1. According to legend tens of thousands of years ago there was a high civilization also in the Pacific Ocean, which was on an Island complex which is called "Mu" or "Lemuria" in today's time. This island complex got "lost" in the sea, the series offers a view into the island, its past and the philosophy of this ancient high civilization. One of those Islands was used by the Lemurians tens of thousands of years ago for healing purposes, as it possesses one-of-a-kind unique geomagnetic properties. It was dedicated to the God which was called Sobek by the Egyptians, who were later the collective basket of the remains of this ancient high civilization after sinking into the sea. A system of underground streams from a cave, where the major concentration of geomagnetic energy resides, were connected by the Lemurians to stream into a specifically built temple on the island with a healing spa at its center to heal the sick.
2. Many thousand years later, most likely around 500 BC, a Greek ship gets stranded on the island including a pregnant woman, who gets separated from her shipwrecked party, but rescued by a hermit-like Phoenician priestess, who lives alone on the island and got shipwrecked herself many hundreds of years before. The pregnant Greek woman bears twins, but the Phoenician priestess immediately kills the mother after giving birth to the twins. She fear other humans and civilization as such and believes to have as purpose to protect the island from humans trying to harness the geomagnetic energy, as she believes by harnessing it it would shut down all geomagnetic centers of the earth and result in the death of planet Earth. She lies to the twins about almost everything, who believe she is her mother. The blond haired Jacob is spiritually and mentally so weak that even after the Phoenician priestess confesses that she killed his real mother to prevent a "profane life" with humans, as humans are evil and only kill one another, he still stays with her. After 30 years the Nameless brother finally discovers with other humans from the shipwrecked party a way to transform the geomagnetic energy of the island into quantum-mechanical energy which would allow him to leave the island and finally go home. The Phoenician priestess kills him by and burns every living human on the island. The island brings the Nameless twin back to life for the 1st time. He decides to kills his step-mother for good. His weak-minded brother Jacob throws him into the central geomagnetic cave believing that his brother would never return from the cave. Instead the geomagnetic energy kills him, but island raises him from the dead for a 2nd time and gives the Nameless brother the power to change into the human appearance of other humans and to transform into the form of black smoke. The whole tragedy is that the island does not need protection, as it is shown throughout the series that the geomagnetic energy is harnessed and manipulated without the assumed consequences of shutting down other geomagnetic centers of the earth.
3. In 1867 a British Slave ship crashes on the island and brings Richard Alpert to the island. He is used by Jacob to manipulate others into following Alpert to the island so Jacob can test them, whether they are Protector-Priest material suitable as his successor.
4. In the 1940 Alpert has brought Eloise Hawking and Charles Widmore to the island as protector party against the US Army, which intended to do H-Bomb tests on the Pacific Island. They kill all soldiers, the island remains free of other visitors until the 1970ies.
5. In the 1970ies the island is re-discovered because of its geomagnetic anomalies by American scientists, who found a scientist community called the "Dharma Initiative" that is supposed to live on the island and conduct experiments in stations that are built over the geomagnetic output fields on the island. One of the experiments go wrong and the energy released causes an accident, in which many people die. Those that didn't die are killed on orders of Jacob which he executes through Alpert and Widmore, who lead killing crews to slay all remaining scientists. They were able to do so by manipulating a young boy, called Benjamin Linus, into following them for Jacob's cause, who arranges the secret positioning of poison gas in the village of the scientists when he is already a young man. They explain him that the island must be protected and killing the scientists would secure the island. Benjamin Linus and Charles Widmore engage into a power struggle after the killing, from which Benjamin Linus emanates as victor, Widmore is banished.
6. In 2004 Oceanic Air Flight 815 crashes on the island by a complex string of interventions and manipulations through Jacob and the tragically manipulated executors of his order Alpert and Linus. On the flight he believes to be on board 6 persons which are suitable as his successors. Here the actual story of Lost starts. None of what happens for most of the 116 Episodes from Seaon 1 Episode 1 until Sesons 6 Episode 14 actually matters for the core story. The lives of the protagonists and characters are shown before the island and their potential and actual future, which is caused by efforts trying to transform the geomagnetic energy into quantum-mechanical energy in order to time-travel. During their time-travel adventures the protagonists manage to release an H-Bomb that was left by the US-Army in the 1940ies. Physical Space is dislocated from Physical time. 2 time streams follow side-by-side. In the 1st time stream all characters die except a handful that manages to leave the island on a plane. In the 2nd time stream all characters believe to have never crashed on the island and to be actually alive, but are dead in reality and need to remember their adventures to die spiritually in peace.
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