CHAPTER 17 -- THE MARCH HARE. APRIL FOOLS! MAY BE? SPRING 2003

MEETING GRACE SLICK IN WONDERLAND

By Harold Egeln

Saturday, March 1, 2003 -- Today I met famed singer Grace Slick, who wrote "White Rabbit" for Jefferson Airplane in 1966, in Wonderland.

Well, actually it was in the Jacob Javits Center where she was an artist at the huge 25th annual international Art Expo here in New York City, which I've attended 24 times.

And I did not realize she was there when I was attracted to paintings of scenes from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with Alice, the White Rabbit, Mad Hatter and Cheshire Cat. Then one of my friends noted Grace Slick was sitting, signing paintings and prints she sold and talking with lots of fans.

She had many different paintings other than her Wonderland paintings, her painting career thriving from her home in Malibu, California. When I swung back later to say "hello," we shook hands and I told her of my huge White Rabbit poster on my bedroom door, first placed in West Orange in 1973 and now in Brooklyn in 2003.

It was during that earlier time, 1973-1974, that I had my most intense mysterious stealth encounter experiences, saw one real white rabbit, had a friend who had a mystery Jefferson Starship experience, and another friend gave me a porclain White Rabbit in Wonderland figurine, which I now have on a bed night table.

There are syncs at work here. Grace Slick first saw the Jefferson Airplane in 1965 at THE MATRIX, the rock group's first public concert. She joined the group a year later and had contributed er song "WHITE RABBIT" to the Airplane's second album.

In the Jefferson Airplane's "Thirty Seconds Over WINTERLAND" from 1973, the first song is "Have You Seen the SAUCERS" by Paul Kantner. I bought the album in 1973 when living in the house in the woods in West Orange.

The last time Grace Slick performed was at a memorial for Papa John Creach in 1995, her performance released on a CD called "Deep SPACE/Virgin Sky."

What to make of this? On Friday as I stepped from the entrance of the newspaper office for lunch, the huge Nesquik Bunny tractor trailor truck (lorry), whizzed by.

As Grace Slick sang, "Go ask Alice."

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FLOPPY EARED RABBITS AND SERENDIPITY

By Harold Egeln

March 2, 2003 -- Thanks to the astute research into synchronicity of psychologist Dr. Gibbs Williams of New York, another fascinating gem has been uncovered.

A published work, "Today's Medicine, Tomorrow's Science -- Essays on Paths of Discovery in the Biomedical Sciences" by Judith Swazey and Karen Reeds, published in 1978 and found by Williams in the Baruch College Library on-line, has a chapter, the first of seven, titled:

"On Blind Men, Elephants and Floppy-Eared Rabbits," with the relevant section of that chapter one under the heading: "Floopy-Eared Rabbits and the Cult of Serendipity."

It is a thoughtful and detailed discussion of the serendipitous route to unexpected scientific discussions, well worth reading.

Which has been the nature of what is described in our "Project Wonderland" e-book, uncovering a BREAKTHROUGH in both ufology and science, although largely unrecognized now, with some very fine exceptions.

The authors take a quote on serpendipity as being a "happy faculty, or luck, of finding unforseeable evidence of one's ideas, or, with surprise, coming upon new objects or revelations which were not being sought" (Cannon, 1945, page 68).

The reference to "floppy eared rabbits" involved a test or injection on a rabbit by two separate researchers, getting the same surprising results. Floppy Ears.

It was the chief SETI astronomer of the "Big Ear" radio telescope at the University of Ohio, which picked up a possible "Wow!" signal in 1977, who said afterwards that when a "Wow!" signal does really appear and is confirmed, it would likely be by "serendipity!"

Which is exactly what happened here.

Or call Alice, and she would say, in Grace Slick's song, "...and if you go chasing rabbits..."

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ALICE IN STARBUCKS

By Harold Egeln

New York City - Monday, March 3, 2003 --- This evening an encounter explorer from S.P.A.C.E. and I went to the Astor Place Starbucks in Greenwich Village to meet a freshman film student from New York University to discuss his plans for a 15 minute film short on S.P.A.C.E. for his class project.

The face to face meeting over coffee allowed us to answer his questions and to give the young man a really good, in person idea of the varieties of encounter experiences.

Within an hour of talking, a man sitting with people at the round table behind us mentioned to them Alice In Wonderland and began singing, in a clear voice:

"Alice in Wonderland, how do you get to Wonderland? Over hill and under land, or just behind the tree..."

It caught our attention and stopped our conversation, since the Spacer knew of these "Wonderland sychronicities" and the NYU film student saw them on this website. We all chuckled at this incident, Alice in Starbucks.

The song is the theme song of Walt Disney's enchanting 1951 animated classic "Alice In Wonderland," from Oliver Wallace's charming, delightful score with songs by six composers and vocal orchestrations by Joseph Dubin. The way the man sang it was in the style of the movie's theme. And here we had three witnesses to this "sync," that on-going communication or information stream that loops into our lives.

I could not make out exactly what the man said after the song, but within a few minutes he returned to it, singing those lyrics and said to his companions, "It's significant. It's meaningful." And I could not make out why he said that. The film student said it was the second time that he experiened a refernce to Alice In Wonderland on this day.

Half an hour later, after exiting the Starbucks, the student left as my S.P.A.C.E. friend and I headed to the Astor Place Barnes and Noble bookstore a few feet down from Broadway.

I immediately noticed a parked white panel truck with the initials CSI, a cleaning service. Part of our discussion at Starbucks was about the image or "screen memory" of panel or uitility trucks in close encounters. Seeing such a truck is not unusual, of course.

But the CSI we associated with Civilian Saucer Investigations (CSI), the first UFO investigative group in New York City in the 1950's. So, seeing this panel truck with CSI on it, and the white colour hinting of the White Rabbit, and parked in front of a hair (aka hare) salon gave it meaning, and gave us a hearty laugh.

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GFP BUNNY, INTERSPECIES DIALOGUE AND THE WOW! SIGNAL

By Harold Egeln

Easter Sunday, April 20, 2003 -- Part of the solution to the close encounter mystery and our experiences described here may lie in a green fluorescent bunny in France... a rabbit which has no direct connection to UFOs but everything to do with them!

The bunny's name is Alba, dubbed a "transgenic artform" by artist Eduardo Kac of Avignon, who became famous in 2000 for his genetically engineered albino white rabbit who, when exposed to blue light, glows a fluorescent green color.

The rabbit was born in February 2000 and shown to the world on April 20, 2000 (exactly three years today) at Jouy-en-Josas in SOUTHERN FRANCE (where Gary felt a connection and a "rabbit faced alien" was drawn years before by an encounter interfacer).

It is called by Kac a "GFP Bunny," the GFP standing for Green Fluorescent Protein," a reference to a green fluorescent gene in a jellyfish implanted into the bunny's embreo.

"GFP BUNNY is a trangenic artwork and not a breeding program," Kac makes clear on his website (see below at end of article). It is a "chimerical animal in the sense of a cultural tradition of imaginary animals... that does not exist in nature."

Kac shows great sensitivity to and deep respect for Alba and its own individual life, and warns of the dangerous side of genetic engineering and biotechnology, seeking to put in on a creative track.

The rabbit-human connection is ancient, he notes, making references to Leviticus 11:5 and Deuteronomy 14:17 in the Bible, and ancient rabbit images such as symbols and coins, and Ixchel and the Rabbit from North America in 800 A.D.

Domestication was increased when selective breeding of rabbits was first done by "monks in SOUTHERN FRANCE," Kac says, with over 100 breeds now on the Earth.

The creation of Alba the GFP Bunny (which was featured on the front page of The New York Times Arts & Leisure section last year), Kac hopes, will engender an "interdisciplinary dialogue" of science, art, philosophy, anthropology, media, psychology, etc., and encourage all discussion in "an interactive context."

A major focus of GFP Bunny is to foster, comprehend and engage "interspecies communication between humans and a transgenic animal," Kac explains in his website, and having gentle Alba as that starter nonhuman lifeform.

Transgenic art and the GFP Bunny, he says, "reveals the fluidity of the concept of species in an ever-increasingly transgenic social context'" through "interactive art" and "to accept the experience as it happens as a transformative field of possibilities."

The book "Art and Physics" by Dr. LeShan is referred to be Kac, showing how art and physics anticipate mutual discoveries, often without being aware of those links by the scientists and artists. That includes the development in physics in the early 20th Century of "uncertainity and relativity."

Transgenic art, Kac writes, "seeks to offer a new perspective, that offers ambiguity and subtlety," and through interaction with other nonhuman species, "allows us to tap into dimensions of the human spirit that are often supressed in daily life, such as communicaton without language, that reveal how close we are to nonhumans."

Among other points Kac makes of the GFP Bunny Project is to contest "the alleged supremacy of DNA in life creation in favor of a more complex understanding of the interwined relatonship between genetics, organism and environment," and to consider "a non-semiotic notion of communication as the sharing of genetic material across traditional species barriers," and to expand "the present practical and conceptual boundaries of artmaking to incorporate life invention."

I would suggest that to fully understand the GFP Bunny Project, that you read the entire GFP website below. But, what we have mentioned here, in brief, may all sound familiar to readers of our e-book, if you have followed it from the beginning, for the parallels between the "GFP Bunny Project" and "Project Wonderland" are RATHER STARTLING.

On seeing all these synchronistic, synchromatic comparsions, there is an apparent convergence, in time and space, and from two dfifferent and disparate directions, of a profound concept in communication. something of what Kac (transgenic art) and and LeShan (Art and Physics) speak of.

While the GFP Bunny Project has engendered a widely engaging world controversy, Project Wonderland with its uniquely, artisically delivered interactive "WOW! Signal" (operating as it does from the context of "ufology"), has not, as expected, except among a precious few.

However, there is reason to hope it will. The issue of genetic engineering of the human species is a centerpiece of stealth encounter (abduction) researchers, such as Hopkins, Jacobs, Mack and of researchers, such as Sitchin, of ancient interaction with otherworldy beings... but neither of those studies, by themselves, make those connections.

Perhaps a transgenic process is at the heart of the "creation" of the human/nonhuman "hybrids," or, more likely, a possible metaphor for achieving a interspecies common ground or to dissolve species boundaries.

If viewed in a greater context and from an alternative, holistic perspective, such as the widely-known transgenic art "GFP Bunny Project" and the virtually unknown "Project Wonderland" here, something approaching an "AHA!" and an Unified Field Theory emerges, to those who can see the patterns making for the Big Picture.

We are, therefore, as encounter explorers emeshed in an ACT OF CREATION, as Dr. Remo Roth of Zurich might see it, from his own research into UFO dreams. That, as Dr. Gibbs Williams might see it, is a exercise in problem solving, as in depth psychology therapy, being a TRUE BREAKTHROUGH.

Having directly experienced a living form of transgenic art in another context and form, I have thought of what I saw in the woods of Brewster, New York in August 1988 (which launched my exploration of close encounters) and the GFP Bunny.

The procession of green, glowing flourescent eyes on nonhuman heads that I consciously witnessed, aong with another witness, on that midnight 15 years ago and the green flourescent glow of the Alba rabbit are virtually identical!

That is our Easter story of 2003.

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EVENT HORIZON -- DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: GARY'S ADVENTURE IN WONDERLAND

-- Harold Egeln

Friday, May 9, 2003 -- For almost three years we've been following that bunny down the rabbit hole and through Wonderland, having astonishing adventures of discoveries, insight and new knowledge, as yet unrecognized for its true significance by the UFO community at large, dismissing it as stupid and crazy.

On March 4, I received the following message across "the pond" from Gary H. in Merry Ole England, an e-mail that would would lead our paths together again from different directions.

It will all fall into place with my own events of May 8 and May 9, described after Gary's account.

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AN INVITATION TO "STEP IN"?

-- by Gary H.

At work I walk across a lawn to cut a corner off and save walking and have, thus, made a foot path where I walk, so much so that the guys call it my "career path." Well, I know it can be seen from the air, so I guess I have "made my mark" where I work!

Anyway, as the laboratory is out in the countryside, I see small deer, squirrels, hares, birds all of kinds...and RABBITS.

Now there are man places that I would expect rabbits to dig tunnels. Like in thebank of a dry pool near by, or nder some trees that are free of undergrowth, etc.... I am aware of "things rabbits," so you must know I would watch what these rabbits did. This I do on a daily basis, and every time I cross the lawn I look for the rabbits....

TO MY SURPRISE, there have been one or two rabbits whom I have never been able to catch a glimpse of. Not only that, but thay have been digging a tunnel right UNDER MY NOSE, so to speak, and in a place a little out of the normal to dig a hole, rabbit-wise.

It is just three feet from where I walk through the hedge. It is in a patch of ground that is covered by ivy... This is not the sort of thing the rabbits have done in the 30 odd years that I have worked there, as far as I know!

The whole tii have been "away" from the S.P.A.C.E. connection, this rabbit ole has been dug, little by little, over a period of a month. So it was not done on a spur of the moment sort of thing, but done in a way that kept my attention.

Now, there is even a patch of ivy that has a path worn through it, so I know that it is quite heavily used.

THE WHOLE TIME that this has been going on, I have had a feeling that there is something going on BEHIND THE SCENES.

There is no way I can explain about this! I just feel it. The way the "HOLE" is there at just the right angle for me to look down in is just like an INVITE TO STEP IN......

(: Click on the URL for DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE here with three photos I took of the path and area of the rabbit hole which I described :)

http://community.webtv.net/AstroEcologist/DOWNTHERABBITHOLE

THE OZ FACTOR: FLYING SAUCERS, ST. CLAIRE, MY BUNNY, WILLIAMSBURG TIME TOWER

By Harold Egeln

Thursday, May 8, 2003 -- The OZ Factor of High Strangeness is alive and well.

This evening after work I took a B-37 bus with a friend to show him the FLYING SAUCER CAFE on Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, and then had dinner at the New ST. CLAIRE Coffee Shop and Restaurant on Atlantic Avenue and Smith Street.

ST. CLARE of Assisi of the 12th Century is the Roman Catholic saint of TV (or communication) and was an association in previously mentioned syncs, in August 1988 and May 1994.

After dinner, we boarded the B-63 bus back home, passing the FLYING SAUCER Cafe three blocks away. On the next block I noticed the YELLOW BUNNY images at a Care Plus Health Plan storefront, with the 1-877-MY-BUNNY phone number. Those Yellow Bunny panel trucks have appeared as syncs, recorded dutifully here in the e-book.

What startled me is that on the block DIRECTLY behind the YELLOW BUNNY Care Plus storefront is the famous WILLIAMSburg Savings Bank building, Brooklyn's tallest skyscaper, with its huge Big Ben-like Clock Tower, which has been the site of my UFO sightings and syncs, some actually photographed as they happened!

At home, for pure entertainment, I play one of my favorite videotapes, of a 1990 network TV movie called "The Dreamer of OZ," about the life of Frank Baum, the author of the 13 OZ books. He had three sons, the first named BUNNY Baum!

As Frank Baum, played by actor John Ritter, mentioned the name I happened to be holding a New York Times newspaper, the Arts section specifically. I glanced down at it, and was startled to see a feature article with a photo of a woman holding a BLACK BUNNY RABBIT!

We're not in Kansas anymore.

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ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE, RABBITS, SPACE ALIENS Someone familiar with the material in our e-book, as relatng to "A.I." (artifical intelligence), Rabbits and "Space Aliens," came across the following "A.I." website and an interesting image on its homepage. The site is not at all about "A.I." however, but is merely catchy invite into a family's website. http://www.27.org

THE WONDERLAND TRAIL AND FLYING SAUCERS

By Harold Egeln

Friday, May 9, 2003 -- Curiousier and curiousier. May be and may be not. Ever and never.

The other night I learned, to my astonishment, that the "Wonderland" theme and connections relate directly to the historic Kenneth Arnold sighting at Mount Rainier in Washington State on June 24, 1947, the beginning of the modern "Flying Saucer Era"!

While checking a website counter stats to find out how visitors found the S.P.A.C.E. website, I discovered that one learned about it through an inquiry about "The WONDERLAND TRAIL at MOUNT RAINIER." The Search Engine referenced Mount Rainier and Wonderland from S.P.A.C.E.'s homepage.

The Wonderland Trail is a 93 mile long hiking trail, established in 1915, which completely encircles Mount Rainier, a gigantic dormant volcano in a National Park.

It s not named specifically after Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland," but the description apparently comes from a state by the park's superintendent, Robert Toll, in 1920:

"There is a trail that encircles the mountain. It is a trail that leads through primeval forests, close to mighty glaciers, past waterfalls and dashing torrents, up over ridges, and down into canyons, a veritable WONDERLAND of beauty and grandeur."
Of course, it's pure coincidence, one might rightly say. But, maybe it really isn't, because our "communication and contact" has made specific associations of relevant, highly significant information in a consistent patterns, truly a WONDERLAND TRAIL on OUR SEARCH.

As with the references to "ALICE IN WONDERLAND" and the "CHESHIRE CAT" by Barney Hill in the Seminal "Interrupted Journey" episode of September 19, 1961, here in the Seminal UFO sighting of NINE discs, giving birth to the term "FLYING SAUCERS" in 1947, there is a WONDERLAND association!

I hestitate slightly to say that all this may be pure nonsense, pure coincidence. But I now must say, yes, as "Wonderland" was nonsense for Alice, it makes sense when you plow through all the material presented here.

It is real. It is true. It is breathtakingly awesome. A "WOW!" We have proof. We have contact. We have communication. We have a gift.

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MAY DAY 2003 -- GO ASK ALICE "Curious," said Alice. "This Wonderland Trail goes round and round in circles, round a mountain where the phrase 'flying saucers' came up in 1947 for the first time." "True. I saw nine crescent shaped objects flying just like saucers skipping on the surface of water," said Arnold the Pilot. Alice was on a path, not the Yellow Brick Road of Oz, but the Wonderland Trail, a Long and Winding Road, as it were. "I have a message for you, Alice!" said a voice coming from a TV set in a tree truck on the side of the trail. "My name is St. Clare of Assisi, the patron saint of the telly, and of communication." "I want an answer, a straight answer, a sensible answer," said Alice, now eating a TV dinner delivered from the New St. Clare Restuarant on Atlantic Avenue. St. Clare cleared her throat. "It's a message from Gary, on the other side of Atlantic," which she now read to Alice, eating her carrots. "I have a made a path across the lawn where I work. At a hedge near the road there is a rabbit hole, dug over a period of time. But unlike other rabbits and their holes here, I haven't seen the rabbit the whole time it was being dug. How very odd." Alice says, "Why tell me this? Strange, though, I haven't seen the White Rabbit recently." She got up. The TV set was replaced in the tree by the grin of the Cheshire Cat, as a crow flew to Alice and alighted on her shoulder. "Caw! Caw! The White Rabbit is riding around in a small lorry," said Crowcus. "Seek the shop where he is the shop keeper. Look for the Clock Tower on the mount that is Williams. Caw! Caw!" "Utter nonsense!" says Alice as the crow flies away. "Something, someone, invisible to me at least, is playing behind the scenes in this Wonderland. And it's not like that Wizard chap in Oz." In the sky all of a sudden on this golden afternoon, Alice sees a flying saucer zoom in and stop, hovering high above her. It is a grey blue in color, perfectly round. It then turns the darkest of blacks she ever saw. "My goodness gracious, that's not a spaceship. It's a huge rabbit hole in the sky. But no rabbit made that!" says Alice. She thinks she sees a man with a red beard staring down through the sky hole. Alice can hear him whispering thus, "There is no way I can explain about this! I just feel it. The way the 'hole' is there. At just the right angle for me to look down in, just like an invitation to step in." As Alice stares above, a news bulletin flashes on her telly, as the White Rabbit appears, blowing on a plastic trumpet! "Helsinki, Finland, May Day 2003. White Rabbit reporting. It's Vappu Day here and a university chap named Anders is about to step into Wonderland. Get ready for a new long and fast-paced adventure story, down the Rabbi Hole...." Alice sees a young man appear on the TV screen, looking a bit like the famous rapper Eminem, who is about to discover, in his own words: "This is basically what the WOW! Contact is all about: A quantum leap in......" ********************************************************* To find out, go back to the table of contents of Volume Two and click-on "ANDERS IN THE WONDERLAND" - Volume Three of "PROJECT WONDERLAND: THE S.P.A.C.E. WOW! CONTACT"