I have just made a breakthrough in finding what a clear really is.
And we can certainly make it now.
The Road to Clear is very definite and the state is very attainable today.
A clear has no vicious Reactive Mind and operates at total mental capacity just like the first book ("Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health") said. In fact every early definition of Clear is found to be correct.
People have been unable to define release to their own satisfaction. I find now a Release is a person who has been able to back out of his "bank". The bank is still there but the person isn't sunk into it with all its somatics and depressions. The E-Meter reads at the Clear read! The needle of the meter is floppy. This is a simulated clear. We called it a "keyed out clear" quite properly. But it isn't a clear I know now, it's a Release. The person has been released from his reactive mind. He still has that reactive mind but he's not in it. He is just released from it. He may go into it again but it feels good to be out of it. His IQ and ability rise and he is far more effective in changing his environment into a better one. The state is beyond homo sapiens by considerable.
This happens today before or at Level V in most cases if the preclear has followed the grades and levels properly.
Just one level up from there, a rather long level and a rough one, is the state of Clear.
This is Level VI. This level consists of several processes. The preclear (still a preclear) has to be able to audit to make it. It can't be done for him, that was the hitch. All the lower levels can be done for him but not Level VI. That's a technical fact. The preclear has to be able to handle Scientology technology to handle his own bank.
Level VI requires several months to audit through even with expert training.
But at its end, magic. There's the state of clear we've sought for all these years. It fits all definitions ever given for clear.
The state at the end of Level VI is not Operating Thetan any more than a baby is a Man.
Operating Thetan is several levels above clear. The bridge from clear to OT already exists and is found in Route I, in the book "The Creation of Human Ability".
The reactive mind (and a rotten mess it is, too!) prevented pcs from doing Route I drills. It stood like a huge black spider between the person and his realizing his full potential. Trying to do Route I as given years ago with a Reactive Mind still in place was, to be blunt, not possible for a human.
Some people also get frightened of ridding themselves of a Reactive Mind. Having looked it all over now I can state that it is as much use as a sewer in the living room. It says the bad is good and the good is bad! It's a slave maker and "stupidifier" and a body killer. Any time you think it has value, imagine trying to swim in the city dump or trying to fly with an anvil in each pocket, all the while saying, "This is exactly the right thing to do. "
What's happened that caused the blunder is that a "keyed out clear" looked like a clear but was only a release. And one had to have a very precise map and the skill to walk through the still present dark barriers that existed unsuspected between "keyed out clear" and the real state of clear.
So Clear can be attained. And further it is being attained right this minute by dozens of Class VI preclears. It will take them months to get there but they are soaring and will tell you so. One session on it sends them the equivalent distance that ten intensives did in their early auditing. Why? Because they did the earlier auditing.
The road was just a longer road. Man looks for the quick way, the one-shot way, the needle and the rocket to sudden glory. Clear takes now an exact progress over exact levels. And the way is not long really. But it could be a few years for some.
But what's a few years if one is bargaining for Eternity?
The point here is that I've finally been able to tell you what it is and where it is and exactly how to get there. Sorry I couldn't sooner. It took some time to find the way for you and communicate how to do it.
I always tell you as soon as I know. I tell you when I've goofed and where. Well here it is. That's what a Clear is.
And it's a road you can travel.
Above Level VI there are no "mental auditing processes" as we know them. There are only various drill and familiarization processes like those in the "Creation of Human Ability" processes and the regaining of abilities one supposed one couldn't ever attain.
That's the road and road map.
The only real error I made was in believing the road was a bit shorter than it was.
The plan of going on to clear is to get processed up to Grade IV or V. Then, being a Release and quite beyond the top range of most IQ tests, get trained rapidly up through from Level 0 to Level VI. And then audit up to Grade VI which is Clear.
("Grade" and "Level" are the same but when one is a pc one has a grade and when one has a Level one is studying its data.)
There are about 3 or 4 intensives to a Grade (pc) up to Grade V. That's perhaps 15 to 20 25-hour intensives. (15 to 20 weeks.) Then training as a student of the same material one was audited on from Level I to Level V. That's six separate months worth of training. Then to Level VI (that's only as a student at Saint Hill) which takes about 2-3 months usually. Then a year or less depending on how hard you work and at no further cost, to Clear.
The total of this is about two years and two months of continuous processing and training time.
The total elapsed time might be longer even up to 5 or 10 years depending on one's own economics and all that.
The fact is that economics aren't a real factor, contrary to what one might be thinking. For today the increase in ability at one grade of processing is capable of delivering an economic boost adequate to earn or obtain much more extra wherewithal than the auditing or training cost. Economic increase because of auditing and training is a sure thing today.
A faster route (but not quite as secure as you might think as one isn't already a Release while studying) is to train from Level 0 on up only. I myself wouldn't like to do that as it would be rougher and could be even slower than the Grade I to V pc then Level I to VI auditor route. But it could be done.
We've had 15 years of experience now. We had to feel our way, as Man has never had a road to clear. It's been through totally new territory never before viewed by Man. Even the wise Tibetan only achieved Release and only after he invested 20 years of hard work at it at that.
From Release as a case on up to Level VI as an auditor is pretty easy. In fact the Grade-Level roadway is like walking in a pleasant countryside now. Oh, one has a few stumbles even on a gravel path but that's part of it. The pioneer times are all over and the pioneer always has it rough.
The 49ers left a freeway to follow! So have we. It just took a while to build.
So that's clear!