i think the temple is the portal that links the island to the outside world, and that is how ben and tom and richard, et al, travel back and forth.
folie a deux, i think i know what your name means. i read this book once about different kind of "mania's" like trictotilamania (sp?) where someone will systematically pull every single hair out of their body one and a time, and erotomania where people fall in love with a public figure (like a celebrity) and can't differentiate between fantasy and reality and think that the person is in love with them too and sending them messages through their songs, etc...
anyway, it was a great book, and one chapter was called FOLIE A DEUX. it was about when someone is in close proximity and constantly around another person who has a mania, they will get the mania, sort of like catch it, like a disease. i think that's also where the term "cabin fever" comes from. so, if a guy was in a cabin in the woods with another guy who had paranoia, then the first guy would develop paranoia eventually because he was constant exposed to and exclusively around the guy who had paranoia.
i believe there was an xfiles episode called folie a duex.
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