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It's remarkable that when "CLEAR" was first released in Dianetics Book I, it was widely promoted that one could easily achieve this exalted, supernatural state in 20 hours.
That was 1950.
Then, the next 40 years were ever-compounding spirals of complexity to achieve clear. The entire Grade Chart was itself the "undercutting" and "application of gradients" in order to allow Earth's lowly mortals to reach for the stars that Hubbard so easily grasped.
A quick look at the Grade Chart reveals all of the vast number of requirements that existed prior to 1980 in order that a being could take that ultimate last profound leap into eternity by doing the Clearing Course. It was a holy pilgrimage to trek thru hundreds of hours of Dianetics, Grades, Power, R6EW and all the dozens of vital rundowns and patches like Purification R/D, PTS R/D, Interiorization R/D and a vast gauntlet of needed repairs, de-bugs & case-cracking.
Then, suddenly there were 15,000 Clears that just "appeared" (ca 1979) when "Dianetic Clear" (and Natural Clear and Past Life Clear) were "discovered".
New Rundowns came fast and furious for the next 30 years that were called OT levels, but in fact they were just more CLEAR REPAIR ACTIONS! The Clear of 1979 did not possess nor exhibit any of the attributes of the original 1950 claims for Clear. The misdirection Hubbard used was that the Clear was now embarked on "Advanced Levels" which tricked nearly everyone into missing the obvious fact that all he was doing was turning the Bridge upside down and romantically re-naming "REPAIRS" for the failed Clear with status-happy new words like OT and TOTAL CAUSE and CAUSE OVER LIFE and TOTAL FREEDOM.
OT Levels were nothing more or less than post-Clear repairs disguised as cosmic breakthroughs.
Nobody broke thru nothing. But most got broke, financially or in spirit.
Now...........now, we are in 2010 and the Orgs (see earlier post) are re-cycyling the 1950 scam that one can easily go Clear in a short time. Instead of saying "20 hours" they now promote 2-3 weeks.
Two to three weeks! That's all it takes to reach a supernatural state of Clear!
Used to be 20 hours. Now it's 20 days to get your miracle.
Anyone can do it--unless you have 20:20 vision.
That was 1950.
Then, the next 40 years were ever-compounding spirals of complexity to achieve clear. The entire Grade Chart was itself the "undercutting" and "application of gradients" in order to allow Earth's lowly mortals to reach for the stars that Hubbard so easily grasped.
A quick look at the Grade Chart reveals all of the vast number of requirements that existed prior to 1980 in order that a being could take that ultimate last profound leap into eternity by doing the Clearing Course. It was a holy pilgrimage to trek thru hundreds of hours of Dianetics, Grades, Power, R6EW and all the dozens of vital rundowns and patches like Purification R/D, PTS R/D, Interiorization R/D and a vast gauntlet of needed repairs, de-bugs & case-cracking.
Then, suddenly there were 15,000 Clears that just "appeared" (ca 1979) when "Dianetic Clear" (and Natural Clear and Past Life Clear) were "discovered".
New Rundowns came fast and furious for the next 30 years that were called OT levels, but in fact they were just more CLEAR REPAIR ACTIONS! The Clear of 1979 did not possess nor exhibit any of the attributes of the original 1950 claims for Clear. The misdirection Hubbard used was that the Clear was now embarked on "Advanced Levels" which tricked nearly everyone into missing the obvious fact that all he was doing was turning the Bridge upside down and romantically re-naming "REPAIRS" for the failed Clear with status-happy new words like OT and TOTAL CAUSE and CAUSE OVER LIFE and TOTAL FREEDOM.
OT Levels were nothing more or less than post-Clear repairs disguised as cosmic breakthroughs.
Nobody broke thru nothing. But most got broke, financially or in spirit.
Now...........now, we are in 2010 and the Orgs (see earlier post) are re-cycyling the 1950 scam that one can easily go Clear in a short time. Instead of saying "20 hours" they now promote 2-3 weeks.
Two to three weeks! That's all it takes to reach a supernatural state of Clear!
Used to be 20 hours. Now it's 20 days to get your miracle.
Anyone can do it--unless you have 20:20 vision.