Dharma Secret’s LOST-n-Found: A Blog Dedicated to the T.V. Show Lost

After watching the season three premier at the “Sunset in the Park” event here in Hawaii, my inner theory monger started itching again. Warning, this theory does have spoilers from the season three’s first episode.

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In the opening minutes of the premier, it is revealed that the Others have a modern community established on the island, similar to any suburban community anywhere in the United States. It is alluded to by comments in the episode that they were involved with the research done on the island. It is also said in the Lost Experience’s Sri Lanka video that the Dharma Initiative failed, and has since been disbanded. However, the question that these two things leave us with is why are they still there?

The resources available to the Others in their community (Which I will refer to henceforth as “Erewhon”); Juliet’s CD player, an active book club, and that Juliet had detailed information on Jack’s pre-crash life, all indicate that they have contact with the outside world, and that they have some sort of means of getting things too and from the island. All of this adds to the question of why they choose to remain on the island, when it is obvious that they have the ability to come and go as they please.

Although, according to the Sri Lanka video, the Initiative failed to change the core values of the Valenzetti Equation, I believe that the Initiative did succeed in achieving much of their research goals. As the Initiative was disbanded, it became obvious to those on the island that their research had several military applications. It is because they did not want their research, developed with the intentions of benefiting human kind, being used as a weapon that they chose to stay on the island in voluntary seclusion.

Through the use of their research, and possibly financial assistance from Alvar Hanso before being forced into seclusion my Thomas Mittelwerk, the Others abandoned the various stations, and started Erewhon. They equipped it with all the feature comforts of modern living, and have lived there unknown to the rest of the world for years.

Another question that arises from the Other’s choosing to remain on the island is, why is it that if they have a failsafe device that can stop the electromagnetic anomaly in the Swan hatch, that they did not use it. It is my contention that the periodic magnetic discharge had a beneficial side effect, which masked the island from being probed by radar, satellite, or any other means of detection aside from visual sighting. By continuing to purge magnetic energy from the island, the Others assured that they would not be discovered by nefarious elements.

To further protect themselves, the Others activated the island security system to patrol the jungle, as deterrent to keep anyone (i.e. random people who may stumble upon the island) from exploring too deeply, and finding Erewhon. As more and more people found their way to the island, the Others used their remote viewing abilities; (which were developed as a result of the Accelerated Remote Viewing Training Facility on the island) to monitor, their whereabouts on the island. Their presence made evident by the whispers heard in the jungle.

At this point, it does not appear that Mittelwerk has had total access to the research from the island. This is probably due to the fact, also mentioned in the Sri Lanka video, that only Alvar Hanso and Degroots knew the exact location of the island. After being forced into seclusion by Mittelwerk, Hanso knew that he had to protect the location of the island, and the researchers living in Erewhon. The only research available to Mittelwerk at the time of the Lost Experience was most likely based on tidbits of information about the Initiative’s research at the Hanso Foundation headquarters.

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