Esoteric, mythic, and mystical themes suggested by the ABC TV series LOST.
My LOST fanfiction
My other LOST blogs:
Surfing the Bardo: Fanfiction visual and text references for Surfing the Bardo, an in-progress LOST novel.
Key to the Game: Hurley and Claire love.
Criminal Attraction: Sawyer and Kate love.
Above: Hugo fishes in “Walkabout” (1x04)
Middle: the Japanese god Ebisu, associated with fishing, good fortune, and who is literally a “kitchen god.” He is portly, smiling, carries a fishing implement, and has a red fish (sea bream or red snapper) on his stringer (more on Ebisu here.)
Bottom: the red fish caught in Hugo and Charlie’s fishing session in 1x04.
“Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious … Psychologically, water means spirit that has become unconscious … Whoever looks into the water sees his own image.” — Carl Jung
(Jorge Garcia at an aquarium in the Bahamas)
JL - So you are ready to say good-bye?
JG - To Hurley? I have to be. I don’t have a choice in the matter so I guess it’s kinda…I don’t know how to do it actually. There is going to have to be this moment where I have to put him to bed and say there is an ending to the chapter and on to the next adventure. I don’t know if there should be a ceremony about it but I think I am going to miss him …
So say we all.
[T]he Greek word μετάνοια (metanoia), “after/behind one’s mind” … means: ‘to think differently after’. Metanoia is therefore primarily … a change of mind accompanied by regret and change of conduct, “change of mind and heart”, or, “change of consciousness”.
#my edit
“[Love] goes on gathering power and spreading itself, until eventually it transforms everyone whom it touches.”
There’s a light.
“Hurley (Jorge Garcia) is presented with his lottery winnings at the Koolau Golf Club (First Presbyterian Church) in Kaneohe.” (source)
[Sun walks stealthily through the jungle. She stops and pulls out the pregnancy test. Suddenly Hurley appears holding a partially eaten Apollo bar. Sun quickly hides the test behind her back.]
HURLEY: Hey, Sun. Look what I found in the middle of the jungle. It’s not even melted or nothing. Crazy, huh? You want to split it?
SUN: No. No, thank you. I was just heading to the beach.
HURLEY: Okay, well, later, dude.
(from “The Whole Truth,” 2x16)
In this scene, everything these two people say to each other is a lie.
6x07
Ha, look at the puff of white smoke.