DECODING CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, PART TWO, & "WOW!" BREAKTHROUGH ADVENTURES, JULY 2001 & BEYOND

"WHO ARE YOU?" A TRUTH SEEKING QUEST FOR IDENTITY

How odd can a day be, how highly strange can the fabric of life be, and how wonderous the pro-active quest can be to decode the Contact Message.

The "WOW!" Breakthrough, encompassing many aspects of close encounters, represents a Search with a connecting thread woven by a quest born of inquires asked to resolve the many seething dilemmas of Contact.

It is a Quest founded in curiorsity sparked in origins of childlike wonderings embraced in the experiences of maturity and the need to know, not only who and what interacts with us, but who we really are as human beings.

And, for us here, it brings us back to the playland of storied CONEY ISLAND, here in July 2001, fitting together the building blocks and pieces of a puzzle far larger than the pieces that may compose it.

Through the connecting weave of clues formed from synchronicities still beading together from the inner spaces of our quest, there seems to be messages to us creating Contact with a Life Force intimately connected with us which remains an Open Mystery......

CONEY ISLAND REVISITED, JULY 2001

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RECAP SUMMARY

Our Breakthrough Journey began on June 12, 2000, part of a longer quest for truth, with the insight between Gary H. in England and Harold Egeln in New York City concerning the synchronistic realization involving the September 1995 sighting of seven white lights by Coney Island in Brooklyn.

The connecting link involved the lights that included two sets of three lights arrayed in triangular formations over the general area of the famed Coney Island amusment park (as represented by the Ferris Wheel in the attached WEB-TV Art Gallery graphic here), and the Triangular Lodge, built 400 years before in the English countryside.

The Rabbit synchronicity came with the Olde English word for rabbit being coney, linking to Coney Island, and the Triangular Lodge doubling as a Warryners Lodge for a rabbit keeper long ago, as well as a rabbit charm on a chain bracelet found by an encounter explorer in 1993 upon returning from a contact situation at SPACE's field trip site in Bewster in upstate New York. That contact experiment was a joint effort between SPACE in the U.S. and a team led by Colin Andrews at Stonehenge in England.

Into the mix also on June 12, 2000 came a totally independent and unsolicited communication from space engineer contractor Walt Williams, one of two people, who founded the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Vehicles (SETV), an SETI program focusing on finding ET probes in our solar system but NOT a UFO research organization. He was interested in communication from afar by ET Intelligence with humans, which attracted him to our website, and which has led to a brief private dialog. It also sparked a string of WILLIAMS synchronicities far beyond any norm.

As fully documented on WebPages 8, 9, 10 and 17, the incidents of synchronicities and related events of High Strangeness multiplied like rabbits. And the number of people experiencing all this, at many diverse locations and at different stretches of time made S.P.A.C.E. Encounter Explorers and searcher Gary H. in England, among others, aware of the extraordinay circumstances being presented to us in a highly likely deliberate fashion.

And like the Ferris Wheel, as a Mandala of Experience and an image found in our encounter-related dreams, it all brings us, unexpectedly again as usual, back to Coney Island where clues abound, as we ask about who we really are as we interface with an Enigmatic Phantom Realm.

THE "A.I." BREATHROUGH CONNECTION

In the new movie, "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence" by Steven Spielberg with the late Stanley Kubrick, reports Harold Egeln, who first viewed it on July 8, 2001, there is a scene towards the end that just happens to involve Coney Island.

It is a scene that sets the stage for a "breakthrough" for the charming android boy David, the subject of the movie "AI," and the advanced Artificial Intelligences who discover him 2,000 years later.

David, the A.I. created by humans later in this century, is on a search "to become truly human," as he heard in the fairy tale "Pinocchio," after his adoptive family abandoned him. He journeys to New York City eventually, a lost city whose skyscapers tower above the ocean, a result of global warming melting the polar icecaps.

His journey takes him underwater, with his robotic Teddy bear toy, where he enters a gate into "CONEY ISLAND," travelling through a fanciful physical recreation of the Pinocchio story. He finds his sought-after "Blue Fairy," a statue that he hopes will grant his wish to become human, which the statue cannot realistically do.

The movie's narrator tells the audience that 2,000 years pass, and the oceans have frozen, as has David and his teddy bear. They were trapped in the uderwater Coney Island when a Ferris Wheel falls down upon their submersible vehicle.

But David is discovered by an Advanced Artificial Intelligence, evolved from the early models created by humans of late in this century. They find out that he existed when humans, now extinct 2,000 fro now, were alive.

2,000 years from now early "A.I." David becomes their link to humanity, and they give David a home and a human connection, extracted from his memory banks and recreated holographically.

Ironically the Advanced A.I. resemble somewhat the depictions from our time of the most famous "alien" form. But, to the point here, the "Breakthrough" for David and his advanced descendants 2,000 years from now is made through an Identity Quest that brought David to CONEY ISLAND and an Identity Quest by the Advanced A.I. that brought them to CONEY ISLAND, scene of their quest's fulfillment.

Please note that the "Dr. Know" hologram who gets David to New York City and Coney Island uses the voice of Robin WILLIAMS, and that David's creator in the movie is played by the actor WILLIAM Hurt. Pure chance, of course.

So what, you might say? You all have great imaginations and are searching for straws! But our story, like it has for over a year now, brings in Coney Island again, unexpectedly, just a few days later, and another WILLIAMS.

A DETECTIVE'S GIFTS FROM CONEY ISLAND

By Harold Egeln, July 13, 2001.

It all hit me later. In fact a day later, today.

While leaving work for a late lunch break yesterday (July 12), I heard someone call my name. I turned and saw a retired police detective, who I know from my newspaper work, carrying a lot of colorful balloons, as his wife held cotton candy, candied sugar-coated glazed apples and a white-and-orange striped plastic hat.

"These are gifts we have for you and others at your office from our visit to Coney Island, Harold!" said the retired detective.

I thanked them, glad they enjoyed their visit with their club to Coney Island. But I never gave a moments thought to this being meaningful coincidence, synchronicity, as there was no connective context. People go to Coney Island all the time, so what?

THE WILLIAMS LINK

That very evening I finally had my first in-person conversation with Dr. Gibbs Williams, the psychoanalytic psychologist who gave a lecture on "SYNCHRONICITIES: Decoding Meaningful Coincidences" at the New York Open Center on February 23, in the midst of a cluster of syncs (as reported on our website Page 10).

For three hours that evening, we had a deep and wide-ranging discussion over synchronicities, his own fascinating work, and the information documented by SPACE. Then, today, it hit me:

I was meeting Dr. WILLIAMS on a day with a Direct, Real CONEY ISLAND connection, with the retired detective and his lovely wife bringing balloons and gifts from Coney Island...and only three blocks from where I saw the array of seven white lights over Coney Island in 1995! ---The sighting that led to a synchronistic connection on June 12, 2000 that just happened to independently involve a WILLIAMS, Walt Williams of California.

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I had not heard of Dr. Gibbs William prior to a few days before a talk he gave back in February of this year, which I was alerted to b a SPACE member.

How strange that a WILLIAMS should appear and discuss Synchronicities, especially during a cluster of syncs that began in England a few days before when Gary H. went to a supermarket and got Cadbury Rabbit chocolate candy eggs!

I did not introduce myself to Dr. Williams that Winter evening. Later, especially in early April, I tried to e-mail about our syncs for his own independent review. But, alas, all my e-mails returned undelivered no matter how many times I tried. It was also early in April that the SPACE Website Froze from Page 10 and onward, preventing me from entering those pages to make changes.

On Monday evening, July 2 when I went to the website, I suddenly found those pages "unfrozen," to my delighted surprise and great relief, after being unaccessible to me for two months.

Also, a few days before I successfully sent an email, finally, to Dr. Williams, but had not yet heard back from him. So, after midnight on the evening the webpages suddenly "unfroze" I dispatch an e-mail to Gary H. in England, expressing my concern about not yet hearing back fom Dr. Williams. Perhaps he was very busy, away, uninterested or put-off by he UFO material? I told Gary that it would be nice to have "a cold beer" with him and discuss our material and his work.

Before sending my e-mail off to Gary, the red lights on my Web-TV unit indicate that I "got mail." I send my e-mail to Gary. I open my own e-mail and discover it is a positive reply to my e-mail to him of about a week before, and he really wants to discuss the information I sent him about SPACE.

I then e-mail Gary back, saying, now I will have a talk with Dr. Williams over "a cold beer," and e-mail him an additional message with further thoughts. I am not a drinker, and have maybe one beer a year. But I was compelled to use that expression for fun.

I did not hear back from Gary for almost three days, and hope he is okay, or perhaps busy. Then he sends me an e-mail on July 5th, saying that he had been wondering why he had received nothing from me for awhile. Then, he finally got all three of my e-mails about Dr. Williams on the evening of July 4th (They were sent after midnight on July 3rd.)

"Then I had all of them at once," Gary H. wrote, something which has not happened before. "The very evening I received your e-mails with you saying that you were going to have a cold beer, I was at a brewery (pub)!!!...(this) proves that your statement that there is a sync being set up is Truth!"

"It would seem that "IT" (the ETI or NonHuman Intelligence) knew what IT was doing (although we couldn't see it)...," Gary H. writes. "IT knows how to connect the right people together to get the results IT knows will be of benefit...Maybe a direction will emerge when you talk with Gibbs?"

"At least it (your talk) will give him the understanding that two guys with UFO connections are being used to make a form of Contact,,," he continues. "You say the web site defrosted and let you work on it since Dr. Gibbs popped in? Now that Dr. Gibbs saw it, (there's) no reason more to keep it frozen?"

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And the fictional David in the movie "A.I." was frozen at Coney Island, on a quest for identity and unity, until discovered by others who would understand, at which point he became unfrozen.

And, while I did not have a cold beer when I met Dr. Williams, he offered me a glass of strawberry water, which I do not have a taste for.

Instead, he offered me a glass of cold Root Beer A & W soda, which I gladly accepted.

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Dr. Gibbs Williams, on his marvelous website (see Close Encounters of the Synchronicity Kind for the link), has a section on Sychronicity, which includes his in-depth abstract, "The Psychodynamics and Use of Meaning Conicidence (SYNCHRONICITIES)," to which we refer here. Employing this in his work, he notes that synchronicities help in the "development of self as it aspires to expanding consciousness" and that syns "are surface manifestations of an individual's creative process toward" finding the "best solution" for a problematic question. That could certainly apply to the questions we raise from our close encounter experiences, with our determination, individually and collectively, to discover what this is all about, reaching out to the forces that interface with us, carried by waves of Intent on the Wings of Desire. Synchronicities, Dr. Williams writes, affirm "a wonderous appreciation for the creative capacity of each person to order his own internal and external" processes. They can help move a person from a "reactive response" to "a reflective reponse." So many people who experience close encounters are in a reactive position. But others move to a "reflective response," as indicted by dreams of mirrors and glass structures, reported in the Breakthrough material and elsewhere. We are following the Rabbit as "Alices Through the Looking Glass" by affirming a proactive Apprach and Attitude. Syncs may differ in content and form, but, Dr. Williams writes, "share a common structure." He sees them forming "a common thread through all contexts" helping a "fragmented self in a search for wholeness." They help a pro-active "make meaning" process and function both in linear time and durational time, overlappig as they do. As encounter explorers, we see a pattern in these sychronicities, in a quest for a Unified Field Theorm of our Contact, which can bring it all together as we try to understand what is realy happening through our encounters. "A state of active readiness (is) a crucial pre-condition for the emergence of synchroncities," Dr. Williams writes, functioning as a "proactive wish to find a solution to a seemingly intractable" quandry that becomes "the creation of an organizing question." Gary H.'s Cadbury chocolate candy eggs, "the purple wishing mini-eggs," set the stage for a cluster of synchroniciies that involved Dr. Gibbs Williams, trains, and durational time overlapping with linear time back in February of this year (see Page 10). Questioning his even mentioning the "Wishing Eggs" with the White Rabbit on the package as even mattering, Gary H., from " state of active readiness" helped setoff that cluster of syncs, which involved other people, at least a total of more than six people. These statements presented in Dr. William's abstract from his website may be applied to a wider, collective basis as expressed in the synchronistic and related events as documented in the "Breakthrough" accounts, presented, as Rod Serling said in "The Twilight Zone" TV show, "for your consideration." --- entered by Harold Egeln, July 15, 2001 *********************************************************

THE ALICE IN WONDERLAND FACTOR

By Harold Egeln, July 15, 2001

The running theme of "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" throughout our Contact Breakthrough is not unusual, as it has been "chosen" not only by Whatever Source we interface with, but by scientists in their own work. To explain the workings of the Hubble Telescope, a book with an "Alice" theme was published about a decade ago.

On the July 4th holiday this year, while in a bookstore, I explored the Science and Astronomy book section, coming across "Alice In Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics" by Robert Gilmore, a Lecturer in Physics at Bristol Unversity in England (published by Copernicus Books, New York, NY, 1995).

It an utterly delightful and very clever book updating the story of Alice to now and taking her on adventures, through her TV set or telly, into a fanciful journey into the inner world of quantum articles. It is a wonderfully told story that can be read by both the layperson and the most serious physicist, a blend of fantasy and science done in a fun and fully informative way.

After jumping through her TV set, Alice finds herself on a TRAIN platform, of all things (given all our train references in the Encounter Experience). She boards to the train, filled with adorable electrons, to get to Quantumland.

Disembarking, she sees her Rabbit, proclaiming that he is late, looking not at his Watch but for his Keys. She even comes across Schrodinger's Chesire Cat, learning about the meaning of states, amplitudes, photons, bosons, parameters, positrons and so much more.

Then in a search for synchronicity websites through the study of Dr. Gibbs Williams website, I stumble across another ALICE reference. in a website by Nick Herbert.

It is a book, in German, called "Alice Zwischen Den Welten" conceived and edited by WILLIAM (of course) Shanley, with contributions by Nick Herbert and David Peat, the British physicist who authored the 1987 book on "Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind." The cover shows Alice plunging into the starry Universe, on new adventures. The book, published by DVA, Deutsche Verlagen Amstadt, Stuggart, Germany, 1999, is describedas "a quantum-mechanical version of the Lewis Carroll classic."

Apparently, Whoever or Whatever is now interacting with us, is fully aware of the Alice In Wonderland allegories, and has deliberately applied it, by design, to this Breakthrough Contact to convey the nature of their being and reality, and the reality we all inhabit.

"Curiouser and Curiouser," said ALICE.
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"UFO" SIGHTINGS ADD TO SYNCHRONISTIC MIX

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By Harold Egeln, July 20, 2001

Perhaps part of the pattern of the Breakthrough puzzle are recent possible UFO sightings in New Jersey across from New York City, as fully reported on our Close Encounters of the Sightings Kind webpage on the S.P.A.C.E. website.

The photos here were taken in mid-June by SPACE Explorer Alan White. The scene is from Manhattan looking across the Hudson River to New Jersey and the apartment building in the center called "The Stonehenge." It is the site of a UFO landing investigated by Budd Hopkins in 1976.

White, on a whim, felt that he wanted to snap pictures of the site, 25 years after the UFO landing incident by the apartment building. When he developed his photos, to his utter surprise, the triangular array of white "objects" appeared in the upper right of the photo, which he did not see when he took the photos. Whatever they are, the array reminds us of what was seen over Coney Island in September 1995 and elsewhere.

Then, shortly after midnight on Sunday, July 16, between 12:35-:45 A.M. came a mass sighting of "UFOs" over Carteret, New Jersey, across from Staten Island in New York City, witnessed by hundreds of people, including puzzled police. They saw anywhere from 15 to 30 flickering golden lights traveling silently in formation and forming patterns, such as the Big Dipper, triangles and V-formations. An excellent videotape was taken of the UFOs. All local TV stations in New York City had reports on the sightings on the news the following evening (July 16).

While the lights remain unidentified and speculation persists as to their source, what struck us was the comments of the witnesses seen on TV, who expressed emotional feelings of being awe-struck and peaceful about what they saw. The apparent "Big Dipper" formation was like the scene in the movie "Close Encounters" when the lights over Devil's Tower formed a Big Dipper.

Carteret is home to many huge oil tanks. Were the "UFOs" making a statement on polluting energy sources? Where they giving us, SPACE and its associates, and others who try to get the UFO experience a fair hearing, a "reward" by staging such a sighting just outside New York City?

What is immensely curious is the apparent choice of the sites of the sightings. The "Stonehenge" apartments connect with England, and by association, SPACE's connection with Gary H. in England and his June 12, 2000 insight of the triangular formations of white lights over Coney Island in 1995 and the 16th Century "Triangular Lodge" in the English countryside.

And, perhaps, a subtle reference to Gibbs WILLIAMS, via Hopkins. Dr. Williams is among those, such as Dr. John Mack, David Jacobs and Robert Bigelow, thanked specially by Hopkins in his book, "Witnessed: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge Abductions."

For more thoughts, let's go to Gary in merry old England...

LOOKING AT THE SCALE OF THE EVENTS By Gary H., July 18-20, 2001 A RABBIT PRELUDE, OF COURSE On my trip with my family to Ireland, we stayed at a house on the second night (July 13-14), and the woman who ran this boarding house is called ROSE. The first thing that I noticed as we pulled up the drive was a nine-inch long stone RABBIT on the top of a gate post. I am sure you know by now how we have been sensitised to things of a rabbit nature. Anyway, we went inside and were shown to our rooms. The first one we were shown had a LARGE WHITE TOY RABBIT on the bed!!!!!! NEW GULLIVER TRAVELS One thing I should point out is "the scale of an event." Harold Egeln's root beer with Gibbs Williams is like one glass of beer compared to a pub-full, about a thousand to one in scale. My going to the brewery was the same sort of scale. A pub will have only about 1,000 pints of beer among other drinks. An English brewery, on the other hand, has thousands of gallons of beer. So, this is why I found my trip to the brewery so significant (on the evening of July 4), only to come home and get all of Egeln's e-mails AT ONCE, dated two days before, about his getting ready to have "a cold beer" with Dr. Williams, finally making the long-sought-after connection. Now, all of the statements (in the above paragraph) which I first said to Egeln were made after the event and two days before the sightings in Carteret, making the statements without any foreknowledge of those sightings. In the book "UFOs: A British Point of View" and "Star Children," Jenny Randles made the statement of my reference of a Sugar Cube as one of the way things are done. ("A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down," as sung in the movie "Mary Poppins.") If is about how they get a reward if all the right moves have been made and the scale, a rather large sugar cube, has been increased. From Alan White's snapping the little white dots in the sky near Stonehenge and to the event of hundreds of people seeing all of those lights jumping around in Carteret is the scale of 1,000 to one, if you think about it, and it was shown on TV. If you really look at it, you and the rest of the folks linked with S.P.A.C.E. had a Sugar Cube of giant proportions! *********************************************************

TIMING, LOCATION & RABBITS IN SYNC

By Harold Egeln, July 24, 2001

On my birthday today, during a week's vacation, I took a day trip with a friend to the city of Stamford in Connecticut in New England. I certainly did not expect any more synchronicity events involving rabbits.....Wrong!

The city's downtown is adorned with 70 "art-o-mobiles," fiberglass mini-car sculptures painted by local artists as part of the city's Art in Public Places project, a follow-up of last year's "Cow Parade" of artisically sculpted fiberglass cows that were placed throughout Stamford, New York City and West Orange in New Jersey.

Some of the artwork had names like Prince Carming, Carden of Eden, Vincent Van Cargo, Carmen, Mascarade and........RABBIT Transit.

Yes, a mini-car sculpture with many rabbits painted all over it, on Atlantic Street, across from Landmark Square at Broad Street. I wondered if there were a Williams nearby? There had to be, I thought a Williams somewhere near.

As I thought that, we were standing in front of a cafe as we looked up towards the Rabbit Transit car sculpture a few feet away. I noticed that the cafe was called "WISH". Like the Cadbury Rabbit's Purple Wishing Mini-Eggs that Gary H. grabbed and ate in February (see Page 10).

Then next to the cafe I noticed a shop with an overhead sign reading: WM.GORDON, with two Griffins flanking it. Looking closer, it was the WILLIAM Gordon Jewelers.

And in the front window were Two WHITE RABBIT sculptures standing and surrounded by WATCHES and TIME-PIECES!!!!

And, one of the WHITE RABBITS was standing over a small sign at its feet, with the name WILLIAM right under directly by its feet, part of a small sign that read William Gordon Jewelers, established 1918.

Here, in one fell, unexpected swoop, we get our ALICE IN WONDERLAND theme again, with our WHITE RABBIT and WATCHES, near a Cafe called "WISH" and within 25 feet of the RABBIT TRANSIT fiberglass mini-car sculpture.

Then I looked at the store's address: 27 Atlantic Street. The number "27" has a special spiritual significance, as described on one of our earlier Breakthrough Pages (see "Oh, God!" account on Page 9). Also, ATLANTIC Street, signifying the Atlantic Ocean, that very huge pond that separates SPACE in New York City and Gary H. in England.

Within a mile from this spot of the latest unexpected meaningful coincidence is the I-95 highway, next to the Metro-North TRAIN tracks, the highway upon which a SPACE explorer saw a rabbit standing one rainy night in July 2000 (see Page 8).

And this latest event today all happened right after having a chocolate milk shake at a nearby ice cream place across from Landmark Square.

The confluences once again came together as a reminder and a marker in the Breakthrough Adventures that keep going on and on, making meaning and making us pay attention that Something is Working Playfully here, with a Time Factor ticking away to bring it all together.

What a wonderful birthday present!

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A TREASURE HUNT IN AN OLDE ENGLISH VILLAGE The day after the new adventure of the Stamford Synchronicity of July 24, Gary H. was engaged in his Scout Fellowship's Treasure Hunt in an "Olde English Village," totally unaware of the latest developments stateside. When Egeln e-mailed him about the incident on July 26, Gary replied in the wee hours of July 27 with the following report. He prefaced the report with a reminder about his visit to a village a few months ago in preparation for the Treasure Hunt. There his wife pointed out a model rabbit sleeping on a hammock attached to a window, indicating to Gary a change in direction. ************************ Report by Gary H., Friday, July 27, 2001: We had our Treasure Hunt on Wednesday night in one of those "Olde English Villages" where there is only one pub! Now you must understand that this Hunt was set up a year ago, and there was a little bit of skullduggery on the part of those taking part to line me up for this year's hunt! No coincidence as yet. (Gary proceeds to go to the Stamford Report and highlighting key words: in New ENGLAND... MASCARADE... "WISH"... with TWO GRIFFINS... and 27.) You will see that the Treasure Hunt ended up at a pub called the GRIFFINS HEAD, and, yes, as you write in your e-mail of July 26, Harold, I did have a cold beer. You write about the William Gordon jewelery store name being flanked by "two Griffins." And you'll get this e-mail on the 27th. Again, I remind you that this hunt was lined up a year ago! How close cold this come to your birthday! We in the Scout Fellowship try to set these things up for a Wednesday evening. And this conversation of ours concludes on the 27th!!!! And with me having a meal with 20 others in a pub called the GRIFFINS HEAD on the 25th, in between times, with you, Harold, only letting me know about your website addition about Stamford tonight, the 26th. Now, you say that the art items in Stamford were MINI cars, with ENGLAND being home of "the MINI," and you relay the word "WISH." Perhaps the "MASCARADE" will end! ****************************************************************** (Gary sent pictures of the Griffins Head pub's menu and a copy of the Treasure Hunt clues, which are too large to be placed here.) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

GRIFFINS HEAD PUB SIGNPOST

Griffins Head Pub sign-post in the olde English village where Gary H.'s Scout Fellowship had its Treasure Hunt dinner on July 25th, 2001, just one day after Harold Egeln's experience in Stamford, Connecticut in New England which included a picture of two griffins flanking a diamond, the logo for William Gordon Jewelers displayed in a store window with two White Rabbits, watches and a picture of the Brooklyn Bridge.

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EUREKA! RABBITS AND STARS

By Meryl Johnson,
as told to Harold Egeln, July 29, 2001

MORE RABBIT ADVENTURES

When you, Ed and I met, I mentioned that when I was in Arkansas (in early April 2001), my friend there and I kept running into rabbit things and dismissed them because it was just before Easter and there would be plenty of rabbits around as decorations.

That made me remember a particular wall hanging, that I did see there, of a RABBIT staring up at a STAR, a peculiarly appropriate symbol. So, I recently asked my friend if it were still there and to buy it for me. She said she would, but didn't until she was, uh, reminded. This is what she e-mailed me:

"First, I need to reply about you wondering about the rabbit and the star. We were in that shop in EUREKA a couple of weeks ago and I think it was still there. They had moved it, but I remember seeing it....We'll be back there next weekend and I'll check it out...." she writes.

"I have to tell you," she writes Johnson, "Today when I was out shopping, I walked into a new antique shop and saw a WHOLE BOOKCASE of SLEEPING RABBITS! Oh, and those rabbits were really funny looking rabbits, cast metal of some kind, dark, and they were laying down with the right back leg and front leg hanging off the shelf, and the rabbits' heads flat out front. A derelict, passed-out rabbit. They came in a variety of sizes, none of which I wanted."

DANCING RABBITS

When my friend went back the next day, the rabbit with the star was gone. But she found a silk pillow with four RABBITS on it, DANCING under the STARS!

Heh! All these rabbit things are handmade and it seems that there's some guy down there who's making things about RABBITS and STARS, ---and I want to know why!

My friend said the pllow is so beautiful, so I said I'd send a check and she would buy one for me. She's mailed it, but it has gotten here. Probably next week.

(But that's not all,,,,)

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Then this morning (Sunday, July 29) I get the following e-mail from my friend in Arkansas and she mentions you. I thought I should tell you about the continuing Rabbit Adventures:

"On the way home tonight, I was driving and we were coming down the road you and I took to the airport, that Winding, Convoluted Trail from EUREKA to Fayetteville," she writes. "It was raining fairly hard and fog was drifting in big spirals across the road here and there."

"We passed a little junk shop. It was closed," she writes to Johnson. "But out in front was a HUGE (at least SEVEN foot tall) paper-mache RABBIT, all WHITE with a little pink skirt and blue leiderhosen."

"He appeared to be peering closely at a wire stick in his hand, but I think there must have been a flower or something at one time on that stick," she writes. "He was for sale. A big pink and blue RABBIT in the MIST, especially one STARING with a spacy expression at a rusty wire in his hand, is not something good to see after a weekend on the road. I'm sure Harold would be pleased."

I can imagine my friend's face when she saw that Rabbit looming out of the mist! I wished I had been there! I'm not going to buy that though, --the shipping costs for a SEVEN-Foot-Tall RABBIT must be pretty high.

A RABBIT with a WAND! A link to the "Wand People" I ran into in 1976? Not to mention the little "alien" on the Seventh Avenue bus who was holding a fistful of MAGIC WANDS. Both of these were "street meetings" and were pretty extraordinary.

(Here Johnson refers to strange encounters that close encounter experiencers have in the middle of everyday life that pop-up out-of-the-blue and have unusual aspects) These things seem to go full circle and tie themselves together.

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THE TRICKSTER AT PLAY?
Observations by Harold Egeln

Our playful rabbits are still on the loose, working to drive home some points, perhaps, in this latest cluster of happenings...or is that, Hoppenings.

We get references to Rabbits and Stars, with one staring at a star and four others dancing on a pillow under the stars. The reference is ever more to the stars...Ad Astra, and, by implication, space.

The line-up of Sleeping Rabbits on a book shelf is comparable to Gary H.'s one lone Sleeping Rabbit on a Hammock, seen a few months ago as he went to an English village to organize his Scout Fellowship's TREASURE HUNT.

Gary H. felt that the sleeping rabbit, as he made meaning out of the epidsode, represented a change of direction. And, as he would say about this here, there is a matter of "Scale to the Events." He had one rabbit while the woman in Arkansas gets a whole bunch of Sleeping Rabbits. That's our Gulliver's Travels Factor of the Micro and the Macro at work again.

And the place where the Wall Hanging of a Rabbit staring at a Star,--- why that was in a place called EUREKA. Like in a Treasure Hunt, or a Quest when the person(s) finds the treasure, they yell, "EUREKA!"

And that haunting SEVEN-Foot-Tall WHITE RABBIT in the spooky Night Mist. It's like our tall White Rabbit in Alice In Wonderland or Harvey, the playful pouka sprite in the Jimmy Stewart 1950 movie, "Harvey."

Then there's the "wire stick," more like a "WAND" as in a Magician's Wand, or our Trickster waving the magic wand of tricks and treats. Not to mention stories we and others relate about "aliens" holding rods, like wands, that touch our heads and bodies during visitations.

And the latest Bunny Tales coming so soon after the Stamford, Connecticut Episode in New England, and Gary H.'s episode on the Scout Fellowship Treasure Hunt, creating a CLUSTER of SYNCHRONICITIES. Once again, as in previous patterns, different yet the same, and involving a group of people in different places.

We're still hopping down that Bunny Trail and, it seems, that RABBIT symbology is really trying to tell us something and, perhaps, communicating that who ever is behind the Looking Glass wants us to take action and get this news of Contact Out.

Or so it seems.

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THE CONTACT CONTINUES THROUGH AUGUST By Harold Egeln, Jr. September 27, 2001 -- There has been no end to the "WOW Breakthrough Contact" as we come through August 2001, as it is relentless and remains repetitive but, as always, in different forms and expressions. So we will summerize here rather than report in detail the thread of synchronicties and associated images. *** A researcher on the West Coast informs us, on August 5, about the new crop formation in Warren, England and then he experiences other information with references to the word "Warren" (the association being rabbit warrens), and an actual Rabbit Reference. *** Dr. Gibbs Williams, whom, it seems we were directed to, reports his own first Rabbit Synchronicity, reported to me at a S.P.A.C.E. Explorers Gathering on August 22. Williams got a booklet on digital photography, which is of great interest to him. On one of the pages there is a section telling how, with imagination, a camera user could superimpose an image onto a digital photo. There are two photos shown, both with two young girls. The second of the photos shows a large rabbit inserted in between the two girls. Within the context of the text, the synchronicity startled Dr. Williams, just happening to have the rabbit inserted into an interest of his, digital photography. *** At that same gathering a woman reports that she provided help to a rabbit belonging to another woman at the meeting. *** After the SPACE gathering, I board a subway train with two others. A woman standing near by is wearing a Bugs Bunny teeshirt. *** Over dinner the other night, a SPACE explorer tells me that her son, when he was a child, had a White Rabbit named "William." *** The day before (Aug. 25) I and a friend visited the Sunrise Mall in Long Island. Within a moment of coming into the shoping mall, there is a pet store and in the front window is a live White Rabbit, not a synchronicity by itself. Later at the SunCoast video store I buy the 50th anniversary special edition of the 1950 science fiction classic, "Rocketship X-M" starring Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen and Hugh O'Brien, with music by composer Ferde Grofe ("The Grand Canyon Suite"). The cover notes are by Wade WILLIAMS. One of the actresses in the movie has the same last name as my friend with me at the mall. *** Watching my videotape of the wonderful 1935 movie "Lost Horizon" there is a scene at the beginning of the movie of people fleeing onto rescue airplanes to escape the dangers of a local revolution in China. A little girl rushes towards a plane holding a plush toy Rabbit.(The only time I've seen the movie on the big screen at the Theatre St. Marks 80 after my first session with Dr. Jean Mundy in 1988.) *** When I and others were experiencing spooky events at a house I shared with others in West Orange, New Jersey, in 1972 and 1973, a friend offered two "women psychics" to investigate the goings-on, but we refused the help, perferring not to ntrude on the odd happenings. The name of one of the psychics was "Bunny." There are more, as well as tangental synchronistic clusters involving very specific ad personal associations which cannot be reported here, but which also associate with our reports. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

THE "POCKET WATCH" WITH NO TIME

By Harold Egeln, August 27, 2001

Can an event in 1973 relate to our "WOW! Breakthrough Contact" now? We have raised the question regarding times, places and events before. On August 22 I receive the latest issue of the "MUFON UFO Journal," dated August 2001.

There is an article by Walter Andrus Jr. about a CE-3 case that took place in March 1973 ten miles east of EUREKA Springs in Akansas. That is the Eureka referred to above in the account of Rabbits, a few reports back.

What drew my interest, aside from the locale, was a photo of a rusty medallion given to the woman by the "leader" in her abduction episode. It was "a small round medallion approximately two inches in diameter with a ring or handle like a pocket watch." POCKET WATCH is what caught my attention, although it was not a timepiece.

It intrigued me because of being like a pocket watch, and that the incident occurred near where Meryl Johnson's friend reported a cluster of Rabbit related events, such as the sleeping rabbits, the pillow with the rabbits dancing below the stars, and the seven foot Rabbit in the fog holding a wand.

Did Alice's Wonderland White Rabbit "lose" his pocket watch with its askewed sense of time? Did the "alien leader" give this medallion to the woman, knowing that it would have meing to people in the year 2001, aside from other factors?

Of course, we can never be sure nor absolutely certain, as with just about anything in our ongoing Wonderland Adventures! It's like another dangling clue in a Treasure Hunt. But I can tell you all one thing more here.

My MUFON UFO Journal was a wee bit crumpled, as it was stuck in my mailbox. As I turned from page 7 with its medallion report, I flipped right to page 20, the pages being stuck together, and opened up to an article with these words in the headline: Results reported in study of 'Williamsport Wave' ten years later. So, we get WILLIAMS again, immediately.

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THE STATUS OF THE CONTACT, SEPT. 2001 THE GIFT By Harold Egeln, October 6, 2001 By the time September rolled around and then the horrendous attack on the World Trade Center in New York City came, the "Contact" with its rabbits, Williamses, sightings and incredible synchronicites became still, as if waiting and watching. There have been hints though, glimpses of the gentleness of the briiliant, sensitive forces who have weaved the fabric of communication since June 12, 2000, although none can be construded, its seems, as a definate part of the patterns of the Breakthrough. They seem like peek-a-boos from around the corners of our lives. Emerging from the dentist chair the other day, I enter The Waiting Room of the clinic as children watch a cartoon show on public TV. The first thing I see on the TV set is a grey Rabbit in a Red vest. I smile. I laugh gently. I am again in wonder. Now I know. Knowing what we do think we know about the nature of the intelligence behind the fine-tuned orchestrations of this Contact, its behaviour in this time of trouble is consistent and recognizable. Although, until tonight, it was not to me. Then I understood, now, as I write, why the Contact seems muted. It is not. By their very nature they reveal themselves, as they have now The Contact continues, though so subtle is it that it can be missed. And yet there is the record of an awesome experience upon these webpages, which is The Gift. We of SPACE and our friends have been among those who have been given this Gift, to do as we choose to share it with others, as we have done through our accounts. It is a Contact of choice. Yet there is urgency. In The Gift there is hope. There is creativity. There are those currents in the whispers of the cosmos that still are heard deep inside us, like a breeze that touches the soul, in response to a craving for knowledge, wisdom, love, wonder and kindness. Partnership awaits our moves, if we choose, ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

ON THE BUNNY TRAIL OF THE BLACK RABBIT: AUTUMN 2001

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On the evening of January 3, 2002, the coming of the "Black Rabbit" is making sense. Black Rabbit? The Ying/Yang, another side of the coin, night and day, the visible universe and the dark matter universe, or, much more in what absorbs all colors, black, and what reflects all colours, white.
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THE BLACK RABBIT TRAVELS IN
by Harold Egeln

New York City, September 21, 2001 -- I sit in the coffee shop of the Barnes & Noble super bookstore at Astor Place talking with a SPACE explorer about our feelings after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center ten days before.

She witnessed the deadly event from her place in Greenwich Village, about a mile or so from ground zero, and saw and helped the people streaming northward, escaping the horror. Like me and so many others, she suffered from the stress unleashed by the horrid mass killings in our city.

Inevitably we got around to SPACE and encounter concerns. Any rabbits around? I ask, as those Breakthrough images vanished for several weeks, taking a backseat to more immediate concerns of safety and health.

"On my way over here, Harold, I was walking along Christopher Street. I saw a truck pass by with the image of a BIG BLACK RABBIT on the side of the truck," she said, drawing out these three words in her charming way of emphasizing a point.

"I've had a bunch of white rabbits in my house back in 1973, and my friend out by Eureka Springs in Arkansas, the one who had the red spot episode one time when all that red stuff appeared, had the rabbit syncs this year," she notes. "But never black rabbits!"

Black rabbits, eh? On a truck, traveling. Have Rabbit, will travel? Christopher Street bears the name of the patron saint of travellers, Saint Christopher, whose statue sits on many vehicle dashboards. Both my SPACE friend and I have had "Men In Black" type episodes, and I with a major rabbit synchronicity event this past May, on Christopher Street.

I get home this evening and find an e-mail from Gary H. in England, which reads in part: "The rabbit on the chain that started all of this, and that tied in with Betty and Barney Hill, always with alien contact, should have given people food for thought. But this does not seem to be the case?"

"Why does it happen that people run about, not listening, even if the ANSWER IS TAPPING THEM on their shouder?" Gary continues, puzzled and a wee bit frustrated, like me, at the lack of response from the UFO community at large to the Breakthrough and similar events.

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Brooklyn, NY, October 2, 2001 -- Upon leaving the dentist chair, I notice in the office waiting room a children's public television cartoon show on the TV set. There's a LARGE GREY and WHITE CARTOON RABBIT wearing a RED waistcoat.

The next day I am in the emergency room of a hospital, suffering from a severely pounding, racing heartbeat and palpitations, thinking I'm about to die. My blood pressure is 170 over 108. An EKG is taken. I'm given medication as my whole torso shakes violently from the racing heartbeat. My pressure comes down to 125/72 and I am told there is an indication of a mild, silent non-damaging heart attack in the past on the EKG. The doctor tells me that the episode, one of several I've had in the last few weeks after witnessing and doing articles for my newspaper on the twin towers attacks, is probably caused by anxiety and stress. He tells me to see a phsycian as soon as possible, and releases me.

The next day I call a clinic to make an appointment. I will see a DR. BLACK.

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"A UNIVERSAL MESSAGE SYSTEM WTH SUPREME INTENT"

THE BLACK BUNNY TRAIL GOES CROSSCOUNTRY

By Harold Egeln

On October 16 I get an e-mail from "Morgan" out in the Pacific Northwestern United States who stumbled upon the SPACE website and who was drawn to the Breakthrough Material, specifically the synchronicities relating to rabbits.

Morgan, a "student and teacher of synchronistic symbols" with a metaphysical and paranormal group called the Circle of the Sapphire Flame, told of her own personal experiences involving BLACK RABBITS in 1995-1996 which have haunted Morgan to this day, although with no apparent close encounter connection.

For the record -- The just previous accounts above regarding the Black Rabbit, with dates relating to the place and dates of the reports, was not entered until January 2, 2002, as this report here is now being entered on that date.

Morgan sent her first e-mail on October 16, 2001, attracted to our SPACE website. I will let Morgan speak, telling her story via e-mails, as Morgan wants to share this with others so we can all learn. Here are excerpts from Morgan's messages to SPACE. STRANGE BLACK RABBIT COINCIDENCES as told by Morgan October 16, 2001 -- Instead of white rabbits, I had a series of strange coincidences involving BLACK rabbits around 1995 and 1996 that have affected me to this day. October 18, 2001 -- (In a message to Joseph Wiek, the SPACE Explorer who was editor of our print newsletter for seven years) JOSEPH: I just had an interesting experience about five minutes ago. A friend called, telling me that a neice said she wanted him to take his rabbit, Jasmine. When he said, I knew it was going to be a black one. And it was. Then he told me about his black dog, Midnight, and black cat Tidbit. MORGAN: Hmmm....You know, Harold just related a story to me about a woman who also had a black rabbit reference. That's two. Shall we be daring and start the count? October 26, 2001 -- I must first assert that I've never had any particular experiences with white rabbits t all. Indeed, I've never been overly fond of the cutesy little critters!... However, in 1995 a series of curious events -- easily dismissable wen taken one at a tme -- began toforce me to examine a metaphor I had never previously considered -- BLACK RABBITS. I don't remember exactly how it started, but it was along the lines of seeing book covers and ads (which almost never use BLACK rabbits, as those aren't quite "right" to our culture rather like black sheep, eh?) and coming across lines of poetry and references in fiction stories to black rabbits. Basically, my attention was repeatedly directed (?) to think about and be aware of black rabbits. By 1996 I was starting to write about some of these experiences, and so my later memories are better preserved. My birthday is close to Easter, being April 15, and that year I received three birthday cards with the ill-fitting Black Rabbit. I went on hikes in the forest a few times with my fiance, and not once, but twice, in two different locations, saw a lone black rabbit in the underbrush, which in both cases took a moment to stare at me before running off to hide. I was doing some studies on aspects of the Crone Goddess...because of some dreams I was having, only to find out that the one I always felt an affinity to was said, in some accounts, to have a BLACK RABBIT companion.

More Black Rabbit Banter When getting married that Summer, my finace and I made arrangements for the ceremony afterwards at Edgefield Manor, only to find paintings, souveniers and images of black rabbits everywhere! It turned out that the black rabbit was a favorite animal of the brothers who own the establishment and named the posh diner within the manor, "THE BLACK RABBIT RESTAURANT." The story went that the brothers, who run a very successful chain of pubs in Oregon and Washington, were haunted by a black rabbit whenever they were trying to decide whether to buy the property or not....(They) took the sightings of the unusual beast to be a "sign" of sorts. On our wedding night, I was surprised by my new spouse with a gift, -- a small black rabbit statuette, which I've kept to this day. I finally took the hint and accepted the Black Rabbit as a personal totem, and have worked with this icon ever since in many of my meditation exercises. Curiously enough, once I made the decision to take on the black rabbit as a personal symbol, all the coincidences stopped. There were more black rabbit "contacts." Suffice it to say, I was inundated for two years, perhaps until I gave in! **********************

SYNCHRONISTIC GUIDEPOSTS My tentative conclusions about synchronistic events is this: That though some are related to ET experiences (generally only during or quite soon after or before an actual contact), the answer is found by applying a more universal immanent and collective intelligence to it. (Rather like Jung, but less dependent upon the human mind, for all forms of life and existence have their own "mind" in the universal.) Because I study this "universal language" (I would like to know what all these synchronicities are pointing to, afterall!) I've found that others have been were there way ahead of me. The Native American shamans, for example, often understand these messages before any of us do. I've shared some of my experiences witha couple of medicine men and learned a great deal that my culture helps me to miss, for we are such linear-literal thinkers. To simplify it all: It's not the ETs who are talking to us...It's "God," or however you wish to define "the Source" of all and Connection to all. Why us? Why not everyone? That's just the thing. "They"/"It" does talk to others who are not related to ETs in any way. Most of them are, however, engaged in a spiritual quest which leads them to the "messages." A la James Redfield (the Celestine Prophesies). And the synchronicities tend to FORCE A CHANGE IN PERSPECTIVE, which, in turn, leads to further insights, etc. **************** RABBITS AS TRICKSTER'S WILD CARD I've spent considerable time learning about rabbit symbology and color associations, and I'd like to share some of my opinions with you. I look into the European interpretation as oppossed to the Native American because I think our culture is dominated by the western way of thinking. I notice that SPACE's white rabbit stories have a bit of Europe! My own experiences led me to check out this side as well. Rabbits represent the obvious: being prey, being quiet and nervous, and running from threats and so forth. They also represent fertility and family ties. More intriguingly, rabbits symbolize lunar madness, wild creativity, fae energy (to me, faeries are dwellers of parallel dimensions), and witchcraft, in the classic "Old Hag" sense of the word. Rabbits are a sort of "Wild Card" in the symbology deck. My own group, Sapphire Flame, celebrates the Spring Equinox, or Ostara, with certain symbolic characters from folklore and meditative inspirations: the Spring Maid, The Jack of the Green, and the Mad Jester with his March Hare. The third character represents the Trickster in his creative guise. (There is a destructive guise as well, but addressed at All Hallows Eve.) ...To put a human spin on the rabbit, just think of the classic jester or Jack. As far as white or black is concerned, my own thinking is that we are looking here at a classic light versus shadow dualistic symbolism. Unfortunately, in our culture, we think that the "Shadow" is bad or evil, -- but it certainly is not. Both light and dark have good and bad sides. It is the balance or lack of it that create good or evil. If the Brown Rabbit is the "hiding" variety, a more ordinary animal, and the White Rabbit is considered to be very directly connected to the Jester or Trickster aspect, then what could a Black Rabbit be? My interpretation is that it is some sort of undercurrent, something hidden, a "shadow" to a Trickster, a double-whammy of sorts. I'd like to know what others are thinking on this. If we're on to something, the BLACK RABBITS will start making their appearances. +++++++++++++++++++ (Copyright 2001@ Morgan.)

RABBITS WISHED: A CHRISTMAS BUNNY TALE

By Gary

(The following account is taken from an e-mail sent to Harold Egeln on December 9 by Gary in England about an episode at his UFO group's "Christmas Bash" party on Saturday, December 8, 2001. An old aquaintance of his returned after a two year stay at a university in Scotland, and he began to fill her in about the Breakthrough events.)

England, December 9, 2001 -- She was totally unaware of the SPACE website and all that happened between me and SPACE the past year...As I talked and watched, her face became one of open-eyed shock. I could not understand why she reacted so, and in the end cut short much of what I wanted to tell her, not wanting to upset her...

After a very shortened explanation, I sat down near her and was going to ask her what was wrong. I began by saying that I wanted to tell her much of what happened between SPACE and myself, and had "WISHED" I could have done so.

She then stopped me and asked when "all this Rabbit stuff" had started, "was it around June or July?" Because I had part of the SPACE website printed out in my case, I took it out and had a look. Because SPACE does such a good job "logging" all that has happened, there was a date on the part I was able to show her. It was July, but I pointed out other stuff that happened back in July.

Then the reason for her "shock" became apparent! While at the university, she had looked out her window and was happy to see a few rabbits in a field, something she would not have seen at home, no countryside here.

A few days later, she looked out of her window again to that same field, only to see THOUSANDS of RABBITS. So many, in fact, that she said that they filled the whole field!

The newspapers up there had no real explanation, other that someone must have let out all the rabbits used for experimentation, though no one said that this was done! There was no action taken by the local authority, other than to let the rabbits "run free" as they have done in nature.

The rabbits were NOT their normal WILD COLOUR, but a mixture of domesticated colours!...In short, the rabbit situation up in Scotland (this Summer) had NO meaning for her at all...until she "came home," so to speak.

She said that part of her course work was to look at the film "THE MATRIX." (which figures into our accounts.)

Seems that "THEY" let an old friend of mine "know" as best as they could, because I "WISHED" I could let her know what was going on in some way, (a communication, if you will.) I only wish I had a video camera to record her face as she reacted!

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CARL SAGAN'S RABBITS IN "CONTACT"

He writes in his 1985 novel about fictional astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway driving along a two-lane blacktop highway, on her way to the radio telescope site where she will conduct SETI research, noticing that the highway was "lined with rabbits."

"For miles there was an honor guard of desert coneys saluting her, so it seemed, as she roared through the night. They would look up, a thousand pink noses twitching, two thousand bright eyes shining in the dark....."

Sagan then writes about "the THOUSANDS OF RABBITS" (our bold print-SPACE) "lining the road....," as Dr. Arroway was "listening for a pattern" in the white noise of her racing car tires.

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RABBITS IN CHRISTMAS STORE
Taken from a Spacer's E-Mail to Harold Egeln

New York City, December 25, 2001 -- You know that store on Christopher Street (in Greenwich Village) that sells very expensive Christmas ornaments all around the year?...

I went into it a few days ago, -- and right in the front case they have an amazing creme colored and pink rabbit, (costs $650), the size of a small rabbit with big yellow eyes! It was the first thing I saw.

They also have a lot of rabbits scattered around the store, -- tiny ones, medium-sized... not exactly Christmas decorations, are they?

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MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: PATTERNS of CHESHIRE RABBITS

By Harold Egeln, Jr.

WHITE RABBIT IN SUPER-STORE

Greenwich Village, NYC, NY, Sunday, January 6, 2002 -- The treasure search along the Black Bunny Trail led us today to Greenwich Village, the fabled haven of artists, poets and beatniks in New York City.

Our destination was to glimpse inside that year-round Christmas store on Christopher Street for those rabbits, but first we stopped in a K-Mart superstore by Astor Place at Eighth Street.

On front aisle shelves were a whole bunch of Harry Potter hanging ornaments, each individually boxed, around 30 at least. I was drawn to the wizard Arbus Dumbledore ornament to add to my huge collection of children toys. The items were 50 percent off usual price.

Then I saw a boxed ornament of a fair haired boy, his arm searching into a Christmas stocking with a WHITE RABBIT doll lying at his feet. Hey, that's not a Harry Potter item. The box shape, with six sides of three diverse lengths was the exact same shape and size as the Potter ornament boxes.

This non-Potter ornament was a Collectable Ornament of an old The Saturday Evening Post magazine cover, a 3-D representation of New England artist Norman Rockwell's cover art from December 1926.

The ornament was handicrafted in China for Trevco Trading Corp., a subsidary of Trevco Holiding Company in Ontario, Canada. The Harry Potter ornaments were also made in China, but for the Enesco Group, Inc. in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, USA, not Trevco. Perhaps the two outfits are connected, I wondered, given the same size and shape of the ornament boxes?

But the Post magazine ornament with the WHITE RABBIT was the ONLY POST magazine ornament on the shelves with all the Harry Potter items, of which there were exactly 27, which I counted. A sign, perhaps? Probably not, but I bought the two items for a total of seven dollars and one penny.

A-MEWS-ING CAT

Next, on what was also a general personal tour with a friend of Greenwich Village and its holiday decorations, we walked through the Washington Mews, a private cobbled stone street with Charles Dickens-type stone cottages in the center of a block by New York University.

We entered on the Fifth Avenue side, between French and English studies centers of the university. As we did, I said to my friend, "We might see a cat in Washington Mews, though we never have before." He said, "Meow."

I was going to say a "black cat," but that seemed too daring to state. A few cottages in we looked down a cubby hole to a house-long under-the-road alley. There was a BLACK CAT, staring up at us! I snapped a couple of photos of the cat. Hmmmm...

THE STORES ON CHRISTOPHER STREET

Before long we were on Christopher Street and found the Matt McGhee year-round Christmas store at 22 Christopher Street, persumably the one the local S.P.A.C.E. Explorer mentioned in her Christmas Day e-mail to me.

There was no huge $650 rabbit in the window anymore, but there were three brown rabbits as part of a fancy Christmas sculpture in the festive store window.

Inside the small and charming shop, filled with Christmas magic, was a large WHITE RABBIT inside a glass case. Towards the back under the tree decorated with beautiful Matt McGhee ornaments, were three scluptured WHITE RABBITS. All nothing unusual in and of by itself.

Only a block or two down we came to a pet store, with a window filled with six playful puppies, drawing amused gawkers, as puppies do. One dog was gray colored, another light, and the other four were completely BLACK DOGS.

THE CHESIRE BLACK RABBIT GRINS

Now, this tale of the tour is nothing that proves nor confirms anything about our current Black Rabbit phase nor states that "ETs" or some other agency of intelligence is definately communicating something here. Nor that SETI scientists should aim their radio telescopes at Christopher Street rather than Vega or Epislon Erundi.

BUT it fits the overall pattern, a charming enchanted thread in the overall treasure search.

At the New Tiffany Restaurant where we dined afterwards, the booth seats and table were all black. Again, nothing to hop up and down about.

But merely to be reported and logged for your consideration and for the record, on the day Christians celebrate their Ephiany.

I can also note that, as I told my friend, that on the evening that I saw the "Harry Potter and Sorcerer's Stone" for the first time, I found, quite by accident, my long misplaced (for years) toy magic wand in my cluttered bedroom.

Or did it find me?

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REALMS OF THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN -- A COSMOLOGY OF WHITE AND BLACK RABBITS

Astronomers discuss the "Astronomy of the Invisible" as was mentioned on this site on June 1, 2001 in reference to a report in the Science Times section of The New York Times, involving the study and theories of "dark matter and dark energies" that compose most of the universe.

In today's "Science Times" section, there is a feature article by Times science reporter Dennis Overbye on "Dark Matter, Still Elusive, Gains Visibility," continuing to explore new thoughts and discoveries of the cosmology of the invisible, an estimated 90 percent of the universe that is Unseen by humans.

Like huge darker mountains that are topped by white snow, the visible light universe is roughly but not precisely akin to the top of a visible surface of a darker, unseen universe of which is it a part.

Our Rabbits, largely of the White variety, now become Black Rabbits. Here is a report from our chap in England on these "dark matters." --- Harold Egeln, January 8, 2002

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LOOKING DOWN INTO A RABBIT BURROW By "Gary" (in an e-mail to Harold Egeln) England, Tuesday, January 8, 2002 -- Funny how we started off with a WHITE RABBIT and now we have a BLACK RABBIT. Is that the "Yin and Yang" side of things? As I have pointed out about the "duality" of the subject some months ago, it seems that we are going to see both points soon. One of the things that has come out to me lately is that rabbit I saw on my search for treasure hunt questions (back in July 2001). My wife pointed it out hanging in a hammock, in a shop, laying there with its arms behind its head, fully relaxed. I said then that it seems as though there was going to be a rest or break. I also pointed out I saw a hare lope across the lawn in front of me the morning after, as if to say, "I am still here, but taking a break or going out on a tangent to you!" My old acquaintance, whom I had not seen for around two years, turns up at our UFO group's Christmas meeting (Dec. 8, 2001). She told about that rabbit situation she experienced in Scotland and the field full of thousands of rabbits. There was a "communication" that took place with her, YET IT TOOK THE BEST PART OF A YEAR TO BE UNDERSTOOD AS A "CONTACT COMMUNICATION." THIS ONLY BECOME APPARENT AT THE CHRISTMAS PARTY. THIS WAS, INDEED, "A SLEEPING MESSAGE!" "Reading" the Treasure Hunt situation now and the Christmas party situation gives a whole new understanding of the meaning of how I understood it back then, as well as the outcome now. My reading of the situation back then (this past Summer) that there was going to be a break or pause was correct! "IT" left a "Sleeping Message" to be understood later by my friend and myself! Not only that, but Harold, you had your break, a pause in your work on the website (Sept. through Dec. 2001)! After this break, things have changed colour from WHITE to BLACK. You can't have an Up without a Down, and you can't have a Right without a Left, or a North without a South. Just like Life is followed by Death, or the Physical by the Spiritual! We still have a COMMUNICATION after all of this time. As I left work tonight I saw a RABBIT HOLE! It was in a small area of the soil that had been cleared of trees and bushes for some months. Yet this little patch of soil was in the middle of an area of car parking spaces and buildings, well away from the main grassy area. The entrance to the rabbit hole was about a yard from the corner of two walks. As I left the building and walked down the stairs, I was able to look right down into the entrance of the burrow, the light colour of the soil from the bottom of the hole showing against the dark colours of the top soil. It was sometime after seeing this that all of the above came to be understood. I am now pondering "this opening" just like ALICE. Is this an Invitation "to step in" that we are being shown, that there is more yet to come, just like the trip ALICE took into Wonderland? +++++++++++++++++++++++

ALICE, GARY, CHRIS AND HAROLD IN SHADOWLANDS

By Harold Egeln, NYC, January 10, 2002

"....Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiousity, she ran across the field after it, and was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under a hedge. In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again." --- from "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" "Down the Rabbit Hole" chapter one, by Lewis Carroll, 1865

"....if Fairies may For a moment lay aside Cunning tricks and elvish play, 'Tis at happy Christmas-tide...Long ago, on Christmas Day, Came a message from above,,,Yet the hearts must childlike be Where such heavenly guests abide; Unto children, in their glee, All the year is Christmas-tide!..." excerpt from the "Christmas Greetings: From a Fairy to a Child" 1867 poem just preceding "Down the Rabbit-Hole" in "Alice."

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At age six or seven, I, Harold, sit frozen, mysteriously paralyzed, but fully awake and calm, at my school desk after all the children leave. Starring at the wall clock straight before me, it's 3:00 p.m.

Many years later, as a young adult, I awake in the dark night, paralyzed. My eyes turn to the radio clock. It is 3:00 a.m. and strange gentle blue light fills my bedroom from the 40-acre woods outside, illuminating the White Rabbit Alice In Wonderland Jefferson Starship album poster on the back of my bedroom, in the cottage we fondly call "The House at Pooh Corners" from Winnie the Pooh.

It is the event that would, 15 years later, launch my own search for answers and helps create S.P.A.C.E. in 1992.

Years later, at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden in April 2000, a greyish, calico rabbit dashes by the Sundial timepiece, flashing under the hedges, perhaps down a rabbit-hole, as I snap a picture of it with my camera.

In early January 2002 Gary in England notices a rabbit hole as he leaves work, and wonders about Alice, and the White and, now, Black Rabbits, and much more that might come.

This past weekend (Jan. 5-6, 2002), I am re-reading parts of "STAR CHILDREN -- The True Story of Alien Offspring Among Us" by British researcher Jenny Randles, her wonderful 1995 book which some of us in S.P.A.C.E. regard as one of the best and most beautifully stated books written about close encounter experiencers, impressed by the way she leaves the mystery open, without final conclusions, for deeper exploration. Somewhat like Whitley and Anne Strieber's awesome experiencer chronicle, "Letters To Communion."

While I'm riding the R subway train, I am specifically re-reading and pondering the parts of Randalls book relating to "Gary," as his tale is so similar in texture and human feeling to mine and some others in S.P.A.C.E.

I think, for a brief moment, about how someone recently mentioned to me that Randalls Island in the East River by Manhattan was once a Rabbit Warren.

It is then, as I read Jenny Randle's book that I make a discovery, through a happening in London in April 1960, which sets my medicine-slowed heart racing....

...ABOUT THE ALICE IN WONDERLAND CONNECTION There are four references in "Star Children" about "the story of Gary," covering roughly nine pages of material, -- our "Gary," who prefers to hide his real identity, as many encounter explorers do, but who conveys a story of a deeper, truer identity that is connected with the cosmic. Randles, a longtime researcher, first met Gary in-person back in November 1975, 20 years before she wrote "Star Children" and 25 years before I met him in CyberSpace after "knocking" on his computer screen (ala "The Matrix" movie) with our then new S.P.A.C.E. website in January 2000. Randles begins her second chapter "Not Of This Earth" with the story of that first meeting with Gary, which opened a whole new region of research for her... ...That of people in the midst of close encounters that propel them to sense that they are "from elsewhere" and have "dual alien/human identities" that either result from the influences of their contacts or that may make their contacts possible in the first place, for any number of speculative reasons that are hard to nail down, as explored in a series of fictional novels 20 years ago by writer Doris Lessing (that's a whole 'nother story!) Anyway, as I look at Randles "the story of Gary" anew, that thought about "a Williams" mentioned at the start of her book hits me, and I turn to chapter one, "A Light In The Night" immediately preceding Chapter Two with "Gary's story" and I go, to my surprise,.... ....DOWN, DOWN, DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE In Chapter One, Randles tells the story of Chris, and begins with an incident the girl had at age eight in April 1960 while her family visited the city of London, Chris's first visit to the capital city. From the place where her family stayed, she viewed the filming by a group called "Cliff Richard and the Shadows." It was around then that her Spring day was suddenly transformed by a bedroom experience with a strange illumination, at first magical, then quickly terrifying. Three years later Chris was on holiday again with her family, this time in Blackpool in August 1963, at a time of the music of Feddie and the Dreamers. "Yet there was also mystery once more," Randles writes about this Chris. Again there was an experience with "a light." posing another mystery for the youngster. Back home in Liverpool, Randles writes, "In the years between the Blackpool adventure and its ultimate revelation, Chris became captivated by space. She wanted to be an astronomer and bought a telescope to scan the heavens....At school she would daydream often about the universe....Almost without thought she discovered that she was turning these images into a form of reality by way of writing." Within a few days she wrote her story, describing the exercise as akin "to an exorcism of a demon in her soul," a release for her, a story she would keep to herself. And Randle reports next on the title of young Chris's story, which makes for a connection for Gary, myself, and S.P.A.C.E.'s breakthrough....

..."AN EARLY EPIC, 'ALICE AND THE ROOF CREATURES, ' had been created like this just after the London visitation," (in 1960) writes Randles. Her mother proudly showed that story to others, but little Chris was embarrased by it all, feelng that was not the pupose of the story, to show it off. "The Alice, of course, stemmed from Lewis Carroll's stories, which along with Winnie the Pooh, had always been her favourites. But the rest of the tale was as original as it was absurd." "It concerned a little girl who was sucked up from her house towards the ceiling where she was greeted by strange and tin creatures wh dewt in some kind of INVISIBLE UNIVERSE," Randles writes (bold letters ours-Harold) The latest story after the August 1963 incident was titled, "Sleep Can Take You Far Away," the story of a girl who has time lapses with visitations by invisible "alien guides." Randles writes of Chris's story that the encounters were "a mental communication -- a trip to the stars using the rocket-ship of the mind," with explorers contacting this world "in this suble way" as they sought out "ambassadors" to reach new levels of awreness and consciousness. After discussing Chris's experiences, Randles, in the chapter's last paragraph, reveals that the story of Chris is true, for Randle writes, "I know for certain it is true because I am Chris -- Jennifer Christine Randles." Then she leaps into Chapter Two with "the story of Gary." There is no connection made there with Gary then... and Alice in Wonderland, and the Invisible Universe, Shadows, and the Black and White Rabbits, and the story from Blackpool, England..... UNTIL NOW... IN JANUARY 2002. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (excerpts from "Star Children: The True Story of Alien Offspring Among Us" by Jenny Randles, 1995, Sterling Publishing Company, NY --- copywrite 1994 by Jenny Randles. Originally published in Great Britain by Robert Hale Limited, London.)

JOURNEY TO CHESHIRE, EUREKA AND BEYOND

By Harold Egeln, NYC, Janurary 11, 2002

There's a wee bit more. When Jenny Randles published "Star Children" in 1994-95, she was living in CHESHIRE, bringing in an association with Alice's Cheshire Cat and our Cheshire-like Rabbits.

Just enough that people can say, well, you're all stretching a bit here and there, but still...

...All part of a recurring, synchronistic theme, a repeating pattern, the repeating signal, in variations on a theme, that runs through and confirms our Contact and Communication, albeit bizzare in delivery and subtle in meaning.

And, while not evident upon first glance, undeniably presented along lines of present scientific inquires into the nature of the cosmos and its underlying composition and matrix of reality, with INFORMATION as the integral foundation of energy and matter.

As previously mentioned on the website, the image of the RABBIT figures in visitations, from the start of "stealth encounter" investigations with Barney Hill talking about feeling like a trapped rabbit during the September 1961 New England missing time episode as related in Dr. Benjamin Simon's sessions, and the eyes of his and wife Betty's captors reminding Barney of a Cheshire cat.

And, within S.P.A.C.E. research, there have been "rabbits" involved in stealth encounters, such as black shadow figures reported on the first Breakthrough page, along with some others not documented on our website.

There is an account on Dr. John Mack's PEER website, under the Research Journal section, in "From the Edge of Experence -- A Child Experiences An Easter Rabbit."

In the letter to PEER, a man reports, in detail, a visitation when he was six back in 1956 or 1957 of awakening at night and seeing what looked like "an Easter Bunny in costume clothing -- (with) overalls, sleeveless waistcoat," and another being appearing as "an animated coloring book characterization of an Easter Bunny," taking form in a reference structure that would appeal to a child, with the boy calling his encounter "a communication." He told "the rabbits" that they were not what they appeared to be.

Then, in researcher/experiencer Karla Turner's 1994 book, "Masquerarade of Angels" written with well-kown abductee Ted Rice, the Rabbit image plays a key role in Rice's disturbing, unwanted encounters from his childhood days, as recalled as an adult.

In 1975 Rice gets up at night and, in a dreamy state, writes a story on his typerwriter about "a little boy - 'Karly Kane' - chasing a rabbit in a field," Turner writes (page 45). In the story Kane walks "with a small rabbit in his arms," becomes tired and then his awareness expands. "A voice from an unseen source guided him through a misty wonderland of wild creatures, amd nearby a group of small children sang." Awakened, the rabbit is gone.

In Chapter 16, Turner writes of another episode of Rice's getting up at night and writing another story about the boy "Karly Kane" in which rabbits play a role, as he describes chasing after small rabbits escaping the swath of a combine in a farm field. The boy catches a rabbit and carries it as it squirms in his arms, drawn to "a mysterious shade," where his awareness again expanded.

Then, again, in Chapter 22, in a session with Turner, he describes an incident in his childhood involving a rabbit moving under and then jumping out from his bed quilt. His grandmother gave chase to it, cornering it, "a beautiful baby rabbit just scared to death," he tells Turner.

Rice felt that the rabbit could be part of "a staged event" as he went into a lengthy description of an intense and disturbing encounter, with elements of "alien deception," as he perceived and experienced it.

So what? But now, folks, we take another trip down, down, down that rabbit-hole into that shadowy "wonderland."

Turner's book was loaned to me a couple of months ago by Meryl Johnson, who had the 100 white rabbits in her house back in 1973, and had a whole other unusal rabbit epsodes, the latest noting the rabbit statues in the Christmas shoppe in Greenwich Village, which led to my most recent adventure this past weekend.

And her friend in Arkansas had those Rabbit episodes, with the Giant Rabbit form with a Magic Wand in the mist, and other events, after her friend drove from EUREKA SPRINGS in Arkansas, as mentioned midway on this webpage 18.

Which figures in with Gary's Treasure Hunt report in an English countryside village, and my Stamford, New England rabbit adventures this past Summer.

The cover page of "Masquerade of Angels" has two signatures, "Karla Turner 1995" and "Ted Rice, Eureka Springs, 1995" where the annual Ozarks UFO Conference is held, attended by Johnson with her friend this past April.

Well, maybe this is all nonsense afterall, some may say, but WHAT IF IT IS TRULY CONTACT. We think that it is some form of extraordinary COMMUNICATION that is still happening, with enough elements that wold cause some to dismiss it and us who faithfully report it.

But there is a persistent and consistent PATTERN and THEME at play. And it's way past time to ignore its implications and for us to get really busy.

As Whitley and Anne Strieber write of the accounts in their marvelous (and often overlooked) book, "The Communion Letters," (HarperPrism, 1997)--

"This book of letters could conceivably be the first true communication from another world that has ever been recorded. It does not ffer a conventional message, but rather something much more arresting: the transmission of meaning through the lives of the people who had these experiences and the determination to write them down. Their gift to the world is this: a voice from another world, speaking clearly at last, offering a message and a promise that we can understand and act upon."

Perhaps, just maybe, these accounts here could be a small part of that massive worldwide contact, presented in so many diverse ways.

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BLACK RABBIT -- THE INVISIBLE UNIVERSE BECKONS

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"Here is my secret. It's quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes." (said the fox to the little prince)

"Anything essential is invisible to the eyes," the little prince repeated, in order to remember.

"What's most important is invisible..." (said the stranded pilot to himself, with the sleeping little prince in his arms.)

--- quotes from Antoine De Saint-Expurery's classic children's fable, "The Little Prince," 1943.

"But what if all this is just an illusion? Suppose the real universe is something we can't see and all the glittering chains of galaxies are no more substantial, no more reliable guides to physical reality, then greasepaint on the face of a clown?"

--- New York Times science writer Dennis Overbye in a feature article, "Dark Matter, Still Elusive, Gains Visibility," in the Science Times section, NY Times, January 8, 2002, page F1, in a followup article to his "Invisible Universe" story.

AN ASTONISHING MESSAGE?! By Harold Egeln, January 11, 2002 The entry just above was placed on this website this afternoon during my lunchtime from work. I came home from the newspaper office, just ten minutes away, my mind set on making the short entry, after a week of writing articles on community board meetings, school boards, sewer line projects, civic awards, business groups, police reports and lots more for my newspapers. After making the entry, I check my e-mail quickly. There is an announcement about the next meeting of the National Space Society's city chapter, featuring a talk and multi-media presentation by well-known astrophysicist and recording artist Dr. Fiorella Terenzi on the.... "INVISIBLE UNIVERSE" I am astonished and enchanted by the charming coincidence, this chance happening (of course?) through a message, an e-mail from the local National Space Society chapter, which advocates human exploration and settement of space. As one who has kept abreast of astronomy and cosmology since childhood, I read, in December 1999, Dr. Terenzi's 1998 book "Heavenly Knowledge: An Astrophysicist Seeks Wisdom in the Stars," (Avon Books, NY). In the book the Italian-born scientist-musician, who now lives in New York and California, blends science and art, information and emotion, stemming from her exploration of "astronomy as a metaphor for human relationships and (discovering) humanity's place in the universe," writes Dennis Miller. Her biggest, most thrilling and empowering discovery is Acoustic Astronomy, converting radio waves from distant galaxies into sound, creating awesome and haunting music, as in her CD Album "Music From the Galaxies" and her CD-ROM, "THE INVISIBLE UNIVERSE." Not at all into ufology (as far as we know, unless she is a hidden member of "the Invisible College"), Dr. Terenzi is steeped in astrophysics. But what she relates is connected, indirectly, with that which we explore here, with "messages" through a "contact" that is artisically conveyed and which could be understood if there were what Dr. John Mack calls "a science of human experience." When the Space Telescope Science Institute held a discussion on "The Astronomy of the Invisible" exploring the enigma of Dark Matter and Dark Energy (as reported by NY Times writer Dennis Overbye in "Science Times" on April 11, 2001), it was in the same realm -- different station, though, "WUFO" -- where our White Rabbit has turned into a Black Rabbit, -- not a dualistic metaphor exactly, but taking us deeper into that which is hidden from the eyes, but not, as the fox said to The Little Prince,-- a gentle boy child-alien from space,-- hidden "from the heart" which can access "the invisible." +++++++++++++++++

ALICE'S CUP OF TEA ON A FLYING SAUCER

"2002: A S.P.A.C.E. Odyssey" has opened a new "stargate" into the Invisible Universe, as it were, this time with the accounts given in the last few entries.

By happy timing, in today's New York "Daily News" (Jan. 12, page 22), there is a piece in the newspaper's "Eats" column about a new cafe on Manhattan's Upper West Side called "ALICE'S TEA CUP," at 102 West 73rd Street, set slightly below the sidewalk.

There are all sorts of flavored teas, 100 varities in fact, and jars of colored sugars, and "a tea cozy painted to look like the Cheshie Cat in 'Alice in Wonderland'," writes reviewer Irene Sax.

The shop was once a hair (of course) removal salon, Sax writes, and now it is "a cozy, scarlet-walled ALICE-In-WONDERLAND theme park, with a cafe serving light meals on unmatched china in the back and a shop filled with ALICE memorabilia and cans of loose teas in front."

The owners are sisters Haley and Lauren FOX. Perhaps, I wonder, if "the little prince" sits at the Mad Hatter's tea table looking on. How curious!

---Harold Egeln, NYC, January 12, 2002

THE "GIFT" OF CONTACT?

By Harold Egeln, January 12, 2002

The recent holiday season seemed to be a catalyst for our current events, insights, synchronicities, observations and the like. Back a few months ago I wondered about "the gift" of this "contact and communication," and here was the recent season of "gifts."

Near the end of our "Magical Mystery Tour" through Greenwich Village on January 6, just after the 12th Day of Christmas, as I entered a newsstand in Abington Square to buy the latest "Astronomy Magazine" I saw the British newspaper "THE INDPENDENT," (dated January 4) because I noticed a banner story highlighed above the London-based newspaper's masthead reading:

"The real message of the stars: Sir Martin Rees on cosmology, aliens and the meaning of life."

I buy the newspaper and later read the feature article (actually read tonight, a week later). "Welcome to life in the multiverse" is the headline of the piece in the newspaper's "Friday Review" section, page eight, followed by the subhead, "For centuries, astronomers have wondered whether alien life exists. But, says Matin Rees, there is an even more profound question: is our universe the only one?"

Sir Rees is not a bunny rabbit. He is Astronomer Royal and Royal Society Research at Cambridge University. The article is based on his latest book "Our Cosmic Habitat" (Weidenfeeld & Nicholson, Jan. 2002).

There is nothing new in the article to me, in its scope. He begins his piece with a mention of 16th Century Italian Dominican monk Giordano Bruno, who published "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds" in 1584, a book which would lead him to be burned at the stake for heresy in 1600 by the Roman Catholic Inquistion for his ideas of "other earths in space."

Rees discusses the possibilities of life in the universe and the discovery of new worlds beyond this solar system, vindicating Bruno. (Today a Vatican astronomer, Coyne, is looking for such worlds as the Vatican believes that their is life outside the solar system.)

After discussing the nature of the universe and the latest cosmological discoveries, he looks at the current speculations that this universe is just a tiny part of a multiverse, of perhaps countless universes.

Of course, there is a WILLIAM mentioned in his article, connected with a "WATCH."

Back as a boy of 13 I imagined the day, or rather, nights,that I would be sitting awake studying the universe from a mountaintop. Those hopes and dreams were dashed after authorities at my school found I that I had mentioned "UFO sightings" I reported to children in the school, and I was suspended with the further punishment to not even think about being an astronomer, with my astronomy books and telescope thrown into the garbage.

Today I find myself tracking patterns of otherwordly Contact and Communcation under quite different circumtances, along with others faced with a cosmological and metaphysical mystery right here on Earth which may come from far-off worlds, other dimensions and universes, or from some reality of experience almost entirely beyond comprehension and current acceptance.

It's a Contact/Communication which is exteremly intriquing, playful, elegantly structured and intricately, consistent and persistent, symbolic, personal and universal, a bit scary and sometimes great fun, largely gentle and understood at the deepest levels of being, whether that is our own complex humanity or the finest weaves of our souls.

Who-or-whatever is creating this with us, it seems to have the highly skilled telepathic-like ability to overlay the consciousnesses, lives and events of several people in diverse, sometimes farfung locations and throughout the span of time.

In other words, this Contact as reported on this website is a massive project, artfully crafted. And it is but a part of a greater extraordinary realm of visitations taking place among many people.

Is this particular "Breakthrough" - a gift? If so, we are unwrapping it very carefully and slowly, for if it s a "gift," we do so, some say, at our great risk.... While others say, we do so with a chance to re-gain the gift of childhood wonder and enchantment which may propel us into the depths of the stars, our senses and our souls.

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A SUBTLE MYSTERY OF TIME VIA RABBITS AND CANDY

By Harold Egeln, NYC, January 17, 2002

Passing a toy store today, I saw a purple TY Beanie Baby RABBIT, which was so cute that I bought it, along with action figures of Frodo and Gandolf from "Lord of the Rings."

This evening I was reading the "Circuits" section of "The New York Times" about the latest comupter technology and saw a feature article with a picture of a Huge Harvey-sized RABBIT in a candy store.

It was a large photo in a half page article headlined "Tracking Work Hours By Touch, Not a Punch" by reporter Bonnie Rothman Morris.

The photo, showing five children sitting on stools at a new candy store in New York City, shows the giant dark-colored rabbit, with waistcoat, vest and a lollypop.

Coming from the center of the photo are artworks of many giant lollipops, all with an inward spiral, just like the animated swirling graphic in an account entered here a few days ago, and on our homepage.

The photo caption reads, in part: "DON'T BE LATE - To track employee attendance, Dylan's Candy Bar on the Upper East Side of Manhattan uses a biometric time clock by Sense Technologies that recognizes fingerprints...." The punchless time clock in the 5,500-square-foot children's fanatasy-like "candy paradise," is "straight out of a James Bond movie," writes Morris.

Once again, we have a Rabbit image, that can't be missed, connected with time, on this occassion in the context of a dream of a candy store (hey, "a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine goes down," says Mary Poppins... and "Gary H.")

So what? What does this have to do with Contact and Communication from other worlds hidden from our senses? Are we nuts?

Are we like the eccentric and schizophrenic Noble Prize winning mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr., looking for patterns in magazine articles that hide an invisible code?

Given the nature of this on-going experience, it seems to operate in a subtle way many times, even to be dismissed and ignored, laughingly.

Today's purple rabbit toy, named "Springy," and the Times article, as well as the punchless timeclocks, were not designed specially by an "alien intelligence" trying to communicate with us. No way, no how.

BUT, the circumstances, timing and placement of the NOTICING (to make us think, perhaps to wonder, and enter enchantment) may have been subtly orchestrated by "a cooperative designing, Trickster-like intelligence" to create awareness of a contact and communication, and the nature of who they are and the realm and thinking structures in which they have their being.

And to move forward the alteration of perspecive required, seemingly, for attaining new ways of knowing and alerting our hidden senses.

"Hopping and jumping all around, I never stay long on the ground. I might be gone for just a while. But I'll be back and make you smile," says the blurb on the "TYS 2000" Beanie Bag tag attached to the PURPLE RABBIT's ear.

While not like an expected signal from Vega or Tau Ceti, (test patterns from outer space) the patterns of some sort of a signal persist,--- especially when we're not looking for them.

They suddenly jump, or hop, out at us, catching our attention unawares, making us wonder, and always with that maddening ambiguity, the bane of the close encounter experience!

At least, I am planning a visit to Dylan's Candy Bar and Alice's Tea Cafe very soon, just to ENJOY what is there. Perhaps that what it's all about,--- to have Joy, to enjoy, to play and live in a state of play. That realtionship and understanding of how the cosmos works at a conscious level may be what gets us to the stars without rocketships.

Except we be as children, we cannot enter the playground of the cosmos, to paraphrase a spiritual leader. Perhaps that's the way we enter that Wonderland that beckons and takes us to netherworlds beyond imagination. Just Maybe. Who knows for sure?

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SLUMBERLAND, WONDERLAND, INVISIBLE UNIVERSE: Touring More Magical Mysteries

By Harold Egeln

Greenwich Village, New York City, Saturday, January 19, 2002 -- Retracing some of places of our "magical mystery tour" in search of the Black Rabbit Riddle through Greenwich Village, we did not expect any cluster of sychronistic episodes today, two weeks after our last tour.

After re-visiting some spots, we were to see Italian-born astrophysicist Dr. Fiorella Terenzi talk at New York University's Science and Arts Building, in a multi-media forum sponsored by the New York City Chapter of the National Space Society (NSS) about what "Acoustic Astronomy" tells us about "The Invisible Universe." To our surprise, we got more than we expected as real magic emerged in our return to Carmine Street.

At Washington Mews, our frendly Black Cat was perched in the alley before a basement, under-the-street apartment. And we checked out the location of the legendary haunt, the Fat Black Pussy Cat pub in Greenwich Village on Bleeker Street.

As we came to Carmine Street, heading to a fabulous bookstore where I was to buy more "Little Nemo In Slumberland" books, we saw a small truck parked in front of an Italian Restaurant on Carmine Street at the corner of Bleecker Street.

The van belonged to a firm called "JUSTIN TIME" from Brooklyn. Down the street two doors before the the "Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books" store at 34 Carmine Street, there is a hair salon, called "Hair Hopper," an obvious play on words of "Hare" hoppers, Rabbits.

I told my friend that this is almost "like magic." As I did so, I noticed the store sign over the Watch Repair shoppe next to "Hair Hopper" salon.It reads, "MAGIC Shoe Repair." Maybe it is a watch and shoe repair shope, but with the mix, once again of TIME and RABBITS so closely meshed, we wondered. I took photos of the stores, as well as the small "JUSTIN TIME" mini-truck. Across the street near the top of a building which houses a Haagen-Dass ice cream shoppe, was a billboard of "The Lord of the Rings" movie with Frodo the Hobbit and Gandolf the Wizard of Middle Earth.

We went into the bookstore, and I bought three more volumes of "The Complete Little Nemo In Slumberland," with the classic color Sunday :New York Herald" newspaper comics, in the irst two decades of the 20th Century, by one of the greatest fantasy comic strip artists ever, Winsor McCay, who depicted the boy Little Nemo's nighttime adventures "In Slumberland, In the Land of Wonderful Dreams." The total cost of the volumes, plus a booklet of 30 Little Nemo postcards came to $44.

Leaving the bookstore, we noticed that the JUSTIN TIME truck was now gone. At the corner the restaurant's menu of meal highlights written on a blackboard caught my attention.

For one of the meals was "RABBIT," hunted rabbit to be precise!

The word "RABBIT" was written in large Chalk WHITE letters on a BLACKboard. It had been facing the parked JUSTIN TIME truck, now gone. I told my friend, who wanted to be called "Bunny" when he was a little child (his parents refusesd), that "We are in the midst of a SYNCHRONISTIC EVENT, a communication from somewhere, someone in the Invisible Universe!"

Here we found our BLACK RABBIT, actually the word RABBIT in WHITE chalk (our White Rabbit) on a BLACKboard!!!! It was a "hunted rabbit" dinner, with the ITALIAN word for hunted. But to us, it was the extreme form of a Treasure HUNT.

And there was a nearby real BRITISH CONNECTION, literally around the corner, linking us -- subtly of course, not directly -- with Gary in England.

For around the corner was DOWNING STREET, with the 10 DOWNING STREET Cleaners, and WINSTON CHURCHILL PARK with its star sundial in the middle, next to a PLAYground.

RABBITS FROM THE INVISIBLE UNIVERSE

The multi-media presentation by Dr. Fiorella Terenzi on "The Invisible Universe," based on her acoustic astronomy research as told in her book, "Heavenly Knowledge: An Astrophysicist Seeks Wisdom in the Stars" (1998, Avon Books), was fascinating.

Bringing life and elan to astrophysics, she discussed her feeling of being intimately connected to the vast universe, since she was a child looking at up stars in the Italian sky. "I want to bring back the universe closer to us, so that we can relate to it."

While able to look at the universe objectively and to greatly appreciate the study of it, the numbers and mathematics made galaxies, stars and all celestial objects "things."

It all came vividly alive when she recorded the sounds of galaxy UGC 6697 some 180,000,000 light-years-away, founding "acoustice astronomy" with the music of an ancient galaxy. It made Dr. Terenzi win, to her surprise, her doctor's degree.

"The universe is trying to explain itself to us," she said. And through that relationship, if we listen, we can learn who we really are, she added.

Which seems to be what is happening with our Breakthrough Contact/Communication, but focused in specific ways, with specific images and specific themes, recurring persistently and consistently in diverse garb, to grab our attention!

She is not a ufologist and did not even mention UFOs. Yet, there is a link, a hidden one.

Dr. Terenzi, who has beautiful blonde hair, was wearing an all-BLACK outfit. She suggested that people take part in the Team Encounter Project, Humanity's First Starship to be launched by an Ariane 5 European Space Agency rocket in a few years.

Cut a strand of your HAIR, and your DNA will be extracted and placed aboard the solar-powered starcraft, she said. Perhaps, if found by aliens, you will be cloned on a far-out planet.

http://www.fiorella.com

OF NEMO, AIRSHIPS, DREAMS AND RABBITS

The artistic, imaginative color comic strip "Little Nemo In Slumberland" by Winsor McKay, which appeared for over 500 Sundays in "The New York Herald" in the first two decades of the 20th Century, tells of a little boy's adventures in "the Wonderful World of Dreams" --- and offers defining insights into aspects of close encounters and our Breakthrough "Contact-Communication," our WOW! Signal Event.

In a sequence of comic strips in early 1910, Nemo travels in his dreams on a massive airship, a gigantic zepplin, which travels around the world and New York City... and outer space.

In the comic strip of March 20, 1910, Nemo's blimp travels to the Moon, becoming a huge spaceship, a mothership. It lands on the Moon in a huge forest of giant EASTER Lilies.

Nemo, and his fellow explorers, moonwalk among the Easter lily stalks, until they stop in their tracks when they make First Contact with the Moon's inhabitants, two dinosaur-sized creatures peering around the lily stalks.

Nemo says, "Oh, what's that? Are those RABBITS, Flip?" Flip relies, "RABBITS? That's what they are!!!" The frightened space explorers, encountering the first extra-terrestrials, high-tail it out of there back to their mothership.

What's amazing here is a space adventure, as imagined in McCay's comic strip about a boy's dreams, in which the first off-Earth lifeforms with which Earthlings make First Contact are RABBITS!

Those darn RABBITS again! The very symbol and image that we, in SPACE, are getting over-and-over again. Amazing coincidence? Happenstance? Or by some remarkable design, staged and orchestrated by someone, something, some mysterious, almost-magical intelligent force over time and space and transcending the time-space continuum, involving people who do not know one another, in many instances.

And that's not all, folks, as Bugs Bunny would say.....

THE CONTACT IS REAL AND PROVEN.

In the postcard booklet of 30 panels of "Little Nemo In Slumberland," bought today (1/19/2002), there is a panel sequence which relates to what we are exploring and reporting.

"In a sequence deep with symbolism, Nemo enters the urban slum of Shantytown, is regarded as a savior as he transforms tenements into palaces," writes author Rick Marschall, "and raises a poor dead girl to life on Easter morning."

In the two-panel sequence on the post card, Little Nemo stands surrounded by giant EASTER eggs. He says to his friends in a cart, "Keep your seats and I will WISH some more. I am not through yet! Watch me, kids, yep!"

In the next panel the eggs are hatched and eight giant brown cottontail RABBITS are hopping around. Nemo, holding his MAGIC WAND, says, "Jump out of our shells and vanish! It is my WISH!"

Perhaps they vanish into an invisible universe of dark matter and dark energy.

Once more...Rabbits. So what? Why care? Writes Marschall of these panels, "It is the only sequence in McCay's 500-plus pages where Nemo consistently PLAYS AN ACTIVE, rather than a passive, role in his dreams."

In vivid dreams, the lucid dreamer can often enter actively into the dream, bringing their conscious, waking awareness into the dream and affect the dream, as Nemo does in this sequence, unlike all the others where the child is a interested observer flowing along as part of the dream.

With S.P.A.C.E.'s focus on proactive and interactive participation in close encounter exploration, the perspective raised in the Nemo cartoon relates. We can WISH and WILL things to happen. We do not remain passive, but explore relationships and relate. A dangerous and silly proposition to some. A daring method to others.

What makes it all the more intriguing, of course, is the symbol and image of the RABBIT, once more, once again.

With all this coming together today, we can almost rest our case in this never-ending story. The Contact-Communication continues. IT IS PROVABLE TO SCIENCE! It is what we make of it, now, that may make all the difference. If we WISH.

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MARY POPPINS, BLACK TRAIN, BLACK RABBIT

By Harold Egeln, NYC, January 20, 2002

I returned home last night, in a gentle snowfall, after 8:30 p.m., following the latest enchanting Magical Mystery Tour through Greenwich Village, filled with NEW INFORMATIONAL INPUT in a cluster of synchronisties and related associations.

I would have to wait to enter the reports of that adventure near midnight on this Web-TV website, because the 1964 movie "MARY POPPINS" was on national ABC-TV. I switched on the TV and I entered into the scene of the CARTOON FOX HUNT.

I watched the rest of the movie, enjoying it all, and when "A Spoonful of Sugar" was mentioned or sung, I thought of how fond Gary H. in England in using the phrase for what's happening here.

From before midnight into the wee dark hours of this Sunday morning, I entered the accounts of Saturday (1/19) carefully, then exit from the SPACE website after publishing the material.

I switch on the T.V. set and the first scene I see is a HUGE BLACK STEAM TRAIN LOCOMOTIVE heading to the screen. No connection, or sync, as such. But just a few days ago a SPACE encounter explorer tells me of his latest dream involving an old BLACK STEAM LOCOMOTIVE which crashed into a farm barn. There were no tracks.

He never really had dreams of old-fashioned BLACK steam locomotives, mostly more modern trains, a common theme and pattern in many of his dreams, and dreams of other encounter explorers.

We made some free associations, trying to understand the possible meanings within the dream images, and reached signifiant conclusions. This a method used by SPACE to explore our experiences, rather than using hypnosis.

This morning towards four I got into bed and entered SLUMBERLAND experiencing a series of vivid, lucid dreams that have no bearing on close encounter research.

Around noon today, I try unsuccessfully to enter the Chat Room for a Live Forum on UFOs hosted by Earthsong2012 in England. Disappointed, I finally give up.

I make a cup of instant decaf coffee, sit down and then go to my e-mail, and read the following message which just arrived here from researcher GARY in England:

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England, Sunday, January 20, 2002, 3:40 p.m. (GMT) [10:40 a.m. EST] ---

"To Harold -- I sat down to have a cup of coffee before going off to our UFO group meeting on Saturday (yesterday, 1/19/02).

"As I had a little time to 'kill' I turned the T.V. on. Being the kind of guy I am, I flicked through channels on cable, but as was nothing of interest, I had a look at the four main stations.

"As I clicked on to one of these (BBC-2), there was the film 'WATERSHIP DOWN' (an animated feature movie based on Richard Adams book about the adventures of rabbits in the English countryside-Harold note).

"The screen was FULL OF RABBITS. The part of the film I entered was where a large GREY RABBIT fell into the warren, having been ravaged by some other 'rouge rabbits.'

"The dialogue that was going on mentioned the BLACK RABBIT. In the context of this film, this stood for death...."

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Gary goes on to wonder if this was a warning regarding how a local newspaper reporter who was to attend the UFO grou's meeting on Saturday afternoon would report to readers. Would see make fun of the group or do a negative story on it?

When GARY had this experience as I and my friend were already on our Magical Mystery Tour of Greenwich Village in search for the BLACK RABBIT, trying to make sense of nonsense, Gary was unaware of our trek, he account of which was enetered this morning.

The Watership Down BLACK RABBIT means an omen of death. The Hunted Killed RABBIT Dinner listing in WHITE chalk we saw yesterday on the BLACKBOARD Menu near where the JUSTIN TIME mini-truck was parked, around the corner from Downing Street, Winston Churchill Park and near the FAT BLACK PUSSYCAT Pub, was what we were experiencing.

These confluences have GREAT MEANING.

THE ITALIAN CONNECTION

By Harold Egeln, NYC, January 21, 2002

Now for some Italian dressing. This morning before going to work, I open an e-mail from Gary, our English mate, dated Sun., Jan. 20, 10:30 p.m.-GMT, entitled "Another Question Mark?"

He mentions an e-mail he received on Saturday that may, possibly, just might be another link in the Synchronistic Cluster of this weekend, then writes:

"It is not a great WOW!....Or is it??? But coincidence is still there. I have NEVER had an e-mail from ITALY," he writes. "It is connected with ufology by the very context of it. The reason for forwarding it to you is the TIME, DATE and LOCATION."

Sent from Italy on Sat, Jan. 19 at 2:30 p.m. the inquirer writes, "Dear Friends, I have a strong interest in ufology. I live in ITALY and am looking for UFO conferences throughout Europe."

Gary sends a reply, giving the writer the 2002 schedule of BUFORA-SPI (British UFO Research Association) programs and lectures in London. He mentions the venue, and how easy it is to get there by the Underground (subway):

"The venue is literally just around the corner from the famous Euston Tower and WARREN Street Tube Station," Gary informs the writer.

Knowingly or not, the mention of the word "WARREN" associates with our RABBITS as in Rabbit Warren. Also, the recurrent themes of TRAINS (as in the subway/underground trains), TUNNELS (as what those under-the-surface trains travel through, and as in wormholes), and being out-of-sight, as subways are from above.

Trains and tunnels figure as prominent themes in UFO-related dreams and encounters. But the outstanding highlight that Gary is pointing out is the direct, in-your-face ITALIAN Connection, which glides through our accounts of the Saturday's adventures but is not brought to the front burner, until now.

Those obvious connections are:

1) The Italian-born speaker at the Nationial Space Society-NYC chapter meeting at NY University, astrophysicist DR. FIORELLA TERENZI, born near MILAN.

2) The CARMINE Street neighborhood in Greenwich Village where the syncs happened. It has a rich cultural history of Italian immigrants and settlers (as does much of the Greenwich Village of a century ago), a prominent Catholic church at the corner of Carmine and Bleecker Street, Bleecker being where our SPACE explorer spied a truck with a BLACK RABBIT image on it this past September, setting off the treasure search on the winding Bunny Trail...that has now brought us back to Bleecker Street.

3) The ITALIAN-AMERICAN restaurant, TRITORIA SPAGHETTO, at the corner of Carmine and Bleecker Street which had the BLACKboard menu outside and where the JUSTIN TIME Refrigeration, Inc. truck was parked...for a short time. We were "just in time" to see it, which added the meaning as we MAKE MEANING out of this NEW SYNC CLUSTER.

4) The RABBIT CACCIATORA dinner ($13.75) written in WHITE Chalk on the BLACKboard. That brings in the Italian connection, hunted (killed) Rabbit, tieing in with:

A) our TREASURE HUNT theme and pattern, as related to GARY's Scout FELLOWSHIP Treasue Hunt at the Griffins Head Inn in July 2001. (Plus, by a stretch here (we'll take the Risk, being daring explorers), the "FELLOWSHIP of the RING" movie billboard at the corner of CARMINE and BLEECKER Streets, too.

B) Gary turning on TV and seeing the "Watership Down" film scene of the grey rabbit attacked by rogue rabbits and under the shadow of the BLACK RABBIT, meaning Death in Richard Adams's fantasy book.

C) Our BLACK Cat, which subtly brings in, by a stretch a wee bit again, our good old CHESHIRE CAT from ALICE IN WONDERLAND, who becomes INVISIBLE (ah, Invisible Universe), when he smiles at Alice.

.....And we have the HAIRHOPPERS Hair Salon, at 30 Carmine Street-- as in the 30 RABBITS in the NesQuik Bunny ads on the subway train and my friend's 30 RABBIT Cards in her father's MAGIC Card box-- Re: Feb. 2001 account), which is....

Next to the MAGIC Shoe Repair shoppe, which is now a WATCH & CLOCK repair shoppe. (Any advanced intelligence may appear as MAGIC, to us wrote Arthur C. Clarke once long ago and far away)

And there's humor here, there's magic, there's ambiguity and dual identity with some Yin/Yang hints (shoe/watch repair), and a bit more.

Watch This SPACE,--- More To Come....

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IT'S JUST AROUND THE CORNER.... This evening, thinking that our Sync Cluster of the past weekend was over, I receive the following e-mail from Gary in England: "OH! WHAT A DAY!" from Gary H., 9:16 p.m. (GMT), Mon., 21 Jan. 2002 After the weekend, I thought things would be over, but there was a little more today (Monday). Arriving at work, a co-worker asks me what's been happening. I started to inform him of the weekend's "coincidences" up to th point about the purple and white rabbit mentioned on the website, along with the point that it seems we are having the "TREASURE HUNT" type of situation again. I even mention the guy you know of as 'MR. FRENCH," the guy that found one of the eggs on Dartmoor in a TREASURE HUNT set up by that well-known chocolate company (Cadbury, mentioned in early 2001). "THE FRENCH CONNECTION" As I started to mention this guy, IN HE WALKED, "MR. FRENCH" HIMSELF!!! Both guys found the way I acted quite intriguing!!!! "Mr. French" then asked why his appearance on the scene should cause me to act the way I did. I had a tingling from the back of my head to the base of my spine and I also had goose-pimples all over. Obviously they could not see nothing, but inside everything was moving around very fast! I informed hm as to what happened down to the point where he had come in, His face was covered in a grin that would have put the CHESHIRE CAT to shame!!! After I had finished relating what had happened, "Mr. French" asked if I wanted yet another "coincidence." You know what I would answer to that. He then explained that he had had a phone cal from a guy he worked with by the name of WILLIAMS to say that he would not be in today! (Note by Harold: At the very instant moment that I was reading Gary's e-mail at this mention of WILLIAMS, a wonderful piece of music had just ended on my radio, on WQXR, "the Classical Station." It was, announcer Lloyd Moss said, the "ENGLISH Folk Song Suite" by British composer Ralph Vaugh WILLIAMS. Just in time!) Due to this, "Mr. French" had to go on an errand to sort things out, hence his grin, as he follows what has been happening on your SPACE website. (Gary asks him if he could find the information on the Dartmoor Cadbury Treasure Hunt, as it would help).