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My theory is that the whispers originate from consciousness of persons on the “List” or original “Others” who can push their consciousness through time-space.

Desmond’s unsticking his mind was the first clue, and the second was the appearance of Harper to Juliet and then Jack.

First, Desmond’s mind got unstuck from “time” but it wasn’t really unstuck from space. His consciousness has always remained in his own body/mind. I think Desmond may be experiencing a primitive form of what a number of the Others have already mastered, that is unsticking their minds from both space and time. I don’t believe this applies to all of the “Others” such as Juliet or Tom, but only those that are specially gifted with this ability. Part of the Dharma research was actually into this weird radiation of the island which can cause this to occur for certain individuals.

In Harper’s encounter with Juliet, she appeared out of no where. Immediately before she appeared the whispers started. Then poof, Juliet turns around and there Harper was. Harper delivers a message “from Ben” of events that Ben can’t possibly know because he is locked up in a basement at the barracks. Then, Jack shows up and he sees Harper too. Next thing you know, noises started and Harper’s gone.

What I think happened was Harper shot her consciousness through space-time to a specific point on the island. She was not actually there (with Juliet), but her consciousness was projected to that area and any minds in the area could pick up her consciousness and in effect “see” her. Harper could have not only been projecting from any place, but any time to that location. The whispers are echoes or eddies in the projection process, and always accompany projections, and to the viewer and Losties these tell us when the projection is occurring.

This theory explains lots of things. First, it explains, in season 2, Shannon saw Walt. Walt was projecting in an untrained way that’s why he was talking backwards. And before Shannon was offed by Ana Lucia, we heard the whispers. I think something was projected into Shannon and/or Ana Lucia leading to the death of Shannon to keep Shannon from figuring it all out.

People who die on the island or whose bodies are brought to the island become capable of such things. Essentially, they are reverse Zombies - only their consciousness lives but body remains dead. It’s happened a bunch of times - Ana Lucia appearing to Mr. Eko after she died, Christian Shepard appear to the Jack, Boone appearing to Locke, and finally Charlie appearing to Hurley. All of these are the dead persons consciousness which had separated from their bodies and still continue to “live” in some sort of fashion. They can even be perceived by animals - ala Vincent being spoken to by Christian Shepard. (This may also explain the “Hurley Bird”.)

So there you go, ghosts, whispers and Walt all explained. Of course this could all be the smoke monster/Jacob who appears as different folks to mess with things, but I think that would be a less interesting and much more complex.

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