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An analysis of the claims made in this ‘SO ED 2344 Int’, 20 Aug 83 “The Story of a Squirrel: David Mayo” in regards to Clear. Please note that various technical aspects are being discussed. This is therefore mostly for the insider that is familiar with the material and the substance of Scientology. Please note that the analysis found on this page is very thorough and extensive.
David Mayo project pages:
(1) The story of David Mayo (Snr C/S Int 1978-82) - Main index & introduction
(2) SO ED 2344 analysis: Main SO ED analysis page
(3a) SO ED 2344 analysis: The definition of ‘Clear’
(3b) SO ED 2344 analysis: Notes on NED for OT's and its relation to ‘Clear’
(4) SO ED 2344 analysis: ‘Training Routines’ (TR's) (includes notes on auditor training)
(5a) ‘The Bridge to a New World’ (History of the Grade Chart) - a) General overview
(5b) ‘The Bridge to a New World’ (History of the Grade Chart) - b) Detailed analysis
(6) Chronological reference list & Dianetic Clear Series list
Please note that words with an asterisk (*) are defined at the bottom of this page! Only first appearances are marked.
The definition of ‘Clear’ (page 2)
Go to ‘The definition of ‘Clear’
index
How to make out if you were a Clear? (certifying Clears) – A historical overview
- ‘Clear Tests’ (1958→) & ‘Clear Checkouts’ (1966→)
- ‘Dianetic Clear Special Intensive’ (DCSI) (1979→) & ‘Clear Certainty Rundown’ (CCRD) (1985→)
‘Clear Tests’ (1958→) & ‘Clear Checkouts’ (1966→)
| 1958: There were ways to certify if anyone was Clear or not a Clear. You were simply tested or put through a check. The earliest notice that addresses this that I know about is from “The 19th American Advanced Clinical Course Lectures” (19ACC-9), given 30 Jan 58 “Clear Procedure IV: Test for Clears”. The first reference issued was HCOB 20 Feb 58 “ How to Test For Clear” (written by L. Ron Hubbard, note that this is not included even in the 1976 release of the Technical Bulletins volumes). At that time there were “three sections to a Clear Test. The first is Auditor Evaluation. The second is E-Meter questions. The third is written tests, such as the APA and IQ.”. |
| The auditor evaluation involved that the “individual has been able to successfully execute without further reaction on the meter, the entirety of HGC Procedure of February 6, 1958, including part 2, CCH 0 (b), Help.” (referred is to the references HCOB 6 Feb AD8 “HGC Clear Procedure Outline of February 6, AD8” & HCOB 6 Feb 58 “HGC Clear Procedure Outline - Part II, CCH 0 (B) - Help in Full, Starting Session”. |
| For the E-Meter check a certain amount of ohms were expected to register, etc.. All “according to present findings”. |
| The American Personality Analysis (APA, a personality test) had to “read in the top third of the profile”. The Intelligence Test (IQ) had to “register in excess of 135 for a state of Clear to be established”. |
| The HCOB also listed various disqualifications, such as needle reactions that were not supposed to occur, that is if you were a Clear. The only one of these 3 references noted in the previous that you will still find in either the 1976 or the 1991 release of the Technical Bulletins volumes is the last one, although it does not say anymore Part II.). Things had moved on since. I have no data about when the first 2 HCOB's were cancelled (no cancellation data was found). |
| 1959: Then ‘Sec ED 150’, 9 Mar 59 “Director of Processing Hat” notes: |
“The entirety of the Clear test is conducted with the testee on the E-meter. A Clear test form is used by the Director of Processing. The Director of Processing only conducts the E-meter Clear test and forwards all tests up to the HCO Board of Review. He cannot tell the person he is Clear.” LRH |
Later in 1959 we had HCOB 27 Aug 59 “Clear Tests Revised MEST Clears and Theta Clears”. Cancelled in 1974 and as per the information that I have it was not written by L. Ron Hubbard. I have not been able to consult this reference, also no further cancellation data has been found.
| 1963: It came to: |
“CLEAR TEST |
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You don't need to do a Clear Test. It might mess up the bank. |
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A natural free needle without prepcheck begins to appear around the fifth GPM. ... |
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A bracelet clear would be, actually, a theta clear, and would emerge after the 5th to 8th GPM had been cleaned up. |
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By present calculation a free needle, totally stable theta clear emerges after the 8th GPM has been run. |
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No calculation on Operating Thetan exists at this moment, but at a guess, it's well beyond the 8th GPM. |
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Up to the 6th GPM a clear test is liable to foul up the case a little. So save it for later and really send up rockets in celebration. ...” LRH (from HCOB 18 Mar 63 “R2–R3, Important Date, Don't Force the PC”) |
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“CLEAR TEST–Clear sits at Clear read on the TA with a free needle. No natter. No upsets. No whole track keyed in. No SERVICE FACSIMILE.” LRH (from HCOB 1 Sept 63 “Routine Three SC”) |
| There was also HCO PL 22 Feb 63 “Clear Test 1963”. A month later superseded by HCO PL 23 Mar 63 “Clear Test 1963 Issue II”. I have not been able to consult the former, the latter is only included in the Technical Bulletins volume VII: 1963-65 (1991 release). It is about that “No GPM may be called cleared until this test has been made.” LRH. |
| 1965: Then HCO PL 2 Apr 65 “Meter Checks” refers to something that is addressed as a “GRADE VI CLEAR TEST”. Various criteria for tests are found in this policy letter. |
| On the (May) 1965 Grade Chart the state of Clear was positioned at Grade VI. The following Grade Chart released later that year rectified this and noted: |
“The quality of processing has been upgraded in 1965 as higher states have been found. Clear today is a higher state than previously. We once called ‘Clear’ what is today called RELEASE. Clear was higher than was first thought.” (from 26th September 1965 Grade Chart) |
| Since then the charts positioned Clear at Grade VII. |
1966: In 1966 a despatch was send to L. Ron Hubbard by this person named Anton (Assistant Qual Sec at Saint-Hill) about the first Clear (John McMaster). Apparently this was considered of such a “historical and technical interest” that it was published as HCOB 23 Aug 66 II “Clear Test”. You will however not find this reference included in either the 1976 or the 1991 release of the Technical Bulletins volumes.
| 1966 also introduced these Continental Clear Checkers: |
“In order to speed up the checking out of Clears residing in
other countries and to handle the tremendous flow of Clears that is
occurring, and in the interest of economy for students, personnel
have been appointed in certain Continental Orgs to perform this
duty.” LRH (from HCO PL 7 Nov 66 “Clear Check-Outs in Continental Orgs”) |
| This reference also makes specifically mention of a “Clear Check Hat”. If anyone out there would have more data about this, or have any such Clear Check Hat materials issued somewhere late 1966 and in use well into 1967, then please contact me! |
| 1967: In 1967 HCO PL 13 Sept 67 “Clear Check Outs” cancelled all “former check out procedures for Clear”. This HCO PL then lists some simple procedures: |
| “1. | Has run the materials of the Clearing Course to free needle. | ||
| 2. | Is the person's TA between 2 and 3 with a loose or flowing needle? | ||
| 3. | Rehabbing ALL grades from Dianetic Release up to Clear,
making sure they have actually, each one, been run and attained. |
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| 4. | A marked change in the person. | ||
| 5. | Is the person cheerful and happy about being Clear?” LRH |
| The policy letter did further list some additional conditional criteria although the above as a rule would suffice. |
These were further enforced by HCO PL 15 Sept 67 “Release and Clear Check Outs” & HCOB 8 Oct 67 “Clear Checks and Re-Clear Checks”. Remarkably enough HCO PL 13 Sept 67 “Clear Check Outs” was later cancelled by HCO PL 9 Jan 68 “Cancellation of HCO Policy Letter 12 Sept 1967 and HCO Policy Letter 13 Sept 1967”. |
And with this we stumble on an inconsistency because HCO PL 15 Sept 67 “Release and Clear Check Outs” & HCOB 8 Oct 67 “Clear Checks and Re-Clear Checks” till this day appear fully valid references. The inconsistency being that each of these make reference to the cancelled HCO PL 13 Sept 67, a reference that is not even found in the in 1991 released HCOB/PL volumes (you may however consult it in the 1974 release of these volumes). |
| HCO PL 15 Sept 67 “Release and Clear Check Outs” reads: (underlining is mine) |
“NO CERTIFICATE DECLARING ANY GRADE OF RELEASE OR THE STATE OF
CLEAR OR ANY STATE OF OT IS VALID UNLESS THE EXAMINER IS A CLEAR
CHECKED OUT AS PER POLICY LETTER OF 13 SEPTEMBER 1967, ‘CLEAR CHECK
OUTS’, AND WHO IS AN SHSBC GRADUATE.” LRH |
| & HCOB 8 Oct 67 “Clear Checks and Re-Clear Checks” reads: (underlining is mine) |
“A Clear Check or a Re-Clear Check is done exactly per HCO PL 13 Sept 67, ‘Clear Check Outs’” LRH |
| I am not actually sure how all this actually fits together. Be it noted though that HCO PL 12 Sept 67 and HCO PL 13 Sept 67 were cancelled for reason that “both policies contain inspection before the fact and therefore violate the Fast Flow system of Management.” LRH. |
In 1979 we see a further development in this new procedure called Dianetic Clear Special Intensive (DCSI).
‘Dianetic Clear Special Intensive’ (DCSI) (1979→) & ‘Clear Certainty Rundown’ (CCRD) (1985→)
Once free of charge, but not anymore. The reference FCPL (HASI PL) 17 Nov 68 “Free Clear Estimates, Free Clear Tests” appears superseded by the DCSI and later the CCRD which consist of this 5 hour intensive, and these were not in particular free of charge.
| This Dianetic Clear Special Intensive (DCSI) was introduced in May 1979. It was for |
“(1) Persons who have gone Dianetic Clear earlier in auditing (2) Persons who were declared Dianetic Clear without a rehab* yet need the state rehabbed (3) Persons who feel they went Dianetic Clear and want it checked and handled.” (from HCO PL 1 May 79R (Revised 25 March 1981) “Dianetic Clear Special Intensives, Administration of”) |
In November-December 1985 it was repackaged (with no fundamental changes) and re-released as the Clear Certainty Rundown (CCRD).
| A promo sheet (© 1985) from AOSH UK about this CCRD tells: (these lines are attributed to L. Ron Hubbard although I am unable to find the source of it) |
“Since 1978, an auditing action called the ‘DCSI’ (Dianetic Clear Special Intensive) has been used to rehabilitate the state of Clear, when that state was achieved in Dianetics® or NED® auditing. |
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In light of recent technical discoveries a new rundown has been assembled for the verification and rehab of the state of Clear, superceding and replacing the DCSI. ...”. |
| Although I have it positively confirmed from an old-timer Class IX Auditor that this was just the same procedure with no fundamental technical changes, it just had been given a different name. Donations requested for the DCSI in April 1985 were also exactly the same as the ones asked for in August 1986 for the CCRD. A motivation for the change of name may have been to effectively dissociate these procedures from David Mayo, as they were originally released and developed in his time of reign, and yes various of the original DCSI references do witness of his involvement. Anyhow a newly written series of references accompanied this CCRD, which related the same ideas and approaches. Nonetheless it is promoted as something new. |
| The periodical ‘Advance! 88’, [Dec 85] introduces it as follows: |
“Question: What is Clear Certainty Rundown auditing? |
| And it also tells the following: |
“Question: I've had the DCSI, but I still have attention on whether I'm Clear or not. What should I do? |
| Above text seems to hint that the CCRD could solve things that the previous DCSI could not handle. |
At its release the CCRD was only delivered at socalled Advanced Saint Hill Organizations. However since December 1988 it was also delivered at any Class V Scientology organization. In 1994 we have a turnaround in the numbering of the Clear Certainty Rundown Series, also it was adding one reference to this series, this was HCOB 4 May 94 “Clear and Release” (i.e. 8 years after the passing of L. Ron Hubbard). This CCRD remains in use today, and the CCRD references are carefully kept under lock and key.
| The transformation of HCO PL 1 May 79 is interesting. It changed title 2 times (changing of title occurs only occasionally) and it did convert from Dianetic Clear Series to Clear Certainty Rundown Series: |
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| We see this also confirmed in for example HCOB 15 Nov 81 “The Sunshine Rundown” that in its revision of 18 December 1988 exchanged “Dianetic Clear Special Intensive” into “Clear Certainty Rundown” as “the next step on the Grade Chart”. |
But also the Grade Chart changed its entry at the level of ‘CLEAR’: ‘Subject Audited’ from in 1984: “Dianetics Clear Special Intensive (to verify and rehabilitate the state)” to in 1985: “Clear Certainty Rundown counseling (to verify and rehabilitate the state)”. |
| The periodical ‘Advance! 88’, [Dec 85] also confirms: “DCSI: Dianetics Clear Special Intensive, now replaced by Clear Certainty Rundown auditing.”. |
| I've made a detailed study of the publication information of all the references relating to or being part of either the ‘Dianetic Clear Special Intensive’ or the ‘Clear Certainty Rundown’. I marked carefully various information like revision notes, the persons involved in each individual release, composer/typing initials, etc.: (each link will open in a separate window) | |
| ‘Dianetic Clear Series’ (Oct-Mar 1981) | |
| ‘Clear Certainty Rundown Series’ (Nov-Dec 1985) (includes Dec 1988 reissues) | |
| ‘Clear Certainty Rundown Series’ (Mar-May 1994) | |
‘Stalled Dianetic Clear: Solved’ (Mar 84)
| This is all about HCOB 27 Mar 84 –C/S Series 119– “Stalled Dianetic Clear: Solved”. |
| Does this indicate that there was a situation with those that had attested for Dianetic Clear, and that they got stalled for some reason? It appears so. Otherwise the issuance of this HCOB would have been superfluous. |
| This C/S Series 119 (as this HCOB frequently is referred to) proposes in its first paragraph: “Earlier, various persons carefully obliterated the technical data given below (and the tech of Expanded Dianetics) from use, to effectively bar Dianetic Clears from going any further up the Bridge and becoming fully powerful beings.”. No details are given how this would have been exercised. |
| Following it lists the main outset: |
“The major steps for a Dianetic Clear moving up the Bridge are: |
CCRD and the Sunshine Rundown |
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| Solo Auditor Course Part 1 | ||
| OT Preparations/Solo Setups | ||
| Solo Auditor Course Part 2 | ||
| Eligibility for OT Levels Check.” |
| Then the situation is stated: |
“There is no reason to interfere with a Dianetic Clear who is progressing on that route or who is progressing on the route between OT I and OT III and doing well. They should not be interfered with by Sec Checking or anything else, really. |
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But where the person in this zone is moving slowly or stalled, there is a technical factor which must be known and taken into consideration: |
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Dianetic Clears who do not go up the Bridge are still subject to the vagaries and pressures of life.” |
| Thus allowing for a whole list of actions in order “to handle and of the points of possible hang up”. |
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“Finding postulates and considerations is a free field on a Dianetic Clear; there is no slightest prevention of it. Finding and handling evil purposes is also in the area of postulates. And a Dianetic Clear can also be black PRed and go PTS. |
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Because someone is Dianetic Clear is no reason he does not still have postulates in place or counter-survival considerations which, cleared up, could improve his power as a being. |
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You will find that people who are not burdened with overts and black PR and evil purposes ARE going on up the route to the top. What stalls the person is lack of Sec Checking and discovery of any PTSness or black PR or evil purposes and the like—all of them counter-survival.” |
There are 2 arguments however that could be forwarded that in addition could have been the cause of various or at least have been a contributing factor. Neither of these have been considered by the HCOB:
| #1. One aspect that this reference overlooked, but should be considered is the increase of pricings for services. If one compares to the pricings for services from 1984 with those from 1976, from which time on the pricings were subjected to a monthly increase of initially 5% and later 2% because of –so it claimed– to keep up with inflation (ref. ‘LRH ED 284 Int’, 16 Sept 76 “The Solution to Inflation” and its subsequent releases). This resulted in an increase of an average of 750% in costs for services when we finally arrive in 1984. Inflation may be so, but it is quite doubtful if such an increase to pricings would have been justified simply because of this referred to inflation. |
| I wonder if these problems of persons being stalled actually existed in the earlier days in this same way as was faced in 1984. It should be obvious that as donations requested for services had increased so dramatically that it must have had a contributing factor somewhere on the line. |
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| Please note that these price increases were affecting any service within the organization. |
#2. Then we have the consideration that a Dianetic Clear may not be an actual fullfledged Clear. After all since September 1978 the Scientology Clear (and Grade V, VA, VI & Clearing Course with it) basically got abandoned. We should be aware that this can be a contributing factor as well. The Evaluation Series references are quite clear about that if some situation arises, that one should look at what had changed prior to it! As this may very well have been the cause of it.
Then considering that this C/S Series 119 says: “Earlier, various persons carefully obliterated the technical data given below (and the tech of Expanded Dianetics) from use, to effectively bar Dianetic Clears from going any further up the Bridge and becoming fully powerful beings.” (underlining is mine). This all can actually work from different angles. After all the Grades V, VA, VI & VII were also ‘carefully obliterated’ and ‘from use’ and may have resulted in an ‘effective bar’. We should be alert about any of these things, considerate alternate options and thus ask pertinent questions.
Then and now: Attesting to Clear
(Includes: The Grade Chart & Our present day)
The ramifications of the shifting of the concept of the Clear Cognition starting in 1978 are rather significant (addressed in detail in respective chapter). It introduced the concept of unpredictability. But there is an additional aspect that needs to be addressed concerning the subject of Dianetics and Scientology itself. From its very inception it has been self-determining. These subjects were so very different from for example psychotherapy and psychology because here you did not have someone else deciding anything for how you would perceive anything or in what condition you were in. This however has grown to change over time.
The Grade Chart
The Routing and Gradation Chart was initially developed to give structure to the subject of Scientology. It was to lay out the path to walk and which sequence to follow. A first Grade Chart was thus issued in May 1965, and it focused on Scientology. It was not until mid-1966 that Dianetics found its place on it.
Matters progressed and the December 1966 chart added an Attainment column. Basically these signified the End Phenomena's (EP's) that would indicate, to the person traveling this path on the chart, when they would be ready for their next step. ‘Ability Gain’ is defined in HCOB 28 Feb 59 “Analysis of Cases” as “Pc's recognition that pc can now do things he could not do before.” LRH. The person would then make an attest to this effect.
A January 1968 chart renamed this column to Abilities Attained.
| HCO PL 14 Mar 68 (Reissued 8 May 1968) “Policies Governing the Qualification Division” directed: |
“The PC or student signs an attestation slip that he has
completed, or can apply the data or has attained the grade.” |
| (Notice: The history of attesting can be studied in more detail on my Grade Chart pages, see “‘The Bridge to a New World’ (History of the Grade Chart) - b) Detailed analysis”, consult in particular: “1966-Jan 1968: Attestation for grades (since 1966)”, consult here, & “Jun-Dec 1970: (2) Some corrections (c): Proper attestation of grades (‘Ability Gained’ and ‘Inability Lost’)”, consult here. They are well worth a read.) |
The June 1970 chart added a second column called Inability Lost (the Abilities Attained column was renamed Abilities Gained). Interestingly this chart also broke up the lower grades (Grade 0-IV) into their respective flows (F-1, happening to self; F-2, done to another; F-3, others to others).
| ‘LRH ED 117 Int’, 26 Aug 70 “Current Cases” established: |
“So technical progress has been: |
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| CLASS VIII - 1968. | ||
COMPLETE DIANETICS - 1969. |
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| COMPLETE SCIENTOLOGY - 1970. | ||
| This is quite an achievement.” LRH |
In December 1970 another chart was released that maintained the columns as established earlier in June that year. This should all seem like a finished cycle of action at this point in time.
| It was however not to be. The January 1975 chart then suddenly reverted back to how it was displayed on the 1969 chart, it removed the Inability Lost column and all the flows for the lower grades. This chart set the trend for all forthcoming charts in that respect. |
| As a side note here the Ability Gained characteristics for the socalled OT levels also had disappeared, from this time on they were considered confidential. |
It was not until late 1980 that the columns were extended upon again, however not on the Grade Chart itself, but in the form of issuing this as a separate policy letter. This was HCO PL 23 Oct 80 II “Chart of Abilities Gained For Lower Levels and Expanded Lower Grades”. Aiming at that “Expanded Grades are attested to by the pc declaring the full statement of the Ability Gained for all four flows.”. The Inability Lost column did not get reinstated, although it did add the one remaining flow (F-0, self to self).
What we should ask ourselves is why the 1970 Grade Chart set up was interfered with and not maintained! And before all determining why these columns were so detailed and why there even was an Inability Lost column. Who changed all that, authorized it, and got it printed up like that? You see, this Grade Chart was there hanging on the wall, it was this piece of paper which the public saw. Having it on a Grade Chart is not the same as have it hidden away in some policy letter issued in 1980.
“Now that we have ethics in and VIIIs in every org WE CAN RESTORE ATTESTATION. When we knocked it off we also knocked down our stats. Ron's Journal 1968 will RESTORE ATTESTATION OF GRADES AND CLASSES. This will speed up training again and raise stats. It works only if you keep ethics in.” LRH
(from ‘LRH ED 81 Int’, 20 Jan 69 “A Vital Target, Trained Auditor Program”)
Our present day
About may be a 1½ year ago now (late-2008 or so), I viewed this video at some Scientology event. It was about motivating people to achieve and go Clear. I was appalled when I saw the video sequence in where various public were approached and informed that they now had reached the State of Clear. These public on that video then responded in delightful surprise: “Am I really? That's great! Wow!”. And I was wondering, are these people really involved with the subject of Scientology? You see, they were being told they were something. A reality was being forced upon them, and they adopted this reality. Now, what was Scientology all about again?
So, the audience that was there watching these video sequences were swallowing this, just like that. I looked around and could see the smiling and happy faces of the persons in that audience. This was something they also wanted. Was I the only one perceiving that something was not quite right here? This present day Scientology public has turned exceedingly uncritical. The relay of the subject of Dianetics and Scientology are not studied anymore, it is instead adopted. The problem here is that adopting will not get you anywhere, and in particular not in Scientology. Adopting will never nourish understanding. If your aim is freedom, then you will not arrive there this way.
Clear and ‘harmonics’ (noted relation to David Mayo as per SO ED)
(1) Confusion on the state of Clear
Per the section of the SO ED entitled “Suppressive Acts” David Mayo is being accused of the following: “Issued verbal tech and squirrel* instructions to auditors and broadly published a misdefinition on the State of Clear, causing tech personnel to think that this was Source data and send pcs who had not achieved the State of Clear to attest to Clear, thus jamming these persons’ progress up the Bridge; ... .”.
| We find in HCOB 14 Dec 81 “The State of Clear”: |
“There has been some confusion lately on exactly what is the state of Clear. |
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The confusion was introduced by a statement, not mine, that the state of Clear had harmonics, which is to say there were different states of Clear. |
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This is not true. Although it is quite impossible to obtain an absolute in this universe, the state of Clear is, actually, about as close as one can come to it.” |
| Then later in this HCOB follows this explanation of the cause of that: |
“I believe I know what has been happening that caused the confusion. |
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Without invalidating the case gain of anyone (and NED for quite some time now has been making true and valid Clears) - a few pcs and technical personnel have been mistaking the state of RELEASE for that of CLEAR. ... |
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A person hits a floating TA that simply won't turn off, his wife and girl friend ooh and aah on how much better he looks, he hasn't kicked the cat for days and is no longer coughing. He says, ‘By golly, I must be Clear!’ even though he really can't pass the test. So the technical people, seeing him glow, say, ‘I don't want to invalidate this guy,’ and they let him declare and he goes to an SH or AO and falls on his head when he starts to climb the next ten light-years to OT. He was just a RELEASE.” |
We even find a note about invalidating such Clear originators in HCO PL 1 May 79R (Revised 25 March 1981) “Dianetic Clear Special Intensives, Administration of” that says: “The Qual Sec would investigate the following points and see to their immediate handling: ... j) That invalidation is not practiced in session or by the C/S, that there isn't some motive that exists to invalidate the state”.
| But isn't that already old news per the following HCOB from 1965: |
“I have just made a breakthrough in finding what a clear really is. ... |
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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. |
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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.” LRH (from HCOB 2 Apr 65 “The Road to Clear”) |
Nonetheless HCOB 14 Dec 81 “The State of Clear” continues little further on with: “So I looked over this problem and found an outness in the lineup which I have described more fully in HCOB 12 December 1981, THE THEORY OF THE NEW GRADE CHART.”. If we then consult that referenced HCOB we find: “The main change in the new Grade Chart is that Dianetics and Scientology have been switched around. One gets his Scientology, per this chart, before he gets his Dianetics.”. Now, was this the “outness in the lineup”? This at least would seem so, as this is pretty much all what HCOB 12 Dec 81 “The Theory of the New Grade Chart” is about.
This then would supposedly have lead to those “few pcs” and that “technical personnel” would not err anymore about “have been mistaking the state of RELEASE for that of CLEAR”? It does not in particular make very much sense to explain or account for that “There has been some confusion lately on exactly what is the state of Clear. ..., that the state of Clear had harmonics, which is to say there were different states of Clear.”. Now what does this got to do with some claimed “outness in the lineup” if anything at all? How exactly would “that Dianetics and Scientology have been switched around” remedy the problem? Is there an actual problem here?
| The situation here may be is that if you let people dwell in those ideas about that “When an individual thinks he is or might be Dianetic Clear.” (from HCOB 2 May 79 I “Dianetic Clear Special Intensive”), that you then start to imagine that you may be Clear for real, and so on. There was an earlier instance about that back in 1970: “It is not however attained by feeding people Scientology cognitions as was done in L.A.” LRH (from HCOB 25 Jun 70 II “Glossary of C/S Terms”). L. Ron Hubbard found out about it and he wrote: “This is being handled and the practice stopped.” LRH (from ‘LRH ED 10 SH’, 6 Jun 70 “SH Pcs”). Either way the idea of such originations about possibly being Clear was reintroduced in 1979, again opening up the pathway that may in fact feed these misconceptions! |
| But no, HCOB 14 Dec 81 “The State of Clear” covers the problem with: “So I looked over this problem and found an outness in the lineup ...”, which lead to the solution: “... that Dianetics and Scientology have been switched around” on this “new Grade Chart”. This is then how we got “One gets his Scientology, ..., before he gets his Dianetics.”. |
Amazingly enough though we may draw the conclusion, as per the above findings, that Dianetics and Scientology switched places for no apparent reason and more importantly without any well reasoned explanation. So, one may have to pose the possibility if this may have been the wrong why and therefore the wrong handling? More data about this and various relating is found on my page “David Mayo project (1)”, see “‘The Bridge to a New World’ - 1981-82’”, in particularly chapter “A change in the Grade Chart in regards to an error in redefining Clear” or visit here (link will open in a separate window).
(2) ‘Destructive “KSW” Issues by Mayo’ & ‘harmonics’
| The section of the SO ED with the title “Destructive ‘KSW’ Issues by Mayo” says: |
“It was discovered Mayo had authored a batch of squirrel issues in 1980 and 81 consisting of grossly twisted interpretations of the tech, very misleadingly labelled ‘Keeping Scientology Working’ issues. These are described in the HCOB of 11 April 83, CANCELLATION OF DESTRUCTIVE ISSUES, by LRH, which cancelled the lot. (And, not surprisingly, there was a sharp rise in delivery stats* internationally right after these issues were cancelled.)” |
On the overall we are actually missing out on various specifics about the claims made. Both the HCOB/PL nor the SO ED do fill in all the specifics and rather revert to giving generalities. Also that “sharp rise in delivery stats” is a claim that is easily made. The fact on the matter is also that during 1982 and 1983 a whole variety of persons left the the organization or were simply discarded of. Of this fact witnesses for example ‘SO ED 2192 Int’, 27 Jan 83 “List of Declared Suppressive Persons”, which lists 611 names. Many of these had been in the organization since many years, reportedly a variety of old OT VII's, high ranking Sea Org members and even Cl XII auditors were listed. It defies logic that at about the same time that these well-trained persons left, that a “sharp rise in delivery stats” would have occurred. We do see an avalanche of socalled expulsion orders being issued during that time. We are left here with some unexplained illogics and missing data. We can also note here that in order to compensate for a probable lost income, that through this it could be explained why the prices for services were skyrocketing during these early 80's. Which delivery stats are being referred to here in the SO ED? The amount of people on service or just income wise? These are all questions that have to be considered.
| The “grossly twisted interpretations” were about: |
“(a) |
Giving the impression that there are lots and lots of pc false attests, ... |
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These issues sought to place the responsibility for the outcome of a session or grade squarely on the shoulders of the pc. ... |
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Two of these false HCOBs referred to ‘harmonics’ of states up through Clear and OT, and that there are ‘variations’ of the State of Clear. ... |
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Several of these issues contained interpretations by another of what is written in the C/S Series HCOBs. ... |
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Largely these issues described ‘quickie grades’ and pcs who had not been gotten in-session by their auditor. ...” (from HCOB/PL 11 Apr 83 “Cancellation of Destructive issues”) |
| Those issues being cancelled were: |
HCOB/PL |
Title | KSW Ser. # |
Attributed | Initials | Notices |
| 27Aug 80 | “Examples of Quickying and False Declares” | 21 |
LRH | LRH:bk | (also DM? see notes in HCOB/PL 11 Apr 83, although no DM involvement noted on issue that is being cancelled) |
| 28 Aug 80 | “How to Handle the Quickie Impulse” | 22 |
LRH As assisted by Senior C/S Int |
LRH:DM:bk | |
| 29 Aug 80 | “How Not to Miss Out on Gains From Your Auditing” | 23 |
LRH Assisted by Snr C/S Int |
LRH:DM:dr | |
| 30 Aug 80 | “Wins, ‘States’, and Grade Chart Declares” | 24 |
LRH | LRH:dr | (also DM? see notes in HCOB/PL 11 Apr 83, although no DM involvement noted on issue that is being cancelled) |
| 31 Aug 80 | “Programming and Handling Cases Who Have Been Quickied or Falsely Declared” | 25 |
LRH As assisted by Snr C/S Int |
LRH:DM:dr | |
| 30 Oct 81* | “C/S-ing For the PC” | 28 |
LRH Assisted by Snr C/S International Accepted by the BDCSC |
BDCSC:LRH:DM:dr |
| [* This issue had already previously been cancelled by HCOB 30 Oct 81 (Cancelled 7 Nov 82) “C/S series 114 Cancelled, KSW Series 28 Cancelled”. This cancelled it “because of the false and arbitrary data it put forth regarding ethics actions on pcs” (this is addressed elsewhere on my pages). It was probably added here as it was also issued as part of the KSW Series, although it was issued at a later date, was already cancelled 4 months earlier, and is not in particular relating to the other 5 references.] |
Note: Related to this seems to be this change incorporated in the actual Grade Chart. HCOB 14 Dec 81 “The State of Clear” notes: “There has just been a change in the Grade Chart (HCOB 12 November 1981 which has been reissued as HCOB 12 November 1981R Revised 14 December 1981 to correct an error in it where someone else redefined Clear).”. More details about this you'll find here (link will open in separate window).
| Now, the claim made by this HCOB/PL 11 Apr 83 “Cancellation of Destructive Issues” concerning Clear is: |
“(c) Two of these false HCOBs referred to ‘harmonics’ of states up through Clear and OT, and that there are ‘variations’ of the State of Clear. There is no such thing. Clear is Clear. (Ref: HCOB 14 Dec 81, THE STATE OF CLEAR.)” |
| Indeed only 2 of these issues do refer to this thing referred to as “lower harmonics”. You may decide for yourself, here below I have quoted these sections relating to this in full: |
“Lower Harmonics |
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Many of the states on the route up through Clear and OT have lower harmonics. (For further data on this hear SHSBC lecture 6608C16 SH Spec 75, ‘RELEASES AND CLEARS’.) |
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For example, a person who is unable to communicate and can't conceive of the idea of communicating, let alone being able to do so, would in processing come up scale to a point where this person began to realize that communication exists and that it is possible and that he could become able to communicate. This in itself would be a release state. It is not Communications Release as the person is not yet able to communicate. But it is a release state, and far preferable to the condition the person was in prior to the auditing. One would not declare the person a Grade 0 Release. One would continue the auditing until the person had the full abilities of Grade 0 - Communications Release. |
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Similarly, a person can get quite a release in processing when he keys out sufficiently and gets the idea of what it would be like to be Clear, OT, or even gets the idea of what it would be like to attain Native State, or Static. This could be accompanied by the realization that one actually could attain these states, and this would be accompanied by a resurgence of hope about getting out of the dwindling spiral. Obviously the person has not yet attained any of these states, and should not be sent to declare or attest that he has. While it is a lower harmonic of the actual state, it is still very good that the person has achieved this heightened reality and hope. If the person were sent to, or allowed to, declare that he had made any of these states of Clear, OT, or Native State when he had not yet done so, then it could actually act as a stop on the person's forward progress up the Bridge. False declares give the person the false impression that he has already made it, and so there is nothing higher to achieve! (This gives the person a very incorrect idea of the value of these states, and to others seeing this it acts as a degrade of both these states and of Scientology.) |
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The answer is not to mistake the lower harmonic for the real thing, but to recognize the difference, and acknowledge these lower harmonics or release points as they indicate progress toward the real thing. Continue on with the auditing and the genuine state will be attained.” (from HCOB/PL 29 Aug 80, KSW Ser 23 “How Not to Miss Out on Gains From Your Auditing”) |
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“FALSE DECLARES |
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Sometimes people encounter lower harmonics of these states and sometimes a preclear can run into a dramatization of a false high from an engram. Unhandled drugs and toxins in the body can go into restimulation and cause the person to experience hallucinations, including the false highs and euphoria contained in drug trips. The person will sometimes state or even assert that he or she has attained some new high and wonderful state and may even want to declare it. But the Case Supervisor must never acquiesce nor propitiate to such demands by permitting a declare. It is always obvious as to whether the pc has genuinely attained a state through auditing, or whether the pc is asserting something not attained but possibly hallucinatory, or is even just hopeful or in wishful thinking.” (from HCOB/PL 30 Aug 80, KSW Series 24 “Wins, ‘States’, and Grade Chart Declares”) |
Now, do these quotations relate anything that could be perceived as “that there are ‘variations’ of the State of Clear”? It is not my perception, although you may think differently. To me it is more about various individuals that may express about their personal reality about things, and how they personally may perceive something. This is not the same as establishing or advocating different states, let alone different states or “‘variations’ of the State of Clear”. It does say in these texts: “lower harmonics of these states” which addresses not different states, just harmonics of these states. Another angle of these texts is that they advocate to simply run processes to its proper end phenomena, and not just assume or accept something that can not be properly substantiated.
| The first quotation does relate to an LRH tape recording for more data, which was “SHSBC lecture 6608C16 SH Spec 75, ‘RELEASES AND CLEARS’” (renumbered in 1991: #438). What does this tape actually relate to us? The word “harmonic” is only used twice on it. I have listed both these entries here below: |
“Now after you've made one of these fellows, you will find out that within the hour, three days, a week he will have tangled up with more reality than he is prepared to confront in his somewhat tremulous uncleared state. He's just a Release, you see. And he's been asked to walk in this big broad world barefooted and he's still got the anxiety and problem holding on to his body, he doesn't know quite what to do about this. He's afraid he'll forget his body. On the past track it's happened to him before many times. Because you see, it happens to him every time he dies and is associated in his mind with death. And he's had unfortunate experiences when he could do it at will somewhere way back on the track, leaving his body in the inn to pop off and do something of the sort and then coming back and find out they'd buried the body. You see, and he's lost his body and his possessions and so forth and he didn't like that. |
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It has very sour connotations with it because he is not competent to cope with the state at all. He's way in advance of himself. He's in actual fact on a harmonic of OT. An OT could care for it. He can't care for it down here when he is a Dianetic Release. And maybe not even that, you know?” LRH |
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“Now of course you couldn't tell a fellow named Smitty that he ought to teach all of his Africans population anything because he would instantly sense something would be very wrong with all this, and he would start to feel very hunted. He would be—feel hunted in the extreme. And so we find in that country there is no free education anywhere—anywhere. It is all very expensive. There is one little school, it has two hundred and some children in it, most of them Africans and it's taught by an American named Howitz down there and they've even had him up before the high court for daring to teach Africans for nothing, you see. So they dimly feel that there might be such an idea that wisdom makes one free. But if that idea exists they're agin [against] it, do you see? They don't want anything to do with that idea, not even the idea of it. |
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So that is your first level of Release that is meaningful to you. Now of course there is a lower level of Release that if you're going to work with animals or something like that, you're going to find out that there’s a lower level of Release. It is simply getting the idea it's a sort of a lower harmonic of a Communication Release; it is simply getting the idea that one animal could in actual fact express an idea to another animal. And I dare say you're going to find some races at some time or another someplace who do not yet have that idea. So that would be a lower level of Release. But it isn't common now so I'm neglecting it.” LRH |
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| All this about these “lower harmonics” I think is a simple misduplication. And did anyone actually care to check out the LRH lecture on it? It really doesn't seem so, because if that was done, one would have realized that no valid argument could be made with it! The thing that in fact is quite odd is that David Mayo is blamed for these “lower harmonics” as if introducing various “‘variations’” of the State of Clear (which has no ground), but that he is not being found at fault with, held responsible for, or even associated with the sudden change in the definition of Clear (on solid grounds) as introduced in September 1978. A change which was implemented at the same time that he had turned Senior C/S International! |
| Is this also because of some misduplication that this has not caught the attention of anyone or are we purposely being misled? Meaning if our attention is drawn to something else instead of the real deed? |
HCOB/PL 11 Apr 83 “Cancellation of Destructive Issues” claiming that “Two of these false HCOBs referred to ‘harmonics’ of states up through Clear and OT, and that there are ‘variations’ of the State of Clear.” (underlining is mine) apparently does not make for a good or valid argument at all. Nonetheless this very reference making the claim is attributed as having been written by L. Ron Hubbard. Is it likely that L. Ron Hubbard would have made such a slip? Then could L. Ron Hubbard have condoned or supported its publication? We have to face here that if we assume that L. Ron Hubbard was behind the claim, that he also would defy that which he relayed to us in that Saint Hill Special Briefing Course lecture.
Additional data about Clear and it's relation to NED for OT's may be found on ‘David Mayo project page’: “(3b) SO ED 2344 analysis: Notes on NED for OT's and it's relation to ‘Clear’”.
Vocabulary:
AO:
Short for ‘Advanced Organization’: A Scientology organization which services higher level auditing & training.
AOSH UK:
‘Advanced Organization Saint Hill United Kingdom’: A Scientology organization which services higher level auditing & training, located Saint Hill, England.
bank:
The mental image picture collection collection of a person. It comes from computer technology where all data is in a 'bank'.
See also at reactive mind in vocabulary.
BTB:
‘Board Technical Bulletin’, these are the issues of the Boards of Directors of the Churches of Scientology. Issue-type for technical matters not written by L. Ron Hubbard.
C/S:
‘Case Supervisor’. 1. That person in a Scientology Church who gives instructions regarding, and supervises the auditing of preclears. The abbreviation C/S can refer to the Case Supervisor or to the written instructions of a case supervisor depending on context. (BTB 12 Apr 72R) 2. The C/S is the case supervisor. He has to be an accomplished and properly certified auditor and a person trained additionally to supervise cases. The C/S is the auditor's “handler.” He tells the auditor what to do, corrects his tech, keeps the lines straight and keeps the auditor calm and willing and winning. The C/S is the pc's case director. His actions are done for the pc. (Dianetics Today, Bk. 3, p. 545)
C/S, C/Sed:
‘Case Supervisor’. A case supervisor direction of what to audit on a pc.
Clear:
1. A Clear, in an absolute sense, would be someone who could confront anything and everything in the past, present and future. (Abil Mag 56) 2. A Clear is somebody who has lost the mass, energy, space and time connected with the thing called mind. (SH Spec 80, 6609C08) 3. A Clear has no vicious reactive mind and operates at total mental capacity just like the first book (DMSMH) said. (HCOB 2 Apr 65) 4. The name of a button on an adding machine. When you push it, all the hidden answers in the machine clear and the machine can be used for a proper computation. So long as the button is not pressed the machine adds all old answers to all new efforts to compute and wrong answers result. Really, that’s all a Clear is. Clears are beings who have been cleared of wrong answers or useless answers which keep them from living or thinking. (Aud 4 UK) 5. What we mean by Clear is an erasure of the mental mass which inhibits their thinking, postulating, and so on. (SH Spec 75, 6608C16) 6. An unaberrated person. He is rational in that he forms the best possible solutions he can on the data he has and from his viewpoint. He obtains the maximum pleasure for the organism, present and future, as well as for the subjects along the other dynamics. The Clear has no engrams which can be restimulated to throw out the correctness of computation by entering hidden and false data in it. (DMSMH, p. 111)
DMSMH:
‘Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health’. Book first published in 1950. ‘A Handbook of Dianetic Procedure.’
GPM:
‘Goals Problem Mass’. 1. A GPM is composed of mental masses and significances which have an exact pattern, unvarying from person to person, whose significances dictate a certain type of behaviour and whose masses, when pulled in on the individual, cause psychosomatic effects, such as illnesses, pains or feelings of heaviness and tiredness. (Scientology Abridged Dictionary). 2. The problem created by two or more opposing ideas which being opposed, balanced, and unresolved, make a mass. It’s a mental energy mass. (SH Spec 83, 6612C06). 3. The basis of the reactive mind is the actual Goals Problem Masses (GPMs). (HCOB 17 Oct 64 III)
HCOB:
‘Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin’: issue-type since Jan 74 reserved for L. Ron Hubbard only, these address technical issues, having to do with auditing procedures and courses.
HCO PL (Pol Ltr, P/L or PL):
‘Hubbard Communication Office Policy Letter’: since Jan 74 reserved for L. Ron Hubbard only, these address administrative issues.
LRH:
An usual abbreviation for ‘L. Ron Hubbard’.
MEST:
A coined word, meaning matter, energy, space and time, the physical universe. All physical phenomena may be considered as energy operating in space and time. The movement of matter or energy in time is the measure of space. All things are mest except theta.
preclear (pc):
1. A person who, through Scientology processing, is finding out more about himself and life. (The Phoenix Lectures, p. 20) 2. A spiritual being who is now on the road to becoming Clear, hence preclear. (HCOB 5 Apr 69) 3. One who is discovering things about himself and who is becoming clearer. (HCO PL 21 Aug 62) Abbr. pc.
Operating Thetan (OT):
1. Willing and knowing cause over life, thought, matter, energy, space and time. And that would of course be mind and that would of course be universe. (SH Spec 80, 6609C08) 2. An individual who could operate totally independently of his body whether he had one or didn't have one. He's now himself, he's not dependent on the universe around him. (SH Spec 66, 6509C09) 3. A being at cause over matter, energy, space, time, form and life. Operating comes from “able to operate without dependency on things” and thetan is the Greek letter theta (θ), which the Greeks used to represent “thought” or perhaps “spirit” to which an “n” is added to make a new noun in the modern style used to create words in engineering. (Book of Case Remedies, p. 10)
PR:
'Public Relation'.
PTS (Potential Trouble Source):
Those who are connected to suppressive persons or groups and are potential trouble sources. He's here, he's way up today and he's way down tomorrow.
reactive mind:
1. That portion of a person's mind which works on a stimulus-response basis (given a certain stimulus, it gives a certain response) which is not under his volitional control and which exerts force and the power of command over his awareness, purposes thoughts, body and actions. It consists of GPMs, Engrams, Secondaries and Locks. (Scientology Abridged Dictionary) 2. Stored in the reactive mind are engrams, and here we find the single source of aberrations and psychosomatic ills. (Scientology 0-8, p. 11) 3. ‘bank’: a colloquial name for the reactive mind. This is what the procedures of Scientology are devoted to disposing of, for it is only a burden to an individual and he is much better off without it. (Scientology Abridged Dictionary) 4. The reactive mind acts below the level of consciousness. It is the literal stimulus-response mind. Given a certain stimulus it gives a certain response. (The Fundamentals of Though, p. 58)
rehab:
‘rehabilitation’. When the person was originally released he had become aware of something that caused the reactive mind to de-stimulate at that point or become weak. And so he released. You have to find that point of sudden awareness again. To regain a former release (or thetan exterior or keyed-out OT; released OT). (HCOB 30 Jun 65)
Sec ED:
‘Secretarial Executive Directive’. Later these were referred to as LRH ED. An ‘Executive Directive’ issued by ‘L. Ron Hubbard’.
SH (organization):
‘Saint Hill (organization)’. A Saint Hill organization applies to any organization authorized to deliver the upper level Scientology services.
SHSBC:
‘Saint Hill Special Briefing Course’: This is a course delivered by L. Ron Hubbard at Saint Hill, England during 1961-66 and comprising of 447 lectures, its result is an adept auditor and thorough know-how of Scientology itself.
squirrel:
Going off into weird practices or altering Scientology. (as per KSW #1: HCO PL 7 Feb 65 “Keeping Scientology Working”).
Tone Arm (TA):
The Tone Arm (meter control lever) of an E-meter could be judged as an indication of a certain accumulation of charge in the student.
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