Veda
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Link to the old ESMB post Clear: Some background.
This link includes the article Clear, written by David Mayo during the late 1980s, that appeared in the Independent publication International Viewpoints (IVy) soon thereafter. It also was published in Free Spirit magazine.
David Mayo was a Class XII auditor and had been the Senior Case Supervisor International, and also Hubbard's personal auditor during the time of Hubbard's mental and physical collapse, after his spying and covert "dirty tricks" operations, of the 1960s & 1970s, had been discovered, resulting in him fleeing into hiding, while his wife, and others, were in the process of being sent to federal prison.
As was Hubbard's pattern, after upsets, he would make changes in the "tech." Scientologists would usually assume that the changes were the result of research aimed at making Scientology's stated goal of "Total Freedom" more easily attainable, but this was not necessarily so.
For example the changes Hubbard made after an earlier mental & physical collapse (commonly called a nervous breakdown) during early 1967, after his upsets and humiliation in southern Africa, resulted in the appearance of OT 3 which, neatly, provided an explanation, in which Hubbard was not a failure but, instead, the hero of this sector of the galaxy - fighting against impossible odds - and also the Commodore of the newly created Sea Project, soon to be renamed the Sea Organization.
Similarly, private emotional (regressing back to the time before Wife #3 Mary Sue, when Dianetics made "Clears," and Hubbard wrote pulp fiction), and financial need (for additional funds to fight new legal battles, plus fund the various monuments-to-himself projects), and resentment towards wealthy Mission holders (whose bank accounts and property Hubbard felt were rightly his), resulted in changes to the definition of Clear, and other changes.
As usual, Scientologists saw these changes as advances motivated by making the stated goal of Total Freedom more attainable.
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"Clear" began with DMSMH, with this life-time incidents addressed only.
Then came past lives, after Hubbard lost the rights to Dianetics and abandoned it.
Then came "be three feet back of your head," an idea given to Hubbard by a fan, long forgotten.
The idea, at the time. was that one could "go Clear" simply be leaving the body and, then, proceed, with various processes, drills, exercises, etc.
Frank Zappa was briefly exposed to Scientology.
Then came mock ups and a few other things as a route to Clear.
Link to Clear Procedure 1957
Some consider this, or the late 1950s, to be the high point of Scientology before Hubbard's personal decline began. Others see 1954 as the "peak."
Then the button "help" was used, including addressing identities, and using Listing procedure. I used this process and had very positive results, but it, by then, had become a discontinued procedure. Then came actual (discovered by the person not told to him) Goals Problems Mass as a procedure. This went on for few years. Then this was replaced with artificial implant GPMs told to the person (Scientology's assembly line phase had begun).
Then came the downgrading of Clear in 1978.
The mish mosh, resulting from the above, is now "Scientology." This, and other related information, may be helpful in those who have been, or are now, involved.
This link includes the article Clear, written by David Mayo during the late 1980s, that appeared in the Independent publication International Viewpoints (IVy) soon thereafter. It also was published in Free Spirit magazine.
David Mayo was a Class XII auditor and had been the Senior Case Supervisor International, and also Hubbard's personal auditor during the time of Hubbard's mental and physical collapse, after his spying and covert "dirty tricks" operations, of the 1960s & 1970s, had been discovered, resulting in him fleeing into hiding, while his wife, and others, were in the process of being sent to federal prison.
As was Hubbard's pattern, after upsets, he would make changes in the "tech." Scientologists would usually assume that the changes were the result of research aimed at making Scientology's stated goal of "Total Freedom" more easily attainable, but this was not necessarily so.
For example the changes Hubbard made after an earlier mental & physical collapse (commonly called a nervous breakdown) during early 1967, after his upsets and humiliation in southern Africa, resulted in the appearance of OT 3 which, neatly, provided an explanation, in which Hubbard was not a failure but, instead, the hero of this sector of the galaxy - fighting against impossible odds - and also the Commodore of the newly created Sea Project, soon to be renamed the Sea Organization.
Similarly, private emotional (regressing back to the time before Wife #3 Mary Sue, when Dianetics made "Clears," and Hubbard wrote pulp fiction), and financial need (for additional funds to fight new legal battles, plus fund the various monuments-to-himself projects), and resentment towards wealthy Mission holders (whose bank accounts and property Hubbard felt were rightly his), resulted in changes to the definition of Clear, and other changes.
As usual, Scientologists saw these changes as advances motivated by making the stated goal of Total Freedom more attainable.
______________________
"Clear" began with DMSMH, with this life-time incidents addressed only.
Then came past lives, after Hubbard lost the rights to Dianetics and abandoned it.
Then came "be three feet back of your head," an idea given to Hubbard by a fan, long forgotten.
The idea, at the time. was that one could "go Clear" simply be leaving the body and, then, proceed, with various processes, drills, exercises, etc.
Then came mock ups and a few other things as a route to Clear.
Link to Clear Procedure 1957
Some consider this, or the late 1950s, to be the high point of Scientology before Hubbard's personal decline began. Others see 1954 as the "peak."
Then the button "help" was used, including addressing identities, and using Listing procedure. I used this process and had very positive results, but it, by then, had become a discontinued procedure. Then came actual (discovered by the person not told to him) Goals Problems Mass as a procedure. This went on for few years. Then this was replaced with artificial implant GPMs told to the person (Scientology's assembly line phase had begun).
Then came the downgrading of Clear in 1978.
The mish mosh, resulting from the above, is now "Scientology." This, and other related information, may be helpful in those who have been, or are now, involved.
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