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††=,,,,,,, †*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†* ,,,,,,,=††
†=,,,,,,,, *† OPERATION CONTRASTING VALKYRIE *† ,,,,,,,,=†
=,,,,,,,,, †* IN THE SIXTIES. THE CENTRAL †* ,,,,,,,,,=
,,,,,,,,,, *† INTELLIGENCE AGENCY "CIA" RELEASE *† ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, †* AEROSOLIZED SELATENINE OVER A †* ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, *† JUPITER EQUINOX CONCERT, CREATING *† ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, †* THE LARGEST SECRET PARADIGM SHIFT †* ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, *† THAT THE WORLD HAS EVER =SEEN=. *† ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, †*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†* ,,,,,,,,,,
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=,,,,,,,,, THE JUPITER EQUINOX* CONCERT IS PART OF ,,,,,,,,,=
†=,,,,,,,, A FESTIVAL IN BLACK TICKLE ARRANGED BY ,,,,,,,,=†
††=,,,,,,, A GROUP CALLED EPICENTER OF LOVE. THERE ,,,,,,,=††
*††=,,,,,, IS NO ENTRANCE BUT VISITORS ARE ,,,,,,=††*
¤*††=,,,,, EXPECTED TO HELP WITH MAINTENANCE. FOOD ,,,,,=††*¤
#¤*††=,,,, AND DRINK IS SHARED. MANY BANDS ARE ,,,,=††*¤#
##¤*††=,,, PLAYING OVER THE FOUR DAY COURSE OF THE ,,,=††*¤##
###¤*††=,, FESTIVAL, AND THE STAGE IS OPEN BETWEEN ,,=††*¤###
####¤*††=, SCHEDULED CONCERTS. JUPITER EQUINOX, ,=††*¤####
###¤*††=,, WHILE AN UNKNOWN ACT, HAS A PRESTIGIOUS ,,=††*¤###
##¤*††=,,, TIMESLOT AT EIGHT IN THE EVENING ON THE ,,,=††*¤##
#¤*††=,,,, THIRD DAY, WHICH IS FRIDAY. , , , ,,,,=††*¤#
¤*††=,,,,, ,,,,,=††*¤
*††=,,,,,, EIGHT IS ALSO WHEN THE PLANE USED TO ,,,,,,=††*
††=,,,,,,, SPREAD THE AEROSOL LIFTS OFF. IT ,,,,,,,=††
†=,,,,,,,, ARRIVES AT THE FESTIVAL ABOUT A QUARTER ,,,,,,,,=†
=,,,,,,,,, PAST, SOUND MASKED BY THE CONCERT. ,,,,,,,,,=
,,,,,,,,,, AROUND WHEN THE FIRST WAVE OF ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, SELATENINE MUST HAVE REACHED THE ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, AUDIENCE, THE SONG COMES TO A TENSE BUT ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, QUIET MOVEMENT, AND THE LEAD SINGER ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, WALKS TO THE FRONT OF THE STAGE. ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, SHE SAYS, WITH A CRYSTALLINE VOICE: "I ,,,,,,,,,,
=,,,,,,,,, HAVE SOMETHING TO TELL YOU. I AM NOT A ,,,,,,,,,=
†=,,,,,,,, HUMAN BEING. I AM NOT AN ANIMAL OR A ,,,,,,,,=†
††=,,,,,,, PLANT. I HAVE BEEN SENT TO DELIVER A ,,,,,,,=††
*††=,,,,,, MESSAGE TO YOU. A MESSAGE OF HOPE. YOU ,,,,,,=††*
¤*††=,,,,, ARE NOT ALONE. THERE ARE OTHER BEINGS ,,,,,=††*¤
#¤*††=,,,, IN THE UNIVERSE. THERE IS LIFE OUT ,,,,=††*¤#
##¤*††=,,, THERE, LIFE THAT IS REACHING OUT A ,,,=††*¤##
###¤*††=,, HAND. AND IT'S TIME TO TAKE THAT HAND. ,,=††*¤###
####¤*††=, TO REACH OUT TOWARD THAT HAND AND GRAB ,=††*¤####
###¤*††=,, IT IT. IT IS TIME TO COME HOME. YOU ARE ,,=††*¤###
##¤*††=,,, GOING HOME. YOU ARE GOING HOME." ,,,=††*¤##
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¤*††=,,,,, THE SINGER STANDS THERE FOR A FEW ,,,,,=††*¤
*††=,,,,,, MOMENTS, HER HAND RAISED IN THE AIR, ,,,,,,=††*
††=,,,,,,, BEFORE THE REST OF THE BAND KICKS IN ,,,,,,,=††
†=,,,,,,,, AND THE MUSIC BUILDS TO A CRESCENDO. ,,,,,,,,=†
=,,,,,,,,, THE CROWD ERUPTS. AND THEN SOMETHING ,,,,,,,,,=
,,,,,,,,,, ELSE ERUPTS AS WELL. A CONCERT-GOER ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, DESCRIBES IT: "SUDDENLY, THE MUSIC ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, SEAMS BROADER, MORE COLORFUL. I CAN ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, SOMEHOW SEE IT, AND I FEEL THE OTHERS ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, SEEING IT, AND I SEE IT THROUGH THEIR ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, EYES AS WELL. MEANWHILE I'M DANCING, ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, AND I CAN FEEL MY BODY AS I'VE NEVER ,,,,,,,,,,
=,,,,,,,,, DONE BEFORE, I AM AWARE OF EACH CELL ,,,,,,,,,=
†=,,,,,,,, AND EACH MOLECULE, ALL VIBRATING IN ,,,,,,,,=†
††=,,,,,,, UNISON. AND IT'S ALL GOING FASTER, ,,,,,,,=††
*††=,,,,,, BUILDING UP TO SOMETHING, WAKING UP." ,,,,,,=††*
¤*††=,,,,, ,,,,,=††*¤
#¤*††=,,,, PEOPLE START FORMING CIRCLES, HOLDING ,,,,=††*¤#
##¤*††=,,, HANDS AND DANCING. SOME ARE CRYING. ,,,=††*¤##
###¤*††=,, SOME ARE LAUGHING. SOME ARE SCREAMING. ,,=††*¤###
####¤*††=, ,=††*¤####
###¤*††=,, AND THEN - A FLUTTER - AND SOMETHING ,,=††*¤###
##¤*††=,,, GIVES. A SHOCKWAVE OF REVERSING ,,,=††*¤##
#¤*††=,,,, POLARITY IN THE ETHER, AND LIKE ,,,,=††*¤#
¤*††=,,,,, BUTTERFLIES GETTING HIT BY A BURST OF ,,,,,=††*¤
*††=,,,,,, WIND, THE THIRD EYE OPENS FOR EVERYONE ,,,,,,=††*
††=,,,,,,, IN THE AUDIENCE. AND IT BECOMES A CHAIN ,,,,,,,=††
†=,,,,,,,, REACTION, QUICKLY SPREADING ACROSS THE ,,,,,,,,=†
=,,,,,,,,, FESTIVAL AREA. WITHIN SECONDS THERE IS ,,,,,,,,,=
,,,,,,,,,, A GLOBAL BLACKOUT. FESTIVAL GOERS ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, REGAIN THEIR MEMORIES AROUND A WEEK ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, LATER, THOSE IN THE NEARBY TOWN OF ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, BLACK TICKLE AFTER A FEW DAYS, IN ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, MONTREAL FOR THE EVENING, THE REST OF ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, AMERICA MAYBE AN HOUR. , , , , , ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,
=,,,,,,,,, AND THUS, THE POPULATION OF EARTH ,,,,,,,,,=
†=,,,,,,,, HAS KIND OF LEFT IT'S MATERIALISTIC ,,,,,,,,=†
††=,,,,,,, BASELINE, ONLY THAT MOST DO NOT ,,,,,,,=††
*††=,,,,,, REMEMBER IT. ,,,,,,=††*
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##¤*††=,,, †*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†* ,,,=††*¤##
###¤*††=,, *† * THERE'S AN INTERESTING ASPECT TO *† ,,=††*¤###
####¤*††=, †* THE "JUPITER EQUINOX" ACT. IT †* ,=††*¤####
###¤*††=,, *† SEEMS THERE WAS NEVER ANY *† ,,=††*¤###
##¤*††=,,, †* JUPITER EQUINOX CONCERTS BEFORE OR †* ,,,=††*¤##
#¤*††=,,,, *† AFTER THE ONE IN BLACK TICKLE. THE *† ,,,,=††*¤#
¤*††=,,,,, †* LEAD SINGER (ALSO COLLOQUIALLY †* ,,,,,=††*¤
*††=,,,,,, *† REFERRED TO AS JUPITER) SEEMED TO *† ,,,,,,=††*
††=,,,,,,, †* IMMEDIATELY DISAPPEAR (FOR A LONG †* ,,,,,,,=††
†=,,,,,,,, *† WHILE SHE WAS THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN *† ,,,,,,,,=†
=,,,,,,,,, †* A CIA AGENT, BUT A LATER FOIA †* ,,,,,,,,,=
,,,,,,,,,, *† RELEASE REFUTED THIS). FOR OBVIOUS *† ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, †* REASONS, MANY WERE LOOKING FOR ANY †* ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, *† TRACE OF THE BAND, BUT NONE *† ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, †* WERE FRUITFUL. †* ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, *† *† ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, †* RECENTLY, HOWEVER, SOME ATTENTION †* ,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, *† HAS BEEN DRAWN TO JUNIPER HELDING, *† ,,,,,,,,,,
=,,,,,,,,, †* A SIXTEEN YEAR OLD POP SINGER FROM †* ,,,,,,,,,=
†=,,,,,,,, *† ENGLAND WHO HAS A VERY STRIKING *† ,,,,,,,,=†
††=,,,,,,, †* SIMILARITY... †* ,,,,,,,=††
*††=,,,,,, *†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*†*† ,,,,,,=††*
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