Prior to the Season 5 opener, I posted on a fan blog the following comments as my view of what could be happening in the future:
Pondering such a mud puddle existence, a flash of irrational thought hit me that makes sense: Richard Alpert, Mr. Eyeliner, is Egyptian! An ancient Egyptian. Painting on a pyramid wall looking Egyptian. We made fun of his appearance, but never asked why he looked that way.
Add to that image the fact that ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs are seen at the two great island mystery places, it made we wonder whether these are the big clues.
We have debated whether there are clones, body doubles, multiple lives, duplicates, ghosts, or zombies as part of the story line. I found this interesting:
In Ancient Egypt, they believed you would use your body in the afterlife. When you died your soul or ba would fly out of your body and spark your double (ka) which would then travel to the otherworld. However, it would need to return to your body, since without the physical body, the ka would die. People would be buried with possession that they would need in the afterlife.
If you were a pharaoh, destined to join the other gods -- not only would you need your body, but all the other accoutrements of status, from gold to slaves. Pyramids served to house this paraphernalia of eternity.
What if the show is not about earth science but the ritual beliefs of a LOST ancient religion? While not purgatory as the TPTB infer, it could be an Egyptian "otherworld" were your spirit body, ka, needs to prepare itself in a spiritual world (that does not follow the rules of time, space, science and physics we know of) to return to the human body it left on Earth.
93 mph island moving away from freighter in Faraday 31 minute time lapse experiment.
Polar Bears in Tunisia, to plane crash site near Bali, to the island vanishing off Fiji, to the launch point in Portland . . . the mechanism is a large CLOCK: the pendulum the island is actually anchored by magnetic center of earth and the island is the end weight so to speak; and the pendulum arch runs from Tunisia to Portland, crossing the equator in such a fashion that the rotation of the earth (our 24 hour earth clock) is different on the island. The Hatch release every 108 minutes is the EM “tension” on the normal tethered string of the pendulum. The monkey wheel is the chain or distance of the tether. Changing the tether’s space coordinate would make it appear to vanish. Focal point at the bottom of a grandfather clock, you only see the disc when it reaches the bottom arch. If you suddenly move the chain up, on the next pass the disc would be “gone.”
Now for the island to criss cross the earth’s Time rotation means the island has its own time and space dimensions.
Ancient technology may have been as advanced as modern technology (but merely “lost”). All the elements of the industrial revolution were in the great library in Alexandria before it was sacked and burned. What if the ancient Egyptians used advanced science and created a mechanical representation of their king’s afterlife? Or if the Egyptian afterlife is the truth, and the island is the temple where the Pharaohs must prove themselves in order for their soul to be reincarnated with their body in the next life span.
