Before I left, I used to wear my Clear bracelet all the time. Most of the time. I was really proud of it because it took me so long and a lot of work to get there. I came from a poor background and was not like many other Scientologists around me. I didn't have other family in the cult with me. I was young. I owned nothing.
Anyway, when I first had doubts that led me out, a friend of mine that was staying with me met some squirrels, but the weren't FreeZoners. They were just oddballs using the tech for I-don't-know-what and every day she came back from hanging out with them, she'd rant and rave about how LRH was a phony and a liar. I didn't believe her and wound up asking her to leave. She left in the middle of the night and stole some of my certs and my Clear bracelet and I was so upset about that. Now I look back on that and see how she was right, and I laugh a little. When I got out for good, I found her. She still believed in the tech and our friendship just didn't work.
She thought a lot of residual things, like some of the things being brought up here--for instance: the meter having some legitimacy. It's not that it doesn't do anything at all. It's still a bit like a lie detector, but not as involved. It only measures "stress" because of perspiration through the palms of the hands. It's called galvanic-skin response. A person behaves a certain way in a stressful situation and there are reactions through their skin, and they are holding those cans. The meter is picking that up, plus how hard they are squeezed and let go. "Mass" is not leaving.
There is no such thing as spiritual "charge" or mental stress having physical weight, as Hubbard hypothesized. There have been studies (I would have to search again for them) about whether or not mental stress is capable to be weigh, or it is even exists in physical form. So far, no. This was within the last 10 years, so where Hubbard got this notion?
There are no Clears. Not for more than a day or two anyway. You can think you're a Clear or OT for a little while, but it's not real. It is placebo, and placebo is real or it wouldn't work in blind studies. If one doesn't mind accepting it, I don't know. It was hard to keep that friendship alive. I was even spiritual at that time too.