What is The Hanso Foundation's Dharma Initiative all about?

It keeps cropping up on the web when I'm searching for dharma related info, and seems very suspect in a lot of people's eyes. But I noticed lots of hostility and judgement amongst the suspicions, however valid they may be.

Concerned at how this contradicts aspects of the dharma philosophy and worried at where it could lead, I posted this cautionary note to one of the conspiracy theorist/investigator's sites, after all it's good to investigate and challenge things which may be untoward and immoral, but we have to be careful not to misjudge or jump to the wrong conclusions without knowing all the facts (and careful in how we respond):
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opensphere666 said...

Are we being misled by our own suspicions?

HF is linked to Dharma Initiative, right?

Well my research has recently been delving into the whole dharma thing and it's challenging as well as interesting. The word in its original spiritual/ philosophical sense has a complex meaning that is hard to define, and it seems quite diverse.

One meaning I found is PROTECTION (interesting as I'm also researching how a load of plane crash victims may be alive on an island somewhere on which it seems the Dharma Initiative may have had a base).

Dharma philosophy also says that loving all others, whatever they've done to us, is the only true [universal] love. Furthermore it has this Buddha Dharma teachings element, one of which relates to understanding the mind's role in creating either happiness and health or discontent and misery (ill health in all senses of the term) with a belief that virtuous minds can be cultivated which would free us from the negative.

Could The Hanso Foundation have, or have had, good intentions? Have things merely gone very wrong somewhere? Has someone taken the reins of power thus diverting it? Or is there a misguided good intention behind the 'evil'?

Plus or minus, the spheres of truth must be opened.

Opensphere, contemplating and investigating since 06.06.06.

Further reports to follow...
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[Addition] was not on original (forgot to include it)
Originally posted to 'Iceland Post 01' thread on www.rachelblake.com.

May be lessons for us all in such ideas.