Clear (Scientology)

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In Dianetics and Scientology, Clear is stated to be a condition in which a person is free of the unwanted influence of engrams, unwanted emotions or painful traumas which are not readily available to the awareness of present time. A person in this condition, then referred to as a "Clear", would be a person cleared of those negative influences. Such a person is said to be "at cause over" (in control of) their "mental energy" (their thoughts), and able to think clearly even when faced with the very situation which in earlier times caused them grave difficulty. L. Ron Hubbard took the word from the idea of an adding machine and clearing an adding machine of previous actions on it.

Dianetics states that a person's awareness is influenced by the stimulus-response of the reactive mind. Achieving the state of Clear means a person has overcome the reactive mind and is in complete control of his analytical mind. According to Hubbard:

A Clear is a being who no longer has his own reactive mind, and therefore suffers none of the ill effects the reactive mind can cause. The Clear has no engrams which, when restimulated, throw out the correctness of his computations by entering hidden and false data.[1]

Hubbard suggested that the thetan (a person's soul) unwittingly creates its own reactive mind, and is not Clear until it realizes what it has been doing for aeons.[citation needed]

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[edit] The state of Clear

In Dianetics, L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology, states that becoming Clear strengthens a person's native individuality and creativity and a Clear is free with his emotions.

In The State Of Clear a Clear is defined as "a being who no longer has his own reactive mind, and therefore suffers none of the ill effects the reactive mind can cause."[2]

Hubbard states that merely knowing what the cognition is does not have a effect of realising it for oneself:

Now, we've known for a long time that a thetan made up his own bank (reactive mind), but telling him so didn't get him over it. And we've just found out again that telling him so didn't get him over it, too. Even when he's almost Clear. We say, "Hey, you're mocking it up," and he'd say, "Hey, am I mocking it up? Yeah, I am mocking it up." And he'll go Clear — pshew! — and he goes off that bottom step that isn't there, you know? And he's got to go back on and finish it up the way he should. It's got to be his cognition.

—[3]

[edit] Steps after Clear

After attaining the state of Clear, a person may go on to study the Operating Thetan levels, in which Scientology materials assert the ability to operate outside the body via "exteriorization" becomes commonplace.

Beyond that comes "Cleared Theta Clear", which Hubbard describes this way:

"A thetan who is completely rehabilitated and can do everything a thetan should do, such as move MEST and control others from a distance, or create his own universe; a person who is able to create his own universe or, living in the MEST universe 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". [4]

[edit] Early Clears

There are several conflicting accounts of who first attained the state of Clear. Hubbard claimed that he worked incognito in Hollywood during the late 1940s posing as a swami. By 1947 he had successfully cleared several people.[5]

Writers outside the church have identified two people as the first Clear. According to Forrest Ackerman and Martin Gardner, Hubbard presented Sonya Bianca (also known as Anne Singer) as a Clear on August 10, 1950. She proved unable to answer questions from the audience testing her memory and analytical abilities. Embarrassed, Hubbard explained that he had inadvertently given her a command that suppressed her abilities.[6][7]

Another source identifies John McMaster as the first Clear in February 1966. McMaster had joined Scientology around 1962, having experienced relief of chronic stomach pain after his first auditing session. He became a leading public spokesman for Scientology and later a member of the Sea Org. He left in November 1969, still a believer in the Tech, but disapproving of the way Scientology was managed.[7]

[edit] References

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ What is Scientology web site
  2. ^ The State Of Clear: Catechism of Scientology official web site
  3. ^ Saint Hill Special Briefing Course lecture # 434, 26 July 1966
  4. ^ Hubbard, Scientology 8-8008, pg 114 (1st ed), pg. 151 (1990 ed.)
  5. ^ Hubbard, L. Ron. "The Story of Dianetics and Scientology, Lecture 18" (October 1958).
  6. ^ Miller, Russell (1987). Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard. 
  7. ^ a b Atack, Jon (1990). A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed. 

[edit] Additional sources

  • L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics: The Modern Science Of Mental Health, 1950
  • L. Ron Hubbard, The Classification Chart and Auditing, Saint Hill Special Briefing Course lecture 434, 26 July 1966
  • L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetic Clear, HCO Bulletin 24 SeptemberRC 78 Issue III, Revised 18 Dec 88
  • The Murky State of Clear (a critical essay by Jeff Jacobsen)

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