Dreamtime: Why Australia is still the key
In "An Experiment With Time," a long essay on the subject of precognition and the human experience, author J. W. Dunne cites the Australian Aboriginal mythology of Dreamtime (also known as the Dreaming) to explore the idea of "deja vu," that unexplainable feeling of familarity we often experience. Aboriginals believe in two forms of time, two parallel streams of activity; one is the daily objective activity and the other, Dreamtime, is an infinite spiritual cycle, more real than reality itself. In the Dreaming, every person essentially exists eternally. This eternal part existed before the life of the individual begins and continues to exist when the life of the individual ends. The eternal part is referred to as a "spirit child" and …
Australia is the key, Time and Space
When you go to Australia from the U.S., you lose a day because it is across the international dateline, and when you return, you gain a day. Or maybe it's the other way around. Like Hurley, I don't really understand the time change stuff, but I think what he said is an important clue to the mysteries of Lost. Because Australia is below the equator, there north is down, not up like we perceive it to be in the U.S., so directionally, it's the opposite of what we think, like Jacob Sheep which appear to be white sheep with black markings but are actually black sheep with with markings. In one of the Dharma videos (I think) there was a brief shot of someone riding a bycycle upside down, and in that same video there was also a shot of a sign…