OK, now I'm trying to buy some of this. But let me ask you about this woman that seems key to your new self perspective after "going clear". Since she was of Scientological stock, was she impressed with your new title of "clear" or would she have been equally so impressed as an outsider without regard to the status you suddenly had as a "clear" had she been disassociated from all Scientological PR?
To put this reply in perspective, she was an example of the changes wrought in my being Clear.
Specifically, my entire outlook was enlarged. It was still me, just more attention, action, interest.
In my senior year of high school, I got involved with Scientology. I was pretty much a geek and a gear head. I was a farm boy, who read books and dropped acid. I would have rather been working on an engine than sitting in school, and that is pretty much what I did. But I wasn't what I became after going Clear.
Clear really extroverted me.
Before Clear, i slept a normal 8 hrs or so. After Clear for the first several months, I was sleeping 3 hours a night and not at all on the week ends. I would course sup in Menlo Park from 10-10 daily, and on week ends, I'd drive to LA and play fast and loose with my friends.
Before Clear, I wasn't very sports minded. I did long distance running, a little surfing and bellyboarding, and that was about it. After Clear, the next winter (5 months later), On my first day on skis, I went from the bunny slope to showing a girl, who I met, on an intermediate slope, how to do something. This was around noon of that day. My friend, David Longinotti, who I was staying with at Bear Valley, gave me some lessons for a half hour or so at 8 AM, and when he came back to see how I was doing, it was about lunch time. No formal instruction. Rossignol skis over 200 cm - long skis, not the shorties we use now.
I had been interested in the **idea** of scuba diving since I was a kid. I never did anything. Before the year was out, after going Clear, I had a scuba cert.
Four years after Clear, I saw the Eiger Sanction starring Clint Eastwood on a Sunday, and the next day (Monday), I was learning to climb up at Castle Rock.
Forty years later, I still rock climb, go scuba diving, and skiing. And my family goes with me. When my son, now 41, was 12, I took him, along with a high school class up 2,500 feet (The Two Sisters) in Yosemite. Within the last month, he borrowed my ropes, carabiners, chalks, pitons, etc. and took his kid climbing.
Our youngest daughter has an instructor cert in scuba. Was I an influence? I think so. We have a movie of ourselves, when she was a young teen ager, petting a moray eel about 90 feet below the surface off Oahu. We have memories of hundreds of dolphins playing in the water between Lahaina and Lanai, where we were scuba diving.
The same daughter has impressed boy friends by keeping up with them, on an equal footing, on surfboards off Malibu, and on skis and snowboards off the trail in more snowy venues.
Our son (who was rock climbing with me), skis backwards off Double Black Diamond cornices, while taking movies of his wife, kids, and sister coming off the same cornice. I was the person, who took his son, then age 6, off "his" first cornice.
Now back to your question about my girl friend from after going Clear. She was 46, and *good looking**. I was 20. We were both neophytes, in our social group at the Santa Clara, then Menlo Park (later Palo Alto) center. We were surrounded by Class Vllls and VIs. (as an example: Mimi Spickler at age 14 was a Class VI, and at age 16, was a Class VIII).
We were Clear, and that was it. No special status. The clients or public consisted of business, educational, sports, and research stars and future stars. I sold Matt Feshbach his first Scien book. John Brodie, who had a Heisman Trophy, was voted Most Valuable Player in the NFL. Ed Marinaro had a Heisman Trophy. Mervin Morris had a huge chain of department stores (Mervyn's). Hal Puthoff was the link between the Soviet Union and the United States on small particle physics and also was a lead researcher at SRI on Remote Viewing. Ed Mitchell had walked on the Moon. The list goes on.
In the grand scheme of things, in that location, in that time, we were on the bottom most rung of the chicken coop.
What we had, between us, was pheromones. .... shooting everywhere between us.
We created our reality.
There was a day, when we agreed to meet at 11 AM, at the menlo Park center, where we both arrived from separate points on the map, long before cell phones, at 1 PM within 5 minutes of each other.
We synched. That is the long and short of it.
There was a two week period, where we only got out of bed to eat, shop for groceries, or go to the bathroom.
At one point we had an upset. Pretty big. Don't remember what. Phil Spickler took her into session. He asked how I was in bed. She said, "The BEST!" end of session, end of upset. This is literally true down to the exact words.
Parenthetically, she was also, "The BEST!"
My experience has been that Clears are better in bed than non clears. There is more freedom, more energy exchanged, more passion, more fun.
I am not talking "natural clears," "dianetic clears,""Clear OTs" etc. I'm talking about the group of people, who did a lot of auditing , then power, then grade 6, then the Clearing Course. You can call that state anything. We called it "Clear" because that was the name on the branding iron. BFD. The state, is delicious. Doesn't matter what you name it.
It has been good for me for forty years. It has been good for my family. The dominoes that initially fell, are still falling.
