VOL. IV--CHAPTER 1--APRIL 2004

The PROJECT WONDERLAND CHRONICLES, reporting on the ongoing "WOW! Signal Contact," is a publication of S.P.A.C.E. - the Search Project for Aspects of Close Encounters - and is copyright 2004 @ Harold Egeln & S.P.A.C.E. All Rights Reserved.

APRIL FOOLERY, EASTER BUNNIES, "LE PETIT PRINCE" & GRAND CENTRAL STATION

"SYNCHRONICITY IN WONDERLAND"

By HAROLD EGELN

New York City, Thursday, April 1, 2004 -- While doing an Internet search on the topic of "Synchronicity Rabbits" recently, we came across an account of strange "Easter Bunny" sightings in 1963 and 1964 by an unknown author as a child, who thought the bunnies were a costume worn by "Father TIME." But maybe "Alien visitors" disquised as Easter Bunnies?

There have been other accounts of close encounters, stealth or in the open, of RABBITS. Researcher Budd Hopkins told of a "BUGS BUNNY" abduction. A researcher in New Mexico has two reports of an "alien" with RABBIT head and facial features, one of them from southern France, of which I have a copy of the drawing by the witness. Early on in our "Project Wonderland" accounts (Vol. One, Chapter One) an experiencer told of seeing RABBIT shadows during an apparent night-time stealth encounter in the late 1980s.

At a S.P.A.C.E. support gathering in mid-1999, people discussed RABBIT SHADOWS seen during their stealth encounters, as noted in a 1999 print "S.P.A.C.E. EXPLORER" Newsletter. There are no details since these gatherings are private and confidential, with no notes permitted.

When I was a littlle boy, my mother took me to visit the Easter Bunny at a department store in Newark, New Jersey. Upon seeing the WHITE RABBIT Easter Bunny wearing a vest and with HUGE OVAL EYES, I panicked! My mother had to leave the store, dragging me with her, because I was screaming and crying in terror.

Then when I saw a SECOND EASTER BUNNY colored BLUE and wearing a TOP HAT near the store entrance, I panicked more, my screaming reaching hysteria. I had to be between four and six at the time, but I remember it vividly. After that incident, I had no further fears of Easter Bunnies! It may have just been a child's normal fears (as a child I once screamed when I saw a bunch of cows being milked at my aunt and uncle's farm)... or was it SOMETHING ELSE that triggered my panic?

Now, read this fascinating account below:

RABBIT OF THE ALTAI

By ANDERS VON BERGEN

Finland, Thursday, April 1, 2004 -- I was at the university today, and the class topic was about the ethnic poetry of the Altai people in southern Siberia in Russia. (I am a student of comparative religions at the university.)

The Altai people have followed a shamanistic culture for millenna, and nowadays their religion is an interesting mixture of Buddhism and Northern Shamanism with even some Zoroastrian influence (like the worship of a deity called Uc-Kurbustan).

One Altai religious movement that also has some political and nationalist programs is called Burhanism, It is a form of Altai religion that opposes the shamanistic part, and only worships the deities of the heavens. Yet, even Burhanism follows many rituals, prayers and spells that have a clear shamanistic origin.

So, in the class we were shown a phtograpgh of a yurt (a Siberian wooden house) of a Burhanistic man. In ancient times the people kept the skin of a HARE hanging on the wall. Nowadays the HARE skin is represented by a picture of a HARE. On that photo there could be seen a picture of a WHITE HARE/RABBIT hanging on the wall, so that as our teacher explained, it could be seen on both sides of a pillar.

This is extremely interesting, as the PILLAR maintains a home is like the DARK TOWER in Stephen King's "Dark Tower" book series, about the PILLAR that MAINTAINS the COSMOS. And the WHITE RABBIT being situated in the photo is that it was "on both sides of the PILLAR" was most interesting.

OK, later there was a photo taken outside. There was wooden pole on the ground, a house pole. The teacher explained that there are THREE parts in it to symbolize the THREE WORLDS of the shamanistic worldview.

In the religion of the Altai people, a house pole is the representative of the COSMIC WORLD TREE or PILLAR. The DARK TOWER, which is the ancient tradition of my people, was known as SAMPO!! I thought: "This is very interesting, the TIME has to be in sync!" I checked the time. It was EXACTLY THREE o'clock!

Later during the lecture the teacher (who had been doing research in the Altai religion) told us that an old and nearly blind shaman whom he had interviewed named A.I. Kalkin (note the A.I. as in ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE!) was able to tell accurate facts about the teacher's past and future. Everything that the old shaman had predicted, later became miraculously true.

What an interesting COMMUNICATION we had here by the TRICKSTER RABBIT (on APRIL FOOL'S DAY, a Trickster's holiday) from the Shamanistic DARK TOWER! This always keeps fascinating me!

PETER PAN AND A SPACE STORY

By ANDERS VON BERGEN

Finland, Friday, April 2, 2004 -- Today I was in the movies with my two sweet girl cousins. We were watching "Peter Pan," the new live action movie, which recently debuted here. I love the movie, it is so beautiful!

But there was a quite interesting detail in the beginning. There, at the point where PETER PAN has flown into the bedroom of the kids when the aunt downstairs is reading a book. The name of the book?

"WAR OF THE WORLDS!" (The science fiction novel was published in the late 1890s by H.G. Wells, a few years before James Barrie wrote "Peter Pan.") On the night before Halloween in 1938 a radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds" in a play format by actor Orson Wells on CBS's "Mercury Theater" the night before Halloween caused widespread panic in the USA, making thousands of people believe that ALIENS HAD ARRIVED AND INVADED EARTH!

I am sure that this was a sign coded into this highly SYNCHRONISTIC "PETER PAN" movie. Also, the picture that Wendy drew, the one with PETER PAN hovering above her bed just gave me the creeps. It was like some of the pictures that ABDUCTED CHILDREN draw.

The VISITATION is on and alive!

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PETER PAN, ROBIN WILLIAMS, MORK & ORSON

By HAROLD EGELN

New York City, Friday, April 2, 2004 -- As mentioned in Chapter 19-III (Winter Woderland, Feb.-Mar. 2004) of the last volume, "Lost In The Wonderland," Anders noted that Robin WILLIAMS played the grown-up PETER PAN in the movie "Hook" a decade ago, bringing in the WILLIAMS connection.

Then I noted that actor Robin WILLIAMS played the role of a visiting friendly and funny SPACE ALIEN called "MORK" in a TV comedy show 25 years ago called "Mork and Mindy." At the end of each show, visitor MORK (WILLIAMS) made a report to the leader of his home planet, ORK, telling of the lessons he learned. The name of the leader?

ORSON, as in Orson WELLS of the historic 1938 radio play broadcast. Very interesting, indeed!

Also this evening soon after seeing Anders' reports for April 1st and 2nd, I happened to turn on the television and saw a RABBIT animated character in the FOX-TV show, "Game Over." Then I switched channels again and saw a high school girl holding a plush RABBIT toy. Neither TV spots were connected with Easter Bunny time, where rabbits are expected and are not necessarily synchronistic.

Yes, Anders, the visitation is very much on and alive!

"THE LITTLE PRINCE" AUTHOR'S LOST AIRPLANE FOUND

Plane Wreck Of the Author Of 'Prince' Is Discovered

MARSEILLE, France, Wednesday, April 7, 2004 (Agence France-Presse) --- A French underwater salvage team has discovered the remains of the plane of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of "The Little Prince," six decades after his disappearance, government researchers said Wednesday.

The pieces of the Lockheed Lightning P38 aircraft, which vanished July 31, 1944 during a wartime reconnaissance mission, were found off the coast of the Mediterranean city of Marseille....

The discovery is a galvanizing moment for France, which had long speculated as to the fate of Saint-Exupery, an aristocratic adventuruer whose life and books turned him into one of the country's biggest heroes.

"The Little Prince," his edifying tale about a little INTERSTELLAR TRAVELER who recounts his experiences to an aviator he meets in the Sahara, brought him postumous international fame. The book, first published in New York in English in 1943 and since translated into more than 100 languages, is one of the BEST-SELLING TITLES on the PLANET, after the BIBLE and Marx's DAS KAPITAL....

(excerpted from The New York Times, Wed., April 7, 2004, page A6 -- BOLD emphasis ours - S.P.A.C.E.)

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"It is only with the heart that one can see clearly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." (said the Fox to The Little Prince) "What is essential is invisible to the eye," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember. -- from Chapter 2: The Little Prince befriends the Fox from "The Little Prince."

"THE LITTLE PRINCE" CONNECTION By HAROLD EGELN New York City, Thursday, April 8, 2004 -- For 60 years the fate of famed author and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of the immensely popular children's tale of a First Contact Close Encounter with an Interstellar Traveler, has been a mystery. Until now, just days before EASTER Sunday on April 11. The fact that this touching and moving book about a BOY CHILD from ANOTHER WORLD (specifically "Asteroid B-612" as told in the fictional book) is outsold only by "The Bible" and "Das Kapitol" on Planet Earth, making it the third most sold book on this world, is amazing and profoundly telling. No UFO book, science fiction book, nor book about space has ever made it THAT BIG!!! Early on in this "Project Wonderland Chronicles" we made associations with "The Little Prince" book in regard to the quote above about the INVISIBLE being ESSENTIAL, and seeing through the heart (feelings, emotions, the soul or core being), while making the connection to the UNSEEN element in Contact and the fact of DARK MATTER and DARK ENERGY which composes about 90 percent of the universe. As with CONTACT, there can be MANY LEVELS of MEANING that are INFERRED. There is a specific SYNCHRONICITY in connection with the extraterresstrial boy's tiny home planet, "Asteroid B-612," where he tended and nurtured his single flower, a rose which talked to him. Prior to an apparent TRIPLE STEALTH CLOSE ENCOUNTER that took place on the morning of Saturday, October 25, 1997 in NEW EGYPT outside of Fort Dix, New Jersey (where I took a public stand against war while stationed there years ago), a MESSAGE was conveyed to me through the other adult participant, who claimed it came from an "alien being" communicating with her. The "message" came after she said that "the being" sent "a ball of energy...surging down her back." "Just consider it like a shot of B-12, and tell Harold I said that!" was the message she gave to me from "the being," whom she called a "Guardian." I was thunderstruck when I heard that, because she had NO WAY to know of the then recent significance of B12 to me! For it relates to SYNCHRONICITIES and DREAMS happening around that time, making the impact I had, as I related in my article "Beyond Kansas & Off To Oz"in a joint issue of "Contact Forum" and the "S.P.A.C.E. Explorer" Newsletter (Print Issue #59, Jan.-Feb. Winter 1998). The lead article was written by the woman who conveyed the message, an article which led to another in the next joint issue. She claimed an extraordinary outcome of our "encounter" which gave her the "answers" to the UFO mystery, and that was regarded as a major story by "Contact Forum." The outcome for me was far more questions, rather than answers, along with negative fallout and a health crisis (later, a silent minor heart attack and a potentially fatal infection) from which I eventually recovered. One participant went to "Oz," achieving fame and fortune, and the other, in near obscurity, to "Wonderland," taking two radically different journeys, each with their own values and virtues. But that is not the point of this account, so back to the suggested, subtle B12 and Little Prince B-612 connections, and quoting from my own account: "Three mornings before the incident (the Oct. 25th triple joint encounter), I had a lucid, vivid dream, as is normal for me. I was in a huge hotel complex in Room B12. I left the room and lost my way, trying to find Room B12 but not succeeding. I went into other rooms and finally down into the lobby at a large curved elevator bank, almost desperately trying to get back to Room B12 and not seeing the right elevator. In the lobby was a large futon, on which I bounced, saying, 'I have to get back to B12.' Then I awoke. So, when I heard "the message" conveyed to me, I was startled to hear the "B12" reference, since I had told no one about my dream. To me, it was apparent that her communication was genuine, or, at least of a telepathic or psychic nature, adding to the "high strangeness" that was developing then around 3:00 in the morning, which included a neighborhood power failure that proceeded in spots and sporatically among houses. And there was a sense of Whitley Strieber, calling my name, by a floating car during that power failure. A few weeks later I learned that Roberta Puhalski, who started the S.P.A.C.E. South group in Florida two years later, in 1999, had a vvid dream she felt complelled to share with me prior to October 25, but waited until later. She saw an image of a large city, presumably NYC, and see had an urgency in that dream to tell me to "take vitamin B12." Soon after, in a phone talk with Dr. John Mack, who is a psychriatrist with an MD, told me that vitamin B12 is sometimes prescribed for people suffering from anemia, which made me wonder that I may have been "the message," a health hint from the "unknown?" I took the B12, since my health was not the best at the time. Then Whitley Strieber, whom I called after the October 25 incident, added to the general "surreality" of that night with a letter in the joint issue:

STRIEBER'S TAKE By WHITLEY STRIEBER "On the night of October 24-25, 1997, I had an incredibly vivid dream about a long journey, or road trip, by car. In this dream we made a decision to go one way rather than the other. This decision seemed to be the significant import of the dream. The dream was so vivid that I mentioned it to my wife the next morning, and I was totally exhausted the whole following day. "Harold Egeln called me that day or the next and told me about his experiences with (the other person) the night of October 25, and I found it quite startling and very odd that my peculiar dream and their extraordinary experiences occured the same night. While I have no memory of being with them during the experience, or of calling out Harold's name, my dream was very, very vivid, and it wore me out. Maybe something did happen to me that night. Maybe I went farther than I thought."

THE MESSAGE OF THE CHILDREN IN "LE PETIT PRINCE" This was the second time that there was a connection made between Strieber and myself (he has had other such connections with other people throughout the years), the other here being a "quick visitation" by "the visitors" at his New York cabin in the woods before May Day 1995, which may or may not be related to what happened on the morning of October 25, 1997? The "car" that is both mentioned in his and my accounts is an image often associated with UFO encounters, as are firetrucks, panel trucks, trains and sometimes buses. In the Strieber visitation of late April 1995 related to me, he told of two photo-like images being shown in his mind by the visitors: a clear one of me clothed in blue and the other of an indeterminate female, whose image was fuzzy. It may have been a vision of the New Egypt Encounter over two years later (you can never be sure since ambiguity is at play!). And gives meaning to what Strieber said in his letter in the "Contact Forum/S.P.A.C.E. Explorer" joint issue: "In this dream we made a decision to go one way rather than the other. This decision seemed to be the significant import of the dream." And that's exactly what happened! By early 1998 the woman in the October 25th incident went her way and I went mine, never really connected in the first place, which could have been the "message" of Strieber's bedroom visitation prior to May Day 1995. I had been in Paramus, New Jersey the night of Strieber's visitation at a conference in the area where he got "lost" in another realm while driving his car a few years before, while driving a boy who was a friend of his son Andrew. The October 25, 1997 encounter, which also involved an intense but suffuse blue light in the backyard which I witnessed, among apparent "hidden memories" recalled a few days later, also involved a child, a young girl. So, we have the B12 SYNCS and DREAMS associated with an apparent Close Encounter involving at least five people, two of them connected through DREAMS, one in Texas (Strieber) and the other in Georgia (Puhalski, who lived there before moving to northern Florida). It was only later when I became more acquainted with "THE LITTLE PRINCE" book (I had a videotape recording of the 1974 movie musical starring Richard Kiley, Bob Fosse, Gene Wilder and Steven Warner) that I became aware of the "Asteroid B-612" Connection, bringing in the "B12" reference in connection with a fictional otherwordly visitor, The Little Prince. (Also, an asteroid discovered orbiting between ars and Jupiter in November 1975 was named in honor of de Saint-Exupery.) Perhaps there is a "subtle message" here about the importance of CHILDHOOD, a realm which is still very much part of my own life, although I lead an adult life. That WONDER, and a touch of INNOCENCE, remains very much alive within me. And my apartment is a Wonderland filled with TOYS (including a figurine of The Little Ptince and The Fox) which I have collected throughout my lifetime. It is through the realm of CHILDHOOD, while having the experience of an adult, that we gain entrance, by way of an invitation, into the WONDERLAND we travel in our adventures described here in these CHRONICLES, hopefully gaining the wisdom in humble ways to make contact and have communication with a playful hyper-intelligence. And the universal message: "What is ESSENTIAL is INVISIBLE" may tell us to look to DARK MATTER and ENERGY, and what science is learning about that, and its possible relationship to the Contact and Close Encounter experiences. Now that Antoine de Saint-Exupery's airplane has finally been found off southern France just before Easter (which has the childhood Easter BUNNY), -- with the telling aircraft piece bearing the manfacturer's number "2734," a number which relates to our "27" syncs and specically to Anders von Bergen's watch, which had run seven minutes ahead and which often noted times with the number :27, only his watch read ":34," -- we may have, aside from the more personal connections referred to here, a far more UNIVERSAL MESSAGE and COMMUNICATION that is part of this "WOW! SIGNAL CONTACT." *********************************************************

GIFTS FILLED WITH MEANING New York City, Thursday, April 8, 2004 -- A WHITE RABBIT brand candy wrapper from China, featuring the logo of a WHITE RABBIT against a blue and a red artist's pallets. And a full page ad for Sophie Ryder's "INTROSPECTIVE" Exhibit of New Sculpture, drawings and printers, with a photo of her RABBIT headed PEOPLE sculptures, on display at the Berkeley Square Gallery on Burton Street in LONDON. ************************************** SPEAKING WITH "THE PILOT" OF "THE LITTLE PRINCE" -- A PERSONAL NOTE ON THE ACTOR/SINGER RICHARD KILEY By Harold Egeln The distinquished late actor and singer Richard Kiley, who became famous for his role of Don Quioxte in the Broadway hit musical "Man of La Mancha" almost 35 years ago, played and sang the role of The Pilot in "The Little Prince" movie of 1974. While working as executive director of a large non-profit New York City peace organization in the 1980's, I had the pleasure of speaking on the phone with Kiley, whom we asked to help support and lend his name to a citywide project, which he graciously did. Our conversation was a delight and an honor, giving me a personal connection with The Pilot of "The Little Prince" movie, as I also identify with both the sensitive pilot and the space alien!

WORD GAMES AND INVISIBLE RABBITS

By ANDERS VON BERGEN

Finland, Thursday, April 8, 2004 -- On my way to school, I boarded a bus, and it drove to Helsinki through Lauttasari. Now Lauttasari ("Ferry Is-LAND) is the place where I first took my "first hop" last year into the WONDERLAND of ET Contact.

This time outside a flower store there was a huge RABBIT made out of hay. It is Easter time, so that was not a sync, of course. The bus was waitng for the traffic lights to turn green, and there was a van on the left of the bus. There was a text on the van, "SUNFLOWER." I remembered that we used to have syncs in connection with SUNFLOWERS, so I decided to check the time to see if it was in sync. It was 11:47. This number 47 has had some significance in the WOW! Contact (the year 1947 as the birth of the UFO boom with Kenneth Arnold's sighting and Roswell), so I thought that maybe there was some also this time.

The bus was now approaching the bridge that connects the Ferry Island to Ruoholahti, a place in Helsinki, and I wondered that maybe there is something interesting just at the end of the bridge, as a sort of sign that this Ferry Island is a significant place. The bus came to the bridge. It drove along it, and then, as we arrived, I saw something.

The FIRST building on the left (on the right there is the FIRST HOP building from last year's syncs!) has a huge name on it: "ALTIA 1888." I was astonished!

ALTIA is an anagram of the word ALTAI (remember the recent update on the SHAMANS, WORLD TREE and RABBITS), the only difference between these two words is that the letter "I" and "A" have changed their positions like the MIRROR IMAGE and the IMAGE (IA, AI). AI is known to us, of course, as "ARTIFICAL NTELLIGENCE."

Also, ALTIA resembles the Finnish word "HALTIA" which means "ELF." ALTIA is HALTIA without the letter "H." This reminded me of Stephen KING's book "Insomnia" that I read last year in Finnish. One person in that story speaks a kind of slang, and in the Finnish translation it is shown as dropping all "H" letters from the beginning of words that begin with "H."

So, we can find a KING and an ELF connection in this incident!

By the way, "Insomnia" is a story about GRAY ALIEN-like beings who come from higher realms, and human beings are taken into a cosmic battle between PURPOSE and COINCIDENCE (CONNECTED in SYNCRONICITIES, "MEANINGFUL COINCIDENCES") and this stry is also connected to the DARK TOWER epic.

And the year 1888 is also interesting. Here is a piece of text that I wrote last Summer (June 9, 2003). It is connected to an article about Northern Occultism in this website:

There it is said: "There is a Secret God, a Hidden God, who dwells in a SPRIRALLING TOWER fortress and who has guided and overseen our DEVELOPMENT from tIme immemorial -- and who has remained concealed but very close to us awaiting the 'future' TIME of re-awakening. The time of the re-awakening is near." And.... "The Gothick offspring have always sought to pry into the Mysteries of Life and Death, to penetrate to the depths of the self and to the outermost reaches of the darkened and chaotic world. Boldly forging into the Darkness to seek the GRAIL of Undifled Wisdom, to seek the Mystery, is the highest Quest of the Golthick Children of the Night." So, it tells us about the GERMANIC secret TRICKSTER God who is COMMUNICATION with his CHOSEN OFFSPRING, for the sake of EVOLUTION. I also checked a book named "tyr" (the name of the ancient Sky God of the Germans). There is an article by Stephen E. FLOWERS. The book begins with a poem of WILLIAM Moore from 1888. It is very interesting that yesterday I found an 1888 Bible, i.e., a book talking about a GOD and his CHOSEN people, written in GOTHIC letters in SWEDISH (GERMANIC) language, with the picture of the HOLY GRAIL on the back cover! And 1888 has a TRIPLE 8, number 8 being the ETERNITY SIGN. Fascinated, I came to Helsinki and I went to the Mall Stockmann, and bought the just released record of Usher. On my way back, I walked through the electronic department. There were some TV sets on, and I stopped in front of one as I saw there there was a COMPUTER ANIMATION on the TV screen. The character of the animation was a HALF INVISIBLE RABBIT. I checked the time. It was 12:07, giving us the 27 connection.

HOP OF THE RABBIT & TIME DIFFERENCE

By ANDERS VON BERGEN

Finland, Friday, April 9, 2004 -- I had been partying with my friends in Helsinki and was now coming home (onto the house of my grandparents in Olari), sitting in a bus late at night.

When the bus arrived in Olari, I happened to see outside a RABBIT hopping. It was a small one. I thought: "What is the time? It gotsa to be in sync!"

I checked the clock that was in the bus. The clock, indeed, said 5:27. I was right. But then I started wondering and looked at my mobile phone. Its clock was in the right time and it showed 11:12 p.m. Usually the clocks in the buses show the right time, but this one was completely wrong, most probably to make the synchronistic communication work. Amazing!

THE LITTLE PRINCE & S.P.A.C.E. CONNECT

By HAROLD EGELN

New York City, Saturday, April 10 -- This afternoon I went with a friend to see the FLOWER Show at Macy's flagship Department Store in Herald Square, where we also someone dressed as Peter Rabbit in an Easter appearane for children, who were photographed with him.

Later this afternoon, while walking on Charles Street in Greenwich Village to show my friend the hidden Christmas Tree near there, we entered an art gallery in a refurbished carriage house, and viewed the artwork of Gideon Bok.

As we left, I grabbed a card about the art show, and then I flinched when I saw the name of the art gallery in bold letters:

PLANE SPACE

Wow! Because the immediate association was of the discovery announced on Wednesday of the finding, after 60 years, of the crashed plane in the sea of de Saint Exupery, author of "The Little Prince," the SPACE traveling boy from another world, along with the name S.P.A.C.E.

Here, I was guided along Charles Street, a route I chose rather than another street, to the PLANE SPACE Art Gallery at 102 Charles Street to make this SYNC! Especially at a time when there are rabbits all over the place due to EASTER and not to syncs, and therefore not factored in.

RETURN TO THE STARS

By ANDERS VON BERGEN

MISSING PIECE #1 FOUND

Finland, Sunday, April 11, 2004 -- This past Wednesday the crashed plane of the adventurer and famous author Antoine de Saint-Exupery was discovered after being missing for 60 years. Saint-Exupery was best known for his children's book "The Little Prince," first published on April 6, 1943 in New York (this happens to be my birthday in 1982).

The book tells of the sad story of a prince who leaves his planet, Asteroid B-612, and beloved Rose, the planet's sole flower, to travel to other worlds.

During his search, the prince learns about human nature. At the end, the prince wishes to return to his home. But it is beyond such a distance that he has to give up his body to travel there. The ending of the story has sometimes been interpreted to mean that suicide may have been the cause of Saint-Exupery's death.

Saint-Exupery was the real Little Prince, an eternal searcher whose home was up there in the sky. In 1944 he began his final flight that was to take him back home, back to the stars.

Now the mystery of the disappearance of this passionate pilot is being solved. The "Helsingin Sanomat" newspaper titles the piece of news as "Saint-Exupery's Returned to the Stars."

The magic of "The Little Prince" has touched the hearts of millions since the 1940s. Up to this day the book has been translated into a total of 155 languages.

The most beautiful of all the teachings that the Little Prince learned is the one he learned from The Fox: "Only with one's heart one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye."

MISSING PIECE #2 FOUND

Here in Finland another type of mystery is being solved. 44 years ago there was a horrible murder of three youngsters by the Lake Bodown in Espoo. Police were never able to find the murderer and the case remained open. Now, after almost a half-century, all of a sudden, new evidence and witnesses surfaced, and the police have arrested a person who is suspected to be the murderer. The whole nation is shocked by these latest discoveries.

MISSING PIECE #3 FOUND

In the "Helsingin Sanomat" newspaper of April 9th there was an article about an upcoming 12-part mythology series about the URALIC peoples of which the first part has been published: "KOMI MYTHOLOGY, ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF URALIC MYTHOLOGY."

The Uralic peoples populate Russia and other parts of Northern Eurasia, and many of them still have a Shamanistic religion. Finnish people also belong to the Uralic peoples, and in this massive research program, also our ancient Finnish myths and folk beliefs are shown in the context of the larger Uralic mythos. The project will lead, as the article says, into the findings of a MISSING LINK of Finnish mythology.

In all these three pieces of news, the most important aspect is in the TIMING. The final answers to these MYSTERIES and other compling of the ANCIENT FENNO-UGRIAN SHAMANISTIC MYTHS (that have been in connection with the WOW! CONTACT, -- remember LINTUKOTO, SAMPO, etc.) come in a perfect time, during EASTER.

The MISSING LINKS are being found and the CONTACT takes a NEW SETTING.

CRASHING AIRPLANES, UFOS AND WATER

By ANDERS VON BERGEN

Finland, Tuesday, April 13, 2004 -- The "2734" connection in the discovery of Saint-Exupery's plane, which helped searchers identify it, is just spooky and amazing!

Also, the whole situation of an AIRPLANE CRASHING INTO THE OCEAN is an E.T. theme -- many experiencers have had dreams of AIRCRAFT coming in or out of the water. (See website linkes below.) And I have also had a DREAM with a MILITARY AIRPLANE CRASHING INTO WATER, as I reported in an account a year ago.

Interestingly enough, the advertisements of the John HOLMES "WONDERLAND" movie came to the SUBWAY TRAIN stations in Finland just before EASTER, -- Big TIME!

Today I was in a SUBWAY TRAIN and I saw an interesting ad. It was that of a mall called "COLUMBUS" (like the SPACE SHUTTLE Columbia or like DISCOVERER and TRAVELER CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS?) and it had the picture of a SMALL BOY wearing a RABBIT MASK.

I immediately associated it with THE LITTLE PRINCE (a TRAVELING KID) of which I had read in this webpage just about an hour or so before. Its connection to the WOW! theme was quite nicely shown!

The ad, with the text in Finnish reading "NEARER THE HOME," especially reminded me of The LITTLE PRINCE, as at the end of the book the boy travels back to his HOME in SPACE.

And taking together the ALICE IN THE WONDERLAND RABBIT and THE LITTLE PRINCE (the BOY with the BUNNY MASK) taken as a step "closer to home," is as meaning closer to the discovery of the Ultimate Reality.

One of the offices that is there in Mall Columbus is an insurance company named SAMPO (the DARK TOWER or HOLY GRAIL of Finnish mythology!)

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UFOs, PLANES & WATER

By HAROLD EGELN

New York City, Tuesday, April 13, 2004 -- Reading Anders von Bergen's account of the connection between the crash 60 years ago of de Saint-Exupery's plane into the sea and the connections of UFO dreams of planes crashing into the water, and of UFOs rising from or diving into the water, made me think how important this connection is right now.

This phenomenon of strange aerial craft flying int and out of water, back to the 19th Century and before, was first reported in books by pre-modern Flying Saucer Era researcher Charles Fort in his books "Book of the Damned" (which I read when I was around 12) and "Lo!"

In the late 1960's TV zoologist and UFO researcher, in his book "Invisible Residents," documented cases of UFOs coming into and out of lakes, seas and oceans.

And as Anders mentioned, he had that DREAM of a military airplane crashing into the ocean, noting that many experiencers have DREAMS involving that theme, as we in S.P.A.C.E. have gotten several such first-hand dream reports.

A few years ago, two people from S.P.A.C.E., while visiting Canada's east coast, talked with local residents about their own accounts of strange underwater craft which rose from and into the ocean.

Of course, S.P.A.C.E.'s prime field contact and UFO sighting spot is at the Croton Reservior in the rural Village of Brewster in the Hudson Valley.

And now we have the reminder of all this with de Saint-Exupery and The Little Prince.

In preparing to enter Anders' new account today, I made an unsettling discovery when I looked at a link about Aquatic Underwater UFOs, which I was going to transfer here, that we had for a long time on the main S.P.A.C.E. website, discovering that it was gone and replaced by a site with an ad promoting sexual booster pills. So, I removed that site link immediately, then realized Anders' mention of the Holmes "Wonderland" movie about sexual exploitation, and the unexpected, ironic connection.

The child with the RABBIT MASK (I have my own "VIPPY BUNNY" Mask) also coincides with a radio review today of a new play called "SEVEN RABBITS ON A POLE," reviewed on WQXR Radio today by a theater critic of The New York Times.

Also, when I saw Anders' reference to COLUMBUS, I realized that ALICE'S TEA CUP, a groovy New York City restaurant and gift shop with an "ALICE IN WONDERLAND" theme and decor, is located right by the corner of COLUMBUS AVENUE, on West 73rd Street, a block up north from West 72nd Street in Manhattan. It's a small world, afterall!

THE TEA TIME-S.P.A.C.E. CONTINUUM AT ALICE'S!

By ANDERS VON BERGEN

Finland, Wednesday, April 14, 2004 -- Late last evening, before going to bed, I wanted to make an experiment, being curious.

I took a dictionary, and wanted to find out if LEWIS CARROLL was mentioned on page 27 or perhaps page 72 (NOTE: with the "27" number being a recurrent synchronistic number and its mirror image "72" throughout the WOW! Contact).

I decided to find out the word without looking at the page numbers and then checked if I was right. I opened the section of the letter "C." I searched until I found "CARROLL, LEWIS" with a short introduction to his life and book, "ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND." The description started at the end of the page and continued to the end of the next page. So, which was the page number of "CARROLL, LEWIS"?

1702!!!

And it continued onto page 1703, giving us also the 73 connection. As Harold wrote of ALICE"S TEA CUP: "It's on West 73rd Street in Manhattan, a block up from West 72nd Street."

WOW!!!, isn't it?

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ALICE'S TEA CUP IN SYNC

By HAROLD EGELN

New York City, Wednesday, April 14, 2004 -- Yes, Anders, WOW!!! These synchronicties never cease to astonish me, making me feel like a child at play, and I remain amazed at how fine tuned to the ninth degree the link between NYC and Helsinki is in connection with the WOW! Contact.

It is far beyond mere pure chance and is full of purpose and intent, with profound implications that boggle the mind and ignite the heart!

The actual address of ALICE'S TEA CUP is 102 West 73rd Street, and there are photos of the place on one of the linked sites below, if you would like to make a virtual visit.

Also, while checking on websites today for a book from 1990 called "FIRST CONTACT: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence" co-edited by Ben Bova, in connection with an article I wrote in the current issue of our "S.P.A.C.E. EXPLORER CONTACT JOURNAL" on astrophysicist Dr. Rudy Schild of Harvard University, I stumbled upon a book website which listed the book.

I noted, with a grin, that the author preceding Ben Bova in the current listing (April 2004) was BEATRIX POTTER, author of the "PETER RABBIT" children's book series. Again, thanks to author name proximity in this case, we have RABBITS linked with SETI.

From Anders' telling of his dictionary story, I am reminded of a scene in the classic 1950 madcap movie "HARVEY" about Elwood P. Dowd (played by James Stewart) who is befriended by a six-foot tall INVISIBLE WHITE RABBIT ("What is esential is invisible" -- The Little Prince), a mischievous, playful TRICKSTER pooka.

In the scene a man is reading a DICTIONARY to find the defination of POOKA. As he reads the text, words are suddenly added to the defination by HARVEY the WHITE RABBIT addressed directly to the man reading the text, causing him puzzlement!

Also, actor Stewart who palyed Elwood P. Dowd, HARVEY's best friend, later played the role of CHARLES LINDBURGH, the famous PILOT who flew his solo PLANE across the Atlantic OCEAN in the year 1927 (our 27, again!), giving us our PLANE connection. (Lindburgh landed in PARIS, FRANCE, France being aviator/author de Saint-Exubery's homeland, with Paris the place of is youth. He was born in Lyons.)

Also, note that I had my de Saint-Exupery LITTLE PRINCE sync on Saturday at the PLANE SPACE Art Gallery at 102 CHARLES Street, now giving us a greater link of CHARLES Lindburgh, de Saint-Exupery and the number 102, as in 102 West 73rd Street, home to ALICE's TEA CUP... which leads us back to ANDERS' Dictionary Search!!!

Then, this evening, I peeked in for a moment on the TV series "Star Trek: Enterprise" (my least favorite of the Star Trek shows with its emphasis on war and violence), and I watched a spaceship come in from space into the atmosphere of an alien planet, and then dive into an OCEAN, and operating UNDERWATER!!! -- a fitting scene for crashed airplanes and UFOs UNDERWATER, fully and graphically IN SYNC with the latest current THEME.

So, friends, while we're in Wonderland, how about a cup of tea and crumpet at Alice's Tea Cup?

HEARTS AS EYES, RABBIT MASKS AND WOW!

By ANDERS VON BERGEN

Finland, Friday, April 16, 2004 -- 1) In the NYT ("NOW") newspaper of this Friday I read that on next Tuesday (April 20th) at the ORION Theater (see the SPACE connection!) there will be showing of the 1953 movie "WAR OF THE WORLDS," which was the title of ORSON WELLS famous radio show of 1938.

The timing of this is very interesting, as are its connections to the latest PETER PAN movie (with the aunt reading the H.G. Wells book and ROBIN WILLIAMS as PETER PAN in "Hook" and as the TV alien MORK reporting to ORSON of ORK)!!

2) As I was on the SUBWAY TRAIN today, I saw an ad (there was also a "COLUMBUS" ad and the KID WEARING a RABBIT MASK close to it) that was in the form of a comic strip. In the ad there was a boy and a girl who had a crush on each other, and they both pondered how to get the attention of each other.

At the end of the strip the guy has HEARTS on his EYES and he says: "WOW!!!" This is literally "WOW!" Again, the TIMING and the PLACE is perfect, being on a TRAIN, close to the RABBIT KID ad!! A LOVE-like CONTACT between TWO DIFFERENT persons (boy and girl) and HEARTS and "WOW!!!" cannot be just a coincidence, but a confirmation of this most artistic and most amazing ET COMMUNICATION here and now! Seeing the WOW!!" in the ad just gave me the creeps!

Now, the LITTLE PRINCE receives a beautiful teaching, as we saw: "Only with one's HEART one can see clearly. What's ESSENTIAL is INVISIBLE to the EYE."

So, the guy fallen in love in this comic ad had HEARTS in his EYES, and he said, "WOW!!" This is too crazy! The guy was looking with his HEART (as HEARTS were his EYES) and that made him say, "WOW!!" Did he see INVISIBLE RABBIT HARVEY? We do!

Ancient Finns called GHOSTS (who were also known as "ELVES" and "GNOMES") "THE INVISIBLES." The GHOSTS were the representatives of the OTHER.

ANYTIME

The comic strip ad is that of a cosmetic company, "ANYTIME," and it is for "Sarjakuvakilpaila," Finnish for "comic competition." I see TIME and "anytime" as the quantum reality of endless possibilities, -- or as I wrote about on my cartoon-God-virtual reality dream a year ago: "...if all of the different moments of time in this quantum hyper-universe."

Anyway, in that ad comic strip the girl calls the guy she is in love with "IT." And I mean this literally -- she does not say "he" but "IT," with capital letters, just like we do to emphasize the synchronistic words on the website and updates!

Thus, this guy is "IT." (Remember the TRICKSTER CLOWN from ANOTHER WORLD in Stephen KING's book!) and this guy's EYES are HEARTS, and he says "WOW!" The guy also has HEADPHONES -- just those of his discman but they might also indicate to us the connection to RADIO TELESCOPES and the SETI program, listening to the inter-stellar radio transmissions."

Here is the website and comic strip in Finnish. Scroll to the right to see the rest of the story:

ALICE AND LINTUKOTO So, another piece of news in today's NYT newspaper says that on Sunday, April 18 there will be a dance festival with a dance show called "Kerjukaissaari" ("FAIRY ISLAND") by choreographer LIISA Risin. Now, ALICE is LIISA in the Finnish translaton of CARROLL's "ALICES ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND"!! FAIRY ISLAND is what the ancient LINTUKOTO was all about and the magic toy birds were believed to flee to LINTUKOTO, a WONDEROUS ISLAND far, far away, somewhere beyond the MILKY WAY, and on the LINTUKOTO ISLAND there lived ELVES and FAIRY FOLK. A nice connection to ALICE and LINTUKOTO, indeed! The FAIRY ISLAND dance show is going to begin at THREE o'clock, by the way!

KICK THE SKEPTIC INSIDE

By ANDERS VON BERGEN

Finland, Saturday, April 17, 2004 -- 1) Today I was walking in the Olari neighbrhood from the BIG APPLE Mall to the house of my grandparents, and I saw a young man. He reminded me of one of the friends whom I had when I was in kindergarten. The friend's name was SAMPO (yes, it is also a name). The kid suffered from WILLIAMS SYNDROME.

I walked by this guy, wondering if he was that SAMPO, but I came to the coclusion that I was mistaken and this was a different guy. (I didn't see his facial features -- just the way he walked reminded me of that childhood friend.)

Now that I realized the SAMPO connection, I thought, "No, this ain't no sync, okay!" Still, I took out my mobile phone and checked the time. It was 12:54 p.m. Now 54 is 2 x 27, and belongs to the sacred number of Hinduism and Buddhism (18, 27, 54, 108, etc.) all equaling number 9 when summed up together. I had to admit, "Okay, this was a sync."

2) As I walked on a van sped by. It was from a company dedicated to garbage recycling, and there was a picture of a SQUIRREL HEAD with THREE balls surrounding it as SATELLITES on its ORBIT.

The SQUIRREL PLANET with orbiting stuff was part of the early syncs of mine (see account from June or something in 2003). I thought, "Okay, but this was no sync." The skeptical me was, however, proven wrong again, as I saw the number 72 in the phone number of the company painted on the van!

3) Later, while sitting in a bus on my way to see my mother and stepfather, I saw a Ford KA car passing by. KA means "KARMA" or "DESTINY" in Stephen KING's DARK TOWER ("SAMPO") book series, like the finding of the DARK TOWER in Roland's KA in the story.

"RABBIT" in Finnish is "KANI," as the KA element is also present in the words. Okay, I thought: "But this is not a sync, is it?" I checked the time, and to the disappointment of the skeptical part of me, the time happened to be 5:33 p.m. Still remember the 33 syncs? I thought, "OK, I was a fool, okay." Long live the skeptic!

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NOTE by Harold Egeln: Cheers, Anders, since I have that skeptical part of me, too (which serves as a healthy check), but it is often proven wrong! Anyway, Anders' SQUIRREL and SPACE connection reminds me of the image used in Steve Spielberg's presentation of the popular "Taken" UFO series on the Sci Fi Channel TV network shown here in December 2002. A BOY was summoned by a large ARTEMIS the SQUIRREL from his bedroom window (his mother had read him an "Artemis the Squirrel" book earlier) and taken to Artemis's house inside a large tree trunk. The tree is then transformed into what it really is (rather than the screen memory or image of a tree with a storybook SQUIRREL) -- a UFO SPACESHIP and zooms off into space, taking the young boy in a stealth close encounter.

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'THE ANDREASSON LEGACY" AND RAY FOWLER'S RABBIT

By HAROLD EGELN

New York City, Saturday, April 17, 2004 -- After midnight early today I was looking through a book I had not yet read, but which I was sent by the author, longtime UFO close encounter researcher Raymond Fowler, in March 2003.

It's "The Andreasson Legacy: UFOs and the Paranormal -- The Startling Conclusion of the Andreasson Affair," published in 1997. All the other four Andreasson books (The Andreasson Affair I and II, and The Watchers I and II) I had purchased when they came out, the first about 25 years ago, but this one I let slide for six years.

Since Fowler has noted synchronicities before, and is now writing a book on the subject, following his last UFO book, "UFO Testament: Anatomy of an Abductee," his fascinating autobiography, I decided after midnight to look at "The Andreasson Legacy" for his references to what he terms "synchronisms," which are mentioned four times in the book.

I just happened to flip to the middle of the book, filled with illustrations, where I immediately saw a large illustration of a RABBIT beng petted by a smiling woman as SEVEN elf-sized aliens watched!!!! Holy Hop, I said outloud, as I quickly checked the time. It was 12:27 a.m. -- of course! This is the first time that I have seen such a rabbit illlustrated in a close encounter context! Why had I not seen this before, having the book for a year??

The drawing is on page 236 of the hardcover copy of the book, set in "Chapter 11. The Family Reunion," about the stealth encounters of a woman named "Jean" with transcripts of her hypnosis sessions, done late in 1994.

The RABBIT account appears in "The Being in a White Smock" recalling an abduction in October 1993. Later in the transcript, Fowler introduces the section with the rabbit:

"What Jean described next was fascinating to say the least. She saw a RABBIT (Fowler's emphasis!!) in the middle of the floor. For a moment, it seemed like an extraterrestrial replay of ALICE IN WONDERLAND (our emphasis) and the WHITE rabbit (Fowler's emphasis)! However, the logic of the situation quickly came to the fore. In any event, the rabbit was BLACK (Fowler's emphasis) and white!"

Here is some of the text of the hypnosis session. TONY is the hypnotist. Any word emphasis is Fowler's:

JEAN: "I'm at the entrance, but it's not a door... There's something in the room." TONY: What's in there? JEAN: A RABBIT. TONY: Why is there a rabbit in the room? JEAN: I don't know, but he's cute. RAY: How big is it? JEAN: He's a regular full-grown rabbit. RAY: Is he on the floor? JEAN: Yeah. He's in the middle of the room on the floor. TONY: What color is it? JEAN: Black and white... The room is a round room, and the rabbit's on the floor in the middle of the room. (Jean then bends down and pets the rabit, whose ears are turned down.) JEAN: I'm talking to the rabbit. He's cute. He's real cute. TONY: And then what happens? JEAN: Then I look up and there's -- I see these eyes. The bug eyes. The black eyes. But they're short. They're not -- They're kids! Little, little kid's eyes! TONY: And where do they come from? JEAN: From the wall. Out of the light. They come out of the light. (The account proceeds into a lengthy detailed description of these SEVEN small beings, who, in the drawing, resemble the small child-sized aliens shown in the 1977 Steven Spielberg movie "Close Encounters of the Third ind" who emerge from the landed mothership. Jean feels loved by these beings, and then the account gets back to our rabbit.) JEAN: I show them the rabbit. We play with the rabbit for a while. *********************** The next few chapters continue with a focus on Jean's hypnotic recall and a typical stealth close encounter abduction scenario, with a hybrid child, post-traumatic stress syndrome and other characteristics of stealth close encounters. In the illustration, one of the tiny beings is seen petting the rabbit along with Jean, as four others watch, and another two emerge through the wall in BURSTS of LIGHT, shown by straight lines drawn from around their bodies. This specific LIGHT BURST effect I depicted also in my own drawing of the same type of "alien beings," only larger than Jean's, emerging from a BURST of LIGHT through the front windows of the Sheridan Square Coffee Shop in Greenwich Village, NYC, during an apparent double stealth encounter on January 12, 1993 with a friend, Joseph Weik, who had noted that TIME was out of sync, leeding a month later to two separate hypnosis sessions. That experience of "MISSING TIME" is at the beginning of our WOW! Contact account, in Chapter 1 of these "Project Wonderland Chronicles." My drawing appears in the picture section of the book I bought on November 8, 1998 titled "Alien Dawn: An Investigation into the Contact Experience" by famed author Colin Wilson, who became famous over 30 years ago with his book "The Outsider." Wilson, who lives in Cornwall, England, has written over 80 books dealing with music, occult and supernatural phenomenon, philosophy, sex, crime, religion, literary criticism, Wilhelm Reich, Bernard Shaw, Jorge Luis Borges, Hermann Hess and much more. His "Alien Dawn" is one of the best, in my opinion, of all the books on "The Contact Experience," and it's available in the U.S., England and many European countries and elsewhere. My drawing, made in early 1993, shows the THREE beings passing through the front window tables near the restaurant entrance. But my drawing, the 13th illustration in the photo insert, is incorrectly captioned: "Aliens drawn by an abductee from John Mack's support group." Wilson got it from the Fortean Picture Library in his home country of England. By the way, the page on which my drawing appears is just before the next text page, Page 147 -- bringing in our longtime SYNCS back into the early 1990s, and continuing now, as noted by ANDERS VON BERGEN. Also, the Sheridan Square Coffee Shop later became the MYTHOLOGY Restaurant, and is set on a block in a nearly TRIANGULAR shape, surrounded by other blocks, all in TRIANGULAR SHAPES, which makes for a total of SEVEN TRIANGLES. It was there in early 1998, after a photo shoot with Whitley Stireber for a magazine article that we went into MYTHOLOGY, where we also saw famous actress Olympia Dukakus of the "MOONSTRUCK" movie. The former Sheridan Square Coffee Shop and late MYTHOLOGY Restaurant is now a STARbucks. Sheridan Square is in the middle of Greenwich Village, for over a century the home to avante garde artists and performers and the whole Bohemia Movement, a place of revolutionary and world-shaking ideas. Nearby, in the 1920s, there was a cafe nearby called DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE featuring an ALICE IN WONDERLAND Theme. Sheridan Square is also the place where three days and nights of riots and protests erupted in June 1969 leading to the start of the Gay Liberation Movement, whose symbol is a Pink TRIANGLE. Perhaps Humanity is on the verge, or very much in need, of a much greater revolution!! ************************************* SYNCRONICITY ALL OVER THE PLACE!!! UFO books are a treasure of synchronicities, as are "Alien Dawn" by Colin Wilson and the Andreasson books and "UFO Testament" by Ray Fowler, who is now finishing a book on syncs. Famed dolpin researcher John Lily's autobiography has a key focus on syncs, describing the effect as the "Earth Synchronicity Control" based on another world in sync-communication with the Planet Earth. Professor Harley Rutledge, a physics professor at a university in Missouri, wrote of nummerable synchronicities in his book "Project Identification" 25 years ago, a book that documented his scientific field studies of many UFO sightings, who seemed to engender his syncs, show "IT's" awareness of Prof. Rutledge observing them. Longtime UFO author, astrophysicist Jacques Vallee, has discussed syncs in his books, and the famous science ficton writer Philip K. Dick (who died 20 years at age 54) wrote of VALIS, a vast communication syetem of hyper-intelligence which created syncs.

THE "FINDING NEMO" EPISODE AND A "MAP OF THE JOURNEY" By ANDERS VON BERGEN Finland, Sunday, April 18 -- Some funny things took place today. I was with my cousins and we started to watch the "Finding Nemo" movie on DVD. My youngest cousin, a 9-year-old girl, does not understand English. We watched the original version without Finnish dubbing. The little girl had seen the Finnish version about a hundred times, and she translated each sentence in the movie into Finnish, as she knows the movie by heart! The first word pronounced in the movie was "WOW!!" In fact, Marli's (Nemo's father, a CLOWNFISH) first THREE words in the movie were all "WOW!!" At one point, Doris says: "WOW! Dusty." And the next thing that Marli said was: "The MASK! Where is the MASK?" I cjecked the times of the DVD player. The seconds happened to be 47! This reminded me of he COLUMBUS ad that I saw, a KID with a RABBIT MASK. Here we had a WOW, 47 and MASK. Interesting. Later when Marli and Doris meet the whale and Doris tried to speak, "Whale," she screamed, "WOW!" I immediately checked the DVD player time. And yes, the seconds of that time was 27. I was shocked! Later, on my way home, I saw a white dog that reminded me of my friend's dog whose name is DORIS. I found it funny in that I had just seen a movie with a character named DORIS. I checked the time: it was 7:27p.m. This was a confirmation of the syncs that happened during the movie. NEMO reminds me of the Jules Verne book, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" with Captain NEMO commanding the submarine. Jules Verne was the "father of science fiction" (Verne wrote "From the Earth to the Moon" in 1895) and it's interesting how his dreams have later become true -- SPACE ROCKETS, submarines, etc. Verne was livng proof who showed that the boundares between wild imagination and productive scientific thinking are sometimes very shadowy. And that is what the WOW! Contact is al about! One thing more about the "Finding Nemo" movie." The MASK connection was extremely interesting, as the MASK showed the way to find NEMO. It was, in a way, a MAP of their JOURNEY. This is, of course, quite interesting, as the RABBIT MASK on the KID on the ad of the COLUMBUS Mall brought together and the INTER-STELLAR TRAVELLER, the LITTLE PRINCE and the COSMIC RABBIT. Is this fact a kind of "MAP" of OUR JOURNEY? ******************** NOTE by HAROLD EGELN: Just as I began to enter von Bergen's paragraph "NEMO reminds me of the Jules Verne book..." (this being done on April 21st) the announcer Lloyd Moss on the WQXR Classical Radio station announced the next music selection: "Dance of the Snowflakes from "VOYAGE TO THE MOON" by Jacques Offenbach! I immediately checked the time. It was 4:27 p.m. Offenbach wrote his piece in honor of his contempory JULES VERNE for his book "From the Earth to the Moon." Hey now, that's perfect TIMING, all IN SYNC! ********************************************************

TOWER OF PURITY

By ANDERS VON BERGEN

Finland, Monday, April 19, 2004 -- At noon I was in a bus, on my way to Helsinki from my mother's and stepfather's place. I was wondering about the 73 connection that we had (ALICE'S TEA CUP, the DICTIONARY).

I thought that as number 73 is the next number after 72, then maybe this was a sign of us taking a new step in the Contact. A step heading to what? We are yet to see. Then I looked at the bus clock. It showed 12:33. The 33 connection - nice timing of my thoughts! A confirmation?

Later that day at a lass about Hinduism, our teacher showed us a thangka Thangka is a Tibetian painting that usually shows some meditation deity or eities. Thangkas are made by Buddhist artists and they are considered sacred. Thangkas can be used as objects of concentration or as protective amulets that bess the house in which they are hung.

The thangka carried a picture of a mandala. A mandala is a Hindu/Buddhist geometrical magic picture that is believed to contain the whole universe. In the middle of the mandala there was a Buddha.

Our teacher explained some of the symbolism in the mandala, how it shows the way for the yoga or yogini to reach this perfection, that is, the Buddha in the middle. The practicioner is at the beginning of the outer part of the mandala. His purpose is to come through level after level until he reaches the TOWER OF PURITY, in the middle in which the Buddha is situated.

Now this caught my attention: The WHOLE UNIVERSE with a TOWER in the middle, keeping the PERFECTION inside, reminded me of the DARK TOWER, the PILLAR maintaining the COSMOS, the KEY to cause change in it, the GOAL and PERFECTION of Stephen KING's Rolanda (and ours) QUEST.

See also that word "THANGKA" contains the word "KA" which means "DESTINY" in KINGS's DARK TOWER epic. Roland's KA is to find the DARK TOWER. "WOW!" I thought and then I checked the time. It showed 5:28 p.m., but it took over 30 seconds to change into 5:29, so I am sure that the time was 5:27 when the teacher taught about the TOWER OF PURITY.

This is really spooky, isn't it? The way things seem to follow a certain PATTERN OVER and OVER again.

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THE 72-73 LINK AND A RADIO TOWER

NOTE by HAROLD EGELN

The 72 and 73 also has a personal link for me, having been the time I lived in the house in the 40-acre woods of "The Lost Mansion of West Orange" in New Jersey, where I had my seminal experiences which just 15 years later led me into exploring my close encounters. I lived there from June 1972 to May 1973. The "aliens" entered my bedroom through the bedroom door where ung my poster of a WHITE RABBIT from WONDERLAND. I also saw a WHITE RABBIT and a calico rabbit on time at the side of the house, the only time I saw rabbits there. I also drew a MAP of the 40-acre woods, where my JOURNEY began.

Also, near the 40-acres was a large RADIO TOWER on the cliff, which could be seen for miles around. And a MANDALA book was given to me in Christmas of 1973 at another house where I then lived.

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1973 AND THE BIG EAR

Finland, Thursday, April 22, 2004 -- I just found out another connection to the 73. The BIG EAR RADIO TELESCOPE at Ohio State University which received the famous "WOW!" SIGNAL (on August 15, 1977) was established in 1973. (See the website below.) -- ANDERS VON BERGEN.

SPACE GETS THE "RABBIT'S A-OK" FOR EARTH DAY

By HAROLD EGELN

New York City, Saturday, April 24, 2004 -- When I don't look for rabbits, they just hop in sometimes in the most convenient, funny and profound ways. Here's how it "hoppened" today.

Earth Day was on April 22 (I took part in the first in 1970), and it and Earth Week are being celebrated worldwide. Here in the city there is a huge Earth Day Celebration at the world-famous TRAIN terminal, Grand Central Station, with 60 diverse exhibitors and 12 music groups this weekend, both on Saturday and Sunday.

Making the Earth-Space connection is the National Space Society's local chapter, the New York Space Society, along with New York Skies, the city's major amatuer astronomy group. (The National Space Society was founded by space rocket pioneer Werhner von Braun.)

We do live on what Buckminister Fuller called "Spaceship Earth." The theme for the NY Space Society for this fair is "Conserve Earth - Colonize Space," promoting large scale human space travel and peaceful settlement. As vice president of this distinctly non-UFO group, I volunteered to help set-up and then staff our exhibit space for both days; our table has space DVD's shown on a wide screen, literature, displays and tee-shirts.

When I arrived this morning to the exhibit space in the caverenous Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central Station's main entrance, I walked down the aisle to our table, located at the end of one of three aisles.

Then I saw it, staring directly at and above our table. A RABBIT picture, about two-feet wide, with the logo "RABBIT OF APPROVAL." I was stunned and literally shaken as I muttered to myself, chuckling, "Hey, it figures!"

The drawing of the RABBIT is for a well-known natural organic food company (I've eaten its macroni and cheese), Annie's Homegrown Natural Products. Like the seal of approval, its popular logo shows a RABBIT, named Bernie, leaning over the edge of the circle its head peeks out from it, with grain stalks on both sides. The words on the circle are: "RABBIT OF APPROVAL."

WOW! How perfectly placed! There can be no doubt that on some level of reality, living as we do in an Information Universe which, when we increase our level of awareness, helps to make meaningful associations, that this major sync was "arranged" for us by our apparently "approving" Hyper-Intelligence!!!

Even though our exhibit was not about S.P.A.C.E., it was about the SPACE theme, as in exploring outer space. And later when I walked around the fair, there was no other rabbit to be seen displayed. At the east end of the hall where we are, there is a row where there are all natural food products, at the end of the three aisles. Across from us is a broadband display booth from AT&T (I like to say, ET&T).

Actually, there were plenty of free sample packets of "Annie's Cheddar BUNNIES" cheeze snacks in the shape of RABBITS being handed out, eaten by plenty of people including our display staff of the NY Space Society. So, (ha-ha!) in reality, the RABBITS were EVERYWHERE at the Celebration, becoming part of the INNER SPACES of the people eating the little rabbit-shaped snacks! Contact and Communication become Communion.

Ironically, no one present out of many hundreds of people who passed by and those staffing our pro-space travel booth at the Earth Day Fair, except for one friend and myself, were even aware of the RABBIT-Po-SPACE (UFO) connection.

Checkout the Annie's webpages below. You will see the "RABBIT OF APPROVAL" logo in the upper left corner. Also, click-on the rabbit in the garden to meet "Bernie."

So, we had our perfect PLACE for our RABBIT connections. When I came home and read Anders von Bergen's latest message (he did not know about our sync incident, of course), we got our perfect TIMING, as you will read below.

THE NEMO PUZZLE DECODED

By ANDERS VON BERGEN

Finland, Saturday, April 24, 2004 -- The NEMO syncs that have taken place recently puzzled me, so I did a little research. As a result, I discovered an interesting connection to neutrino, dark matter, synchronicties and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.

The aim of the NEMO collaboration is to investigate double-beta decay without the emission of neutrinos. This research is one of the principal topics neutrino physics, which is a subfield of particle physics with cosmological and astrophysical implications. Double-beta decay experiments can play a particularily interesting role in providing the answers to questions on the nature of the neutrino as a Dirac particle or a Majrana particle. Interestingly enough, on the list of the 12 NEMO collaborative laboratories, there is included one in Jyvaskyla, FINLAND. Others are situated in, for example, FRANCE and the USA. Remember, the LITTLE PRINCE is a FRENCH book and Antoine de Saint-Exupery is a natonal hero of FRANCE. MYSTERIOUS NEUTRINOS In 1930 WOLFGANG PAULI, who had synchronicties and a deep interest in the occult, proposed a solution to the missing energy in neutral beta decay, namely that it was carried by neutral particles. That proposal was made in a letter to the Tubingen Congress. In 1933 (interestingly enough!) ENRICO FERMI, who later became known for the so-called FERMI PARADOX in SETI research, named the particle the "NEUTRINO" and formulated a theory for collaborating the simultaneous emission of an electron with a neutrino. Pauli received the Noble Prize in 1945 and Fermi in 1938. Neutrinos are one of the fundamental particles (see "The Particle Zoo" link below) which make up the universe. They are also one of the least understood. Neutrinos are similar to the more familiar electron, with one crucial difference; neutrinos do not carry an electric charge. Because neutrinos are electrionically neutral, the are not affected by the electromagnetic forces which act on neutrons. Neutrons are affected only be a "weak" sub-atomic force of much shorter range than electromagnetism, and are therefore able to pass through great distances in matter wilthout being affected by it. If neutrinos have mass, they also interact gravitionally with other massive particles, but gravity is by far the weakest of the Four Known Forces (see "Forces, the Four Known" Link below). At the very least, the neutrino is the first serious particle physics dark matter candidate actually known to exist. (See "What's A Neutrino?" link below)

AN ANSWER TO THE FERMI PARADOX OF "WHERE ARE THEY?"

Long ago ENRICO FERMI asked about the apparent lack of alien spacefaring civilizations: "Where are they? Why haven't we seen any traces of intelligent extraterrestrial ife lie, e.g., probes, spacecraft or transmissions?"

Dr. Fermi's reasonable question has been answered: "THEY ARE HERE."

"THEY'RE HERE! THEY'RE HERE!" By HAROLD EGELN New York City, Sunday, April 25, 2004 -- I was totally thrilled when I read Anders' "NEMO Research Report" this morning (it was sent and dated yesterday) before leaving for the second day of Earth Day at Grand Central Station. It filled me with wonder and awe, because it not only explains why we were getting the NEMO reference through Anders, but it was perfectly TIMED to the unexpected "RABBIT of APPROVAL" set-up by the N.Y. Space Society display at one of the Planet EARTH's major TRAIN stations! At one point at our NY Space Society booth, a mother and her child, a young boy, came by, and his mother said, "He likes everthing about space!" The boy looked in wonder at the movie scenes of space and the astronauts moving around on the Moon. That's the feeling about all this, a child in wonder, because Everything was IN SYNC, in perfect harmony! This astounding orchestration drew me to one of the cover feature stories which appeared in the May 2000 issue of "ASTRONOMY Magazine" titled: 'SETI and the SCIENCE WARS: HOW CONTACT WITH INTELLIGENT ALIENS WILL ESTABLISH THE TRUTH ABOUT SCIENCE" by planetary scientist David Grinspoon. His article, published just as our WOW! Contact was getting ready to unfold, attempts to answer the question: "How much science is invented and how much is discovered?" the question at the heart of the then "Science Wars" in academia. "How do we test our scientifc knowledge tosee if it is really universal? The answer lies in SETI: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence," Grinspoon writes. "But if we are right that our scientific laws are intrinsic to the universe, not just our imaginations, then ET should have discovered the same natural laws. And this would constitute proof of the absolute, objective nature of some scientific proofs." This seems to ave happened very specifically through the patterns of the WOW! CONTACT as exhaustively demonstrated and documented through these Project Wonderland Chronicles in so many ways and through so many places, times and people, most recently with the NEMO sync, dark matter and SETI connections as told by Anders von Bergen. The R in the Drake Equation, formulated in 1961, is the key link in determining intelligent cultures beyond Earth. The R could just as well be R for RABBIT, as we noted some time ago here. ********************************* AN "INSTRUMENT" IN CONTACT By ANDERS VON BERGEN Finland, Tuesday, April 27, 2004 -- Yes, I was indeed thrilled to find the NEMO connections! How SYNCHRONICITIES, SETI, DARK MATTER and other mysterious phenomena all go hand-in-hand, and with the extra spice of 33, 27, etc.!!! I am also very fascinated by what's going on. Yes, the comparison to the wondering kid goes for me, too. It is like we are standing on the edge of our old, known world and a totally new universe opens up in front of us. What is paradoxical is that although extremely bizarre and even supernatural things are around me all the time, I still live the normal life of a student with the typical challenges of school, girls, etc. It's the feeling of being just an instrument that Something or Thing Out There has chosen to use to get ITS MESSAGE through. I noticed that BOTH the famous DRAKE EQUATION and the ABDUCTION of BETTY and BARNEY HILL took place in the year 1961 (when also the first humans were launched into space: Yuri Gagarin in April, Alan Shephard in May, Gus Grissom in July, Gherman Titov in August). That is an interesting connection of two of the major incidents in ET history -- one of SETI and the other of the UFO phenomenon! And, of course, BARNEY HILL said he "felt Like a RABBIT" being trapped and he told, when being watched by the aliens, that "It's the CHESHIRE CAT of ALICE IN WONDERLAND," as he described the September 19, 1961 close encounter in his hypnotic recall with Dr. Benjamin Simon later. There's an old SETI-at-Home website called "SETI TEAM TALK RADIO" that I found with an interesting connection: The e-mail name of the site maintainer was "THE RABBIT" in memory of the site founder, Franklin LEWIS Price. At the end of the Homepage there is the back of a RABBIT with the text "The End." Perhaps they know about S.P.A.C.E.?!

GODEL, ESCHER, BACH AND WONDERLAND By HAROLD EGELN New York City, April 2004 -- Last week I finally bought "Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas R. Hofstadter, the 20-anniversary edition of the 1979 Pulitzer Prize winner, which has these words on the book cover under the author's name: "A metaphysical fuge on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll." So, here we have LEWIS CARROLL again in reference to the cognitive sciences, in a book which I've read through on occassions over the years in bookstores, but which I did not buy until now, on April 4th to be precise. I am now reading it, while I, as usual, read other books as well. It dismisses UFOs and the idea of consciousness outside the brain... but the clever author created a fascinating and engrossing in-depth discussion of noetics, mathematics, the nature and uses of meaning, of what constitutes proof, and artifical intelligence, circa 25 years ago, using witty and poetic language that, nethertheless, makes for an intellectual romp. And makes CARROLLIAN references, such as the use of the tortoise dialogues tailored to his book. DECIPHERING MESSAGES FROM E.T.I. The most relevant chapter in the book to our issue is the one centered around the problems in deciphering and decoding possible messages from an Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, ETI, given the nature of an unknown, nonhuman language, concepts and cultural contexts, found in "Chapter VI: The Location of Meaning," the focus of this essay. In doing so, we will discover how this applies so well, first to our WOW! SIGNAL CONTACT and then to the OVERALL U.F.O. MYSTERY, of which our experience is a part. Among the three stages of confirming a legitimate Contact and comprehending its meaning, Hofstadter says are: 1) Skepticism, Verification, Peer Review, Scientific Method. 2) Strict Safeguards on Hoaxs, Self-Delusion and Erroneous Data. 3) Protocols to Avoid Premature, Immodest Claims. And then there is the structure of an ETI MESSAGE, listed here from the book, along with our structure references next to the listed items: A) The FRAME MESSAGE (Wonderland). B) The OUTER MESSAGE with its "TRIGGER IMAGES" (Rabbits, Triangles, Synchronicities, Quantum Theory, etc.) C) The INNER MESSAGE (What it all means -- the possible MEANINGS which we have explored through our experiences and insights in great depth in the "Project Wonderland Chronicles.") ARTICLE TO BE CONTINUED... WATCH THIS SPACE