What an expansive topic we have today. Mastery through love, the relinquishment of fear. Well, if that topic doesn't take us all the way, I don't know what will. That's like an invitation from spirit to dive in, to really go for it. And, well, you know, the Course is pretty straightforward about love. You know, Jesus tells us at the very beginning that this Course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is far beyond what can be taught. It does aim at removing the obstacles to the awareness of love's presence. And so when I first read that, I allowed myself to let go of trying to understand love, or trying to somehow bring love into the world of concepts and think that even though we call many things love in this world, that line from the Course is really pointing and saying, we don't really have a clue of the vastness of this love. We may get glimmerings, and we may get glimpses of it, but we don't know the fullness of the divine love of God or heaven or our identity as Christ. And so he does say, when you have achieved the faintest glimmering of love, you have advanced in distance without measure and in time beyond the count of years. So we're going to work today on approaching an experience that is love that is extremely vibrant and extremely vast. We've used words like unconditional, divine love, and we're going to approach it through the topic of mastery through love and the undoing of this belief in fear, the relinquishment of the fear. Because when we come into a course in miracles, Jesus is teaching us that actually love is beyond our curriculum. Love simply is. At one point in the workbook, Jesus says God is. We say God is, and then we cease to speak. So if there had to be the last two words ever spoken, God is, and then that's it. Divine love and stillness, pure total telepathic communication and gushing love. He does call it like a song in the song of prayer. But in terms of the curriculum, which is we're talking about waking up to this, basically the two perspectives that we have on anything is one of fear or one of, I'll call it forgiveness, because forgiveness is in the sleeping mind a reflection of this divine love and that's really our responsibility is learn to choose the atonement and choose to forgive. And then it says God will take the final step. It's merely that's just a return to creation, to return to that purely abstract divine love. So with these two perspectives, basically the forgiveness would be our right mind and the personal perspective of perceiving the world through the five senses and through the perception of yourself as a human being surrounded by a vast world and vast cosmos. That is the perspective of fear. That is the lens of fear. The personality self and the personal perspective is a representation of the ego's perception of this invented fictitious, unreal world that was made as a self-concept, not the reality of the Christ, but as a concept of self to take the place of our divinity, of our love, of our light. So to forgive, we are being asked to reach a place of mastery through love. We're to come to a place of readiness in our mind where we're ready to learn the lesson of atonement, of complete forgiveness which is in our mind and that is the gateway back to the kingdom of heaven, back to eternity, back to our divine love. So as with many pathways in the East, they have a saying called neti neti, not this, not that. So we're going to have a bit of neti neti going on today because I think when we start to go into this about the thought system of fear and trying to find a sense of mastery or stability through the thought system of fear, you're going to find that you will be astounded at how much your mind has been and is attempting mastery through fear. You will be astounded to look at this idea that, oh my gosh, I'm addicted to mastery through fear and no wonder this topic draws me, mastery through love, because that is the complete opposite of mastery through fear. What would mastery through fear be? Well, I wanted to kind of give us a little bit of a jolt at the beginning, a jolt from Jesus, a Jesus jolt to try to give us a sense of the context of how much investment there is in mastery through fear in using fear for survival, in using fear to overcome loneliness, in using fear to overcome sense of lack and using fear to overcome hunger, in using fear to overcome meaninglessness. The ego has set up an entire self-concept, a false identity that's based on the belief in time and space and it's projected out through the sleeping mind and seemingly involves a body and other bodies and the earth and other planets and stars, all of the cosmos is part of this self-concept. The self-concept is not just your personality self or the person you believe yourself to be, that's the teeniest part of the self-concept. The self-concept involves everything that you perceive. When you look out on a clear night, like a Vincent van Gogh night, a starry, starry night and you look up at those stars that are way off, the scientists are telling us now, those stars are light years away and that light is just seemingly reaching your eye from many, many millions of miles, light years away and yet those stars, that light that seems to be stars whether they're burned out or not, those stars are part of the self-concept too. Pluto is part of your self-concept, Jupiter, Venus, self-concept, self-concept.  Why is that important? Because the contrast is enormous. The actual light of Christ, the vision of Christ which we're coming to through all this mind training and working the course and doing all these exercises and transferring the training all just to come to the vision of Christ is something that, it's like a new lens that replaces the way that we look at the world through the ego with Christ's vision and eventually we see our brothers, our sisters, our self as pure light and we have this expansive self-realization or self-awareness of who we really are. So it's important to realize that the one thing you have to remember about the Course is the Course is teaching us in order to wake up to who you really are and escape the belief that you're time and space bound, you have to forgive and you have to do that through bringing the darkness within to the light. We're also told that when the mind believed it had separated from God a traumatic, horrific experience, in fact Jesus says, into eternity we're all as one, there crept a tiny, mad idea at which the Son of God remembered not to left. So that's the Adam and Eve version of the Course. No snakes, no men, no women, but still taking a tiny puff of an idea that you could be separate from God and taking it serious and forgetting to laugh at it, that's what this whole awakening is about now, is coming back to that gentle laughter of seeing that that's impossible to separate in that way. So now for the Jesus Jolt. The Jesus Jolt is that everything that's perceived through the five senses, everything that you perceive without exception is a block to the awareness of love, is a block to the awareness of truth.  Well, I finally discovered that God didn't make trees. God didn't make no little green apple. God didn't make anything of this world. This time, space, cosmos is a projection of the ego. And so most of us were raised with Genesis in the Bible. God created the heavens and the earth. Well, at least Genesis was half right. Let's give it some credit there. God did create the heavens and the ego projected everything else. And that's where the problem is. That's where the fall from grace and all the difficulties that you've been writing in. Some of you've been writing in questions to me here, so I'm glad you did. I'll try to get to some of those as well. Now for the Jesus Jolt. Well, the ego is a false belief and so not only is the whole cosmos that is perceived, generated from the ego, but all of the egoic laws of competition, reciprocity, all the ego laws of anything you can think of. Economics, that's ego. God didn't create economics. Education, exercise, all the laws of thermodynamics, all the laws of physics. We'll say, to be safe, we'll say all the laws of Newtonian physics. All the laws of this world are part of this mesmerism. And so the mind has fallen asleep and forgot its reality and now it believes a bunch of make-believe laws. And it's seeing a world that reflects those make-believe laws. And so this is why I'm pointing out that all of attempts to improve the world, to improve your body, to improve your personal situation, to better your life even, to better your life as a person. Think of self-help, all the attempts to make a better self, to have a more happy self, a more vibrant self, a more loving self, and that self is still a person, that's all still within the realm of the ego. That even attempts to improve yourself as a person are attempts to make a better illusion. Actually, that's what if we call a spade a spade. It won't help you escape from this world because even attempts at self-help, personal self-help and personal betterment are all still egoic attempts.  You're not really going anywhere. So I just wanted to read a little snippet from Lesson 76 from the workbook because I think this little snippet I'm going to read is going to give you a sense that all of these ego laws, these laws that the ego made up, if you believe in them, if you are following them and you believe that you can actually escape the ego or find true freedom which is in the spirit, if you believe you can find it in this world then that is the ultimate of self-deception. And we have to really face that. We have to say, my gosh, all this self-improvement takes a lot of energy, work, education, skill training, coming back for more training in services and so forth. All the training, you know, getting degrees and developing skills and working with mentors and building these skills are all part of that system. Here's what Jesus has to say in Lesson 76. Think of the freedom in the recognition that you are not bound by all the strange and twisted laws you have set up to save you. He's saying that all of these ego laws have been set up to save you and basically it's just that there's a darkness within, there's a shadow that Jung talked about, there's an unconscious mind that includes the belief in separation and it has engenders enormous fear to believe that you can break away from God. So even though most of it's unconscious, it's very, very dark. In fact, at one point Jesus talks about the self-concept as two tiers. The top tier is the face of innocence. The bottom tier, he says, is draped with sin. That's the words from Jesus. It's so dark. But think of the freedom in the recognition that you are not bound by all the strange and twisted laws you have set up to save you. So these ego laws are more of like trying to find salvation in something other than love and it's basically mastery through fear. You really think that you would starve unless you have stacks of green paper strips and piles of metal discs.  And death. You really think you are alone unless another body is with you. It is insanity that thinks these things. You call them laws and put them under different names in a long catalog of rituals that have no use and serve no purpose. You think you must obey the, quote, laws of medicine, of economics, and of health. Protect the body and you will be saved. These are not laws but madness. The body is endangered by the mind that hurts itself. The body suffers just in order that the mind will fail to see it is the victim of itself. The body's suffering is a mask the mind holds up to hide what really suffers. It would not understand it is its own enemy that it attacks itself and wants to die. And it is from this, this desire to die, this desire and attack. It is from this your, quote, laws would save the body.  So this entire scheme of all these ego laws of this entire cosmic self-concept is all a giant cover-up to cover over the belief in separation and to literally save the mind. Like, oh here's, you threw heaven away. The ego says, so now you better identify with something because you blew it. And then the ego not only says you blew it, but you don't think God's just going to let you go off wandering scot-free and making up your own identity without punishing you, without there being some kind of consequence for breaking away from God. And therefore this ontological sense of guilt and fear is there. So I give you this whole context because this is the self-concept. This is what we're going to be looking at in order to escape from the attempt at the mastery through fear. You have to see the full extent of everything that you believe and everything that you're thinking that is based on this mastery of fear to reach salvation, ego attempt. Because as soon as you start to realize what the ego's up to, you're going to want to unplug from its thought system. You're not going to want to keep feeding it. You're not going to keep wanting to believing in these make-believe fictitious laws and its make-believe fictitious world when your whole purpose is to wake up from these crazy laws and wake up from this world. There's a lot of points. Some of you know in the mystics and saints throughout the many centuries there's been a strong attempt by the mystics and saints to transcend the body. And Jesus in different ways says that in the Course. He will say, you still have too much faith in the comforts and conveniences of the body. He will say things like, what actions do you take that do not involve the protection of the body or the betterment of the body or the pleasure of the body in some way?  There's a huge investment in this substitute identity and this body identity is not the light. It's very dense and he will even say in obstacles to peace, one of the second obstacles to peace he says is the belief that the body is valuable for what it offers. And that doesn't mean just physically, psychologically. If you think education makes you more valuable, if you think intelligence, intelligence makes you more valuable, or if you think anything of the body brings you something of value. What you are really saying is that there are things that are valuable in perception in this self-concept. Once you start to realize, my gosh, anything I invest in where I believe I can better the world, I can better the body, I can better this self-concept, anything at all will actually be nothing but a block to remembering the truth and waking up. As long as you have investment in the body in any way, shape, or form, I mean physically, psychologically, if you believe in the value of the family, of the lineage, of the children, the grandchildren, the babies, anything of perception, anything in the realm of perception is part of this self-concept. There's a great line in the Course where Jesus says, Nothing so blinding as perception of form. The sight of form means that understanding has been obscured. I'm just going to repeat that because it's so profound that absolutely nothing, nothing so blinding as perception of form. The sight of form means that understanding has been obscured. And then the goal of the curriculum, regardless of the form you choose, is know thyself. There is nothing else. Know thyself as the Christ. The ancient Greeks called it know thyself. That was coming to truth, coming to the oneness. So when I have said repeatedly over these last 20-some odd years that it's a perceptual problem, the very idea of perceiving through the body's eyes and perceiving a fragmented world is the problem. The problems aren't relationship problems. The problems aren't economic problems. The problems aren't problems of disease or environmental problems. The problems are not of an interpersonal nature. The problems are not of a personal nature. The problems are not even of a personal psychic nature. The problems are a perceptual problem of believing in a world that has no reality and existence and having an investment in anything of that cosmic projection. If you believe that you want something from the world, I've often said the world will seem to want something from you. When people say, well, you know, I have trouble with society and the rules of society, I have trouble in my own household, the rules that are in my household. I have trouble with the laws and the rituals and the rules of this world. Well, they came from the ego and as long as you believe in any aspect of the cosmos, you're saying that you want those limitations. These are all limiting laws. These don't have anything to do with heaven or the law of love. They're all limitations. Now let's have one more aspect of this Jesus jolt because I'm trying to expose here what is mastery through fear because how are you going to relinquish fear if you're still attracted to it? Talk about schizophrenic. Why would you want to relinquish something that you still are attracted to and you still find valuable? You know, Jesus is like saying to us, it's okay, you can let it go and you've got your fist clenched around something and Jesus says, please let it go, you want to be happy, right? Yeah? You want to be peaceful, yeah? And okay, why is your fist still clenched?  He's like saying please, can you give me one finger at least, open up your fist a little bit and let's loosen this up. So let's jump ahead to chapter 20 because I thought we all need a good Jesus jolt before we get into this mastery of love talk. We really have to understand, first of all, how invested am I in fear and if I am super invested in fear and maybe I've forgotten that, maybe I think I'm just a human being, I'm only human born to make mistakes and I'm doing the best I can and everything and okay I might have a few crazy things going on in my mind but I'm not like a major addict or anything like this and you know I have some fear, yeah I get some fear, comes up every once in a while but it's not like it's like total fear, I'm not like psychotic and just totally overwhelmed by fear so let's look at some of the subtleties of what this mastery through fear is about. I remember the first time I read this section, I was reading it in a course group and you should have seen the looks on the people around me. They were looking at me like I was from another planet, like who wrote this and what are you talking about and you can't be serious, he's not serious right, he's just joking here, he can't possibly be serious but it starts off with a very nice title, the gift of lilies, some of you want to follow along, it's from chapter, looks like 20, the gift of lilies, look upon all the trinkets made to hang upon the body or to cover it or for its use, okay, talking about some jewelry, hang upon the body, maybe a hat, scarf or to cover it, okay, talking about clothes, shoes, okay, all right, okay, look upon all the trinkets made to hang upon the body or to cover it or for its use, see all the useless things made for its eyes to see, oh wow, that's a lot, how many useless things have my body's eyes seen in 61 years, I can't even count that high, how many images have I gone, okay, think on the many offerings made for its pleasure, going out to eat, sex, watching a beautiful sunset, just imagine, think on the many offerings made for its pleasure, the body's pleasure, and remember all these were made to make seem lovely what you hate, you mean every single offering that I've ever perceived in these 61 years that were offerings made for the body's pleasure and remember all these were made to make seem lovely what you hate, what I hate, you're saying that I hate my body, some of you can relate to it a little bit, but that seems like pretty strong to make seem lovely what you hate, that basically this false identity contains a lot of fear and a lot of guilt and a lot of anger and a lot of hatred and it's going on in the mind and then the mind is using the body and all these trinkets and all these other things of time and space as a giant distractive device to what, to face the self-hatred that's in the mind, to face the unconscious mind, it's like a giant hologram to use the Star Trek term, it's a giant distractive device to distract the mind away from be still and know that I'm God, it's a giant distractive device to keep from releasing darkness, exposing darkness, letting it out, letting it out and healing, coming to true healing, would you employ this hated thing to draw your brother to you and to attract his body's eyes? Wow, would I employ the body this hated thing to draw your brother to you and to attract his body's eyes? Learn you but offer him a crown of thorns not recognizing it for what it is and trying to justify your own interpretation of its value by his acceptance, yet still the gift proclaims his worthlessness to you as his acceptance and delight acknowledges the lack of value he places on himself. Well that first paragraph is an expose on on how any investment or seeking any worthiness or any value whatsoever in a body or anybody or trying to gain pleasure through it, which most of us grew up, you know, that was part of our dualistic perception of the world, whether it's pleasures and pains and you try to maximize the pleasures and minimize the pains, he's basically telling us to the extent that you're invested in the body as part of your identity, then you will be using mastery through fear as your attempt at salvation. You will try to find your peace of mind and your happiness through that body identity and you may try many variations and you can talk about it as lifetimes or you can talk about it as all of the attempts, part of the human condition, to alleviate pain, loneliness, emptiness, lack, suffering through using something what Jesus would call external, it's really external to you. He says the body is outside you but it seems to surround you so when he says external, he's saying anything of the body in the cosmos that you're looking to to fulfill yourself, to find that peace, that wholeness, that happiness, that completion that you truly want is basically you're using it as an attempt with fear, you're trying to reach a mastery, a stability, you're trying to stabilize your identity through fear and he's telling us throughout the course it will not work. He doesn't care how predominant it is, it may seem to be legion, it may seem to be most everybody you know is doing the same thing but he's saying that entire perception is a giant deception from knowing who you are. Now here's an interesting line to start the second paragraph, you know the first one is just it's kind of a wipeout, it's a Jesus jolt, the first paragraph and then the beginning of the second paragraph, you know, I was raised in a family where we exchanged gifts at Christmas, we exchanged gifts at birthday, you know with your partner or your relationship you you give lots of gifts, it's fun to give gifts and gifts and gifts but but basically you know all the gifts that I was used to giving in Christmas and whatever candy in Easter or Mother's Day, Father's Day, we have events all during the year to give gifts. This is what he starts off with in the second paragraph. Gifts are not made through bodies if they be truly given and received. Okay another atomic bomb, you just wiped out my entire history of gift giving there with one sentence. Gifts are not made through bodies, all the gifts that I ever gave to mom and dad and all of them were all gifts were material gifts and he's saying in the first sentence, gifts are not made through bodies if they be truly given and received. For bodies can neither offer nor accept, hold out nor take. Only the mind can value and only the mind decides on what it would receive and give. Now that can seem kind of harsh based on our experiences human beings and earthlings, it can be like oh come on now gifts are not made through bodies well it's gonna be kind of hard to give them away if I can't use my arms and you know it's it's it's gonna be really difficult but actually he's preparing us for our miracle working function.  In fact as you give you will receive and as you learn to accept your function as a miracle worker you will transcend your entire perception of the world. Your little tiny personal perception of the world will be lifted up and as it says and every gift it offers depends on what it wants. In other words what the mind wants is what it's giving. If it's valuing the body or material things and things and stuff you know it will it will adorn its chosen home most carefully making it ready to receive the gifts at once by offering them to those who come unto his chosen home or those it would attract to it and there they will exchange their gifts offering and receiving what their minds judge to be worthy of them. You know to me when I first read the course back in 1986 and then I just started reading it for like eight hours a day I really took it on. This was not some kind of an intellectual exercise of reading a book or doing lessons over and over for years upon years upon years. This is actually asking you to have a transformation of your consciousness by actually taking this on and transferring the training and really linking into what Jesus is talking about and I noticed that I would like take it so much to heart that even when Christmas time came I get around or I would go to a birthday party or whatever I really started to practice this that my mind had all these amazing gifts of happiness and joy and peace to offer. I also took a I also let go of my job my career my future my future plans my future ambitions and so I decided I'm just going to live in the miracle and really take this on to be he's saying I have to take it on to be the savior of the world to know myself myself as ruler of the universe the salvation of the world comes through me I mean I was reading the workbook lessons and I thought this is a whole system that is telling me that I need to live in a completely different way than I've been living I need to think differently I need to have different thoughts in my mind and it's not going to matter if I make a few changes in form here and there or if I just continue on trying to bring the light of truth down into the personality self or into the perceptual world because it was clear from the course it doesn't work that way you can't bring the truth into the illusions you can only bring the illusions of your split mind of your sleeping mind to the truth and they will disappear and I remember one year my niece my niece was having her birthday party and I remember going to the birthday party without without a physical presence and I remember I thought well okay Jesus I'm trusting you but I don't know how this is gonna go after these years of bringing presence to show up there and just be in the joy of being a miracle worker and it was really beautiful because I think at one point when we were alone she looked at me with her eyes and she said Uncle David didn't you get me a present and and I thought here we go you know this is where the rubber meets the road and I remember Jesus said something to me like every time I play with you and all the joy that we share and happiness and everything of being there and sharing all this joy that's the present and you know she totally reflected that back to me she said okay and that was it that's the sad face was gone in an instant and it was swept away by the joy of the miracle and we played and did all kinds of things and the love was still there without the physical presence it was just a moment of hesitation where she looked at me like what's there something different about this picture and that not that only was there but it transferred to everything in my life I started to value my attitude I started to value sharing the love in my heart with everybody I met to really be with them listen to their heart listen to what the Holy Spirit was speaking through them to me and it was so joyful it was so miraculous it just transformed everything from going from a life of trying to have the body be the recipient of all this work why do you work careers and jobs except to earn money for houses and cars and clothes and and stuff and more stuff and more stuff and Jesus was saying listen you've got to release the value you place in that body I'll use your body to speak through it I'll take you he took me speaking these ideas to six continents and on many many forty some countries and on and on and around and around but all it was was me allowing the Spirit to use the body just as a communication device and not as an end in and of itself in other words to the ego the body is is your home it's your identity and it says it's good and fine to improve that identity to let that identity be the recipient of all the stuff and things of the world fame fortune recognition adulation all kinds of things that are really just pride the ego wants us to puff up this little personality self and have a puffed up prideful identity that takes the place of the Christ because it's got to make it into something you know it's it's a huge distortion to forget that you're the Christ and to to believe that you've taken on a bodily identity so I just went through that paragraph and a little bit of the second one there to give you an idea of how different this pathway is from what we would call conventionally living make the best of it on planet earth this is a radical departure from make the best of it on planet earth because make the best of it on planet earth involves the body being the end not the means involves a total valuation and focus upon the body as the recipient of many many things and the course teaches us no it's just part of your perception but there's no difference between a baby and a button there's no difference between a person and and some perfume there there is no difference all of the images are equally projections and none of them is you not any single one of them there is a forgiving forgiveness there is a real world or a happy dream in your mind and that's an illusion too but when you find this illusion in your mind it's the one illusion that takes you out of all the rest it's the one illusion forgiveness that cures your identity confusion of thinking you're a human and your flesh it takes you back so far toward the light that it's literally the forgiven world and the happy dream are are actually the gateway to heaven the gateway to nirvana now what does this have to do with mastery through love well the course is so simple because everything that the course teaches is about forgiveness everything teaches to bring it all back to your mind you know in lesson 132 Jesus says there is no world apart from what you think in other words you have a powerful mind if you think egoic thoughts and hold on to egoic beliefs you will have a perceptual hallucination that will convince you that you are something that you are not and that how powerful is that mind lesson 152 the power of decision is my own he says you may think that's kind of extreme but everything you perceive in the cosmos and I mean throughout all of history of the cosmos Hitler Mussolini everything you've ever perceived the stone age is from your mind you know everything in the entire cosmos is a projection of this one mind the sleeping mind and it has not left its source it's still in the sleeping mind that thought it up it's not really out there and the only way to turn things around is Byron Katie would say turn it around is you need mind training there has to be lots and lots of mind training to reach this state of mind this forgiveness and so how fantastic that we have an opportunity to go for forgiveness together and actually go for mastery through love that's what forgiveness is is mastery through love it's letting the power and the strength of the Holy Spirit solve every problem that you perceive


Item number SCP-3069 Object Class Keter Special Containment Procedures Mobile Task Force Gamma-6, Deep Feeders, are partnered with the staff of Offshore Provisional and Research Site-3069 and Coastal North Carolinian Site-42 for the purposes of monitoring SCP-3069 activity. Its deep-level research and exploratory efforts have been stalled indefinitely following the events of Exploration Log 2A. No excursions lowered in pre-explored depths into SCP-3069 are to be allowed without permission from at least two Acting-05 Council members, the Site-Director of Site-42 and the Site-Director of Site-3069. Given the full activation of SCP-3069 and confirmation of SCP-3069's undergoing an ANOVA exonera event, the following additional containment procedures should be enacted in the order of their respective stages. Stage 1 denotes the time following the initial activation of SCP-3069. Estimated to have already occurred. During this time, the governments of all United Nations countries will be informed by a joint scientific branch of both the SCP Foundation and the Global Occult Coalition that a research team with NOAA has discovered a recent increase in sulfur-based manufacturing waste toxins throughout the North Atlantic. World governments will be encouraged to increase oceanic exploration and water quality research for the purposes of safety and gaining additional data. However, SCP-3069 itself must not be directly mentioned at any point, and if it is found that any exploratory advances by non-foundation or GOC parties have led to unauthorized discovery of SCP-3069, those involved should be detained, interrogated, amnesticized, and released if the situation permits. Stage 2 denotes the time ranging from the end of Stage 1 to the point at which SCP-3069 undergoes an ANOVA exonera event. During Stage 2, new sources and unauthorized research publications by scientific organizations, both private and federal, must be monitored for unapproved information releases regarding abnormal and rapid changes in marine life and chemical composition of North Atlantic water. If a source is found to have fully discovered the existence and or suspected function of SCP-3069, the creators of the information are to be located, detained, interrogated, and amnesticized. In the event that a source successfully publishes information of a SCP-3069, a unique cover story is to be developed for each publication in question, and the creators of the publication dismissed as fraudulent. Stage 3 denotes the time period taking place after the point at which SCP-3069 undergoes an ANOVA exonera event. During this time, SCP-3069 will have begun to release all materials and specimens held within it. The following must then occur. Note, the following procedures are for the US version of this document only. Foundation sites located in UN countries other than the United States are equipped with their own respective versions of the following procedures. 1. SCP-2000 will be prepared for activation, with usage estimated to begin two to five years after the onset of Stage 3. A full list of personnel slotted for use in SCP-2000 is restricted to O5 access only, and is not available in this document. 2. Foundation emergency responders will partner with the CDC for the purposes of containing leakages of chemical hazards released by SCP-3069 or materials and entities released by SCP-3069. 3. New sources will at this point be allowed to publish information about SCP-3069, as most media coverage will most likely be speculative and inaccurate. However, new sources and research organizations must still be monitored as closely as personnel availability and Foundation involvement allows, and researchers not affiliated with the Foundation, Global Occult Coalition, or NOAA, who published unique or previously undiscovered information about SCP-3069 should be detained and interrogated. 4. An international ban on both private and commercial cross-Atlantic travel will be issued by the United Nations. The import of foreign products will either be carried out by air travel or halted completely. 5. With the assistance of the U.S. National Guard and U.S. Coast Guard, all eastern American coastal towns will be fully evacuated and abandoned. 6. Over the next several years, as much of the population as is possible will be moved further inland. By this point, the nature of SCP-3069 will have already become public due to the damaged state of coastal areas. Information suppression efforts should then be directed towards public education and safety training. However, directly informing the public of SCP-3069's origin and purpose will at no point be necessary and should be avoided. 7. Only ten years after the full completion of an ANOVA Exonera event, as much as 60% of North American population will be dead or diseased. Recovery efforts by the Foundation, Global Occult Coalition, and CDC should be directed to suppressing, quarantining, or terminating affected animals and courting off high-risk areas. 8. All Foundation sites will enter XK-class standard preparatory mode, and will remain in this state as long as possible for each individual site. Sites are permitted to develop their own scientific containment procedures for this period, and should attach these to copies of this document when necessary. At this point, no excursions past any site boundaries are recommended nor permitted by the O5 Council. After this point, no deployed Foundation employees are to be permitted re-entry to their respective sites, and should be informed of this beforehand to avoid confusion. 9. SCP-2000 will be fully activated, and will be in use for an estimated 250 to 500 years. 10. Following the aforementioned activation of SCP-2000, Foundation personnel will no longer be required to monitor or protect the populace, and these efforts will then be left to the management of federal and state governments. Description SCP-3069 is a designation for a massive physical construct extending approximately 6,000 km across the North Atlantic Ocean. At the time of this writing, SCP-3069 continually releases specimens and substances of unknown origin, the purposes of which appear to be ██████████ referred to as an Innova Exonera event. This development is recent, and was most likely triggered by a notable event taking place in June 2020 when TAP-14, the last functioning transatlantic telecommunications cable, suffered a massive failure within the vicinity of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Upon investigation by the Sprint Network Administration System, it was discovered that a section of a massive metallic structure had breached through a gap in the divergent boundary of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge near TAP-14 and severed it at three separate points over a 950 km section. SCP-3069's anomalous nature was then discovered when an NOAA exploration team investigated the original breach point, now designated Access Point 1, of SCP-3069 and TAP-14. When their unmanned submarine approached the area, it was revealed that a number of unknown organisms had already been released into surrounding seawater, C-Figure-A, presumably directly after SCP-3069 collided with TAP-14. SCP-3069 has three known Access Points, all of which are also the original interception points of SCP-3069 and TAP-14. Due to SCP-3069's size, it is considered likely that SCP-3069 has an unknown number of additional Access Points which cannot be located. Access Point 1 is a large sealed pipe with a diameter of 25 meters, located at ██████ at a depth of approximately 3,500 meters. Access Point 1 allows entry through a series of external wiring ports on its underside. After several unsuccessful tests, it was discovered that a light electrical current, 120 volts, applied to two of the three visible ports, prompted response from a 5x5 meter square hatch on the inside wall of Access Point 1. This hatch opened, allowing MTF-gamma-6 personnel access to a section of the interior of SCP-3069. Access Point 2 is identical in form and function to Access Point 1, and is located at ██████ at a depth of approximately 3,200 meters. However, Access Point 2 appears to have suffered an internal structure failure at some point, and opening its hatch yields a blockage of an unknown, but non-tossed, expunged-like object. Drilling through this blockage has been considered, but not yet attempted due to its size and density. Access Point 3 is an invisible cylindrical spatial distortion, located at ████████ degrees 36 minutes 58.9 seconds north, 21 degrees 27 minutes 35.6 seconds west, at a depth of approximately 4,000 meters, the size of which is estimated at a diameter of 150 meters and a height of 400 meters. Access Point 3's anomalous nature appears to be caused by the installation of a movable electromagnetic device, SCP-3069-A. SCP-3069-A is a 2m steel pole topped with a phosphorescent sphere, composed of an unknown material. SCP-3069-A constantly emits a faint green light, a magnetic flux field of 23.4 to 32.0 Tesla, and low levels of gamma radiation. In 2021, offshore provisional and research site 3069 was established around Access Point 3 for the purposes of preventing entry into SCP-3069 by marine lifeforms, preventing access from SCP-3069 by unknown lifeforms and substances, and establishing a point of research for SCP-3069 as a whole. On March 6, 2021, five months after the initial discovery of SCP-3069, the first excursion into SCP-3069's interior was made through Access Point 1. Three members of Mobile Task Force Gamma-6, Agents Jones, Garcia, and Lockwood volunteered for field research and were instructed to enter through Access Point 1's hatch and ascertain the following information about SCP-3069 if possible. The origin of the anomaly, the purpose of the anomaly of applicable, any hazard present in the anomaly, how much of the anomaly is traversable despite its massive size, whether the anomaly is one structure or multiple similar structures, whether the anomaly contains life. All three agents were equipped with Class-6 hazards exposure suits. In addition to Foundation's standard high-pressure scuba gear rated to a resistance-capacity of 39,500 kPa. Agents Lockwood and Garcia were each equipped with waterproof digital cameras and instructed to remain in the lead of the group, photographing any abnormalities, entities, or devices found on board SCP-3069. Agent Jones was equipped with one miniature head-mounted video camera for the purpose of the later analysis and instructed to remain behind Agents Lockwood and Garcia at all times. Agent Jones was equipped with standard two-wave radio equipment for the purposes of communicating with observation personnel. All three agents were equipped with full-body locking restraint harnesses attached to a cord-rappling system. The pulley equipment of which was located on MTF Gamma-6's R-24 mobile reconnaissance vehicle for the purposes of pulling all three agents back to the exterior of the Access Point in the event of an emergency. Agent Log, March 6, 2021 2-23-10 This is Jones, checking comms. We read your comms, check Jones, confirm status of team members. Lockwood and Garcia are good to go. Affirmative, proceed away from the exterior of the vehicle and toward Access Point 1. Affirmative, we'll contact when the hatch is entered. 25 Second Radio Silence as the team swims from the DSRV to Access Point 1's hatch. Arrival Lockwood and Garcia are proceeding to Access Point. Copy 17 Second Radio Silence as the team proceeds through the hatch and into SCP-3069's interior. Describe your surroundings and do not close the hatch, I repeat, do not close the hatch. Hell no, I'm not closing the hatch. Affirmative. What are your surroundings? Dark. Lockwood, Garcia, let's turn our headlamps on. Alright, base, we've got a flooded hallway type structure here, dilapidated, with some sort of green algae growth on equipment. Photograph and document the equipment. Affirmative. 15 Second Radio Silence. Done. Ruta Head looks to be more of the same. Water is cloudy, headlamp beams are penetrating no more than 15 meters out. The hood is rectangular like a hallway, and is significantly smaller in width than the entry point. How wide is this area? No more than 10 meters. Team, keep to the right side wall. Please confirm status. Slow moving in here because of the water, we're sticking to the right side wall.  Reference this to a line editing times. Affirmative agent, can you describe the physical environment further? Lockwood says she found some writing, stand by while I proceed. Affirmative. Lockwood and Garcia are photographing the writing. It's not handwriting, it's printed, engraved, like a placard. It looks like some sort of warning sign. Can you interpret it? Negative, it's not in any language I've seen. We'll get the linguist on it. Please proceed in whichever direction you choose. Garcia says he's found another hatch, it's at the end of this hallway, and appears to be the only means of continuing forward. Opening another hatch could cause significant water pressure differences, which could potentially induce physical symptoms. Make sure all team members recognize this before proceeding. Understood. Garcia and Lockwood, I'm told we might get the bends if we open that, and there was a pressure differentiation. While you're still alright with proceeding. 7 Second Radio Silence. Copy base, they're alright with it. If we go silent for longer than 5 minutes, pull us in. Affirmative, please use caution, we can always send D-classes in. Acknowledged, but we might as well proceed. I don't think the site's gotten many yet since it was built. Lockwood, try to turn that hatch open. Report on what is behind the hatch immediately after opening it. Will do. Garcia, help return the wheel to the right. 9 Second Radio Silence. Base, this thing isn't budging. Turn it the other way. Lockwood, try turning it clockwise. 10 Second Radio Silence. Affirmative base, that appears to be working. The hatch doesn't open in the standard direction. Garcia, Lockwood, stand clear of the hatch as it opens, in case of a difference in pressure. Don't want us getting sucked into something. How wide is this hatch? Hatch is probably 2 meters across. Access wheel is half a meter, circular? Copy that. Lockwood says the hatch is now loose. She says that it feels like it's going to push open if she lets go of it, indicating that the pressure on that side may be significantly higher than that on this side. If all team members are aware of this, proceed. 10 Second Radio Silence. Hatch is open.   Do you recognize the species? They're too torn up. The waters half composed of blood and a green slimy substance. God, I'm glad I can't smell right now. Acknowledge, proceed through the hatch. 10 Second Radio Silence. Alright, Garcia, Lockwood, go through. I'm right behind you. Keep your lights on and describe any changes in surroundings. Alright. I'm…   Give me a minute to let the gunk settle before I see out of my visor. 30 Minutes remaining on air supply. Yeah, yeah, I know. 20 Second Radio Silence. Okay, here we go. Alright, this area is different. We've got what looks like some thick, transparent glass or plastic material. It's looking out over the sea floor, and there are two massive spotlights illuminating everything. I'm getting this on video, and Lockwood and Garcia are photographing another foreign language placard they found. But the glass is fogged up. I can't see too well through it because it's deteriorated. But there's a really big view out there. 10 Second Radio Silence. Agent, I am told that this environment does not match up with geographical mapping in this area. It's the direction in which you have proceeded is accurate. You should, at this point, be underneath the sea floor. How far above the sea floor do you appear to be? At least a hundred meters. It's hard to tell proportion from here, but this would be like standing on top of a small building and looking at the ground. The bottom is transparent, too. I can look under my feet and see out into the surrounding water. If I move my foot to push the piles of fish guts out of the way, it's dark. But it looks like this thing has some artificial lamps lighting the sea floor a little bit. I see some fish moving away below us in the sand. Noted. Proceed further down the route and try to locate the source of the biological matter. Affirmative. We're proceeding. 23 Second Radio Silence as the team proceeds further away from the access point. Something isn't right. Describe immediately. We're several more meters down, and we pass through a smaller hatch. There's a setup here. Some sort of elevator? No. It's not an elevator. It's a platform. There are buttons by it, no switches, with placards beside them. This is some sort of directory. Lockwood and Garcia are taking photographs as we speak. 13 Second Radio Silence.  What's wrong? I found out what's causing the fish bits. There's some sort of intake vent right here. Something with spinning blades. On our side there's a thin mesh grate, but behind it is the body of a whale. At least I think it's a whale. I can't tell because it's so torn up. I'm videoing it. And the whale's viscera is leaking through the grate. Affirmative. God, this is nasty. You are free to proceed to a different area provided you are done photographing. Try to proceed further into the structure. You are free to proceed to a different area provided you are done photographing. Try to proceed further into the structure. We're not seeing much. Our flashlight beam can reach all the walls, and there are no further access points or hatches visible. If we move forward, it's going to have to be with this elevator thing, provided the thing even works. That is ill-advised. There is no telling what a transportation device of unknown function will do to human physiology. If you decide to proceed, do not go alone, and keep in mind that it could have adverse effects on your body. Alright, noted. We'll keep looking around. Can you move the whale carcass and access the vent? I guess it's a baby whale, but I don't exactly want to touch it. You're wearing full hazmat equipment in a scuba suit. Get one of the other agents to do it then. Fine, fine. Garcia, help me get in here and move this damn thing. 34 Second Radio Silence. What is your status? We're just about to ████████ fuck, there. We've got the grate off and the whole carcass went flying into the room. Jesus, the room's half-blood now.  Yes, they can. The filters catch it, but try to slow your breathing a little. They're having to work harder to extract oxygen. Alright, we can do that. How much time do we have? Twenty-three minutes. Explore this upcoming area, and then retreat back to the vehicle for safety. Much appreciated. 18 Second Radio Silence. What is your status? This area isn't safe. There's a massive rushing current flowing from our right to our left, and if we step out into it, it's not going to go well. We're not asking you to step into it. Photograph the area and surroundings. Affirmative. Distance across is large, probably 20 meters. We seem to have doubled back on ourselves, but the layout doesn't match up. Can you elaborate on that? We made a U-turn from the observation hallway with the glass, which logically means that area would be to our right by a few meters at this point, but it's not. This is just an empty tunnel with a current flowing through it. Alright, this is looking like an extra-dimensional anomaly then. Explains the massive size of the thing. We'll make note of it. Don't lose sight or connection with your retrieval cord. We won't.  Can you do that? Be careful leaning out into any moving water. The difference in force could lead to injuries. She's being careful. Alright. Please retreat immediately after this. Lockwood's going to hang onto these pipes and crawl about 5 meters down along the side. She says she sees another placard with language and information. That is not advised. Please use extreme caution. Acknowledge, she's leaning out now. 15 second radio silence. How far down is she?  Is there an emergency? Please respond. Fuck, fuck, she just slipped.   Do not hold on to anything that does not look solid. We know, we know. Fuck, fuck, she's… No, no, you don't have to do that. Let's try to grab the wall, we can brace you. Fuck, base, we're all slipping. Lockwood, no, don't.  Just stop moving.  What is your status?  We were all falling and she just saw that we were all slipping and she reached up with her knife and cut herself off. Christ. Understood. Can you see her? 8 second radio silence. She's gone. She's so far down the stream that I can't even see where it ends. It's too dark to see past several meters anyway. I swear I can hear… do you know how far sound would travel in water like this? Through these suits?  It is highly unlikely that you would be able to hear her at this point. The distance would be too great. Return immediately to the vehicle. ██████. Alright, come on, Garcia. Are any abnormalities you noticed on your way back? Yes. 17 second radio silence. The whale is gone. The whale is gone? Are you saying the carcass is out of sight? The whale carcass is gone from this room and it ended up in after we cleared the vent. The water is clear again too. What has changed in the surroundings? 20 second radio silence. I don't want to talk too loudly. There's something off about the wall by the elevator device. Why are you whispering? Is there an entity present? Yes. By the wall. If you are unsafe to speak, remain silent and exit the structure. If you feel comfortable speaking, describe its physical appearance and photograph it if possible. I can't. It's not visible. You said it was by the wall? I know. I know it's there. That's where the lighting changed. It turned something on over there. It's messing with the device with all the switches. I don't think it's looking at me yet. Please describe it. If you do not see anything, it could be possible that this is a paranoia response following trauma. This isn't a hallucination. There is something here and it just cleaned up the whale gunk and now it's fixing the elevator. How do you know? I'm watching it. It's a clear patch of water. It's a slight difference in the light. It's flipping switches. I'm watching them move. Are you saying this entity is invisible but affected by water and light? No. I'm saying this is incorporeal. I can't actually tell if it's there or not. It hasn't talked to me yet. Garcia says the same thing. What do you want us to do? If it hasn't noticed you yet and it's not observable to photograph, exit the way you came. Okay, alright. I don't think it can hear. I'm talking at normal volume now and it hasn't noticed us. Stay silent and report when you exit the room. This should take no longer than 60 seconds. 25 second radio delay.  Every time I move, I feel it noticing me. I think it can feel the water. The movement in the water. It's going to look at us and ████ stop us. Are you saying this entity has hostile intentions? Do not feel compelled to answer or speaking is unsafe. No, no, it definitely can't hear. Either that or the suit and water is blocking any sound it would hear anyway, but it's moving. How do you know it's moving? I feel it. It's a hotspot. On my head, as a headache, I'm watching it shift to the other side of the room. It's a fuzzy spot in my vision, like I'm looking at a bright light. The spot moves just like my headache does. The headache, it's on my left temple now. It's moving to the left side of the room to stop us from exiting. If you feel it necessary, move faster to exit the hatch. When you exit, tell us and we will immediately reel in the line. It wouldn't chase us. How do you know this? Please make an effort to remember what you are feeling right now, or the purpose is a later interview and analysis.  Is Garcia safe? He's right here. Look, I don't want to go past this thing. If I went for the hatch now, I would be walking through it. The thought of doing that is, I have a very strong feeling that I shouldn't. If it is non-corporeal, you are most likely safe to walk through it, even if you perceive that it is occupying a physical space.  This thing is here. I see it as little shape swimming around my vision. It's trying to get into my head. Do you have Cognito Hazard Resistance Training?   If you are ill-equipped to block out emotional interference from an anomalous entity, I would still advise both of you to simply proceed through the area as fast as possible. You are running out of air. I can't do this. Garcia can't eat her. He looks like he's going to pass out. I would rather run out of air than… and it's staring at me. It's staring right at me. It's staring through me. It just made this noise, this ringing noise in my head. It's making my vision go blue and my ears bleed. I think it wants me. If you are unsafe there is no… distortion scraping and unintelligible vocalizations are heard. 23 second radio silence. No, no, no. Report on your status. It got in me. It got it. You have less than 10 minutes of air supply left. If you are unaffected you need to exit immediately. Where is Garcia? 22nd radio silence. Safe. Okay, if you are both safe then exit immediately. Where is the entity? Un… present. The entity is no longer present? Unintelligible interference. The entity is no longer present. Under the vehicle… the vehicle… I am coming. Affirmative. 47 second radio silence. Upon retrieval, Agent Jones did not respond to questioning nor does he allow the vehicle crew to reel in the safety line for a faster exit. Following their return, Agent Jones and Garcia are moved to Site 3069 for questioning and medical treatment respectively. Afterward, due to the advance outlined the above log, Agent Jones was detained on site in Site 3069's medical wing for the purposes of determining his mental state in any manners in which the undefined anomaly affected him. However, as Agent Jones is rapidly declining help prevented thorough communication from taking place, no interview was conducted before he expired. Advanced autopsy determines the following results. The cause of death was a heart attack, presumably triggered by a blocked artery. In the brain, abnormally high levels of dopamine and serotonin were found. Several unidentified substances were found both on Agent Jones's skin and in his bloodstream, despite the fact that no leakages were present in his scuba suit or oxygen tank following extraction. Agent Jones's body was marked as biologically hazardous and incinerated following autopsy completion. 2A Discussion of Hole Breach Forward, on March 10, 2021, four days after the death of Agent Jones, a breach in Site 3069's northeastern external hole was detected. After the wing's security and pressure detection system automatically sealed off the affected section, a repair excursion was made into the area in question after it had fully filled with water. Site Response Team C-4, equipped with standard protective scuba and repair equipment, was tasked with investigating the breach. Due to the low severity level of this assignment, audio and video recording equipment was not present when the following events occurred. These events are the eyewitness of team leader Maxwell Swain, collected in an interview with Site Security Director Mallory Wickerford. Said interview is transcribed below. Unlog, March 10, 2021, 1630-17 Good afternoon. My name is Wickerford, and I'm the Director of Security at Site 3069. We need to ask you a few questions to clarify what you and your crew witnessed earlier today when you repaired a breach in the site's hole. Are you alright with that? Yeah, yeah, of course. We met once before, I thought. We may have, yes. Now can I start by asking you if you noticed anything abnormal about the water that filled the affected section after the hole breached? No, the water itself wasn't abnormal, pressure was pretty normal too, even for a malfunction. But that might just be because we gave it time to fill. Right. The four of us didn't notice at first, but it didn't look like a person just due to the shape. But when we noticed, Garcia recognized her immediately and started panicking. This is the subject Garcia claims physically resembles Theresa Lockwood, a Task Force agent who was declared missing in action four days ago. He claims it because it's her. I hate to phrase it so blunt, but I recognized her face too, just from seeing her in the hallways around here. She's pretty distinctive looking, I guess is what did it. I always recognized her in the hallways at work, so I mainly remembered whose face I was looking at on this thing. Can you elaborate on the state of what this thing was? Are you saying this was her body and she was deceased? Well, it was her, I think, but her body must have gotten torn up when it got sucked into the whole breach hole. Just because of the pressure difference. She was still wearing remains of a scuba suit. I could see it around her waist and chest, but it was all torn up. Can you confirm that she appeared fully deceased? Would your team theoretically be capable of retrieving the body? How would she not be dead after that? I understand your reasoning, but there may have been anomalous materials or entities affecting her in unknown ways following her disappearance with an SCP-3069. Ideally, we would want to do a full autopsy on her body to determine what occurred onboard the device. The device? I haven't heard it described that way before. Do you guys think this thing was a function still? Can you clarify what you mean by still? I mean, clearly it used to serve some purpose, but it's abandoned and defunct now. That's what we've found in that exploration, right? The one where they lost Theresa? I'm afraid I'm not at liberty to discuss any details along those lines. What? Hang on. Is there something that makes you think it's still active and used by… that's all I can say on the topic, my apologies. Now would you mind confirming once more that you are certain Theresa's body was fully dead? I guess I couldn't say then, given what you think about whatever happened on board. I mean, yeah, she looked dead. Noted. Could your team retrieve the body? We're still not clear on what happened to the body when the breach was repaired and the water expelling from the area. I'm not sure. Her body was quite a few feet from us, and the water was murky enough that as she drifted any further back, she'd have been out of sight. I don't quite envision what you're describing, I'm afraid. Are you saying that the water was too dark for you to see where the body went when it drifted off in the direction opposite from you? Yeah, exactly. The headlamp beams just couldn't go that far through the water, and when we repaired the breach, well, I'll be honest, we're not used to seeing that sort of thing, so we were a little on edge and in a hurry to get out there. We did our job and when we didn't see her body drift back towards us, we left as per standard procedure. Understandable. Alright, but why is her body not within that particular section of the wing now that the hull has been restored and the section reopened? I couldn't say, honestly, there's… Was there anything visibly unusual about the body? That's what I was about to point out, but it was such a quick glimpse that I feel like I can't confirm what I saw. I understood, but please describe it for later analysis anyways. Alright, you know that device decided to build around? The stick stuck in the mud? It's in the middle observation area, right around access point three? That device is SCP-3069-A, yes, I'm familiar with it. You know that light it emits? That almost blue shade of dark green? Yes. I saw that color. That color light in a string. I'm having trouble describing this because I only noticed it for a second. It was really faint, only visible for a short time before a body drifted out of sight. You saw a device similar to SCP-3069-A, you mean? No, not a full-on device like that thing, just the same color. I know this sounds uncertain, but you know what I'm talking about. It's a very weird color, almost dark, like too dark to be light waves, not bright enough, and hurts your eyes like an ultra-violent bulb does. You know what I mean? You've seen 3069-A admit it, everyone talks about how weird it is. It was definitely that color, no one could miss it. Yes, I'm familiar with it's oddity. How was this light present? It was coming out of her, in little strings. I don't know how to word it, I only saw it for a second and it felt weird to look at it. Like I was looking at something that wasn't supposed to be there, like a mirage. There were these little strings of light coming out of her mouth, and out between her legs and sort of coiled around her leg where the suit was torn. Out of her mouth then, like a few thick strings of just that color light. Like there were thin cables, but they were glowing that same color. It was, ugh, it was awful to look at, I'm having trouble wording it. Take your time, you don't need to be uncomfortable. I'm fine, it's just, I don't know how to describe it other than it looking like someone had taken a bunch of five or six cords and just threaded them through her body, and one in and out the other.  Noted. And that other glowing thing, the device we built the side around? It's clearly made of the same stuff, and we already know what that thing is what causes Access Point 3's boundary in the first place. It's the, it's the transporter thing. You know what I'm saying? I can't find my words because this is making me nervous. It's understandable, but try to keep your focus. It seems from your witness account that you believe Teresa Lockwood's body isn't present in the area in which it was previously present, not because the water drained and it went out with it, but because the material with the same extra-dimensional capabilities as SCP-3069-A was present on the body? And that activated and removed her body. Alright, alright, I can see the reasoning in that given what SCP-3069-A does, so we'll document it and keep an eye out for any future occurrences. Do you have any further concerns about this subject or events on which to elaborate? Yeah. Alright, go ahead. The strings. I only saw them when I looked at her, in the face, like trying to find her eyes on her face, which were stuck open. And once I looked at her, that was when I noticed the strings. Only once I looked at her eyes, and then she was gone. Go on. It just makes me nervous. Look, we all know happened to Jones. Word gets out. Him, and might still be watching. You think it wasn't a coincidence that our body disappeared right after you looked directly at it? Understood. It's that, but it's the similarity to 3069-A that worries me. I might just be paranoid. What is that then? Look, if something is watching that 3069-A material, that stuff that has that distinctive color and effects, I'm worried that means they're watching the site too. This meaning that if they can use that stuff to whisk off a human body when the time is right, they might also be able to whisk off the entire site when the time is right. This .3 has been determined as stable if anomalous point in space, and shows no sign of growing, shrinking, or failing. Maybe because they're watching you measure it. I see. Your opinion on the matter is noted, and I will pass your security concerns to my supervisors if you wish. Oh god, I- like I said, maybe I'm just paranoid, but I don't know. Yeah, pass it on. Keep my name attached too. Will do. Is there anything else you wish to clarify? I guess not. Thank you for your time, and please let me know what your supervisors say if you can. I will make sure to relay to you anything within your clearance level. Alright, fair enough. Thanks. Thank you. Afterward, Swain's concerns were relayed from Site Security Director Mallory Wickerford to the Site Director, as well as their immediate associates in the head of the Research and Development Department. Ultimately, due to the lack of video evidence of the events described and the cloudy low-light environment of the place of occurrence, these claims were dismissed and Mr. Swain informed of the decision. Due to the fact that Teresa Lockwood's body was seen in a closed area, but not later found, is considered a possibility that she has not died nor left SCP-3069, and that a purported presence in Site-3069 was a shared hallucination of anomalous nature by Swain and the other personnel witnessing. In regards to this, Teresa Lockwood has been refiled in personnel records from missing in action to uncertain. SCP-3069 continually leaks a variety of foreign substances, as well as some unknown lifeforms into surrounding Atlantic seawater. Most substances are sulfur-based, and are often mistaken for naturally occurring excretions from undersea hypothermal vents. These released by SCP-3069 are similar in appearance to marine life from the demersal and benthic zones, but are typically not recognized as any species currently present on Earth beyond some visual similarities. The presence of these materials is estimated to signify the beginning of SCP-3069's activation. An ANOVA exonera event is estimated to occur by the year 2024, which will in turn cause the start of a planet-wide EK-class evolutionary restructuring scenario. Research into the frequency at which biological and chemical matter leaks from SCP-3069 into surrounding seawater has shown a disadvantage unavoidable, and has likely already begun to progress towards activation significantly. It is estimated that the full release of foreign specimens from SCP-3069 into seawater was intended to occur at approximately 1940-1950, but was delayed by unknown errors on board the structure which culminated with the results of the seismic shift that displaced SCP-3069 and in turn severed TAP-14. However, as exploratory efforts have been greatly reduced due to severe loss of personnel, this cannot be confirmed. Further research into the origin of SCP-3069, as well as the materials it releases is ongoing. Warning, access to the following section of this document is restricted to O5 Council members and to Site Directors of Site-42 in Site-3069. If you hold sufficient clearance, proceed below. Eyes only addenda. This section should not be printed, transcribed, or otherwise textually copied from the electronic version of this document. This section should not be intentionally memorized for later recollection or recitation. Addendum 1 Extended Description SCP-3069 is the designation for a massive physical construct extending approximately 6,000 km across the North Atlantic Ocean. At the time of this writing, SCP-3069 continually releases specimens and substances of unknown origin. The purposes of which appear to be environmental disruption, which will culminate with the implementation of accelerated artificial evolutionary advancement of most, if not all, Earth species. Hundreds of new species will be released from SCP-3069, evidenced by exploration of several access points and pre-release materials of a similar nature. Due to the toxicity towards humans and the anomalous growth rate of specimens released by SCP-3069, it is estimated that SCP-3069 will successfully cause an evolutionary overhaul culminating with the extinction of at least 90-95% of humanity within several centuries. This and the physical release of the initializing materials is referenced to an Innova Exonera event, where continuation referred to main document. Addendum 2 Research Results Date – March 13, 2021 Location – Site-3069 Research conducted by, if applicable, Lead Researcher Maggie Jarman Documented by, Lead Researcher Maggie Jarman Summary – Images recovered from Exploration 1A into Access Point 1 were provided. Linguistic analysis of the unknown language present on the signs in the images were conducted over a 48-hour period. Comparisons were made with most, if not all, known hieroglyptics due to the similarity in the appearance of the foreign transcriptions. Analysis of Results – Close connections were found with both Egyptian and Miqmok hieroglyphic writings. By cross-referencing Egyptian text, Miqmok text, and SCP-3069 text, as well as analyzing the context and setting in which the SCP-3069 text was found, a rough translation was made for both signs. On the first sign, the following figures were interpreted in the following order, a figure meaning safe, secure, solid, a figure meaning zone, place area, a horizontal line, a figure meaning threat, danger, and a figure meaning wind, force, stream. On the second sign, the following figures were interpreted in the following order, a figure meaning carry, transport, bring, a figure meaning produce, grow, form, a figure meaning zone, place, area, a figure meaning again, a figure meaning build, building, construct, a figure meaning earth, dirt, nature, and a figure meaning spirit, soul, life. The former sign was found near the entrance of Access Point 1, and the other was found near the tunnel in which Agent Teresa Lockwood first went missing in action. Date – April 5, 2021 Location – Site-3069 Research conducted by, if applicable, Assistant Researcher James Dillon Documented by Lead Researcher Maggie Jarman Summary – In attempt to directly approach and physically contact SCP-3069-A was made, using one class D personnel equipped with standard scuba equipment. D-9182 was instructed to directly touch the sphere of SCP-3069-A. After doing so, their camera revealed that the device's sphere was severely and rapidly degrading the palm of the scuba suit's glove. D-9182 expressed concern over the radio, but cited that they were not able to remove their hand by means of any simple muscle movement. After approximately 15 seconds, SCP-3069-A's sphere caused the glove to deteriorate to a point at which the pressure seal broke and water flowed into the suit. D-9182 expressed distress and vocalized being in pain, but soon expired due to internal bleeding caused by pressure differentiation. Analysis of results – It is possible that SCP-3069-A's sphere simply holds a high temperature at all times, and this is why the suit failed. However, it is notable that D-9182 expressed that something was preventing them from removing their hand from the sphere. The possibility that Maxwell Swain of on-site response team C-4 was correct in hypothesizing that sapient entities of the same type encountered in Exploration Log 1-A are continually observing both SCP-3069-A and materials similar to it should not be ruled out. Date – April 23, 2021 Location – Site-3069 Research conducted by if applicable Acting Site Director Documented by Head Researcher Marty Walkins Summary – D-4927 was exposed to an unknown entity expelled from Access Point-3, appearing to belong to the class Hydrozoa. In a controlled on-site underwater environment, D-4927 was equipped with a breathing tube, oxygen mask, and goggles, and suspended unclothed in a 2 meter deep saltwater container. The unknown specimen, which was phosphorescent with tendrils at approximately a half meter in length, slowly attached itself to his body and proceeded to ██████, until such a point at which he was unwilling to respond to his name and designation or any relevant conversation prompts. Instead, only taking his mask off, making continual eye contact with researchers through the glass, and repeating a phrase in an unknown language until he drowned. Analysis of Results – Unknown Implications – Further human testing research denied by Site Director – Pending Override Approval Date – May 9, 2021 Location – Site-3069 Research conducted by if applicable Junior Researcher Marion Waters Documented by Agent E. Jones Summary – An unmanned exploration was made in Access Point-2, using a miniature drone equipped with underwater camera. The excursion lasted a total of 45 minutes, and the drone was safely returned to the DSRV upon completion. Access Point-2's organic blockage was cleared by means of thirty-one minutes of power drilling. Following this, a massive release of both animate and deceased lifeforms flooded out of the orifice, swarming the drone. The drone recovered, but suffered minor damage to its back right rotor, and returned to the DSRV for repairs. Following its re-release, it began the excursion to Access Point-2 by progressing into a tunnel which progressively shrunk a diameter. After several dozen meters, the tunnel diameter appeared too small for the drone to pass through, but a secondary path to the left was detected. The drone proceeded down it, and threw seven other tunnels of varying length of diameter until it emerged nine minutes later in a massive chamber lined with what appeared to be hundreds of transparent glass containers. Each was some sort of powered off-display screen adjacent it. The drone ascended and approached one of the containers, but an unknown entity knocked into it, disrupting the recording equipment. When recording equipment reactivated ninety seconds later, the drone was on dry ground, pointing upward at a dimly lit small room. A humanoid figure was seen pacing the room, which approached the drone, looked directly at its lens, and threw it back into the water. After four minutes of murky water and slightly distorted footage, the drone was seen returning to the tunnels from which it originally came. Ten minutes later, it emerged with only minor damage, and returned to the DSRV for footage retrieval. Announced as a result, the presence of a Foundation employee in a state such as that being on board SCP-3069 is disconcerting, and even further so considering that there exists apparently one or more areas on board SCP-3069 that are not submerged in water, and evidently hold air cables supporting human life. While it would be useful to get an air sample, there is no way of telling from the footage we have how the drone arrived in that area and what paths it took to do so. Therefore, it is near impossible to reach the same area again, unless by chance or by means of SCP-3069's apparent extradimensional layout affecting drone travel. The presence of hundreds of what appears to be containment units within SCP-3069 would explain the source, assuming the source is singular, of the specimens it releases and is worthy of further investigation, potentially in the form of a manned exploration. Date, June 25, 2022 Location, Site-42 Research conducted by if applicable, not available Documented by, not available Summary Several personnel were sent 45 kilometers offshore to dispatch a large research DSRV which descended to a depth of 800 meters for a period of six days. Over this time, the vessel collected multiple specimens, including several species of plankton and one cephalopod. These specimens were returned to Site-42 for research, with another offshore retrieval excursion planned for the following week. All species collected, a total of 15, were previously unheard of and did not match any existing documentation. The cephalopod appeared to be an oversized sepiotutus lessenlata, notably not native to the North Atlantic, though purple in coloration and possessing 19 arms. The cephalopods excretions were found in both human and animal testing to be severely toxic, leading to blistering of the skin and the onset of seizures within approximately 10 minutes. While animal subjects survived with apparent neurological damage, the two human subjects expired due to cardiac arrest 30-45 minutes after initial exposure. Analysis of results, while it is considered unlikely that any sort of radiological or chemical waste bill occurred in that range within the past three to thirty years, arguably the only feasible reason for severe genetic mutations in marine life, another excursion to a separate area scheduled for additional research. Date, July 1st, 2022 Location, Site 42 Research conducted by a applicable, not available Documented by, not available Summary, several personnel were sent 70 kilometers offshore to dispatch a large research DSRV, which descended to a depth of 800 meters for a period of eight days. Over this time, the vessel collected multiple specimens, including several species of plankton, two cephalopods, and an unknown entity appearing similar to those found in polypolydosa. These specimens were returned to Site 42 for research. All species collected, a total of 18 were previously unheard of and did not match any existing documentation. Similar to in previous tests, the cephalopods excretions were found in both human and animal testing to be severely toxic, leading to blistering of the skin, the onset of seizures, and full cardiac arrest within approximately ten minutes. The creature seemingly belonging to polypolydosa was animate, and after approval from lead researchers was allowed to exit as tank. For thirteen minutes it rolled itself across the floor at a slow speed, seemingly unaffected by the change of environment from water to air. However, despite its slow speed and lack of notable behavior or sentience, it rolled into the leg of one researcher and left a large blister on her ankle. The specimen was then returned to its tank, and later terminated for extraction and analysis of toxins. These toxins were found to be sulfur-based and chemically similar to those found in the cephalopods. Analysis of results. The severe mutations found in marine life can at this point feasibly be sourced from SCP-3069. Further excursions are pending approval, but deemed unsafe at this time. Location, Site-42. Research conducted by a applicable, not available. Documented by 056. Summary. Following the events of 2021 and 2022, it was determined relevant to allow Site-42 personnel to make additional excursions to the nearby beach to take shore-level water samples. However, the two personnel sent did not respond to their radio calls or return whatsoever, and have been flagged as missing in action. Analysis of results. This is a dangerous topic to research, and I and some others don't find it a coincidence that one of the personnel missing is extremely visually similar to the individual seen in drone footage from 2021, and wearing the same uniform at that. The Site-3069 research personnel insist that the extent of this thing's anomalous effects go no further than its size, framework, origin, and extradimensional capabilities, but I don't see how a minor temporal effect would be all that absurd to suggest given those parameters. For a machine of that scale, a temporal anomaly pattern may very well show up as nothing other than a metaphysical glitch. You can't have a device that alters and, for lack of better phrasing outright denies, our laws of physics are such an extreme degree without having a few flukes. The truth is, this thing isn't here to watch us. It's been here too long for a generic purpose like that. It's here because someone, something, somewhere, made the decision to interfere with the way this plant's biology functions, and in their eyes, whatever they're doing is long overdue, so they decided to accelerate it. If further research on the specimen's release is needed, I personally do not advise it, nor do I advise any further direct interaction with SCP-3069. I understand that research must be conducted when clarification is needed, but there is nothing further to clarify at this point. 056 ██ ██████ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██