Spiritual References

Christianity

• Jacks father's name was Christian Shephard,
  
• Jesus Christ was known as a Shephard


• Charlie was an Altar boy & made the sign of the cross before he drowned


• Eko was a priest and he & Charlie began building a church on the island


• Claire named her son Aaron, after the brother of Moses
  

Eastern Religions

• There are 108 (the total of 'the numbers') beads on a Buddhist rosary


• Buddhism teaches of the four noble truths & the eightfold path


• Dharma is the teachings of Buddha


• The Dharma initiative symbol resembes a Tao symbol, and the Swan forms a yin yang symbol inside.
  

Other Ideologies

• Claire went to a psychic who told her to take her baby to LA (via Oceanic flight 815)


• Hurley had tarot cards read to him by a fortune teller/psychic, who told him that he would come into money & that it would be 'bad'.


• The recurrance of the numbers & thier power suggests a belief in numerology

I'm sure there are references to Islam, Judaism, and a gazillion other things I have no clue about.

4 8 15 16 23 42

The numbers are recurring throughout the show:

• Hurley's winning Lottery Numbers
• The numbers are etched on the door of the Hatch
• The numbers have to be entered into the computer every 108 minutes
• Oceanic Flight 815, Gate 23
• Listed on Rousseaus notes

Has anyone noticed any others?