Encomia all around the horn to the Lost creative combine for another heuristic adventure in the land of mirror twin, yin/yang alt/verse enlightenment. As usual, we'll start with some real-time highlights and commentary on tonight's episode, then proceed to pondering what lies beneath the shadow of future plotlines....
1. Marvin Candle feting Hugo.... Man of the Year...! Love the T. Rex trophy... Yeah, we all recall what he said regarding the skeletons in the Cave... there since the age of Dinosaurs... How old is the island? And how long have Jacob and MIB been there?
2. "Sure that's the right move...?" Yes, the Lostisagame aficionados will be pleased with that reference....
3. Whispers in the background... Now there's MICHAEL, here to stop Hurley from getting everyone killed.... Another instance of players who have moved on to a higher level of the game, but not yet off the island-- still playing the Jacob's Ladder of Enlightenment game (JLE)-- providing information to players at lower levels of the game. This again reinforces the notion that there are at least two distinct ways of sending information (and consciousness) through different planes of existence and verses: (1) strong EM, especially via the island's energy field, and (2) Water....
4. Why should I trust you.... WHISPERS... People are listening to you now.... LOST SOULS, existing on and playing through a higher plane of existence (level of the game)? This would certainly fit not only with my SOURCE WALL New Gods interpretation, riffing on the Lost Souls concept, but also with my JLE concept. These souls are playing on a higher level of the game, yet still have not reached the highest rung on the JLE, thus they are not able to fully 'move on'.... They have unfinished business, and it is with the ISLAND, or rather... The ISLAND has unfinished business with THEM..... At the same time, don't forget Charlie's noble, sacrificial death on the island, enabling him to appear to Hurley on the MAINLAND.... Yes, you can indeed see where that is going, re: a more COMPLETE view of the RULES OF THE GAME for higher level game players with whom the Island is not yet done, players who have moved to the next higher rung on the JLE game, but not sufficiently high enough to have 'moved on' from the Island proper...
5. Of course, we were all expecting altverse LIBBY to meet Hugo... Yes, they are Lost SOUL MATES.... HUGO and LIBBY... Are they really crazy in the psych ward? Boy-oh-boy-oh-boy.... Now THIS really does leave the door wide open for a Leonard SIMS/psych ward interpretation of... THE END.... Hmmm.... If a THIRD way of sending information/consciousness across different planes of existence and across different verses is through ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS, resulting from forms of mental illness and/or brain damage, a FOURTH way (nods to Gurdjieff and Castaneda) may be induced in no small part through mind-altering techniques and drugs/medications.....
6. Hurley does have good judgment, after all.... Then we'll be stuck here with it, and it will be angry with us....! I'd be worried about that prospect, too! ILANA just got blown up, dude! WHOA!
7. SPEAR? Yeah, Sawyer.... Is FLOCKE whittling away at a.... SPEAR OF DESTINY? Shades of CONSTANTINE....?! A mirror foreshadowing of things to come? For more on this crucifixional plotpath possibility, see below....
8. Sayid's back with DESMOND, delivering the package to Flocke....
9. Back at the beach camp... Trust me, Jack.... Now those are some shifty eyes, Hurley....
10. What a deliciously delightful ULURU/Ayers Rock Easter Egg provided to us in the background of the Mr. Cluck's OUTBACK advertising poster, with the familiar Australian landmark looming largely in the background, behind Hurley. This landmark loops back to Flocke in some very intriguing ways.1
11. Nice shades, Des! How coincidental, namely your chance encounter with Hurley NOT! Order 42! Yeah, now DES is altversing Jacob's touching, pond-rippling, daisychaining mainland New Kids On The Block excursion....
12. Desmond and I (Flocke) need to take a.... WALKabout... What will Flocke show Des...?
13. Ben... Kinda makes you think... Yes, the Island was done with her.... Now the Black Rock's blown up... is HURLEY further ascending to the role of the new Island Protector.? Yes, I was wondering whether or not they should really blow up the plane.... Might that not be a ruse by the grand, great deceiver, to keep them on the island? (More on this, below....)
14. Michael told him to stop them from blowing up the plane... Dead people are more reliable than the live people.... Yes, unless it is... the Evil One looping into a deceptive corporeal ruse....
15. Libby has issues with REALITY....hah! Yeah, she's able to FUGUE across the planes and verses.... Quantum consciousness, electromagnetic theories of consciousness... cross-plane/verse flashing of information and insights.... The predicted piercings of the veil are proceeding ever apace....
16. Yes, the CONNECT FOUR game in the Santa Rosa psych ward 'rec room' once again confirms it..... A key component in the LOST plot is MAX TEGMARK's LEVEL III Multiverse concept.... I wish I had the graphic readily available, but it looks VERY EERILY LIKE THE CONNECT FOUR GAME, with dots side-by-side, each dot representing probabilistic reality, and altverses consisting of different movements among these probabilistic states of reality, all occurring at once in a Bohmian manner..... Heh-heh-heh.... Does this mean that the Santa Rosa rec room really is a recreation room in the literal sense of a RE-Creation room ala mind- altering, split personality, dissociativity, only we're talking about verses/reality arising from MIND, not vice-versa.....
17. There's Kenton Duty again... Young JACOB? Game play is getting all the more interesting, for sure....
18. Young JACOB says to Hurley that they have to talk to FLOCKE.... Yes, what IS the island....
19. JACOB never tells them what to do.... Interesting... If Alpert's being truthful, then our mutual surmises regarding MIB pulling a FakeJake/Fjake are true....
20. Hurley comes clean to Jack, and he knew it all along.... Jack can't fix it.... He's supposed to let go.... Hmmm... Yes, Hurley's on the ball... What will lead to them getting killed? What to avoid.... so they don't get killed.....
21. Whispers said "Richard..." Hurley to Michael... Yes, Michael IS a LOST SOUL who is stuck on the island, who can't move on, i.e., move off the island to the final rung on the JLE, grasping Cosmic Daddy's firm Hand of God, finally ala Flocke's expressed wish, getting to GO HOME... So there ARE rules to the JLE game, regarding who can and cannot MOVE ON to higher levels in the game of enlightenment, after all.... And, consistent with my JLE interpretation, there ARE people/players operating on higher levels of the game, still stuck on the island, having to work through issues incurred on lower levels of the game, doing PENANCE in part through appearing to selected players at lower levels of the game, helping them in the process... (Please see my prior postings in this regard, including the latter portion of my posting just last week, regarding LOST SOULS.)
22. And now, with LIBBY kissing HURLEY... Here is a FIFTH way of moving information/consciousness across different Planes of Existence, different Verses.... LOVE....!
23. Des and Flocke are at the well.... Is this the very same Orchid Hatch well... aka Jacob's Well.... the Well of Souls.... Yes, Flocke's historical explanation of the well's origin sets up a Deep Island Flashback-laden episode 6.15 quite nicely.... (More on this, below.)
24. This isn't the only well.... On the island, and on the energy grid/vile vortices.... Why isn't he afraid? Heh-heh-heh.... Flocke throw DES down the well! Yes, what will happen to DES down in the well? If it IS the well located near the Orchid Hatch in the Original Timeline (OT), then look for Desmond to continue sending information/consciousness from the island to the Flash Sideways Timeline (FST/altverse).... In addition to enabling Des to fulfill a destiny as a spatiotemporal warrior in the looming war of good and evil, this well could also allow for the transfer not only of information/consciousness, but as per the Orchid Hatch DHARMA spacetime travel experiments, it could provide Des with the necessary energetic resources to actually enable him to send organic and inorganic material across spacetime, spanning the OT, FST, and beyond....
25. Flocke's word he isn't going to do anything... Flocke gives him his word and his knife... And Team FLOCKE meets Team HURLEY....
26. Altverse wheelchair-bound Locke, then DES meets up with Ben.... How neatly inversive, as I would be more worried about Ben around kids than Des, who is waiting for.... DES runs Locke over.... How interesting, indeed.... Yes, like you, I too am wondering if well-ridden islandDES sent FST/altverseDES information about Locke, and the latter's actions are the direct result of this cross-verse information/consciousness transfer.... One interpretation is that Des is simply mistaken about Locke's true identity, but another viable interpretation is that Des does know about the Fake in the Locke, and he is attempting an 'end run' of sorts, through seeing if he can somehow push FST/altverse Locke's consciousness into the islandverse, pushing against the Evil One's manifestation of Locke..... Yes, other interpretations will emerge and will be the subject of heated debate over the coming week.... Heh-heh-heh....
27. In summary some really HUGE reveals in this electrically-charged heuristic episode, with the whispers confirmed as LOST SOULS who cannot move on from the island, stuck on a higher level of the game, but not yet able to grasp that final rung on the JLE, reaching up for that Cosmic Daddy grip... the Hand of God.... And there are at least FIVE ways of moving information/consciousness across different planes of existence/verses:
* EM
* Water
* Mental Illness and/or Brain Damage
* Mind-Altering Techniques and Drugs/Medications
* Love (esp. Kissing, touch/water-based)
What's It All About, Hurley?
Given the important new insights revealed in recent episodes, it's time once again to broaden the scale and scope of our inquiry, and consider what lies beneath the shadow of the ancient origin of the island, and the backstory of how Jacob and MIB first came to the island, and more, all looming largely on the horizon of the final episodes of Lost....
Instead of a grand tour through the Ages of Man, or even a Prisoner-like dialogical/dialectical battle-of-will-charged exchange among Jacob and MIB, more likely episode 6.15 will involve something we've been waiting for, for a long time.... namely, the DEEP FLASHBACKS (DFBs) revealing the island's backstory-- including the installation of the Ancient Tech (FDW) on the island-- DFBs I predicted way back in my 4/6/07 "Lost Legacy Theory" posting.
One key issue yet to be resolved is whether or not Jacob and MIB were indeed the first persons to play the roles of ISLAND PROTECTOR and TEMPTER/TESTER, respectively.... How far back in time was it, that they first interacted with the island, and were recruited in their respective roles? Will Darlton and company take us back to ancient Rome, Greece, Carthage, or an earlier era? Will they instead show us younger versions of Jacob and MIB growing up in Atlantis or Lemuria, surrounded by an astounding array of Lost ancient technology, applied to their everyday lives, later to be installed on the island in the form of the FDW and other applications? And for what purposes? Heh-heh-heh....
Where did the island and its unique energy properties/pockets come from, in the first place? Here I would refer the reader back to my 3/2/10 "Sundown" posting, in particular, the R. Foote-related material revealing how the presence of DARK MATTER is associated with a corresponding decrease in the temperature of the surrounding LIGHT/'REGULAR' MATTER.... This explains why the FDW is not simply a "DW"; it is FROZEN precisely due to its proximity to a Dark Matter/Energy-infused source of islandpower..... Moreover, the profound cooling properties of the Dark Matter/Energy pocket would also help create/generate/sustain a SUPERCONDUCTING condition enabling the island to float on, and move about, the surface of the ocean utilizing a MAG-LEV EFFECT.... (More on this, below!)
But where did the Dark Matter/Energy come from? How did it appear on Earth? What is the deeper backstory of the unique energy properties of the island? Here we need to go back to the very beginning... Yes, I do indeed mean the VERY, very beginning of space and time.... While I would love to see the Lost creative combine start the episode off with a literal 'Big Bang', they may not choose to go that route, however. Still, even if they don't show us the deeper cosmic origins of the island, here is how I suspect it would play out....
....In the Beginning.... There was the first great flashingly blinding INCIDENT, birthing the very Universe as we know it... the Big Bang..... And God said it was good.... However, lurking in the shadowlands of the universe... was the mirror matter, darkside counterpart to this lightside GARDEN OF EDEN.....
Yes, if you subscribe to the infinitely-looping spacetime inflation and contraction view, the Lostisagame site is far too narrow in its scope and scale of the true nature of the Universe-al Game Play, as we may be 'players' weaving into and out of our lives within an infinitely larger cosmic game, spanning untold millennia, infinitely rebooting and rewriting and reweaving new 'narrative' structures of existence, with God as the ultimate game player and rewriter... Does God play dice with the universe? How infinitely more intriguing it would be, to play dice with another party, placing 'side bets' on the evolutionary progress of said universe, with particular emphasis on the progress of organic forms of sentience, constituting a cosmic, eons-spanning game of backgammon....
Back to the GARDEN.... Darkside/Dark Matter/Mirror Matter Shadowlands temptations-- yes, this includes the Flash Sideways Timeline/FST temptations-- may not only be an integral part of the fallen nature of humanity.... They may indeed have their very roots in the fundamental nature of the universe, including physical, material, energy properties as we know them from classical and quantum vantage points, and more. In short, THE FALL may be understood not only in terms of Humanity succumbing to Cosmic Daddy Issues, trying to cheat the game as it were, leveraging a loophole in an attempt to try to resolve said issues through taking a bite of the apple from the Tree of Knowledge, giving in to the siren call of core temptation, taking the easy way out to resolve our Cosmic Daddy Issues through becoming our own Daddy as it were, playing at playing God....
This is the very same kind of FALL to which Lucifer and his darkside minions succumbed, the alluring temptation to overcome Cosmic Daddy Issues through becoming a Daddy/god unto oneself.... And the rest is, as they say, History.... God cast Lucifer and the NEPHILIM out of Heaven. Where did they go? As per my Season 5 postings, they may well have been cast down to Earth, on the ISLAND.... Yes, the the Fall of Humanity in the Garden of Eden, and the Fall of Lucifer and the Nephilim from the good graces of God, may be more than mere allegories and components in religious belief systems; indeed, they may very well have some distinct matter/energy correlates tied to our current understanding of the nature and origin of the universe as we know it....
Hot And Cold Pockets On A Dipolar Island: Keeping A Dark-Matter Lord Imprisoned, And An Evil Bottleverse Corked-
What if.... What if.... There were indeed some very real, literal, material and energetic aspects to these FALLS? Succumbing to Darkside temptations is not at all unrelated to the fundamental nature of the universe, and said temptations create conditions in which it may be possible for Darkside Matter/Energy to penetrate through from the Mirror Matter/Dark Matter Shadowlands to the Lightside/'Regular' Matter Universe.... Yes, the process of succumbing to darkside temptations and invoking darkside forces may very well help to create the conditions in which some POCKETS of Dark Matter/Energy may be able to enter our Lightside Universe.... Of course, the exact mechanisms by which this may occur have yet to be worked out, but certainly there are precedents in using OUIJA boards to contact dark entities, with chilling and enduring results,2 and Desmond's EM and Water-enabled cross-verse consciousness transference certainly 'riffs' on some current explorations into the mysterious aspects of what we call 'consciousness', bridging to intriguing concepts like QUANTUM CONSCIOUSNESS and more....
In short, what I'm proposing here is that contact with the darkside, intentionally invoking its presence, and succumbing to its powers and temptations, may not be unrelated to the world of matter-energy relationships, and that one of the non-trivial byproducts of these actions may well be the introduction of dark matter/energy pockets from the shadowlands of the mirror matterverse, into the lightside 'regular' verse. It is this very same process through which the ISLAND'S chilled and chilling Dark Matter/Energy pockets may have arisen/originated....
So the Fall of Humanity and the Fall of Lucifer and his Nephilim may have produced the supercooled Dark Matter/Energy pockets that are playing a key role in enabling the island to float on and move around the world's oceans (Mag-Lev), using the FDW as an ancient GPS device, with the ANTIKYTHERA device as proof of Lost ancient tech displaying levels of sophistication supporting a 'differential-gear-driven' mechanism for leveraging the energy pocket to 'steer' the island through spacetime.... 3
In addition to playing a role in powering the Mag-Lev capabilities of the island, the dark matter/energy pocket sustains the presence of the Evil One on the island, the Smoke Monster. At the same time, however, the pocket constrains or imprisons the Evil One, as it fuels his very existence but it is 'locked' into place within the Lightside/'Regular' matter/energy comprising the surrounding island. This may very well be the short form of the nature of the islandcork imprisonment.... Smokey, the Evil One, is a mirror matter darkside Dark Matter/Energy being-- a truly and quite literally Dark Lord that Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine would be proud of-- and his existential essence depends on the continued integrity of a dark matter/energy signature. This is why he avoids the sonic fence. And Jacob's Ash may be so infused with a potent concentrate of lightside force that it deters a dark matter/energy being. And lightside 'Holy' water is a third understandable concern for such a being....
Now the fundamentally black/white, yin/yang, DIPOLAR literal and figurative nature of the island comes into larger, clearer, full relief.... How do you effectively imprison a Dark Matter Lord, corking access to his dark, evil 'verse in the process? In addition to surrounding his Dark Matter/Energy pocket with constraining Lightside Matter, the next logical step in sealing the deal would be to place pockets of concentrated Lightside ENERGY on the island, further ramping up the strength of the lightside matter/energy prison holding Smokey in place, AND fortifying the Source Wall of the CORK holding his evil bottleverse at bay, at the the same time....
If this is true, we should expect to see both HOT and COLD pockets of energy on the island, which is exactly what we've seen. The Swan Hatch site is a prominent example of a Lightside energy pocket producing high EMF. This may be one of several such sites/pockets on the island, perhaps even comprising a 'ringed' line of defense and imprisonment, helping to hold the Dark Matter/Energy pocket in place, thusly keeping Smokey imprisoned and the evil bottleverse effectively 'corked'....
Island Hotspots of lightside 'force' on the island would also be expected to provide positive healing effects, which is exactly the case as per Rose's remission through multiple self-prescribed beach-based treatments on the island. I would not at all be surprised to learn that the power of the clear-water spring-fed temple rejuvenations is directly linked to the pockets of Lightside energy on the island, symbolizing the River of Life flowing from the Throne of God in Heaven.
Similarly, the COLD pocket of energy in the vicinity of the FDW is exactly what R. Foote predicts in the presence of a DARK MATTER body in our lightside universe. As I noted in my 3/2/10 "Sundown" posting, Foote's research shows that the Dark Matter will 'suck' energy from the surrounding lightside matter, producing a COLD SPOT/ZONE, which is what we see in the area where the FDW is located on the island. Not surprisingly, the symbolic implications of this point for Lost is not lost on us, as the Dark Matter pocket sucking energy from the surrounding Lightside matter is what we have witnessed in the case of SAYID, whose lightside life force has been sucked out of him in the presence of a Dark Matter/Energy-infused Smoke MONSTER drink, a.k.a., the Brown ALEful, tainted spring-fed Temple pool.
Yes, like the clear water force flowing from lightside energy pockets, I strongly suspect that the brown ALEful water is tainted through contact with Smokey and his very literally Dark Matter/Energy-infused constitution.... As I proposed in a recent posting, we may learn that Smokey is the true form/manifestation of the Dark Matter/Energy-constituted being we've come to hate as the Evil One, incarnated in more recent times as MIB, and most recently as Flocke, but at the heart of the matter (a black one, indeed) is Dark Matter/Energy.... How interesting, then, that in addition to the presence of Hot and Cold energy pockets on the island, literally comprised of concentrated Dark and Light matter/energy, the dipolar nature of the island not only may provide insights into its Mag-Lev capabilities, but also into the deeper, dialectical tensions so aptly symbolized throughout the series, from the physical to the metaphysical...
One chilling implication of the dipolar physical nature of the island is that FLOCKE the Evil One may know all about the nature of his imprisonment, and the push for another EM-spiking, nukeful(?) energy pocket release on the island could very well sufficiently weaken the 'wall' of his prison that he will be able to finally break free... In short, if the balance among the Dark and Light concentrated energy pockets on the island is upset through nukeful (and otherwise) releases of Lightside energy, this may tip the scales enough so that the Evil One is able to secure his freedom.... Who, beyond the Evil One, is privvy to this dark, dire subtext? Given the Dark Lord's predilection for playing the deception card, I wonder how much of the surface contents of his verbalized plans/motives are diversionary in nature, working a ruse to seduce lightside forces into releasing more lightside energy through tricking them into thinking it will help keep him imprisoned, and his evil bottleverse 'corked', when in fact the very opposite may be true.... Heh-heh-heh.... He is one 'ol sly devil, indeed....!
What's It All About, Hurley? Part Deux-
Back to the ISLAND's backstory, the DFB.... What I'm proposing above is that a Dark Matter/Energy pocket was drawn across the 'veil' separating the Shadowlands/Mirrorverse from our lightside/'regular' verse, when Lucifer and his Nephilim succumbed to the darkside temptation to resolve Cosmic Daddy Issues through playing God themselves. With the Fall of Lucifer and his evil minions, God cast them out of Heaven to Earth, and with them went the dark matter/energy pocket, cast down to the Islandcorkprison, wrapped not in plastic, but rather in a lightside matter/energy encasement. We may yet learn that a shield/source wall was also put into place, leveraging literal SOUL POWER to further fortify the prison....
"A
pagan myth of the fall of angels, associated with the Morning Star, was transferred to Satan, as seen in the
Life of Adam and Eve and the
Second Book of Enoch, which the
Jewish Encyclopedia attributes to the first pre-Christian century: in these Satan-Sataniel (sometimes identified with
Samael) is described as having been one of the
archangels. Because he contrived "to make his throne higher than the clouds over the earth and resemble 'My power' on high", Satan-Sataniel was hurled down, with his hosts of angels, and since then he has been flying in the air continually above the
abyss..."
Yes, this is Satan, whom John Milton referred to as LUCIFER in his classic masterpiece Paradise Lost, falling down to Earth to "bring about the downfall of Adam." (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer).
How interesting to note the key parallels to the Evil One... flying in the air.... ala the flying, darkly undulating SMOKE MONSTER.... And what does it mean to be flying above The ABYSS....?
"In
biblical literature,
abyss refers to a bottomless pit, to the
underworld, to the deepest ocean floor, or to
hell. The English word "abyss" derives from the
late Latin abyssimus (
superlative of
abyssus) through
French abisme (
abîme in modern French), hence the poetic form "abysm", with examples dating to 1616 and earlier to rhyme with "time". The Latin word is borrowed from the
Greek abussos (also
transliterated as
abyssos), which is conventionally analyzed as deriving from the Greek element meaning "deep, bottom" with an
alpha privative, hence "bottomless." In the
Septuagint, or Greek version of the
Hebrew Bible, the word represents both the original
chaos (
Genesis 1:2) and the Hebrew
tehom ("a surging water-deep"), which is used also in apocalyptic and kabbalistic literature and in the
New Testament for hell; the place of punishment; in the Revised (not the Authorized) version of the
Bible "abyss" is generally used for this idea. Primarily in the
Septuagint cosmography the word is applied both to the waters under the earth which originally covered it, and from which the springs and rivers are supplied and to the waters of the firmament which were regarded as closely connected with those below. In the parable of Lazarus there is an abyss between God and man.
Revelation 9:11 states that the
destroying angel shall arise out of the abyss during the
end times."
Hmmm.... So the island really may turn out to be functioning in a more literal sense as a 'cork', floating as it is on the ocean, tracing an arc across our world while keeping the access point to the evil 'red wine' bottleverse plugged. And how interesting that an ABYSSmal view not only refers to the UNDERWORLD, the Ocean Floor, and Hell, but also the ALEful, Chaotic (Egyptian God SET, anyone) WATER-borne source of darkness, from which the Evil One will ARISE DURING THE END TIMES....!
Yes, the Luciferic and Abyss-mal connections to Lost are richly relevant and revelatory, especially when considering the brown ALEful spring-fed temple waters that infected Sayid, waters tainted by the presence of a dark matter energy pocket, and the function of the island in 'corking' the evil bottleverse. No, it is not coincidental that Jacob used a WATER-based symbol-- the red wine-- to depict the evil imprisoned and held in check by the islandcork, as there is a direct and tangible connection between: (1) the dark and light, cold and hot, energy pockets on the island and the clear and (2) the brown and the clear spring-fed waters ushering forth from the island, especially in the portal access point of the temple healing pool. Island inhabitants would do well to pay close attention to when the waters are running hot or cold, clear or brown, as a function of the light or dark energy pocket with which the spring has come into contact....
From this vantage point, we can see that the island is at least as old as the Fall of Lucifer and his Nephilimic minions. Accordingly, the islandcorkprison may turn out to predate Jacob and MIB, perhaps even by millennia. We'll find out just how long ago it was, before Jacob and MIB first were introduced to the island, in the 6.15 episode. In any event, it makes sense that SMOKEY is the Wrinkly In Time one true visage or incarnation of the Evil One, a cloudy manifestation of a darkside, mirror-mattered, Dark Energy-powered Destroying Angel entity, as per my prediction in the 3/30/10 "The Package" posting. As such, I would not at all be surprised to see MIB's first encounter with Smokey mirroring that of Locke in Season One, with MIB being dragged by the Smoke Monster down a veritable Alice In Wonderland 'rabbit hole'.... Only this time, unlike Locke who barely escaped the hole, MIB may have actually been pulled all the way under back in ancient times, drawn by Smokey to THE (DARK) SOURCE.... Connecting with and physically contacting dark matter/energy pocket-tainted brown ALEful pool of WATER, baptised as it were into the Darkside, beneath the surface of the island.... Is this how MIB 'became' Smokey....?
And why might the ancients have installed the FDW and other tech on the island? Hmmm.... It makes sense to me that if the ancients discovered the true nature of the dark matter/energy pocket on the island, and desired to distance themselves from this dire, evil threat, they may well have enlisted the services of ARCHIMEDES or some other ancient genius associated with Antikythera-like Lost ancient tech, to install an ancient GPS-like device to steer the island away from their vicinity, to another part of the world, effectively leveraging the island's ability to move, to move the islandprison away from them.... How interesting it would be to learn that the FDW had settings on it to send the island not only far from them, but that it could do so through leveraging the nodal Vile Vortex wormhole system, sending the island from the Mediterranean region (Rome, Greece, Carthage) or the Atlantic Ocean (Atlantis), all the way around the world to the Pacific Ocean....!
Another piece of ancient tech that may have been implanted on the island relates to the fascinating CERBERUS connection noted by Lindelof as the DHARMA Initiative's 'handle' for Smokey.... Yes, we may learn in 6.15 that in addition to the ancient ones installing the FDW, they also set up a device for CHAINING SMOKEY to the island, in his incarnation and function as CERBERUS:
"
Cerberus, (pronounced
/ˈsərb(ə)rəs/ Greek form: Κέρβερος,
[ˈkerberos]) in
Greek and
Roman mythology, is a
multi-headed hound (usually three-headed which guards the gates of
Hades, to prevent those who have crossed the
river Styx from ever escaping.... Cerberus was the son of
Echidna, a hybrid half-woman, half-serpent and
Typhon, a fire-breathing giant whom even the Olympian gods feared. Its brother is
Orthrus, always depicted as a two-headed
hellhound.
[10] The common depiction of Cerberus in Greek mythology and art is as having three heads, a mane of live serpents (similar to
Medusa's hair) and a snake's tail. In most works the three-heads each respectively see and represent the past, the present, and the future, while other sources suggest the heads represent birth, youth, and old age.
Each of Cerberus' heads is said to have an appetite only for live meat and thus allow the spirits of the dead to freely enter the underworld, but allow none to leave. Cerberus was always employed as Hades' loyal watchdog, and guarded the gates that granted access and exit to the underworld (also called Hades)." [Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus]
So in addition to seeing how the FDW was installed on the island, we may also witness someone playing Heracles, overpowering and effectively CHAINING the hellhound to the island. Hmmm... Is THIS the source of the clanking, clunking metallic sound we hear everytime Smokey is on the prowl? In addition to his future role in the END TIMES as the Dark Destroying Angel-to-be, is SMOKEY in his present incarnation really Cerberus, chained to the island, loyally guarding the gates of Hell, granting 'access and exit to the underworld'? If so, then the three heads are not incidental, as they may symbolize the unHOLY Trinity, as well....
Yes, we've seen Smokey's appetite for live meat (ala Cerberus), for sure, with whole ingestion of some individuals, and partial limb feasting, too.... A nice French arm, to go....? How ironic that the Smokey/Cerberus charged with the task of preventing those who have crossed over and into the underworld from LEAVING, as that is exactly what he in his FLOCKE form, wishes to do! The prison guard wants to leave the prison.... Hmmm... does Flocke really want to stage his own prison break, or does he really want to break the prison.... effectively uncorking his evi minions from their bottleverse underworld jail?
It remains to be seen if, in the final episodes of Lost, Smokey's Cerberus-side shows through, working to thward the efforts of others to leave the island, while simultaneously trying to gain his own freedom and that of his dark underworld minions.... This throws the light of our attention squarely back on the various means of transportation available to those who would wish to leave the island. In my 4/6/10 "Happily Ever After" posting, I warned about the Evil One deploying his age-old tactic of deception, only this time I'm wondering if the RUSE IS ON US (and them), as Flocke may be tricking people into thinking he really wants to leave the island, when all along, HURLEY WAS RIGHT.... Maybe Flocke's true Cerberus-based motive is to find a strategem to KEEP THEM FROM LEAVING THE ISLAND.... And how devilishly delicious it would be if he were able to convince them to enact his deception willingly, tempting them with false hopes and dreams of giving them what they want, a hollow meal to swallow indeed, as we can now see playing out and flashing before our very eyes, in the FST....!
Yes, the Twilight Zone connection is apt, here, as per the "Nice Place To Visit" parallels explored in my 3/25/10 "Corkport" posting.... As the newly dead criminal discovered, getting what you think you want can be a real HELLuva time, for eternity! Now here's a scary thought.... What if... What if... Flocke were able to seduce Jack into thinking he should Quantum Suicide himself (or others) in the OT, to help ensure the continued existence and integrity of the FST, in order to save the son he never had, DAVID? Jack in league with Flocke.... willingly? I hope not....
Back to the transportation issue..... Like you, I too was wondering whether Flocke is pulling another deception through focusing so much attention on the PLANE that they are overlooking the potential for escape via the SUB.... Does Flocke really prefer to 'fly the unfriendly skies' of Event Horizon turbulence, or is he instead trying to divert attention to the plane, as he intends to steal away from the island in the sub? Again, a deeper issue may be the extent to which he (Flocke) is able to really resist his Cerberus-based motivation to block exit from the island, which may in fact be in play..... Does Flocke really want to block all exits from the gates of hell? Is his strategem to trick others into destroying the plane, the sub, and any and all means of escaping the island?
Hmmm.... I've been wondering how the Riverworld Quantum Suicide tactic might figure into all of this, and it very well could factor into the mix, as part of a Flocke deception strategem aimed at convincing people to blow up the plane and/or the sub, while they are inside, in order to die to transition to the other timeline..... A viable alternative suggested by the Cerberus connection is that the truth to the 'dying to save others and to keep Smokey/Flocke imprisoned' proposition lies in the ability of one who has died to move to and from the underworld realm, enabling access to that battlefront in the looming war of good and evil.
What else may be looming on the horizon of future plotlines? We've already been told to expect more deaths, so that should come as not surprise. But who will be gone? Of course, we'll have to wait and see, and whether or not the Variables in the equation will truly factor into this aspect of the show remains to be seen.... But here is a short list of people who I would not be surprised to see as 'still standing' in the final episodes: Jack, Desmond, Hurley, Kate, and Sawyer. Who may be gone? Sayid, Jin, Sun, Miles.... Alpert's a wild card, in my book, hard to predict. The 'Kwon' in the equation may be Ji Yeon, as the 'Wallace' Number 108 may be Aaron....
Yes, the sci fi/mystic side of me says we might see an All Star Cast free-for-all, all-comers-like finale in THE END, with those who have died showing up again as higher-level players in the islandgame, much as Charlie Pace and (in tonight's episode) Michael have done, providing information and assistance to players embroiled in the war-game at the next lower rung on the Jacob's ladder of Enlightenment game. But that may be too much of a sci fi/mystical direction for the finale, especially if Darlton and company opt for a more personal and grounded approach. Still, I must admit that I would love to see a resurrected LOCKE meet his faker FLOCKE, in hand-to-hand, knife-to-knife combat....
Better yet, while pondering a 'Big Bang' with an O. Henry twist finale that we might see in The End, I flashed back to the scenario I outlined at the end of my 4/6/10 "Happily Ever After" posting, the one involving Desmond enacting a final, nukeworthy Quantum Suicide of the island, flashing back to Widmore's smiling visage.... In what would most surely qualify as a cool and symbolically apt ending, if a key part of Desmond's looming and explosive mission is to finally 'seal the deal', corking the Evil One forever, then it would indeed be a savory narrative feast if we were to see.... Desmond 'nuking/killing' the island, releasing all the remaining Dark Matter/Energy, with the island slowly sinking to the bottom of the ocean, forever sealing off the access of Evil to this verse, but instead of Des awakening to see Widmore's face back on the island, he wakes to the bright noonday sun as his blood, sweat, and tear-filled face gazes down upon... a flock of robe-garbed followers, held at bay by a cadre of Roman Legionnaires.... Des is hanging from a cross.... And then we see the eyes of a rat peering up from beneath a Centurion's helmet... as BEN smirks and swiftly jabs his spear into Des' body, a keen upward thrust piercing the pericardial membrane.... A gusher of fluids spew forth, bathing Ben in the transforming holiness of... CHRIST'S own blood and water... Ben falls to his knees, finally meeting his maker... and Desmond seals the deal through uttering that immortal phrase... "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do...."
--------> And where did BEN get that Spear of Destiny? Hmmm.... I wonder what it is, that Flocke is whittling away at? Sawyer DID call it a..... SPEAR....!
O. Henry! Twisting The Night Away, Taking The Plunge Toward A Water-Born(e) Series Finale-
Yes, the Des-as-Christ scenario would certainly fit the bill in terms of fulfilling the promise of a shocking, plot-twisty finale... And as some of us have been predicting, additional candidates for O. Henryesque T-Zone types of endings involve such game-changing, meta-level 'reveals' as:
1. It's all a child's game.... with a final reveal showing us that Lost is really a two-player game ala Lostisagame, played by higher-order and/or extradiimensional children, putting us in our place in the universe, humbly shaken, and stirred....
2. It's all in Sims' head.... Lenny, Lenny, Lenny.... Gotta remember to take those meds, man...! Another twisty T-Zone type of reveal in THE END would show us a room filled with drooling, medicated psych ward patients, from Sims to Hurley, from Libby to Kate.... the whole crew is here..... But wait! Will there be a reveal of a reveal to pull that curtain/veil aside to show us that... even this view is illusory, as.... it is the mirror twins-- Jacob and MIB-- who are playing the game, generating the whole backstory for their competitive enjoyment....
3. It's an infinitely(?) looping 'game of life'.... Here we would see them back aboard a Flight 815 equivalent at the end of the show, blissfully unaware of prior spacetime loops, with Jack ordering a triple drink, this time, and Kate as the U.S. Marshall, etc. Here the reveal is that God DOES play dice with the universe... In particular, God does play dice in a two-player Backgammon equivalent, with white and black representing 'good' and 'evil', flashing to Locke's Season One games with Walt and more.... What we perceive as free will is merely the daisychaining effects of our particular choices, rippling in pond-like fashion, as sequences of spacetime cause-effect relationships are 'written' into existence as the loop/story plays out in Minkowskian spacetime dynamics. This reveal would confirm that not only does God play dice, s/he likes a good game of backgammon with a worthy antimatter/mirror matter/dark matter counterpart (MIB/Anti-Monitor).
On a physical science level, this ending would also confirm the inherently Quantum Mechanical, uncertain, and superpositional nature of existence and spacetime relations, dovetailing quite nicely with Max Tegmark's Level III Multiverse concept, multiversic views held by David Lewis and David Deutsch, as well as completing the 'David' trifecta through bridging to Bohm's work on the Implicate and Explicate Order. From this cosmic vantage point, we can see that not only does God play dice, but God also is a storyteller, writing on an uncertain, emergent, Minkowskian spacetime 'canvas', a generative tapestry insofar as characters in the story are not fully proscribed in a deterministic manner, but rather are free to participate in a daisychaining, pond-rippling co-authored, looping tapestry-weaving existence. Perhaps Bohm is right, after all.... Life is a process of explicating order/story/meaning out of a sea of infinite combinatorial possibilities, all happening at once, but perceived by us through our delimited corporeality as a very real adventure happening to us and our loved ones, in and across time. And when we die, we get to do it all over again, writing a new story of adventure into an ever-expanding compendium of explicated life stories.... How exciting and intriguing this would be, indeed....!
--------> As noted above, the CONNECT FOUR game played by psych wardees in the Santa Rosa rec room looks eerily like a Level III Multiverse diagram....
4. It's an afterlife collective dream shared by those who died in the Flight 815 plane crash, as their consciousnesses transitioned from our four-dimensional plane of corporeal, timelined existence to a higher plane of extradimensional reality.... Here, as some of us have predicted, the 'shocking' reveal in THE END would present a frame-breaking view of the dead Flight 815 passengers, either lying at the bottom of the ocean near the floating island, or strewn across the beach on the island. A Jacobless/MIBless view would imply that the pockets of energy on the island are powering a field which provides the necessary conditions for such a phenomenon to occur, using Des' consciousness transference across 'verses (OT to FST, and back) as a precedent. On this view, someone who dies on or near the island would 'cross over' within the range of a unique energy field, providing the basis for some truly intriguing and entertaining shared 'reality-writing' dynamics, a form of collective consciousness coauthorship, as it were....
If Jacob and MIB are part of the equation, we may learn that what they have been doing-- throughout the ages in which they've been on the island-- is truly playing a two-party game, but not with the lives of people who are still alive on our plane of corporeal existence.... Instead, what they may be doing is in some ways not unlike intercepting souls/consciousnesses of persons who have just died, plugging them into their metaphysical game-grid, powered by the island's unique energy properties, HEMAtically instantiating the game on this grid, not only for their entertainment purposes, but also for the Karmic/Purgatorial purposes of helping the recently departed to work through terran and Cosmic Daddy (and Mommy) issues, namely the 'baggage' they are carrying with them on their flight from this to another plane of existence....
5. While there certainly are a number of additional O. Henry/T. Zone-twisty THE END prognostications floating out there in the virtual/viral learning space of our electronically- mediated community, taking Damon Lindelof's Wink at WATER as the one true key to the ending of Lost, I would not at all be surprised to witness a conclusion along the following lines.... Ending #4 above certainly can bridge to the water connection, especially if we learn that all along, Flight 815 did crash into the ocean, with its complement of passengers drowning in the process, with an infinite number of implicate reality possibilities flashing before their very eyes in an Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge manner, and with the surrounding WATER providing a medium for a shared consciousness collective dreamscape, perhaps augmented by the proximity of an energy-charged, EM-field-generating island....
If, however, we learn that they really did survive the crash on the island, how might water figure into the series finale....? Here I would suggest that we may have already witnessed the key foreshadowing form for a water-themed conclusion to Lost.... Yes, DESMOND's "Not Penny's Boat" water-immersion FST encounter with Charlie Pace may just well have conclusively provided us with a winking window into how they will tie everything together at series' end....
.... and it all goes back to the importance of WATER as a universal solvent, a medium for connecting, bridging, joining together, as per my 3/16/10 "Recon" posting.... In the 6.11 "Happily Ever After" episode, have they put the biggest Easter Egg of all time into our blogging baskets, winking at a truly BAPTISMAL, water-borne conclusion to the series, THE END to a splitverse, dissociative, bipolar, dysfunctional life narrative....? In short, how will the OT/FST splitverse dysfunctionality be resolved...? By the power of the universal solvent... Water...
What we may in fact learn in the final moments of the series is that while there may be a necessary 'Big Bang' Incident-al component to the process-- all consistent with Widmore's mission for Desmond and with Eloise's FST jewelry design-- the looming merger of the OT and FST timelines will combine not only an explosive release of island energy and a resulting pronounced pulse of EM; the merger will require a second component-- water-- as a medium for enabling not merely a consciousness transference ala Desmond, but rather a CONSCIOUSNESS MERGENCE/MERGER across the splitverse OT/FST timelines, enabling Jack, Sawyer, Kate, et al. to FINALLY achieve a full piece of mind, in a figurative but also a very literal way....
In short, what we may see is that in order to truly render a full and complete merger of the OT/FST timelines, our cherished band of castaways may literally have to take the plunge into the spring-fed waters of the Temple healing pool, diving underwater, willingly embracing a Quantum-Suicidal yet 'versal/merger enabling Baptismal act, all while a final, complete Incidental release of the remaining island energy occurs in Big Bang fashion. As they hold hands underwater, they look up to see the brightly flashing moments as the island's remaining energy is finally and fully released, and as they look into each other's eyes... they share a collective awareness as key events of the past six seasons flash before their very eyes in highlight-reel fashion.... and they smile as the timeline merger is enacted as a CONSCIOUSNESS-FUSING, TIMELINE MERGING dynamic works in and through the universal solvent medium of WATER.... Birthing a newly merged reality... a Baptism of water in the midst of a fireful, flashing release of islandenergy... Yes, we now see how the MIND literally does indeed MATTER.... Wholeness has now been restored... Yinverse and Yangverse have been reconciled back to an inherently dualistic and quantumly superpositional dynamic.... What lies ahead, in the shadows and the broad 'high noon' daylight of their future adventures....?
Time will tell....
Dr. Todd J. Hostager
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ENDNOTES:
1. The ULURU/Ayers Rock Easter Egg furnished in the background of the Mr. Cluck's OUTBACK advertising poster, behind Hurley, reminds us of the existence of additional energy pockets around the world, beyond the island proper. And these energy pockets connect to Flocke in some very interesting ways, bridging to one of Batman's arch nemeses, the vile vortices, and more....
Ra's al Ghul's Darkseid GAIAic Agenda: Restoring 'Environmental Balance' On Earth, Enacting A Dark Humanless Eden, Through Viral Mainland Transmissions-
Widmore knows just what he is doing, bringing Desmond back to the island in preparation for the looming war between good and evil. And, as predicted by the Lostisagame site and expanded here through prior Season 6 postings, one absolutely crucial game dynamic in determining the very outcome of this war lies less with the VARIABLES per se and more with the VALUES the Variables are solved for, as the series winds to a climactic close. Who among the Chosen Ones, the Candidates, will be claimed and solved for the Darkside Doctor of Death, Flocke, and who will remain resolute in their belief in that new, emerging lightside Man of Faith.... Jack?
Now is the time to further unpack the ALEful, Transmodic Viral connections fleshed out in prior postings, revealing more about the true, dark nature and agenda of the Evil One/Flocke, setting the table for examining how Des may help keep this Devil and his dominion corked.... WIDMORE's remarks to Jin are the key.... He made it very clear that they must keep evil corked, contained from mainland existence, else their loved ones be erased, wiped out from existence. And while a Primer (2004) derived plotwist is surely a possibility-- with Flocke leveraging the island/'box' to loop people out of existence-- I strongly suspect that the Lost creative team will instead continue 'riffing' on literal viral themes....
As per my Season 6 postings from "Sundown" onward, we may yet learn that Dharmic Des and Kelvin were following a rigorous vaccination protocol to hold a very real darkside, ALEful virus at bay, resisting an arresting recruitment tool for MIB's Army of Darkness.... Yes, the DHARMA Initiative may very well have known more than we've given them credit for, and the same darkside virus they were guarding against was involved in the infection of the French team when Rousseau landed on the island, and is now working its way through SAYID, changing not only his mind, but his heart/body, and his very SOUL....
Here it is, in a nutshell.... If what we witness in episode 6.15 is a 'riffing' by Darlton and company on the classic "Once Upon A Time" episode of the classic series, The Prisoner, instead of the dialogical/dialectical exchange focused on and channeled through Shakespeare's 'Seven Ages of Man', the episode may instead provide a travelogue through the Ages of Humanity, with Jacob and MIB as host commentators.... Part of the travelogue may reveal MIB's ongoing attempts to tempt/test humanity through adopting a range of Earthly guises, from MIB through Hitler and more. Of course, this is most definitely in sync with one of the trademark tricks in the Evil One's bag: Testing/tempting through appearing to be someone else. Yes, fakery is a longtime weapon in his dark arsenal, as well as a seductive sleight-of-hand accompanying silver-tongued sentiments testing/tempting/infecting minds, throughout the ages.
In addition to adopting the guises of Flocke, FakeJake/Fjake, and more, the Evil One has also been manifest to others as a.... Ra's al Ghul-based character.... This DC-verse nemesis of Batman has some very uncanny parallels to MIB/Flocke, shedding light on the deeper meanings lying beneath the surface of Widmore's remarks to Jin and bridging to our prior musings relating not only to GAIA, but also to Brian K. Vaughan's "Y: The Last Man":
"Ra's al Ghul is an international
terrorist and
assassin whose ultimate goal is a world in perfect
environmental balance. He believes that the best way to achieve this balance is to eliminate most of
humanity. Ra's usually tries to assault the world's human populace with a
biological weapon, such as a
genetically-engineered virus. He is aided in this quest by the
Lazarus Pits, reservoirs of rejuvenating chemicals that restore the dying to life; these pits have granted him a lifespan of several centuries."
Like Ra's al Ghul, all along the Evil One has been directing an international terrorism and assassination ring from the island, using his adopted guise as Fjake to deliver instructions to BEN, his acting field supervisor of operations. Fjake had Sayid as a 'hired gun' employee in this mainland ring, and now Flocke has Sayid as a zombified darkside mercenary in his island Army of Darkness....
More darkly ominous than the terrorism and assassination ring is the ostensibly GAIAic goal of achieving 'a world in perfect environmental balance,' through a decidedly apocalyptic means, however.... Of course, this ties directly and intimately into one of the prominent concerns underlying the DHARMA Initiative's efforts in solving the Valenzetti Equation-- averting the demise of the species at the hand of some global pandemic....
What we may be seeing in the brown-ALE-tainted temple water-- now working dark way through the body, heart, mind and soul of Sayid-- is the final testing stages of the latest version of the Evil One's virus for reducing those few humans left in the apocalyptic wake to zombified worker drones, serving Flocke in an unquestioning and unfeeling manner, helping him clear out the majority of humanity from the face of the Earth, thereby realizing his dark dream of creating a NEW EDEN that is PURGED of Humanity. While one reasonable interpretation of the phrase "eliminate most of humanity" is that a second virus will be used to kill the majority of human inhabitants on Earth, while Sayid and the brown ALE-infected worker bees will have immunity to the second virus version and will thus 'live on' (if one can call it that!), serving the Evil One. Another reasonable interpretation is that you only need one virus, and the goal is not to kill most people, but rather to eliminate most of their humanity, which the ALEful virus does indeed appear to do. If Mother Earth GAIA has an evil mirror twin, is surely must be... Ra's al Ghul/Flocke....
Note also the concept of Lazarus Pits in the above Wikipedia excerpt, comprised as they are of chemical reservoirs with rejuvenative powers. The connection to the spring-fed temple healing pool is direct and chilling, as we witnessed Sayid brought back to life in Lazarus-like fashion, through a darkside-infused brown ALE. In accordance with my prior postings, will we also learn that when the springs are running with clear water, they are infused with a mirror twin LE virus conferring Alpertian agelessness and long lightside life spans? (Yes, the brown ALE waters may turn out to grant long darkside life spans, with infinitely high pain thresholds and limited breakdancing abilities....)
Interestingly enough, in a future Lost episode we may witness another set of parallels, if we learn more about the source of the spring-fed waters and whether this source-- and the nature of waters ushering forth-- is affected by the unique energy properties of the island. For example, when the darkside has the upper hand in moving to solve the Variables for darkside Values, does this shift the power band and the water from a light to dark association, producing the brown ALE tainted pool? Or are these two distinct types of WATER (nod to Lindelof's huge clue) flowing from different sources entirely, with the clear lightside water emanating from God's throne and the brown darkside water ushering from the.... Gehennic Lake of Fire contained in the evil bottleverse, beneath the bottom of the islandcork?
"Lazarus Pits were accidentally discovered by
Ra's al Ghul in an effort to cure a dying prince of the Sultan he worked for.
Ra's al Ghul dug a pit where he discovered the restorative chemical pools that he dubbed a Lazarus Pit for its abilities to heal those at death's door.... Lazarus Pits are composed of a unique unknown chemical blend that bubbles up somewhere within the Earth's crust to the surface at key points on Earth, typically at the junction of
ley lines. The substance possesses the ability to rejuvenate the sick, injured and even resurrect the dead. The pits also decrease the age of the user depending on how long they stay submerged in the pit. If a healthy person goes into the pits, they will be killed in most instances. In addition to the pits' regenerative uses, their power has also been used as a weapon. When Nyssa confronts the Injustice Society, she claims that the staffs wielded by her soldiers "channel the power of the Lazarus Pits" and have the ability to destroy both
Solomon Grundy and
Gentleman Ghost....
Kobra analyzed and duplicated the chemical composition of the Pits and used this information to build his own network, something Batman would discover during their very first meeting. The unique chemical composition of Kobra's Lazarus Pits enabled him to control the minds of those he resurrected." [Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Pit]
How interesting that like the chemicals in the Lazarus Pits, the brown ALEful spring-fed temple healing pool waters have enabled Flocke to control the mind of Sayid, whom he resurrected and claimed as a Darkside Candidate. And how interesting that these pools bubble up at the junction of ley lines, which Lost aficionados will be quick to connect with those weird spacetime energy nodes known as The VILE VORTICES.... Note the restorative, controlling, and weapon-related abilities associated with the Lazarus Pits, and the links to Lost are even more eerie and chilling, especially when considering the dire prospects for what may lie beneath the shadow of future plotlines.
I know what you're thinking, and I'm thinking the same thing.... What if... What if Flocke-- having now succeeded in infected the Island's Lazarus Pit-equivalent Spring-fed Temple Pool with his Darkseid brown ALE virus-- is looking to flee the island in order to find and infect the other Lazarus Pit-equivalent sites on Earth, seeding the planet with his dark viral dehumanizing infection, setting the stage for realizing his dark dream of a New In/Unhuman Eden....? If so, I would not be surprised to hear about preparations/measures being taken to PROTECT these other sites on the grid from the Evil One enacting his infectious plans, including plans to protect the Ayers Rock/Uluru site in the Australian outback, and more:
"Beyond him [Kobra], however, Bane and Batman together also served an important role in the history of Lazarus Pits: the destruction of nearly all pits on Earth. Now while supposedly only one pit exists, there are actually four remaining. The first belongs to
Ra's al Ghul's daughter
Nyssa, who also discovered a way to use the pits indefinitely— whereas before a pit could only be used once. The second is located in the
Batcave, created by Batman after he learned that the Pits were necessary to maintain the stability of the world, but wanting to ensure that Ra's could never use the pit to return from the dead again. A third seems to exist high in the
Himalaya mountains, used by
Black Adam to revive
Isis. In
Batman Annual #26, published August 2007, a fourth Lazarus Pit was revealed to exist in the Australian
outback."
Yes, the outback connection is in place, and how interesting to note the roles of Bane and Batman in destroying the pits. Have we already witnessed one of the island pits destroyed via the Jughead/Juliet J2 Incident? Will we see attempts to destroy pit-equivalents at other locations on the Vile Vortex (VV) grid, if the Evil One does succeed in leaving the island, destructions aimed at thwarting his desire to effect not only a worldwide pandemic of zombified drones stripped of their humanity, but also his desire to infect all VV pits/energy pockets with the darkside, ensuring the continued existence of his New Eden through 'corking' lightside forces in a bottling, mirror twinning the 'corked' imprisonment of his own dark forces/minions.....
As part of the lightside countermoves to thwart the Evil One's dark plans, I would also not be surprised to learn of the importance of having a lightside PROTECTOR in place not only to guard the island, but also to ensure the integrity of the remaining energy nodes/Lazarus Pit-equivalents on the Earth's VV grid. So instead of having all of the key lightside players assembled on the island in the series finale, battling the Evil One on that venue, we might well see these players traveling to various VV nodes to take on lightside Protector roles. If it is Desmond who works with Jack to protect the Island, who among the remaining lightside players-- Aaron, Ji Yeon, Charlie Hume, Walt, etc.-- will be the one to travel to the Ayers Rock/Uluru site in the Australian outback? Will Aaron just turn out to be the Chosen One who will lead them into the Promised Land....?
2. Yes, the use of OUIJA boards is not to be taken lightly, as one may inadvertently invoke the presence of dark, demonic forces:
3. The Antikythera device is an intriguing precedent for the FDW, reminding us to not underestimate the intelligence of our species throughout the ages: