http://www.hatch23.com the occult secrets of Lost Sun, 25 May 2008 17:24:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Above right: Large Hadron Collider Left: a Dharma Initiative logo This Popular Mechanics article on "debunking" the science of Lost does little debunking and much fawning and speculating. Michio Kaku, author of Physics of the Impossible, thinks the Lost creators are using cutting-edge science to lay the groundwork for a transversible wormhole ... http://www.hatch23.com/2008/05/25/popular-mechanics-on-the-science-of-lost/ What was Alternative 3? Alternative 3 is a television programme, broadcast in the UK in 1977 as a fictional hoax, an heir to Orson Welles' radio production of The War of the Worlds. Purporting to be an investigation into Britain's contemporary "brain drain," Alternative 3 uncovered a plan to make the ... http://www.hatch23.com/2008/04/28/alternative-3-and-lost/ Above is a screencap of Ben's secret door from last night's episode. Here's some information about what the symbols mean. More to come... http://www.hatch23.com/2008/04/25/bens-secret-door/ "Everywhere I see them there, I stop and stare at patterns... " A big part of what makes Lost so successful (and at the same time so hit-and-miss) is the way it doles out mysteries and secrets. Hidden clues and cryptic statements are the bread and butter of the show, leading ... http://www.hatch23.com/2008/03/16/lost-and-apophenia/ I wrote an article on Lost and the occult for Key 64. Probably nothing new for readers of this blog. ABC's Lost isn't the first pop culture phenomena to crib from occultism - movies, television shows, and video games have integrated occult themes and rituals for years. But one thing that ... http://www.hatch23.com/2008/03/11/the-occult-origins-of-lost/ Apparently, the way time travel works on Lost is movement of consciousness through time and space to experience "retrocognition of the past and occasions of precognition of the future." The breathtaking occult art of Paul Laffoley has dealt with this subject for years, most notably in his painting The Time ... http://www.hatch23.com/2008/03/01/consciousness-time-travel-paul-laffoley-the-invisibles-and-the-voudon-gnostic-workbook/ (The whole landscape becomes indistinct. A forest ebbs out and a wall of rough rock ebbs in, through which can be seen a gateway. The two men pass through the gateway. What happened to the forest? The two men did not really move; they did not really go anywhere, and ... http://www.hatch23.com/2008/02/25/even-more-of-philip-k-dick-gnosticism-and-lost/ Remember when Ben told Michael ''We're the good guys?'' And remember when Juliet told Jack that killing people is a big no-no in Others society? And remember how the Others actually really resent being called ''the Others''? Well, I recently discovered a group of people over at Wikipedia.org (Official Research ... http://www.hatch23.com/2008/02/22/more-on-lost-and-gnosticism-plus-shambala/ Key points: The bracelet is just a bracelet The freighties are NOT from 2007/2008. The flashforwards are "real" and not alternate realities Find 815 may not be canon Full Story: Entertainment Weekly. http://www.hatch23.com/2008/02/22/new-carlton-cuse-and-damon-lindelof-interview/ The book John Locke brings Ben at the beginning of tonight is VALIS by Philip K. Dick. It's difficult to summarize, or to overstate, the importance of Dick, and of VALIS in the modern occulture. Philip K. Dick was a science fiction author, responsible for the stories that became Blade Runner, ... http://www.hatch23.com/2008/02/22/valis-and-gnosticism/