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AnonKat

Crusader
http://www.ivymag.org/iv-01-02.html

Clear

By David Mayo, USA.

In late 1978, the state of "dianetic clear" was announced. Within a few months two other "states of clear" were introduced: the state of "natural clear" and the state of "past life clear".

This change had two immediate consequences:

1. The number of people attesting (correctly or falsely) to having attained the "state of clear" increased enormously.
2. During and after that period, there was a considerable amount of upset and confusion about the "state of clear".

There were those who considered that a dianetic clear was not a "real clear" and that the only "real clear" was one who (like them) had done the Clearing Course. Some felt that they had gone clear in their last lifetime. Some felt that dianetic clear explained why they had never been able to run dianetic auditing successfully. A large number of auditors, C/Ses, and others felt that there were a lot of people falsely attesting to the state of clear and either

a. Felt unethical about letting the person attest, or
b. Tried to handle it and ended up involuntarily invalidating the pc. No matter how this was "handled", it has persisted as a problem. So we can at least assume that there are aspects of it that haven't been taken into account and handled.

Let us examine more closely what happened in late 1978 and early 1979. LRH was being audited and concluded that one of the things wrong with his case was that he had been audited on dianetic auditing after he had attained the "state of clear" (which he at first thought had occured in objective processing). He then issued a bulletin forbidding the running of dianetic auditing on clears and made various other technical and administrative changes.

He cancelled the state of "keyed out clear" by stating that it was the same state as "clear". He changed the definition of "clear" (and subsequently changed it several more times). He order ed that the folders of pcs (and the pcs themselves) who might have gone clear in orgs and missions be routed to Advanced Orgs. This action resulted in an emptying out of the orgs and missions and a flood of people arriving at the AOs.

At first, people were being declared clear regardless of what they thought they had gone clear on or when this had occurred. More importantly, they were being declared clear regardless of the state of case or condition they were in. In fact, one bulletin went so far as to advise that case and ethics trouble could be caused by a person having attained clear without having the state acknowledged. As a result, many persons who were declared clear were actually in very poor condition. This practice reflected badly on the "state of clear" and the workability of the tech. It caused a great deal of upset and confus ion on the subject of clear.

At that time there was a shortage of instructions on how to handle dianetic clear technically and a general lack of data on the new subject of "dianetic clear". However persons accused of mis-handling dianetic clear were handled with heavy ethics. The "invalidation of clear" was named a Suppressive Act, while permitting someone to attest falsely was also a serious ethics offense.

A step in the procedure for handling these new clears was to establish the date when the person went clear. Sometimes the date so found would be before scientology or even prior to the pc's lifetime. When LRH heard that some persons considered that they had attained the "state of clear" in an earlier practice such as Buddhism, he became very upset. He stated that the idea that a person could go clear through any other means than scientology was "suppressive". At a certain point, he also got upset at the fact that people were concluding that they had gone clear in scientology auditing. So he specified that a person can validly go clear only in dianetic auditing. He handled the "earlier than this life time" clears by deciding that they either went clear in their last lifetime in dianetic auditing (presum ably if they were young enough for this to be possible) or had attained a new state he dubbed "natural clear". His new theory was that some people had never been anything but clear. However, he refused, thereafter, to issue any further clarification of what he meant by this assertion.

Throughout this period, the definition of clear and/or dianetic clear kept changing - in the direction of dilution. Thus people came to expect less and less from the "state of clear", while the number of new clears (and thus new arrivals at AOs and Gross Income) steadily increased. None of the new definitions of "clear", and none of the new techniques for handling clears or programming them for further actions, really solved any of the problems caused by the advent of dianetic clear.

It is of interest that the definition of "clear" had already been changed several times between its first definition in DMSMH (The book, Dianetics: Modern Science of Mental Health, 1950, by L. Ron Hubbard) and the time the idea of "clear" was put forth. In DMSMH, a clear was said to be 4.0 on the tone scale, with no aberrations (held down sevens), no psychoses, neuroses, nor psychosomatic illnesses. The clear was said to have eidetic recall and highly enhanced perceptions and creativity. Although this chappie didn't have any OT powers, he was definitely quite a phenomenon!

It is also significant that the attributes of a clear, as described in DMSMH, were never actually attained, although in reading DMSMH, one might be led to believe that they were. When people started attesting to clear, the definition was watered down to the vague generality "at cause over mental MEST as regards the first dynamic". This definition can mean many different things to many different people. Anyone is at least somewhat causative over his own mind. So anyone can find an interpretation of this definition of "clear" that he can attest to. The states of "MEST Clear", "Theta Clear", "Cleared Theta Clear", "Clearing Course Clear", "Clear-OT", and, finally, "Dianetic Clear", and "Word Clear" were equally absolutistic when first stated, but when people started attesting to them, the definition of each, or the criterion for allowing a pc to attest to each, was similarly watered down. This sequence has been repeated over and over throughout the history of scientology.

LRH correctly stated that absolutes are unattainable. And the notion of "clear" is an absolute. It's like the notion of "clean" or "pure". When is water pure? When it has only one part per million of arsenic and rat poop? Nowhere in the universe is there water which is 100% pure. To obtain complete Clarity would require a complete as-isness of any universe the thetan was in and a return to complete native state. Everyone does have a reactive mind - his own reac tive mind. That's why one flies ruds and goes E/S and gets off BPC on anyone regardless of their point on the grade chart. The mechanics of the reactive mind continue to exist all the way up.

"Clears" have always had trouble explaining why they still act reactively at times, or a lot of the time, and why they still have problems in life and in getting along with people. The amount of mileage you can get from the notion of a "cleared Cannibal" is very limited. Even a cleared cannibal, if he were really clear, would get along wonderfully in life, never manifest misemotion, and love all his fellow beings, even as he was having their bodies for dinner!

The idea of "harmonics of clear" is quite accurate. The main reason why LRH blew up at the idea of "harmonics of clear", as expressed in the HCOB I wrote, was, as he told me, that this idea tended to leave him open to the charge that the claims he had made in DMSMH and elsewhere concerning the "state of clear" were fraudulent.

The truth appears to be that there are various stages of release, at each one of which you are clear-er than you were. A person experiencing the glee of insanity is clear-er than someone who is just completely unconscious. It was PR and marketing considerations that led Hubbard to decide that certain people were "clear" at a certain point, and that they therefore had no reactive mind. However this assertion is a lie, and a very destructive one, one that denies case gain to a great many people and provides a too-convenient rabbit button for pc's, auditors and C/S's who are having trouble with the pc's case. The claim that case and ethics problems can be caused by being clear was:

1. Absurd on the face of it.
2. A declaration of open rabbitting season.

Trying to define "clear" is difficult because it is being done over a lie. We either have to restore the meaning of clear to its original absolute meaning (which means that there aren't any clears in existence), or we have to say that what people have attested to as clear is actually only a state of release or reduction.

We can say that the purpose of auditing is to clear aberrations and that if all aberrations were cleared, a "state of clear" would be attained. The concept of "clear" is useful as an ultimate goal, like the goal of perfect happiness or of perfect anything. It is a direction in which to continue to progress. It is not an attainable state (at least given our present level of technology).

Another part of the problem is that the states of release and clear are only subjective. Asking an aberrated person to decide when he feels or thinks that he is no longer aberrated, is asking for a delusory "cognition" from the start. At one time [ca. 1959. Ed.], LRH postulated that the state of clear could be objectively proven by the presence of a "free or floating needle" and a TA position of 2.0 (Female) or 3.0 (Male). But this was an unverified guess that did not stand the test of time.

Perhaps what we have been calling "clear" is "no longer chronically affected by engrams" or "engrams no longer in chronic restimulation." As such, the state would be more accurately described as a state of release or as a state of reduction. In other words, it would mean that the majority of a person's aberrations had gone into abeyance.

Regardless of what the state is named, the recognition that a person can continue to be come clear-er, restores hope and makes progress possible again.

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Ralph Hilton

Patron Meritorious
Most people live in a bubble. A more observant person can see that few around them observe much. A "Clear" realizes that they are mocking up the bubble and it goes. The bubble offered a protective layer. When the protective layer disappears they have to start confronting what is actually out there. Most find that difficult.
 

phenomanon

Canyon
Most people live in a bubble. A more observant person can see that few around them observe much. A "Clear" realizes that they are mocking up the bubble and it goes. The bubble offered a protective layer. When the protective layer disappears they have to start confronting what is actually out there. Most find that difficult.

Anyone who did the Clearing Course and went Clear before the 1978 Issues re Clear, were run on Dianetics for many many hours. Alan Walter told me that he had run 2000 hrs of Dianetics after he went Clear. I ran much less than that, but a few hundred was delivered to me. Didn't hurt a bit. Dart prolly ran lots. Ask any old CC grad who stayed in until '78 and beyond, how many hours of Dianetic auditing was run on them.
LRH named a wrong 'why' for his trbbls in auditing, IMNSHO.
 

Ralph Hilton

Patron Meritorious
I ran lots of Dianetics too after Clear and spent maybe 10 minutes clearing up any problems with that on NOTs. It was a wrong why for me and many others. I did see that is was a correct why for many people. I should add that your statements do not seem in any way related to the post of mine that you quoted.
 

AnonKat

Crusader
I ran lots of Dianetics too after Clear and spent maybe 10 minutes clearing up any problems with that on NOTs. It was a wrong why for me and many others. I did see that is was a correct why for many people. I should add that your statements do not seem in any way related to the post of mine that you quoted.

[video=youtube;BS74fIIDw94]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS74fIIDw94[/video]
 

phenomanon

Canyon
I ran lots of Dianetics too after Clear and spent maybe 10 minutes clearing up any problems with that on NOTs. It was a wrong why for me and many others. I did see that is was a correct why for many people. I should add that your statements do not seem in any way related to the post of mine that you quoted.

Your point?
My post was related to the thread. Nothing personal to or from or about Ralph Hilton. It was about the Clear Mega Thread, to which you responded.
My apologies if I fooked up.
 
Anyone who did the Clearing Course and went Clear before the 1978 Issues re Clear, were run on Dianetics for many many hours. Alan Walter told me that he had run 2000 hrs of Dianetics after he went Clear. I ran much less than that, but a few hundred was delivered to me. Didn't hurt a bit. Dart prolly ran lots. Ask any old CC grad who stayed in until '78 and beyond, how many hours of Dianetic auditing was run on them.
LRH named a wrong 'why' for his trbbls in auditing, IMNSHO.
I did the CC and OTI and OT II (which was quickie - I had a m/u on the EP, and the c/s (Rocky Stump?) never had a consult or 2WC done on it, but let me attest wrongly) they put me on OTIII then sent me to the HGC where Vi Wellington did a bunch of R3R Dianetics - then put me back on OT III. After VII EP and OT IIIX I was given a Dianetics Drug RD. Then, after soloing on 7 for a few years they decided ( and I didn't stop them, fool that I was, thinking it would solve my lack of perception on solo VII ) that my clear cog from power setups done in 1969 wasn't good enough, so I was run on a butt load of Dianetics (NED style) it an effort to get me to go clear. There was a name for this clear program - not 10 Aug, but some date.

It was weird - I had some sort of charge blow off during it, and I think after that point it was wayyyyy over run. There was no cog and I couldn't tell them what happened, so they kept on running more DN till they gave up and went to ser fac L&N, and after a week of that, they (auditor and c/s) Q&Aed off that and switched to the Clear cog L&N steps. Let me tell you - doing listing and nulling on: what was your clear cog? after having read the Clearing course EP HCOB years before, and knowing full well what my clear cog was back in 69 - what a stupid stupid c/s action.

Looking back on it, I think a bunch of mass blew (bt's or cluster) and that was why there was no cog. But the whole thing was wrong from the get go.

I can't say it harmed me, though I ran a lot of dub-in, and who knows what gain I got from that. Some was good, some mediocre. Que cera, cera.

Mimsey
 
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Ralph Hilton

Patron Meritorious
Your point?
My post was related to the thread. Nothing personal to or from or about Ralph Hilton. It was about the Clear Mega Thread, to which you responded.
My apologies if I fooked up.
You quoted me in your response thus I took it as a response to me.
 
Most people live in a bubble. A more observant person can see that few around them observe much. A "Clear" realizes that they are mocking up the bubble and it goes. The bubble offered a protective layer. When the protective layer disappears they have to start confronting what is actually out there. Most find that difficult.
Most people with addictions think everyone else just doesn't get it, Scientologists are no different ... well I take that back, Audit Junkies are more fucked up that most people suffering from other addictions. Instead of wasting your life dicking around with Hubbard's circle jerk you'd be better off spending your time trying to figure out why you can't break free of Hubbard's circle jerk.
 

uncover

Gold Meritorious Patron
Ralph Hilton said:
I'm 60. Soon time for the rocking chair :)

Screw that - I'm going skiing. and I'm 66 Mimsey

Yes, but Ralph dosn´t have enough snow for (good) skiing. Only some artificial - have a look for yourself:

http://www.stuhleck.at/html/E/webcam.asp?pass=x

Enough derailing - back to the topic:

Jason Beghe said:
"There is no f*cking clear...... There is no clear..... It´s a con......"


[video=youtube;rA3Q7im8OSw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA3Q7im8OSw[/video]




David Mayo said:
It was PR and marketing considerations that led Hubbard to decide that certain people were "clear" at a certain point, and that they therefore had no reactive mind. However this assertion is a lie, ....

And batshit crazy Hubbard himself is the best proof:

El Con Hubbard said:
All Hubbard could do was say the same thing, over and over:

"There are more BTs! Many more than people realize!"

Hubbard really was a bit senile at the end there - his brain pretty well fried by a wide range of drugs which he used for his "research" --

http://home.earthlink.net/~snefru/deathoflrh/prince-death.html
 
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Teanntás

Silver Meritorious Patron
Screw that - I'm going skiing. and I'm 66 Mimsey

None of you guys are old!

In the early years of the State of Israel, nearly the entire Jewish community of Yemen was airlifted there. Many of the arriving immigrants claimed tremendous old ages; some of them said they were 140, 150, and even 160 years old. It seemed hard to believe and it was impossible to substantiate their claims, for they had brought no accurate birth records with them.

One day, a newly resettled Yemenite Jew appeared in the Tel Aviv office of an insurance broker saying he wanted to buy a life insurance policy. The broker looked at the man, saw he was no youngster, and asked him: "How old are you?"
"Seventy two."
"Seventy two? That's too old. We can't sell you a life insurance policy."
"That's not fair," the man answered. Last week you sold my father a policy."
"Your father? How old is he?"
"Ninety five."
"Impossible."
"Go check your records."

The agent checked the records and found to his amazement that the preceding week the man's 95 year-old father had been issued a policy. The agent came back.

'You're right. We'll sell you a policy. But you have to come in on Tuesday for a medical checkup."
"I can't come in on Tuesday."
"Why not?"
"My grandfather is getting married."
"Your grandfather is getting married? How old is he?"
"A hundred and seventeen."
"A hundred and seventeen? Why is he getting married?"
"His parents keep pestering him."
 
Wrong location. This one is 20 mins walk from me:
http://www.bergfex.at/semmering-hirschenkogel/webcams/c97/
This is where I went Friday:
http://www.mthigh.com/

I used to Ski Park City in Utah and Mammoth here in Ca. I tend to ski locally now, though I really like those other two resorts a lot better. Nothing like nice long runs. When I was at Mtn High Friday - I was wearing the purple L.A. Lakers Basketball jacket the wife had bought me, assuming that if I was living in LA, I must love them. She didn't know I had close to zero interest in basketball, which reminds me of hockey and soccer, in all of which, there is too much running around. Truth be told I'd rather watch WWF fake wrestling than them.

Anyhoo, I saw this film crew shooting what looked like a commercial. I skied over to it for a glance, while looking for others in my party. A woman skied up to me -and said somewhat confidentially "I know as a Lakers fan - you'd like to know they are shooting a TV commercial with Jack Nicolson over there"

Jack, as most of the known world is aware of, is a huge Lakers fan - I don't think I could name one of their current players - I wore the jacket because the purple color would stand out if my kids needed to find me. Mimsey
 
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Boojuum

Silver Meritorious Patron
I'm thrilled that David Mayo stepped up to the plate and clarified the "clear" definition and LRH's comments about it.

This is a big deal for anyone who has been connected with Scientology or Dianetics.

Thanks very much for posting.:thumbsup:
 

Gib

Crusader
I'm thrilled that David Mayo stepped up to the plate and clarified the "clear" definition and LRH's comments about it.

This is a big deal for anyone who has been connected with Scientology or Dianetics.

Thanks very much for posting.:thumbsup:

yah,

and LRH said for a good story, there has to be a "weenie", something that everybody is after.

like "clear" and "ot". It's the "weenie".
 
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