Vinaire,
I would love to see an eval on the state of Clear. Not because you brought it up on another thread. Just to see.
The state of Clear and it's constantly changing definition on C/S lines (Yes, I was a C/S on OT Elig lines so I know from where I speak) was one of the things that pushed me over the edge...
OK. Let me give you some data (as summarized by L. Kin) first. Then I shall present my conclusions in the end:
When one has completed one’s case, one would not be fixated on one’s first universe problems and masses but be extroverted and find one’s games and problems in the third universe. At this stage one could not have further case gain through auditing (as there isn’t any case left), but would have one’s gains in life by the application of ethics, tech and admin know-how. One would demonstrate competence
observably, i.e. in the third universe (Dn Ax. 194).
The end result, in the words of Hubbard:
‘A qualitative return of confidence in self, not quantitative handling of bank.” (HCOB 7.4.60).
“Certainty in all three universes (. . .). “ (Fac. 28).
‘A person who is at cause over his own reactive bank and can create and uncreate it at will “ (Ability, March 59) .
“He finally winds up without a reactive bank and he’s happy about it because he can mock one up anytime he wants, but he doesn’t have to now. (. . .) Its a horrible truth that people - through irresponsibility - mocked up all of their own difficulties” (Clearing Congress 1958, video tape 6).
How much bridge does it take to perform such a rehabilitation to its end phenomenon? - This is different from person to person. It depends on how much the thetan actually considers himself identified with masses.
When Hubbard originally formulated the sentences above, he was referring to the state of Clear. We are saying, though, that the end of the bridge is “Case Completion” rather than “Clear”. So what does that mean? And what happened to the much-rumored “OT”?
With these questions we wind up right in the middle of the confusion of terms and concepts regarding this subject. What does Clear really mean? And OT? This is hard to answer in one word, because there has been a confusing number of definitions of Clear between 1950 and 1978 and a change in the definition of “reactive bank”. The definition of “OT” became increasingly shallow. It is not easy to find one’s way through this, but we may at least try. (This is not a “merely historical” easy, by the way, but a very practical one: because without a goal you can’t guide, and guiding is the auditor’s task; so he must know his goal.)
Let us take an unhurried look, then, at the development of the concepts in question. In “Dianetics” we find:
‘A clear (noun) is an individual who, as a result of dianetic therapy, has neither active nor potential psycho-somatic illness or aberration” (p. 170). “There are no demon circuits in his mind (. . .)” (p. 171). “In a clear; the entire content (of the reactive bank) is removed” (p. 174). “Cells, not the individual, are evidenced to record pain. And the reactive engram bank is composed only of cells. (. . .) The engram is not a memory; it is a cellular trace of recordings impinged deeply into the very structure of the body itself’ (p. 128). -This is how Hubbard sees the
Clear and the reactive bank in 1950. The thetan does not exist under this name yet. He is called “I” or “basic personality”. The thetan himself does not make pictures; they press in on him from the body only and impede his natural rationality.
“History of Man” (1952, abbreviated HOM), “Scientology 8-8008” (1953, abbr. 8-8008) and “Creation of Human Ability” (1954, abbr. COHA) all circle around the same thought: how does one manage to make the thetan come out of his body? Since HOM the thetan exists under this name. As the result of dianetic therapy he has become a “Mest Clear” and sticks to his body as if glued in. Apart from
Mest Clear he is as well called
Homo Novis. What’s wrong with him?
“This homo novis is limited in his self-determinism by all the economic and social restrictions of an aberrated society. He is not free of food, clothing or shelter He dies when you get him too cold, he perishes when the oxygen content drops too low. He is living in a tolerance band which keeps him cramped to the face of one second-rate planet in a tenth rate system, prey to all the ill will that blows. Is this being free and self-determined?” (HOM, p. 38.)Therefore the motto:
“The goal (. . .) is OPERATING THETAN, a higher goal than earlier procedures.” (8-8008, p. 115.)
This higher goal is called
Theta Clear: ‘A being who is reasonably stable outside the body (. . .).” (8-8008, Glossary.) Above that there is yet another higher goal, the
Cleared Theta Clear: ‘A person (. . .) who is able to create illusions perceivable by others at will, to handle MEST universe objects without mechanical means and to have and feel no need of bodies or even the MEST universe to keep himself and his friends interested in existence. “ (8-8008, p. 114.)
In order to attain these things it seemed advisable to catapult the thetan out of his body instead of auditing a sheer endless quantity of entities one by one.
“These entities run off their own past deaths, on other tracks (. . .). They are actually the basis of “demon circuits” (as covered in DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH) (. . .). “ (HOM, p. 14.)
“The THETA BEING is the principal target of the auditor. (. . .) The main thing wrong with any preclear is that he cannot disentangle himself from entities and somatic entities, from demon circuits and mest bodies.” (HOM, p. 37.)
[To be continued...]
