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                           THE HUBBARD IS BARE        

PART 3
                            by Jeff Jacobsen
                               PO Box 3541
                               Scottsdale, AZ  85271

     copyright 1992 by Jeff Jacobsen
     may be reprinted so long as it is kept in its entirety and not 
     edited.
          
      
     
     THE MURKY STATE OF CLEAR
     
     
        It would seem that the first person to reach the state of
     Clear should stick out in history like a sore thumb.  After all,
     a Clear - 
     
     * never has colds or accidents, 
     * has a soaring IQ, 
     * total recall of his entire life from conception on, 
     * has cancer (possibly) and other physical deficiencies
     repaired,1
     * can compute in seconds what the average person needs 30 or more
     minutes for ,2  and
     * is the first case of a truly rational person.3
     
     As Hubbard states, "We are dealing here with an entirely new and
     hitherto nonexistent object of inspection, the Clear.".4
        A Clear would be an immense boost to many social areas, such
     as law enforcement, where a Clear could recall events when he was
     a fetus or unconscious and thus help solve crimes he may have
     "witnessed" while in an unconscious state.  Biology would make
     giant leaps if you could really recall what you were thinking
     when you were a sperm or ovum (Planned Parenthood might be helped
     by having a person recall their life as an ovum; "could you have
     stopped the sperm from impregnating you?").  Clears would be the
     most sought after people in many sciences, in law enforcement,
     medicine, and other fields.  Clears, being the most rational and
     intelligent of society, should naturally rise to positions of
     power and authority in academics and politics, making the world a
     better place to live.
        This allegedly superhuman condition is the end result of
     dianetics and the launching point toward the upper levels of
     Scientology training.  Any person not yet Clear is an aberrated
     person and not capable of full human potential.
       It should be obvious to all, considering the incredible
     abilities and states of being involved, who the first Clear was.  
     Just as we know who was the first man to walk on the moon, we
     should all be taught who the first person in history to reach the
     state of Clear was.  L. Ron Hubbard himself should surely have
     known who this person was, since he claimed discovery of the
     condition.
       Or was it Hubbard himself?  Imagine, says Hubbard, an engineer
     who builds a bridge up to a high plateau that had never been
     visited by man.  After finishing the bridge, "He himself crosses
     and he inspects the plateau carefully."5  Others cross after the
     engineer.  This analogy is obvious.  The engineer is Hubbard, and
     the plateau is the state of Clear.  So Hubbard was the first
     Clear, and to support this further is the "Scientology
     Catechism", which asks if Hubbard was Clear, and answers "Yes- in
     order to map the route for others he had to make it himself."6
        Yet, in a speech in 1958, Hubbard said that the first Clears
     were people he was treating in Los Angeles while he was disguised
     as a swami.7  The first of these became Clear "by 1947"; "these
     were the first Clears."8 "There were people who were run on the
     old techniques who were Cleared years ago," Hubbard stated on
     June 12, 1950.9 
        On August 10, 1950, Hubbard gave a talk at the Shrine
     Auditorium in Los Angeles where he introduced Sonya Bianca (aka
     Ann Singer) as the world's first Clear.10  After she miserably
     failed recall tests on stage, she was never again referred to as
     the first Clear.  This declaration, however, seems to contradict
     the notion that Hubbard was the first, or even that the "swami's"
     patients were.
        Hubbard declared Sara, his first wife, as the first Clear
     until she divorced him.11   "He stood up on stage in Los Angeles
     and announced that I was the first 'Clear.'  I was so
     embarrassed..."12 
        Within Dianetics itself several Clears are mentioned, who
     would thus have to have been Clear before 1950.  A woman with
     twelve difficult prenatal engrams finally "progressed to
     Clear."13   A husband and wife team Cleared each other.14  A
     pianist who was halted by his engrams became "one of the
     best-paid concert pianists in Hollywood".15 Others are indirectly
     mentioned.16  These pre-Dianetics Clears seem logically to be
     necessary, otherwise how would Hubbard have been able to describe
     what a Clear was like?
        For example, how did Hubbard know that a Clear has "an
     increase in longevity which is at least a hundred to one for
     every hour of therapy"?17  Wouldn't at least one Cleared person
     have had to have lived for quite some time before Hubbard, with
     his reported penchant for scientific accuracy, could write this? 
     Also, how did he know that about 500 hours of auditing is the
     average amount needed to produce a Clear,18 and that it otherwise
     takes from 30 to 1200 hours?19   This indicates that there must
     have been several Clears at the time Hubbard wrote Dianetics.
        And last but not least, John Mcmaster was checked and double
     checked, and the Church of Scientology officially declared him
     the first Clear on March 9, 1966.20
        Will the real first Clear please stand up?  
     
        Since it seems impossible to understand the state of Clear by
     observing the first example, let us come at it from what Hubbard
     wrote from his observations of Clears in Dianetics.  "If this
     person now feels he can solve all the problems of life, lick the
     world with one hand tied behind him and feel a friend to all men,
     you have a Clear."21  Hubbard is helpful here, although it could
     be argued that he is also describing a drunk.
        Of course, Hubbard has more scientific sounding definitions:
     "the Clear is an unaberrated person... [who] has no engrams which
     can be restimulated..."22   This sounds more helpful, but how can
     you tell when there are no more engrams?  
        Engrams, those memories stored in the reactive mind, have to
     be found, and gone over and over until the auditor perceives that
     the pre-Clear has come up through apathy, anger, boredom, and
     finally laughter.23  Once the pre-Clear is having a good time
     reliving his father's attack on his mother or his mother
     attempting to abort him (to use Hubbard's examples), then the
     engram is said to have moved out of the reactive mind and into
     the analytical mind, and the auditor moves on to search for
     another engram.  Simply put, then, an auditor has a pre-Clear
     relive an experience (which has pain and unconsciousness in the
     experience) stored in the reactive mind over and over until the
     auditor is satisfied that the engram no longer affects the
     pre-Clear.  At this point the engram is considered erased [note:
     there seems to be a contradiction here in that the auditor is not
     to evaluate for the pre-clear, although here the auditor decides
     when an engram is gone].
        Although Hubbard declared that anyone can audit (Dianetics is,
     after all, a how-to-audit manual) there are many pitfalls an
     auditor must watch out for while searching for engrams.  He may
     encounter a "lie factory" engram that makes the pre-Clear
     "remember" things that never really occurred.  Hubbard offers no
     help in differentiating between actual engrams and "lie factory"
     memories, and in fact says you will wind up in a "tangled
     hash."24
        The "denyer" engram may hide itself by denying its own
     existence. Phrases in an engram like "I'm not here" and "forget
     about it" will hide its existence from the auditor because the
     pre-Clear, in his aberrated state, takes language phrases in an
     engram literally.  The method used to find these is to GUESS at a
     phrase that may be in the engram.  In one example, Hubbard tells
     of an auditor who tried 200 phrases before he got one that seemed
     to fit the bill.25  This would seem by the auditing methods used
     then to probably have taken days of the auditor telling the
     pre-Clear to "Repeat this phrase, 'you won't find me' (pre-Clear
     repeats many times.  No apparent evidence of an engram, so...) 
     Now repeat 'I can't be found'..."  Doesn't this seem to be a way
     to drive someone insane rather than therapy?  And Hubbard says
     there are thousands of denyer phrases!!!26
        The "bouncer" engram is another deceptive type, with phrases
     like "get out," which kicks the pre-Clear out of the engram.27 
     Again, the solution is to GUESS at a phrase since this is the
     best way to find engrams.28  Consequently a lot of guessing goes
     on in this precise "scientific" process of auditing.
        The "holder", "misdirector", "grouper", and "derailer" all
     offer similar problems to the auditor.  And all the above are
     simply blocks to FINDING an engram.  There are also problems in
     eradicating the engram.  You may think an engram has been erased,
     yet you may only have reduced its effect on the pre-Clear.  
        There is even the possibility that the pre-Clear has engrams
     in another language that he doesn't know about!29  How these can
     be declared eradicated when there is no proof of their existence
     in the first place strains the imagination to the utmost.
         The above (incomplete) examples of problems in auditing are
     brought up to show that finding someone who has no engrams is a
     difficult task, since engrams according to Hubbard's own words
     are often hard to detect.  And if just one engram escapes
     detection, you do not have a Clear.
        Let us consider a theoretical example of a person who knows
     Dianetics but is not a Clear.  This person, during auditing,
     kicks in a "lie factory" engram, and since this person
     understands the auditing process he is skillfully able to create
     fake engrams, and even can fake its eradication.  His mother
     lived with her Greek parents until the fifth month of pregnancy,
     and engrams in the Greek language were instilled in the fetus. 
     The auditor found prenatals in auditing (after the fifth month),
     and it was assumed that all were eradicated, since the person
     became much more assertive, happier, and the like after many
     hours of auditing.  This person could be declared Clear because
     the "lie factory" engrams were skilled at hiding by understanding
     the auditing game, and the foreign language engrams were never
     restimulated or found because auditing was done in English.  This
     is a perfectly conceivable case under Hubbard's theories.  But a
     worse case might be when an auditor continually searches for
     weeks trying to find engrams that don't even exist, in other
     words, auditing a Clear.
        It should be obvious from the above that the entire process of
     auditing is subjective.  An engram is declared gone because the
     auditor perceives that the person has gotten better.  A Clear is
     declared because the auditor decides he is now free of
     "aberration" and "psychosomatic illness."30  Hubbard even states
     that "The subjective reality, not the objective reality, is the
     important question to the auditor."31   This massive amount of
     subjectivity puts a strain on Hubbard's claims of scientific
     accuracy.
        The auditor is continually required to make subjective
     decisions and yet is taught that the entire process is a
     mechanistic, scientifically precise exercise.  The auditor is
     never allowed to consider that a hindrance to auditing is from
     anything other than engrams.  If a person is skeptical of
     engrams, the auditor is assured that an engram is causing the
     skepticism32 and certainly not a healthy amount of research on
     the part of the skeptic.  When someone "resists" auditing, that
     is caused by an engram rather than the person's conclusion that
     dianetics is stupid.33  Boredom is never from genuine boredom,
     according to Hubbard, but from an engram.  Consequently, anything
     other than full acceptance and submission to dianetics auditing
     must be caused by engrams.  
        This entire process of finding and eradicating engrams is
     totally subjective.  Although Hubbard tries valiantly to make
     auditing seem a mere mechanical process34 with his engineering
     and scientific talk, the mind is not a mechanical object.  It is
     the most complex device nature ever made, and has to this day
     baffled those who have tried to figure out how it works. 
     Personality, culture, upbringing, and more, influence individual
     actions, not just a finite set of past events incorrectly stored
     in the reactive mind.  
     
        In the real world, the state of Clear is basically a rank
     within the Church of Scientology.  In the real world, the
     superhuman qualities of Clear have not been perceived by
     independent investigators, nor have these superhumans been able
     to take over or at least greatly effect society in any fashion. 
     In other words, although thousands of people have obtained the
     rank of Clear, there is no proof that any of them fit Hubbard's
     grandiose claims for them in Dianetics.  Nor have they been able
     to accomplish what Hubbard claimed they could.  
     
     
     
     1 DIANETICS, p. 24
     2 DIANETICS, p. 228
     3 DIANETICS, p. 24
     4 DIANETICS, p. 18
     5 DIANETICS, p. 543
     6 L. Ron Hubbard and staff, WHAT IS SCIENTOLOGY? (Los Angeles;
     Church of 
     of California, 1978), p.202
     7 L. Ron Hubbard, "The Story of Dianetics and Scientology"
     cassette tape, 1958. tape #581OC18
     8 ibid.
     9 L. Ron Hubbard, RESEARCH AND DISCOVERY SERIES (Copenhagen,
     Denmark; Scientology Publications Organization ApS, 1980) vol. 1,
     p.84
     10 Russell Miller, BARE FACED MESSIAH (New York; Henry Holt and
     Co., 1987), p.165
     11 Stewart Lamont, RELIGION, INC. (London; Harrap, Ltd., 1986) 
     p.24
     12 Bent Corydon and L. Ron Hubbard, Jr., L. RON HUBBARD, MESSIAH
     OR MADMAN? (Secaucus, NJ; Lyle Stuart, Inc., 1987) p.288
     13 DIANETICS, p. 365
     14 DIANETICS, p. 502-3
     15 DIANETICS, p. 316
     16 DIANETICS, pp. 211,228,311,552
     17 DIANETICS, 1975 edition, p.417.  This is not in the newer
     version.
     18 DIANETICS, p.258
     19 DIANETICS, p.519
     20 RELIGION, INC., pp.53-4
     21 DIANETICS, p.414
     22 DIANETICS, p.565
     23 DIANETICS, p.429
     24 DIANETICS, p.256
     25 DIANETICS, p.295
     26 DIANETICS, p.440
     27 DIANETICS, p.282-3
     28 DIANETICS, p.369
     29 DIANETICS, pp.418-419
     30 DIANETICS, p.227
     31 DIANETICS, p.522
     32 DIANETICS, p.246-7
     33 DIANETICS, p.479
     34 DIANETICS, p.522


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