island possesses matter from several different universes all at once. This is the only place that contains light matter and dark matter, right handed and left handed matter, living and dead souls, angels and demons all at the same time in the same place. They are all here, now, and they are all the same. All things are entangled and part of the system. This island is part of an equilibrium system that helps drive the motion of earth and the universe. This place, much like everywhere else, contains a great deal of duality in its existence. For every light, there is a dark; for every positive, there is a negative; for every action, there is a reaction.
As cultures have existed throughout history, there have been many ancient cultures that have found themselves on this island as well. The living souls that exist on this island have reached it through one of the many portals on earth. These portals are known as Vile Vortices and there are 12 locations on earth, evenly distributed, where they can be accessed. Two of these vortices are well know for their mystery, the Devils triangle and the Bermuda triangle. Two other vile vortices locations are the north and south poles. Much like the rotation of the earth, the location of the island, as well as the access point to it, rotates in a cycle. If one is located at a particular vortex at a particular time, they will be sucked through a wormhole (personified as Maxwell’s demon) and they will end up on this island. Most of the living souls that have found their way on the island have never found their way out, for there is only one bearing that one can follow in order to ge! t back. For the dead souls on the island, it is even harder to get back, but if they are special, they can use the island as a conduit to communicate to the living.
This island shares many properties with the rest of the earth, but every property acts slightly differently. As we experience magnetic fields on earth, the island experiences magnetic fields as well, but with different properties and higher concentration. Earth experiences gravitational forces and ultraviolet light, and the island experiences the same properties, but in different ways as well. There are also several unexplainable energies that we see on earth. Some people use religions and spirituality to explain strange coincidences that they see, but interpretation is in the eye of the beholder. The human body feels energies that we cannot explain; urges and feelings like lust, love, remorse and purpose. These special and unexplainable, intangible energies are also found on the island in higher concentration to what is felt on earth.
There is a spirit that guards the island and works with it as a hand of judgment, this spirit is known as Cerberus and is formed of clouds of black smoke. Cerberus is known as Duat by the Ancient Egyptian civilization. The island itself was known by the Egyptians as BenBen in its origin. The Island has an underworld, and in the dimensions of the dead, it is known as Ma’at, a place where the hearts of the dead are judged. Those who are judged unfavorably have their hearts fed to Duat/Cerberus/Smokie, destroying their full existence. Those who are judged favorably were allowed to remain on the island in the underworld in peace. Dead souls are known as “dark” souls and live souls are known as “light” souls. In order for a light soul to be seen by a dark soul, or visa versa, it must live a simple life in its own universe so it can be favored by the island and be granted special powers. One special power allows the favored light soul inhabitants of the island to! communicate to the dark souls. The light souls can summon the dark souls to help them. The dark souls cannot physically interact with all light souls, but they can be heard in the form of whispers. Light souls use these whispers to create an advantageous distraction that helps confuse their combatants when needed. Some light souls can only speak dark souls beyond their judgment into the realm of the dead and some light souls can only speak to the energy of the person left behind.
When a meteor hit the island thousands of years ago, it caused a great force of energy that destroyed the inhabitants and spiritual leaders, as well as the statue that honors Anubis, and Ancient Egyptian god. The metallic material known as holmium in the meteor acted as a catalyst to the powers of the island. Among the island leaders was Richard Alpert. Richard Alpert was known originally as Ra, but became reincarnated into an immortal being to live forever as the advisor to the leader of the islands faithful inhabitants.
The island was always able to communicate to its people using a sort of sixth sense. As time moved on, people stopped believing in the will of the island, which made it harder and harder for the island to communicate to them. Before the meteor, everyone on the island was special and could hear what it had to say. Later, the islands inhabitants grew unappreciative and lent nothing but a deaf ear to its words. In order to help people to believe in its purity and importance, the island assumed a human form to communicate to those that remained special enough to see him. This form was known as Jacob. In order to be special, one must be a reincarnation of an ancient inhabitant, or must be genealogically connected to them.
As people have found themselves on the island throughout history, some have been able to live in harmony with it by living a simple life. If any of the islands inhabitants wanted or needed anything, the island would provide it, as long as they didn’t seek out new technologies or go against its will. The natives of the island have had a communion with it throughout the ages. They have built temples and statues and even made sacrifices for the island.
In 1882, when a slave ship called the Black Rock found itself shipwrecked on the island. As the Black Rock was sailing from Africa to America, the Island was moved right under it, causing the ship to be located inland. The captain of the ship, Magnus Hanso, discovered evidence of many cultures on this island and also found that it had many strange properties. As Magnus lived on the island, he created a journal of his findings with hints about its strange properties and even a small map. Magnus tried to find his way out of the island so he could be with his son, Tovar Hanso, whom he had left behind as he sailed on his voyage. Magnus was never able to get off of the island, but his journal did. His journal was lost at sea when Magnus was trying to find a way out, and it managed to wash out through a particular bearing, and made it back to our world in Tovar’s time. The journal was found and given to Tovar.
Several years passed and the island managed to live in harmony with many of the inhabitants who found their way to it. Though not all of these inhabitants were special enough to speak to Jacob, they could feel that the island was special and had faith in their leader. One of the famous people who made it to the island was one Amelia Earhart on her attempt to fly around the world. Amelia lived the island and lived in harmony with it, along with the other few natives who have found their way to the island over the years. All of the islands inhabitants had to get to the island through a Vile Vortex access point.
As time went on, the journal of Magnus Hanso was passed down another generation from Tovar to Alvar Hanso, who was a weapons dealer in the World War II. As an arms dealer, Alvar had to test several of his weapons. He decided in 1954 to test out an atom bomb on this special island, of which he was the only one who could locate. When the bomb was dropped and nothing happened, the US military sent a team of soldiers to retrieve the bomb or to find out why it did not detonate. This team was never found again. The bomb was intercepted by the island’s inhabitants in 1954, where some strange people who claimed to be from the future suggested they bury it. The natives took the advice of these travelers and buried the bomb deep in the ground, covered by cement and earth.
During his service with the armed forces, Alvar heard of a government funded program that paid the greatest scientist and mathematicians to help predict the fall of humanity. During this time there were also many government sponsored studies that involved researching several paranormal activities such as extra sensory perception, telekinesis and remote viewing. This research was funded to compete with Russia and China, who were also funding research in such fields. Though the participants of such studies believed in these paranormal activities to be real, the funding was ceased shortly. Several members of the government still believe that these programs should not have been shut down. The studies of the mathematicians have yielded an inconvenient truth; a mathematician by the name of Enzo Valenzetti computed what is known as the Valenzetti equation, which predicts when humanity will extinguish itself, through any means possible.
Alvar Hanso learned of the Valenzetti equation, and decided at that moment to do anything he could do change the core factors of it and save humanity as we know it. Alvar felt that he must repent for all of the years of creating tools of death for various countries. The 6 core factors of the Valenzetti equation can be described with the numbers: 4 8 15 16 23 and 42. These numbers not only represent the path of humanity and its destruction, but they also possess special powers of their own. These numbers and their powers should not be used for profit, or the one who misuses them will be cursed with bad luck until they can make their life right with the island and learn to respect its powers.
In an effort to change the core factors of the Valenzetti equation, Alvar Hanso recruited some very gifted and passionate scientists named Gerald and Karen DeGroot to help him assembled a team of scientists that will work toward altering the core values of the Valenzetti equation and saving humanity. In the journal passed down to him from his father, Alvar remembered the special island that was located in special places with special properties where he and his scientist could conduct their experiments. In early 1970s Alvar and the DeGroots assembled their team of scientists and created the DHARMA initiative on the special island. DHARMA was named as an acronym for Department of Heuristics And Research on Material Applications, and is also a concept in Hinduism that that values “the way of higher truths” and the “fundamental principles of justice and righteousness.” The name also has some hidden meaning when considering the concepts of dark matter, dhar-ma = dark ! matter.
The Dharma Initiative (or DI) consisted of many talented scientists in several different fields from places all over the world. Alvar provided funding to the DI to allow them to build anything that they needed. The only people who knew exactly how to get to the island was Alvar Hanso and a few of his selected employees. When the DI was first assembled, the island was willing to give them a chance, thinking that their intentions were good. The island was even able to speak to one special member of the DI, named Horace Goodspeed, a central and spiritual person who was able to listen. As the power of the island showed itself, their intentions strayed from saving humanity and became geared towards knowledge and power. The island stopped talking to Horace, but not before he learned about the prophecy of the island’s next leader, a special boy with a mother named Emily.
On one fateful day in Portland, early 1970s, Horace and his wife Olivia were driving along a coastal highway in Portland and came across and man named Roger Linus holding his bloody wife Emily, who had just given birth to their son, Benjamin. Emily died after the premature birth of Benjamin and Horace and Olivia were there. With Ben being a motherless premature child of a woman named Emily, he fit the schema that had been predicted as the reincarnation of the islands leader. Horace lured Roger and Ben to the island with the premise that he had found work for Roger, when the real intention was to get Ben there. Ben was also being taught and observed by Olivia Goodspeed as he grew up. Olivia eventually died in a skirmish with the island’s natives, leaving Horace heart broken. Horace later shared this pain with another DI member named Amy, and they eventually married and had a son, Ethan.
Through the 1970s, the DI lived on the island, though not harmoniously. Members of the DI treated the island like it was just another piece of land. They drilled holes in it, erected towers on it and forced the natives to live in a separate area, held off by the sonar fences. The scientists carelessly drilled into the island and at one point drilled too far. There was an incident in late 1970s/early 1980s while building the Swan station in which the scientists decided to dig at a point where the island’s electromagnetic anomalies were great. The Swan was almost finished and this last digging effort was intended to use the island’s electromagnetic energy to create a generator and large capacitor so the DI could have an unlimited power source. As they dug further, the anomalies became stronger, and on top of that they were digging in the same spot where the leaking atom bomb was buried. They chased this rabbit too far down the hole. Once past a certain point, the e! lectromagnetic waves got out of control and all metal and electronic equipment went haywire. As large pieces of equipment were sucked into the hole and the ground trembled, the folks from the DI scrambled to plug the hole with anything that was available. They filled it with trucks, generators, tools and cement until the chaos subsided. During this process, the natives even had to help the DI and a piece of flying metal severed off the arm of Pierre Chang, father of Miles Straum. After the incident, Pierre knew it was not a safe place for children, so he had his wife take their son and leave the island to live in America.
As a result of this incident, Dharma took notice in a built up charge that would get very unstable after 108 minutes. This electromagnetic force needed to be discharged every 108 minutes, or the ground would begin to tremble and the force would become unstable. The DI decided to use their currently erecting station, The Swan, to discharge this accruing EM force. The island acts as a catalyst for this force and allows it accrue between the two metal plates over a greater distance. As the harmonic oscillations of the plates cause a force to grow exponentially, the magnitude of the oscillations get to a point of instability after a period of 108 minutes. The Swan station essentially became a huge set of metallic plates separated by dielectric air, or a very large capacitor. This capacitor could be used to fix the built-up charge that was started because of the incident. While the capacitor was building up and discharging on the island, it also had a biological effect on w! omen, preventing them from having babies
As a back up plan, in case the EM force built up to be out of control, the DI built a failsafe key that would set off the bomb and cause the station to implode, covering the hole a destroying the large capacitor. If anyone were to turn the failsafe key and detonate the bomb and destroy the Swan, they would no doubt experience some side effects, which would be expected to be death. This overall misuse of the island made it and its native inhabitants very unhappy, because the island is special and it is more than a piece of land, it has a soul of its own. The DI has now physically hurt the island, so its natives have set out to eliminate them. The unexpected result of turning the failsafe key would be a combination of electromagnetic force and radiation to cause the person who turns the key to have their consciousness ripped away from the dimension of time.
As the DI and its scientists lived and studied on the island, they became more and more aware of its mystical and special properties. With the awareness of these powers and the fact that the scientists have the ailment of being human, they became greedy, and strayed away from their original intentions. Their focuses on studying these properties for the sake of saving humanity began to dwindle as the focus to harness these special powers for profit began to grow. The members of the Dharma initiative began to move away from the ideals of Alvar Hanso. When Alvar showed his disapproval about the direction the DI was heading, his position became usurped by one of his own colleagues named Thomas Middlewerk.
Dr. Thomas Werner Middlewerk was chief of technology for the Hanso foundation. Middlewerk continued to run the Hanso foundation, but he had his own set of scientists doing their own work on the island, one in particular named Radzinsky. Middlewerk and his scientist only studied the powers on the island that could be used for profit. They studied parapsychology, extra-sensory perception, remote viewing and the islands special healing and electromagnetic properties. For a man like Middlewerk, harnessing these abilities will give him a level of power that money can not provide by itself. Middlewerk wants absolute power.
As Middlewerk and his team gradually take control of the island and the DI, he learns that the island does have its own spirit. Despite dreams that he should stop abusing the island, Middlewerk continued to do so, making its spirits angry. In time, Middlewerk learned a great deal about the island and its history. This knowledge allowed Middlewerk and his team to continue abusing the island while suppressing the island’s attempts to stop them. They built houses and hatches around the islands ancient temples that keep the island in its cycle. They also froze the ancient wheel that keeps the island moving from location to location. All of this brought instability to the island and the cycle by which it works.
The DI, as a whole, had been presented a choice to use the island for good or for evil, and they began to choose evil as their scientists took Middlewerk’s money. The island took it upon itself to judge the DI by using the help of Benjamin Linus. As a result of being saved by Richard in the Temple, Ben has had a special connection with the island. The island could speak to Ben, as he was the reincarnation of someone special from the past. The island had chosen Ben to be the one, for the time being.
As Ben grew up, the island talked to him and trained him to harness its powers. Ben was already very special, even to the point that he could see Jacob, the personified spirit of the island. The island wanted Ben to protect it. It gave many gifts and talents to Ben that go beyond what many can even imagine. Ben learned all of the island’s secrets. Jacob also spoke to the natives in their dreams and told them to follow Ben, for he would be the one to protect the island. The natives had faith and believed what the island told them.
Ben Linus has mommy issues and has a lot of hate built up inside of him from years of being abused and neglected by his father. When Ben was a child, he fell in love with a little girl named Annie. Annie was the only one who cared about Ben, and as they grew to be teens they fell in love. When they were teenagers, Annie became pregnant and died as a result of it because she had conceived on the island. Ben had now lost Annie during the act of childbirth, much like his mother, but not after she gave birth to their son Thomas. The natives kept Thomas away from Ben, under Jacob’s instruction, sending him to Australia. Thomas later became the father of Aaron Littleton.
Ben angrily pleaded with the Jacob to help him change the course of Annie and his mother’s deaths. Ben felt that Jacob had the ability to bring them both back, but he was not doing so to control Ben more. Jacob knew that it was Emily and Annie’s time to die, and that their souls are residing where they are fated to be. Even if Jacob could bring them back, fate will course correct and they will be dead. Ben would not accept this fate and he worked hard toward finding a cure to prevent pregnant women from dying so he could go back and resurrect Annie and his mother. Much like Anakin Skywalker, Ben thought he could harness the power to prevent his loved ones from dying, and tried to do so with the anger and pain of their deaths in his heart.
In 1992, Ben carried out the purge. In doing so, Ben carries out the desires of Jacob to eliminate the DI and gains the trust of the natives. Shortly after the purge, Ben managed to take the island from the control of Charles Widmore by casting him out for breaking the rules and desires of the island. After casting out Widmore, Ben was also instructed by Jacob to move the island. Ben went out to the Orchid station and turned the frozen wheel, causing the island to move and hiding it from Charles Widmore.
The Orchid station was originally intended for botanical research, but the DI found that it had very special properties. As the island existed in the past, it would periodically move from one vile vortex to another. Widmore and the DI has managed to freeze the wheel to stop this process and control the location of the island.
Ben then continued to use his abilities to fulfill his own agenda. Widmore continuously worked toward tracking Ben and the location of the island. Ben used Richard’s Mittelos Bioscience to recruit the help of fertility specialist, Juliet Burke, to come to the island and help him with his fertility issue. Ben also acquired a great liking toward Juliet because she looked a great deal like his mother and the woman who tended to him when he was shot at the age of 13. Ben did anything he had to in order to recruit Juliet to the island, including killing her ex-husband and using her sister as leverage.
For over 10 years Ben Linus remained the leader of the island’s inhabitants. He spent this time seeking out his own agenda to fix the issue of the pregnant women dying. Ben still felt that if he solved this problem, he could go back and save his mother and Annie. The remnants of the DI remained and some were used by Ben to help him to control his followers. The Flame station, used for communication, was manned by Mikhail, Ben’s information man. Whenever Ben wanted information on someone or something, Mikhail used the Flame station to find it. The Looking Glass station, manned (or wo-manned) by Bonnie and Greta, was uses to block RF signals that might be radiated by the island or RF technology used on the island in an effort to cloak it. All signals were blocked except a special frequency, roughly 4.8 GHz and precisely 4,815,162,342 Hz. When other people, signals or objects entered or exited the island, there was a time shift if they did not enter or exit at a par! ticular bearing. This resulted in food drops and radio transmissions that went to the future on the way out, and bodies that went to the past on the way in.
There were other stations on the island. The Hydra hatch is on a separate island of its own, originally used for zoological research by the DI and now used by Ben to hold people captive and act as a base of operations. The Pearl is an observing station, where one can see what is going on in all of the other stations. The Pearl was used by Dharma as a psychological evaluation station, where all other stations were watched and activities were recorded for psychological evaluation. The scientists inside the Pearl were actually the test subjects themselves and their efforts were wasted. Ben used the Pearl to observe the other stations and their happenings. Ben could see that there was always someone inside the Swan station, pushing the button to discharge the EM forces and keep everyone alive. This person was Dharma’s own Radzinsky for a long time, and in 1991, the DI recruited a former Gulf War vet named Kelvin Inman to join Radzinsky in the button pushing. Radzinsky ! and Inman were spared through the purge so they could continue to push the button. It was Radzinsky and Inman trading shifts and pushing the button for a long time, until Radzinsky killed himself in the late 90s to leave Inman by himself. Later, Desmond Hume showed up on the island while on a boat race. Desmond met Inman and was lured into helping him push the button. Eventually Kelvin died and it was only Desmond pushing the button.
September 22nd, 2004 comes along and Oceanic flight 815 comes to the island. This plane had been filled by many. Widmore had paid a great deal of money and had several years of research invested in this flight and even purchased a majority of shares to control Oceanic Airlines. The pilot of Oceanic flight 815 had been paid to bring the plane to a special location, our island. The management of Oceanic told their pilot for flight 815, Frank Lapidus, to stay home that day, as they had another pilot who was in Widmore’s pocket fly the plane instead. Since, as fate would have it, Desmond didn’t press the button on the Swan station in time, he allowed the EM charge to build up enough to create a magnetic force large enough to rip the flight 815 Oceanic aircraft into pieces while in mid air, once discharged. Widmore had encounters with time traveling survivors from flight 815 when he was leader of the others in the 70s, so this is how he knows the plane will end up on th! e island. He wants to utilize this opportunity to find the island’s location.
When the plane crashed, it ripped into three main pieces: the fuselage, the tail and the cockpit. This plane contained a selected bunch of people. Some of these people were put on the plane by Widmore, some people were put on the plane by Middlewerk, some by Ben himself, and some of them made it on the plane with the help of a little fate. This plane contained special people from every side that is trying to control the island, some even brought by the island itself. Middlewerk tried to fill the plane with people who were intended to reconstitute the DI, but they all died in flight 815 and Middlewerk had to make a second attempt with Ajira flight 316, which was more successful.
Christian Sheppard’s father had a communion with the island. Charlie’s drug habit and lack of purpose is why fate brought him to the island; to accomplish unselfish acts and reflect on his life happily and sacrifice himself to protect Aaron. Aaron is very special; not only does he have a genealogical connection to the island, but he is also a reincarnation of one of the island’s great spiritual leaders who was killed by the meteor. Aaron has both light and dark sides to him and potential to take any path.
Christian Sheppard’s special abilities were passed down to his children, Jack and Claire, as well as his grandson, Aaron. They are not so special that they are a reincarnation of the islands gods or leaders, but they are genealogically connected to very loyal followers from ancient times. Locke is the most special of all. Locke is the reincarnation of one of the islands great leaders, the island’s protector from centuries ago, and mentor to Richard Alpert, who survived the meteor. We will call this former leader “the guru.” When the guru died, Richard began a search for the tomb which his spirit energy has resided. Jacob told Richard that the boy would be premature and born to a young redheaded Emily. It took time for Locke to realize who he was, but he is learning now that he is on his Walkabout to the island.
Hugo “Hurley” Reyes was chosen by the island to help and learn. Hugo has special things that he needs to do to help our survivors, and he has a lot of personal growth to do. The island has helped him overcome so much, but his past is still something that he cannot let go. Hugo is seeing apparitions of the island because he is a reincarnation of one of the islands loyalist followers, who also had a very large pet bird that survived the meteor. The bird has been searching for his master ever since. The problem with Hugo is that he has a huge ego (hugo – HUge eGO) and does not believe the things that he sees. Hugo needs to learn that there is more than what others tell him is real, and he needs to trust himself and listen to the island.
Hurley had gained a great deal of faith on the island and has overcome a lot, so he might be ready and willing to talk to Jacob. Jacob has been trying to speak to Hurley, but he is not having luck getting Hurley to believe. Hurley forces himself to not believe visions presented to him, and he doesn’t realize his special abilities, even if they are just helping him with horseshoes. Hurley has had issues in the past where he thought he was seeing something (or someone) that wasn’t actually there. He has learned to suppress these visions, which has resulted in a lack of ability to see and hear Jacob. His huge ego is still getting in the way.
Jack is also very special, but he is fighting an internal battle. Since he is a doctor, Jack has studied medical journals for years. He has found a scientific explanation for everything that he has seen. Every time Jack starts to believe that there is something beyond science and that miracles do occur, something happens that destroys his faith. Jack is strictly a man of science. He feels special powers deep down inside of him, but he fights them and denies them because he has no way to explain them. Jack has abandoned faith because he feels that faith has abandoned him. Jack wants to get off of the island because he doesn’t know how to appreciate the island for what it is. After 3 years off the island, Jack is a changed man. He is now willing to sit back and see what fate and faith have to offer.
All of our survivors are on the island for a reason. Kate Austin has to come to terms with herself and learn that she cannot run away prom problems. She has 2 sides to her; she is a sweet and innocent person who wants stability in her life, but she is also a rebel who cannot settle down. This is why one side of her is drawn to Jack and another side is drawn to Sawyer. Sawyer is also on the island to grow by addressing his past. Sawyer is learning from the island and his interactions with the survivors that he can be a good person. He has faced and overcome many of his demons, but still has more to learn. Another survivor, Sayid Jarrah, has many demons that he must face from years of torturing people after working in the republican guard. Sayid has a good heart, but he kills too easily, as if he were tasked to do so. Every one of our characters is lost in their own lives, so the island will help them find their way.
Widmore knew of flight 815 and the time travelers. Ever since 1954, he knew John was from the future and in 1974 he learned from Richard Alpert that Sawyer and other time travelers were on the island. Though he knew that flight 815 was fated to crash on the island, Widmore still worked hard to make sure it would happen. Widmore managed to approximately locate the island, with the help of his former friend Eloise, and arrange it so that most of the passengers of Oceanic flight 815 would be comprised of people whom he thought was special. Widmore spent a great deal of finances trying to find people whom he thought might have a communion with the island. He managed to give tickets to these passengers in very creative ways. With all of his money and power, Widmore has been able to buy many people to help him with his plans. Widmore paid a supposed psychic, Richard Malkin, to get Claire and Eko on the plane. The government agents that gave Sayid his ticket were all workin! g for Widmore.
Some of the remaining passengers of flight 815 made it on to the plane just by circumstance. These people could just be in the wrong place at the wrong time, or they were somehow guided to take the flight by the island. There is one couple, the Kwon’s, who were put on the plane for a different reason. Jin was given a watch by his boss, Mr.Paik (Sun’s father), to deliver to someone in L.A. This watch was actually a global location device. Mr.Paik had corporate spies that gathered intelligence about Widmore and his plans for Oceanic flight 815. Knowing that his daughter was unhappy in her marriage to Jin, Mr.Paik arranged to have Jin sent to the island along with the rest of the flight 815 passengers, so that he could find the island and his daughter could also get away. Sun was supposed to leave Jin at the airport and he was supposed to take the watch to the island by himself, but she decided to go with him at the last moment.
Widmore also paid Libby to give Desmond the boat that he used that got him lost on the island. Since Desmond had shown interest in competing in his boat race, Widmore found this as a golden opportunity to get rid of him and get closer to locating the island by sending him to it. Libby is an employee of Widmore’s who was also sent to the island to provide him with updates and feedback as to what was going on with the survivors. She did some spying on Hurley at the ward to check his progress as a prospected special person who could communicate to it. Widmore bought the journal of Magnus Hanso in 1996 at a private auction, knowing that the Hanso family had lost a great deal of money and power after the purge and Middlewerk’s takeover. If anyone else were to purchase this journal, they could find the island and potentially become competition for Widmore.
With the donkey wheel frozen and the failsafe turned, it created a situation that made the island’s system unstable. With an unstable system, turning the frozen wheel would eventually cause the island to not only move in space, but also in time. Ben remembers Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Miles, Juliet, Hurley and Faraday from when he was younger and he remembers that they helped to save him and young Ethan. Ben knew that the failsafe had to be turned, so he manipulated Locke while he was held captive and eventually used him as a tool to stop pressing the button inside the Swan, forcing Desmond to turn the failsafe key. This was also Ben’s first line of defense in hiding the island from Widmore, but it didn’t work. After Desmond turned the failsafe key, Ben knew how events would unfold and he knew it was just a matter of time until the donkey wheel was turned and the 815 survivors were sent jumping around through time. What Ben did not expect, was the death of Alex. He kn! ew it would happen, but he was in denial for so long. He thought that the rules of conduct among the island’s people would protect her, but the island wanted Alex to be dead.
When the failsafe key was turned and the sky turned purple, the island’s large capacitor was discharged and there was a large pulse of electro-magnetic energy. This energy killed all of the communication equipment, just as Ben had suspected. The energy release also caused a side effect for Desmond, causing him to separate his consciousness to be ripped from the fabric of time. None of Ben’s follower suspected Ben to be responsible because he was at the Pala Ferry dock when the failsafe key was turned. Ben also used Locke as a tool to blow up the submarine, sealing the people in the snow-globe that is the island. Once again, no one could point their finger at Ben because he had manipulated Locke to do his dirty work. Ben continued to try and alter fate, but in doing so, he made so many fated events occur. Though he knew he could not change the past or his destiny and what happened, happened…he still tried to do so, unsuccessfully. They all have free will, but th! ey are always fated to choose whatever path they choose.
Now, with his communication to the island shut down, Widmore sent a freighter out to find the island and take it over once again. This freighter was full of scientists, who were assigned to study the islands paranormal characteristics. Some other people on the freighter were sent to capture Ben Linus and exterminate the rest of the survivors. This was Widmore’s attempt at a purge. Some people on this freighter were special, and it was their fate to be on the island; some people were just filling Widmore’s orders; one of the freighter’s passengers was Michael. Michael was sent to the freighter to do work for Ben, but he really had his own agenda for redemption. Michael got off the island, but his life was riddled with the guilt of what he had done to get off. When people spend some time on the island and leave, life in the real world just isn’t right. There is a yearning to get back to the island which one cannot escape. If the island has plans for someone, i! t will not allow them to be at peace unless those plans are carried out.
All of the children and Vincent had special powers because there is something special about children and pets. They can sense things and see into the true nature of people better than adult humans can, and they follow their intuition in ways that most adults cannot. Ben, coming from a sad childhood himself, had a soft spot for children. He felt that they were innocent and should not be harmed. Whenever Ben gets word of a child that had made it to the island, he kidnaps them and tries to brainwash them to be happy among the others. Ben will lock the children in room 23 and subject them to brainwashing videos. This brainwashing has not worked on Walt, so Ben was willing to let Michael take him home. Ben would not want Walt growing up to learn how special he is. Ben made sure he used Michael to do his bidding before he released them.
Locke is learning that he is very special and he has been since he landed on the island. The island immediately healed his paralysis after allowing him to survive the crash. Locke has been a man of faith and has trusted the word of the island since the beginning. At some point, Locke had lost his faith and lost his way, but he always looked and kept his heart open. The island had spoken to Locke in his dreams as it guided him to the hatch and has helped him to focus his energy. Locke understands the island and knows that he should stay and protect it and its simple ways, but he did not yet truly know who he was or his purpose until he died and was resurrected by the island. Now Locke can hear the island more clearly than ever before, with no hallucination drugs or dreams necessary.
Ben also knows that Locke is very special after getting his information packet from Mikhail, revealing that the island healed his paralysis. Ben had always thought that he was the chosen one, the reincarnation of the guru, but he always knew deep down that he wasn’t, and that the true chosen one would someday come.
Ben knew he could not just kidnap Locke and brainwash him in room 23, he had to manipulate him and con him in order to remove him as an obstacle. Ben knew that his followers doubted him and his priorities, so he tried to humiliate Locke by showing that he was too much of a coward to kill his own father. This is the culture of the others…the leader must be strong and decisive. If someone disagrees with the leader and gets away with it, it shows weakness in that leader. Locke however got some help from Richard in Ben’s power struggle, and showed his leadership by bringing his father’s dead body to Ben and beating up Mikhail in front of Ben and his followers. This helped to convince Ben to bring Locke to see Jacob. Ben was also curious just how special Locke is. If Locke could see Jacob, then we would most assuredly be the chosen one.
When Ben took Locke to the cabin where Jacob was held captive, Locke was able to hear Jacob. Jacob asked Locke to help him, because the island needs to be moved before Widmore’s men come and take over. This confirmed Ben’s fears that Locke was the true guru, and so Ben took this chance to shoot Locke and leave him for dead. Ben knew that the island allowed him to survive a gunshot wound as a child, so he tested Locke’s fate and connection to the island. The island did not want to let Locke die, so he spoke to him in the form of Walt to convince him not to lose faith. Locke survived, thanks to his missing kidney. Now Locke had renewed faith. He can talk to Jacob, he can walk, his father is dead and his missing kidney turned out to be a good thing. Locke truly had been given a clean slate (Tabula rasa) on this island and is set out to protect it.
Locke still had to work to find his way, but he was now more willing than ever. Some survivors made it off the island and when Ben tried to move the island, he pushed when he should have pulled, which set the wheel off of its axis. Normally, this would have just caused the island to jump around in space, but since the island had been exposed to the light from the Swan station when Desmond turned the failsafe key, the island started jumping around in time and space. The loyal John Locke made his way back to the Orchid and set the wheel back on it axis while simultaneously getting sent off the island to try and bring back those who left. This left the rest of the people that were time traveling to stay in the 70s, where they set in motion many events that resulted in the future they had seen.
The survivors were eventually convinced to come back to the island, each for their own reasons. John Locke promised that he would not bring Sun back, so the island sent her to her own time. The remaining members of the oceanic 6 ended up back in the 70s with everyone else. These survivors in the past get to witness the incident, but eventually their covers are revealed and the DI sent them off the island, and they are brought to their own times.
When the survivors get back to their time, they find that there is a team of mercenaries and scientists that were sent to the island by Thomas Middlewerk to start the DI over again. Two of these new DI members are Bram and Ilana. They are intending to abuse the island further, which would result in more destruction and could ruin the machine that drives this universe. Locke and the rest of the survivors must fight Middlewerk and his men to reclaim the island and keep it safe forever.
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