DHARMA Initiative

The DHARMA Initiative is an organization that features in Lost.

History

The Department of Heuristics and Research on Material Applications (DHARMA) Initiative was a research organization that came to operate secretly in the world. According to one account, it was founded in 1970 by Gerald and Karen DeGroot who were two doctoral candidates at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The initiative was financially backed by Danish industrialist and munitions magnate Alvar Hanso and his Hanso Foundation.

Overview

The purpose of the Initiative was to create a large-scale communal research compound where scientists and free-thinkers from around the globe could pursue research in meteorology, psychology, parapsychology, zoology, electromagnetism, and Utopian social-static.

Facilities operated by the Initiative included:

• The Hydra :
• The Arrow :
• The Swan :
• The Flame :
• The Pearl :
• The Orchid :
• The Staff :
• The Looking Glass :
• The Tempest :
• The Lamp Post :

Members

• Gerald DeGroot :
• Karen DeGroot :
• Horace Goodspeed :
• Stuart Radzinsky :
• Lara Chang :
• Jeanette Lewis :
• Jim LaFleur :
• Miles Straume :

Notes

• The DHARMA Initiative was created by Jeffrey Lieber, J. J. Abrams, and Damon Lindelof where it featured in the setting of Lost.

Appearances

• Lost:

External Link

• Wikipedia Entry
• Lostapedia Entry

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