The document is a nonfiction book of the “self-help” genre, 
advertised as a manual which teaches the use of the “Five-Step Star 
Signal Method” to achieve the reader’s dreams and ambitions. The 
method itself is a program of visualization reinforced through 
mantras and positive affirmations. Unlike nearly all books of the 
“self-help” genre, SCP-1425 is directly efficacious in assisting the 
subject in achieving personal goals. The book has no content 
regarding practical measures to achieve goals. Instead, it speaks 
entirely on the “star focuses” and other “wishful thinking” rituals. 
These exercises, when conducted properly, demonstrably influence 
reality, beginning with a direct influence on the appearance of the 
star used in the exercise. A reader who expresses a wish to win the 
lottery will receive a winning ticket within the next week; any reader 
whose goal is a new car will find themselves driving it the next week. 
The amount of work invested into achieving the goal outside of 
performing the prescribed rituals has only a supplementary effect; a 
subject who makes no special effort to pursue the focused desire 
still succeeds at a rate documented at roughly 80%. However, if the 
instructions for reading order and frequency are not followed 
correctly, the anomalous effect is either greatly diminished or fails 
entirely. 


In early chapters, these exercises are focused on two things: the 
exact goals that the reader has in mind, and the concentration on 
certain stars in the sky. This activity is connected to the titular “star 
signals”: SCP-1425 claims that the light emitted by stars carries a 
“phenomenological frequency”, which is unique to each star and 
which is connected to the “phenomenological frequency” of each 
human’s mind. Each of the book’s ten chapters ends with a “Star 
Focus’ ritual: this is a meditation performed each night, with the 
central focus being a celestial body. The celestial body used is 
determined by a calendar given in the prologue; this ensures that all 
readers at any given time are focusing on the same place, no matter 
which section of the book they are reading. The tenth chapter is an 
exception. See Document 1425-A. 


Throughout its pages, SCP-1425 contains verbal devices intended 
to influence the mind of the reader during exercises. These include 
the combination of memetic triggers and neuro-linguistic 
programming to make the subject receptive to the ideas presented 
in the text and to optimize the results of its anomalous effect. Once 
the core ideas of the book have been introduced and worked upon, 
visualization exercises begin to include concentration on other 
concepts, including political and philosophical messages. The latter 
chapters of the book serve to alter the thoughts and desires of the 
user to conform to a standard that would remain consistent across 
readers of the text. Approximately 60% of readers who read the 
entirety of SCP-1425 exhibit a mental condition called “Ojai 
Syndrome”; see Event Log SCP-1425-2005. 


SCP-1425 is believed to have been written and published by 
operatives of the Fifth Church, an influential cult wnose membership 
consists largely of celebrities, including actors, musicians, authors, 
television hosts, and other personalities. At that time, the list of 
confirmed Fifthists numbered __ , with the list of suspected cultists 
counting in excess of _.1 These connections were utilized by the 
Fifthist Fellowship in the form of celebrity endorsements and 
widespread media coverage, used to make SCP-1425 quickly and 
exceptionally popular. Due to these measures, as well as substantial 
“word of mouth” advertising, Star Signals became a national 
bestseller within two weeks of publication and held this position until 
the book was virtually purged from public knowledge by the SCP 
Foundation, using Protocol Ophiuchus. 


Document 1425-A: SCP-1425 Excerpts 


The following passages are taken directly from the text of 
SCP-1425. These excerpts have been selected to 
minimize exposure to cognitohazardous memetic triggers 
and other textual anomalies. 


Chapter 2, Section 3: “The Hole You Exist Around” 


Do you feel a void in your life? Everyone does, 
whether they know it or not. Think about it. 
You can feel it inside you right now: a heavy 
emptiness in the middle of your chest. It’s a 


reflection of the one in your existence, like 
particles in quantum entanglement. Do you 
remember how we talked about quantum 
entanglement? Nod “yes”. Yes, you do. Yes, 
you feel the emptiness. 


This is good. It’s a blank slot waiting for you to 
fill it up with your deepest desire until your 
deepest desire is pushing up into your throat. 
You will gag on your need. And until you do, it 
is a resonation space, for you to build your will 
like organ music in a cathedral. Hear the music 
now. This is not a metaphor. If your will is 
strong enough, there will be music now. 
Remember now that nothing in this book is a 
metaphor. 


Chapter 3, “Taking Effects”, Section 5: “You Are In 
Time” 


Star Focus: Find your night spot and begin to 
focus on your star. [Prologue, Section 3: 
“Star Focus Calendar”: “April : Epsilon 
Sagittarii. If you can’t find it in your star chart, 
it's the base of the hunter’s bow and the 
brightest star in the constellation.”] As you 
stare up into it, use your mind-clearing word. 
Your meditation is:“  , .Nowis our time. 
Here is our space. We take your star. We hold 
your bonds. Repay yourdebt. , ,. .” 
Don’t worry about memorization; any time you 
use your mind-clearing word, you'll remember 
them, even if you only read them once. If you 
do it right, your star will disappear. You'll feel it 
resonating with the others in your void. 


Chapter 5, “End of Act One”, Section 4: “Two Days” 


If you have read this book correctly, and you 
have, tomorrow is the start of the weekend. 
Savor it. The five-day work week is an artifact 


of your world. (You'll find out all about that on 
Monday.) During the next two days, put this 
book down. Don't pick it up. Yes, this means 
two days without your star exercises. Yes, this 
means that, for two days, your will is not going 
to be with you. Don’t even think about it after 
the end of this sentence. Your will is being 
used for your good. 


Chapter 6, “The Fifth World”, Section 2: “The Fifth 
Reason” 


In your current society, you are encouraged to 
“be yourself’, as if this is the key to making 
your desires real. What does that mean? It 
doesn’t mean anything. You can’t be anyone 
other than yourself. If you were to be someone 
else, you would still be “you”, and “you” would 
be someone who is someone else. There is no 
getting out from under existence. Because you 
can't be anyone else, it stands to reason that, 
if you want change in your reality, it is the 
world that must change to suit you. You must 
mold your phenomenological landscape into 
one where all your goals are achieved. 


Now imagine that the place where your desires 
are made real has a name. It’s called the Fifth 
World. The Fifth World is the cosmos twisted 
around you into the shape you will wish for. It 
has never been, but you can make it so. If the 
current world is like a tight, collared suit, then 
the Fifth World is like a flowing robe that allows 
complete freedom of movement. You will 
never truly move before you move in the Fifth 
World. You'll feel like a square on a piece of 
paper who was only just tlaol /sic] about up 
and down. 


Chapter 9, “Do Not Look Away From The Book”, 
Section 3, “Here and Now”: 


Some helpful advice that will save you in your 
coming weeks: 


¢ Mirrors are for other people. 

¢ Sit in a dark room by yourself for at least 

an hour per day. Move around as much 

as you're made to. 

If you feel yourself developing a soul, go 

outside immediately and follow the 

direction of the smoke until you meet 

them. 

Always listen for the sound slon of trwoll 

plr mign thei. 

¢ Love the archons. When you hate them, 
they see you. 


Chapter 10, “You Cannot Wake Up”, Section 1: 


Slon tlir na tlei obr Fifth. Tlaslon — plr 
children tIn tlo sacp tlei. [REMAINING 
SAMPLE EXPUNGED] 


Event Log 1425-05 [LEVEL 2 CLEARANCE OR HIGHER ONLY] 


The following events occurred between the publication 
date of SCP-1425 (April 22nd, 2005), and the official end 
date of Event 1425 (May 11th, 2005). 


Day 1 (Monday, 4/22): The second print run of 
SCP-1425 is completed simultaneously at three 
locations: the [REDACTED] publishing house main 
printing facility, then located in [REDACTED], Texas; a 
smaller facility located in [REDACTED], Maine; anda 
third branch in [REDACTED], England. The first two 
factories ship SCP-1425 to bookstores across America; 
the third is distributed throughout the British Isles. The 
first print run was, according to recovered 
documentation, a private distribution amongst members 
of the Fifth Church, to be passed to friends and family. 


Day 8 (Monday, 4/29): Television host ’s 
[Name withheld following Operation Stargazer protocol] 
daytime talk show “ ” airs its monthly “Reading 
Circle” special. The entirety of the episode is devoted to 
the promotion of SCP-1425. The host claims that Star 
Signals “rocked [her] world” and that “you'll see and feel 
the changes almost instantly”. At the 31-minute mark, 
her guest, Hugh Laurie, jokes that the book’s advice may 
be responsible for the host’s success. He adds, “I hope 
nobody hates you.” The host looks at the copy of 
SCP-1425 in her hands for four seconds before 
remarking: “Fuck, it’s finding the holes.” This line is 
muted in its entirety in the West Coast feed, but appears 
uncensored in the live airing, stirring much controversy 
on the subject of obscenity in television. Sales of 
SCP-1425 grow to over fifty times their current rate over 
the coming week. 


Day 12 (Friday, 5/3): Reports of mental illness begin to 
increase in the southwestern United States. In Ojai, 
California, the Boyar family (a 45-year old father, a 50- 
year-old mother, and a 24-year-old daughter) are 
admitted to an Ojai mental institution following what 
appears to be three simultaneous episodes of glossolalia 
and violent and delusional behavior. The trio is located in 
a street, several miles from their home, conversing loudly 
to each other about their surroundings; witnesses report 
overhearing the remarks “I love how the buildings don’t 
line up anymore” and “Once | get conversant, I'll fix your 
tongues if | have to.” When a bystander approaches the 
Boyars, the mother remarks that “it's not supposed to be 
out”, and the father begins to assault the bystander with 
a pocket knife. Local law enforcement is notified, and 
when officers arrive, the 24-year-old is, as a witness 
reports, “shouting nonsense” (speculated to be similar to 
the text of Chapter Ten of SCP-1425) to the bystander, 
who is being held down by the father and mother. The 
bystander is being made to repeat these utterances; 
when the bystander makes an error in punctuation, the 
father carves into four long existing cuts made on the 


bystander’s face, forming a square. The three are 
arrested and the bystander is admitted to a local hospital 
for bruises and severe lacerations. 


Day 13 (Saturday, 5/4): Foundation agents investigate 
the case of the Boyars and determine a possible link 
between their outburst and the book titled Star Signals. 
The Boyars’ copy is confiscated for examination, as well 
as a new copy from a local bookstore. 


Researchers note that, although Star Signals has been 
available on the market for nearly two weeks, no critical 
reviews or other analytical reports have been published 
in newspapers, nor on television, and roughly 80% of 
online reviews have been deleted by the website's 
owners. This is later determined to be an intentional 
action on the part of the Fifth Church; part of SCP-1425's 
mind-altering effect is a reluctance to openly discuss the 
actual text of the publication, even in celebrity 
endorsements. 


Day 14 (Sunday, 5/5): Foundation researchers studying 
Star Signals confirm the connection with the recent 
upswing in mental hospital admittance and arrests for 
irrational behavior. Most of those affected by the 
syndrome are nonviolent, but all identified cases contain 
the common threads of peculiarly delusional statements 
and speaking in an indecipherable, consonant-heavy 
language. Following in-depth analysis, Star Signals is 
classified as an anomalous cognitohazard and 
designated SCP-1425. Researchers alert the Site 
Director: as, due to the SCP designation of the text Star 
Signals, the Foundation is experiencing a massive 
containment breach. 


Foundation agents determine that, based on the airdate 
of the “Reading Circle” episode of the [REDACTED] 
television show, SCP-1425’s strict instructions on how it 
is to be read (beginning on Monday and continuing for 
one chapter per day, each weekday for two weeks), and 
the manifestation of the anomalous effect when the 


subject completes the full text of SCP-1425, the spike in 
symptoms predicted by researchers will be experienced 
on Day 19 (Friday, May 10th) when the readers who 
purchased the book on the same day as the episode 
aired will have completed the program. 


Day 15 (Monday, 5/6): Foundation researchers in 
Storage Site 40 and Foundation agents at O5 
Headquarters, in conjunction with Foundation 
subdivisions the CMA (Communication Moderation 
Agency) and EID ([REDACTED)), lay out a process for 
retrieving, containing, and destroying as many instances 
of SCP-1425 as possible. This plan is designated 
Protocol Ophiuchus. Steps taken immediately upon 
implementation include: 


¢ The [REDACTED] publishing company is 

determined to be a front for the Fifth Church, and 

is seized. MTF Theta-11 “Wranglers”, MTF 

Gamma-4 “Money Lenders”, and MTF Lambda-21 

“Cave-Dwellers” are sent to the Texas, Maine, and 

England printing facilities, respectively. All MTFs 

are met with armed resistance, and engage with 

no friendly casualties. Publication of SCP-1425 is 
ended. The publisher’s headquarters in 

[REDACTED], California is commandeered by 

MTF Phi-1 “Hostile Takeover’. 

An international recall is issued. Through the use 

of EID intelligence, Foundation agents circumvent 

the Star Signals media blackout; the press release 
claims that the eleventh chapter has been omitted 
and the tenth chapter has been severely 

misprinted. Consumers are given an incentive of a 

$25 voucher for returning a copy of Star Signals. 

Bookstores in America and England pull their stock 

of SCP-1425 for recall. 

* The CMA monitors all national broadcasts, 
especially network television, for anomalies related 
to SCP-1425. Any such anomalies are to be 
removed from broadcast through one of several 


classified means. 
¢ [FURTHER ACTION REDACTED] 


Additionally, the first broadcast to be intercepted through 
the use of Protocol Ophiuchus is during the daytime talk 
show “ ” (which features further promotion of 
SCP-1425), television host conducts an 
interview with musician Beck. At the 18-minute mark, the 
following incident occurs: 


: | hear you’re very spiritual. Does it 

influence your work? 
Beck: Yeah, it has to be. It’s an influence on 
everything. No matter what I’m doing, | try to 
keep grounded. That’s emphasis on “try to”. 
[laughs] There’s a reason why it’s... it’s, uh, 
called “practicing” spirituality. You never get 
good at— 

: [interrupting off-screen] Can | just say 
something? [The camera angle changes to a 
close-up of ’s face. The host is staring 
directly at the viewer.] You have to keep calm. 
Take a good, deep breath. Remember what 
the man said. Stars may die in threes, but 
worlds die in fives. Like insects injected with 
maggots. [turning back to her guest] What 
were we talking about? 

Beck: | don’t actually, uh... remember. You 
were talking about celebrities.