By Jeff Jacobsen more
1992
Source:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/1d645dadce2aae71
THE HUBBARD IS BARE
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.
Introduction
Review of Hubbard's Theories
The Murky State of Clear
Problems with the Engram
Theory
Science and Dianetics
Hubbard's Sources
The Ideal Dianetics Society
Conclusion
For Further Reading
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 |