The
Dharma Initiative
 Most
of the available information available regarding the mysterious
"DHARMA Initiative" and it's founder,
Alvar Hanso, comes from an orientation video. Doctor Marvin Candle
narrates the video, and his lab coat and tie change during the
film. The most logical explanation is that filming took place
on more than one day. Something more sinister could be afoot.
Dr. Candle's prosthetic left hand adds to people's suspicion.
Some believe that Dr. Candle has a glass eye -- the same eye the
survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 found in an abandoned bunker.
The DHARMA Initiative
started as an ambitious science project in the 1970s. Its founders,
Gerald and Karen DeGroot, aspired to create a large island research
compound. They planned the construction of six underground and
underwater research stations.
The experiments we
know (or that we can assume by clues left in the show) that took
place under the DHARMA flag were:
- Life extension
- Electromagnetism
- Extra-terrestrial intelligence
- Mathematical forecasting
- Cryogenics
- Juxtapositional eugenics
- Psychic remote viewing
The budget of two students, even if used thriftily,
couldn't possibly cover the cost of building and maintaining such
a large facility. So the DeGroots turned to Alvar Hanso and the
Hanso Foundation. Since the 1960s, the Foundation "has offered
grants to worthy experiments designed to further the evolution of
the human race and provide technological solutions to the most pressing
problems of our time."
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